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Anyone knows if there's a "Road to Tokyo" style page for "Road to Eugene"'??? I can't find anything.

 

Also, somewhere to look at the women's 35km toplist results? It's nowhere to be found and the qualification for that event already started.

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3 minutes ago, Jur said:

Anyone knows if there's a "Road to Tokyo" style page for "Road to Eugene"'??? I can't find anything.

 

Also, somewhere to look at the women's 35km toplist results? It's nowhere to be found and the qualification for that event already started.

Have there even been 35km events already? :p 

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14 minutes ago, Jur said:

Anyone knows if there's a "Road to Tokyo" style page for "Road to Eugene"'??? I can't find anything.

 

Also, somewhere to look at the women's 35km toplist results? It's nowhere to be found and the qualification for that event already started.

I can’t give you the info you need but I can tell you that Irish 800m runner Mark English got the standard while running to get the standard for Tokyo (last day possible!). There won’t be too many people who qualify for Olympics and world championships with the one race!

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Have there even been 35km events already? :p 

Rumors saying the format will be a 35 km race walk M & W mass start event at the same time, but after the race the times for the 2 best males and 2 best females of each country will be counted.

 

source: Alfons Juck.

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3 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Rumors saying the format will be a 35 km race walk M & W mass start event at the same time, but after the race the times for the 2 best males and 2 best females of each country will be counted.

 

source: Alfons Juck.

That sounds very messy and confusing and won’t even work on tv very well.

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15 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Rumors saying the format will be a 35 km race walk M & W mass start event at the same time, but after the race the times for the 2 best males and 2 best females of each country will be counted.

 

source: Alfons Juck.

Oh that sounds fantastic, another event where seeing who is doing well is nearly impossible! :cheer: 

 

And TV having graphics other than the individual standings during the race? Haha, no way, why would we want that? That would only make things clearer, can't have that :)!

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By the way, junior worlds are next week....in Nairobi! 

https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-u20-championships/nairobi21

 

Sadly, I don't think any event will have a clearer effect of the lack of spectators (I assume, at least) than this one...the youth worlds a few years ago there were absolutely electric, the whole damn stadium was moving because of all the cheering and dancing and shouting and partying!

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