Athletics 2017 Discussion Thread

[Dunadan 1,103]

This new event will be ridiculous...is IAAF trying to show that race walk (50km in particular) is a joke, so they will have more support when they decide to remove it?  

[heywoodu 15,174]

3 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

This new event will be ridiculous...is IAAF trying to show that race walk (50km in particular) is a joke, so they will have more support when they decide to remove it?  

It looks like IAAF doesn't even know their own sport and because of that are indeed trying to show this 

 

They'd better take a look at the last 50km races, which have almost all been a lot more exciting than the average major champs 100m final. 

[heywoodu 15,174]

Someone's frustrated as f*ck

 

 

 

[juddy96 171]

New U20 WR in Peru for Pan Am U20, USA Men's 4x400m 3:00.33

 

Full results http://www.tiempodellegada.com/Results/2017/INTERNACIONAL/PANAM_U20/

 

USA wins medal table easily like always: 22 golds, 14 silvers, 18 bronze, though in 2015 they had 30 golds.

Canada has probably their best ever Pan Am U20 performance with 6 golds, 9 silver, 7 bronze. We got two National U20 records with Anastas Eliopoulos 13.36 (-0.6) in Men's 110mH, and Camryn Rogers 63.42m in Women's Hammer. Rogers now has broke her own Hammer record 5 times this year (4 competitions she broke it in, but she broke it twice today)

Edited July 23, 2017 by juddy96

[juddy96 171]

13 year old American girl ran 52.54 today http://www.usatf.org/News/Ford,-Nunley-complete-triple-victories-headlining-.aspx

[Werloc 3,171]

@OlympicIRL Hey, I have a funny story for you Don't know if you've noticed, but there is this athlete Snezana Bechtina, that registered to the European Veteran Championships whilst still being Lithuanian, but decided to represent Ireland in this competition and won a 400m. bronze medal in W35 category with a time of 57.52

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

28 minutes ago, Werloc said:

@OlympicIRL Hey, I have a funny story for you Don't know if you've noticed, but there is this athlete Snezana Bechtina, that registered to the European Veteran Championships whilst still being Lithuanian, but decided to represent Ireland in this competition and won a 400m. bronze medal in W35 category with a time of 57.52

 

No I hadn't heard this, congrats to her . I guess she is living here now? 

[Werloc 3,171]

12 hours ago, OlympicIRL said:

 

No I hadn't heard this, congrats to her . I guess she is living here now? 

I believe she's been in Ireland for a while, only returning to Lithuania for some competitions and what not

[Майкл 561]

15 hours ago, Werloc said:

@OlympicIRL Hey, I have a funny story for you Don't know if you've noticed, but there is this athlete Snezana Bechtina, that registered to the European Veteran Championships whilst still being Lithuanian, but decided to represent Ireland in this competition and won a 400m. bronze medal in W35 category with a time of 57.52

 

To make the things funnier  Snežana is the South Slavic name, which means Snow White  

[Werloc 3,171]

4 hours ago, Майкл said:

 

To make the things funnier  Snežana is the South Slavic name, which means Snow White  

It would be 'Snieguolė' in our language