Athletics 2021 Discussion Thread

[Orangehair43 314]

Looking more and more like the London Stadium will lose its Athletics track within the next few years - So the Diamond league will permanently cease to have a meet in London.  

[Jur 689]

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.

[heywoodu 16,437]

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?  

[dodge 1,041]

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!

[Orangehair43 314]

I wonder how many countries will get the ability to use a wild card for a defending champion and get a bigger team in an event. 

[hckošice 16,582]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Have there even been 35km events already?  

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.

[Orangehair43 314]

And for some events a lot of times from the Olympics have already helped fill up places 

[Orangehair43 314]

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.

[heywoodu 16,437]

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!  

 

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 !

[heywoodu 16,437]

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!