Athletics 2021 Discussion Thread

[Jur 683]

My proposal for the mixed event for the Olympic Games:

 

It would be a 1m/1w team, during 3 days of competition and woukd race a total of 50km. Multiple day events are common in RaceWalking, with a event in China hosted yearly being super popular. The four first events would work as qualification for the last event, a modern-penthatlon style.

 

First day: men's and women's 35km race walk. Different qualification for sex. First place gets 0 penality seconds, 2nd gets 20, 3rd gets 45... and so on.

 

Second day: rest day

 

Thrid day: 5km time trial. Different sex qualification. Same puntuation as the first event.

 

Fourth day: 2x2x5km rellay. Here is where the total penalty seconds "won" in the 4 prior events get added. The relay starts in the order of the time penalty, just like in modern pentathlon. Every 5k theres a racer change. First athlete to cross the finish line, wins, and so on.

 

 

Something like this would have 50km raced by every athlete, a 4 day event, a mixed event, different types of races and a "chase" style finale already proven a hit in modern pentathlon or the EuropeanGames DNA event.

[Makedonas 2,155]

World Athletics published new rankings, so many changes after the Olympics because it looks like all 2019 results have been dropped also (though 2018 European Championships are still there)

 

Also now they have 35km walk rankings

[heywoodu 15,135]

16 hours ago, Jur said:

My proposal for the mixed event for the Olympic Games:

 

It would be a 1m/1w team, during 3 days of competition and woukd race a total of 50km. Multiple day events are common in RaceWalking, with a event in China hosted yearly being super popular. The four first events would work as qualification for the last event, a modern-penthatlon style.

 

First day: men's and women's 35km race walk. Different qualification for sex. First place gets 0 penality seconds, 2nd gets 20, 3rd gets 45... and so on.

 

Second day: rest day

 

Thrid day: 5km time trial. Different sex qualification. Same puntuation as the first event.

 

Fourth day: 2x2x5km rellay. Here is where the total penalty seconds "won" in the 4 prior events get added. The relay starts in the order of the time penalty, just like in modern pentathlon. Every 5k theres a racer change. First athlete to cross the finish line, wins, and so on.

 

 

Something like this would have 50km raced by every athlete, a 4 day event, a mixed event, different types of races and a "chase" style finale already proven a hit in modern pentathlon or the EuropeanGames DNA event.

No serious race walk event should have any 5k part though. That is just way too short and completely kills the whole point of the sport, it leads to things like Tom Bosworth's running 1 mile to set the 1 mile 'race walking' record. Actually, 20km is already too short, but alright. It'd be better to remove race walking altogether than to go for events where a single athlete does less than 20km in one race.

 

One of the main reasons why 50k was so awesome is because race walking, more than anything, is about endurance, endurance, endurance.

[Jur 683]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

No serious race walk event should have any 5k part though. That is just way too short and completely kills the whole point of the sport, it leads to things like Tom Bosworth's running 1 mile to set the 1 mile 'race walking' record. Actually, 20km is already too short, but alright. It'd be better to remove race walking altogether than to go for events where a single athlete does less than 20km in one race.

 

One of the main reasons why 50k was so awesome is because race walking, more than anything, is about endurance, endurance, endurance.

I don't agree with you. RaceWalking is mostly about technique. Or it should be.

 

Nowadays athletes dont have a great technique and it shows. Technology needs to arrive asap, and with technology, shorter races can be done. Cause the important thing is if they are racewalking correctly.

[Orangehair43 251]

Marcell Jacobs has announced he's not racing again this year.

[AmericanHero40 213]

Incredible field so far for the Prefontaine classic in a week, and i'm going to be there! very exciting

 

100m Women: the 3 Jamaican medalists, Ta Lou, Shacarri Richardson

100m Men: Baker, Brommell, DeGrasse, Kerly, Simbine, Gatlin

Ingerbritsen coming for the mile 

Kovacs vs Crouser in shot put

All 3 medalists in 800

Kipyegon and Muir in 1500

 

More to be announced in the next week

 

[OlympicsFan 858]

19 minutes ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Incredible field so far for the Prefontaine classic in a week, and i'm going to be there! very exciting

 

100m Women: the 3 Jamaican medalists, Ta Lou, Shacarri Richardson

100m Men: Baker, Brommell, DeGrasse, Kerly, Simbine, Gatlin

Ingerbritsen coming for the mile 

Kovacs vs Crouser in shot put

All 3 medalists in 800

Kipyegon and Muir in 1500

 

More to be announced in the next week

 

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[Orangehair43 251]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58193282
Jacobs break is not due to injury according to his coach. 

[Gianlu33 4,552]

8 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58193282
Jacobs break is not due to injury according to his coach. 

He was injured in the 4x100 too. Ahhh, lovely bbc...

[phelps 7,670]

On 8/12/2021 at 7:19 PM, Orangehair43 said:

Marcell Jacobs has announced he's not racing again this year.

it's quite obvious...

 

now he has to make the most money out of his wonder-success in Tokyo, which means he literally won't even train for the next 6 months at least...

 

he'll be appearing in any tv & radio show day after day and every night he'll be the guest star in every disco-party in all the most famous discos in Italy...

 

that's how you make money in Italy if you're not a footballer of a F1/MotoGP driver or a Tennis/Golf player...

 

no way you can get I'm not even daring to say rich, but just wealthy if you practice any other individual sport than those named above...