Athletics 2017 Discussion Thread

[Dragon 2,026]

Rumour is that some of the American threatened to sue the IAAF.

At the moment only 4 have qualified to take part.

[dcro 10,210]

Ridiculous. They should have put women's 50k into Olympics long time ago, and definitely not this mixed relay nonsense.

Edited July 23, 2017 by dcro

[Gianlu33 5,276]

3 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Rumour is that some of the American threatened to sue the IAAF.

At the moment only 4 have qualified to take part.

You know who are they?

[Dragon 2,026]

5 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

You know who are they?

2 Chinese, 2 Americans

The world record holder from Portugal has to wait as her time was not set in an official qualifying event

Probably they will find ways on getting more to compete ib the end

Edited July 23, 2017 by Dragon

[Gianlu33 5,276]

1 minute ago, Dragon said:

2 Chinese, 2 Americans

The world record holder from Portugal has to wait as her time was not set in an official qualifying event

IAAF is a circus  

[dcro 10,210]

Good race.

 

[andyjgt 2]

20 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Congrats, easy gold tomorrow, probably could have medalled at U23 european championships. There are many events where the medal winners at the U20 european championships could have medalled at the U23 european championships or the U18 world championships, i think they should seperate those competitions more, so that its possible to compete at all of them or at least two of them.

She improved the NR to 55.96, but didn't even win! Giger (SUI) ran 55.90. What's with the Swiss improvement in track events in recent years?

[OlympicsFan 860]

vor 52 Minuten schrieb andyjgt:

She improved the NR to 55.96, but didn't even win! Giger (SUI) ran 55.90. What's with the Swiss improvement in track events in recent years?

Very surprising, the swiss girl improved her PB by more than 1.5 seconds, which is extremely weird at a distance of only 400 m ...

Switzerland has also Hussein, Kambundji, Zbären, Fontanive and Sprunger. I guess we have to wait how the swiss girl progresses, she was born in 1999, but looks like a 25 year old, so its probably 50/50 whether she will continue to improve or not. It was kinda the same with Zbären, she reached the final in Beijing in 2015 and everyone thought that she would get only better, but then she completely vanished ...

Slovenian fans should be happy that they have two great track talents who will be able to compete in London, with Zupan and the male 400 m runner.

[OlympicsFan 860]

I think the german female 4x100 relay just set a new U20 world record ... ?!

Probably the first world record here, Niklas Kaul could also set a new world record by running 4:21 or faster later on. Duplantis probably wont be able to jump 6 m for now, so we probably wont see any more world records.

[dcro 10,210]

Gold for Bloudek in 800m