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:NZL New Zealand Olympic Team (1st Selection)

 

Men's 1500m - Nick Willis

Men's 10000m - Zane Robertson

Men's Shot Put - Tom Walsh, Jacko Gill

Men's Javelin - Stuart Farquhar

Men's 50km Walk - Quentin Rew

 

Women's 800m - Angie Petty

Women's 1500m - Nikki Hamblin

Women's Pole Vault - Eliza McCartney

Women's Shot Put - Valerie Adams

 

The second and final selection will be made in July

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50 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

:ITA Davide Manenti

200m - 20.50 whit +2.1 of wind.

 

Is accepted? (i'm not sure for the wind...)

No, +2.0 is the limit, he will have many more chances to qualify. :yes

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Semenya, dear lord :lol:

 

Jogging around like a little warm-up for 500 meters, accerating a little for 100 meters and finishing on 90% for 200 meters resulting in a huge and very clear win :roflmao:

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Alex is back!!!

Alex Schwazer (ITA) makes his comeback after a 3 years and 9 months doping ban and wins easily the Team World Championships 50km Walk Individual race in 3 hours and 39 minutes dead, more than 3 minutes and a half ahead of the Olympic Champion Jared Tallent (AUS)...3rd was Igor Glavan (UKR) with the other Italian specialists De Luca and Caporaso finishing 4th and 5th respectively (so to give Italy the Team title, with UKR finishing 2nd and ESP finishing 3rd)...

he's now qualified to the Rio Olympics, where I hope he can destroy the field and win another Gold medal*...

 

*I have always been very tough against all doping cheaters, but, frankly, I'm more sick and tired of all those shameless cheaters denying any personal responsibility and having their sport and political system protecting them beyond any limit...

therefore, who cares about Schwazer's past (he has paid his due...and he has paid a very high prize for it)? Until some justice will be done (especially in certain Countries and, above all, against certain Countries), I'm not...for sure...

 

In the 20km events, meanwhile, it was a Chinese one-team show, both among the men as among the women...

 

Men's 20km

 

Individual Race

 

1st :CHN Zheng Wang, 1h19m22s

2nd :CHN Zelin Cai, 1h19m34s

3rd :ESP Alvaro Martin, 1h19m36s

 

Team Result

 

1st :CHN China, 16 pts

2nd :CAN Canada, 28 pts

3rd :ECU Ecuador, 41 pts

 

Women's 20km

 

Individual Race

 

1st :CHN Hong Liu, 1h25m59s

2nd :MEX Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez, 1h26m17s

3rd :CHN Shenjie Qieyang, 1h26m49s

 

Team Result

 

1st :CHN China, 10 pts

2nd :AUS Australia, 43 pts

3rd :COL Colombia, 61 pts

 

         
           
     

 

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20 hours ago, phelps said:

Alex is back!!!

Alex Schwazer (ITA) makes his comeback after a 3 years and 9 months doping ban and wins easily the Team World Championships 50km Walk Individual race in 3 hours and 39 minutes dead, more than 3 minutes and a half ahead of the Olympic Champion Jared Tallent (AUS)...3rd was Igor Glavan (UKR) with the other Italian specialists De Luca and Caporaso finishing 4th and 5th respectively (so to give Italy the Team title, with UKR finishing 2nd and ESP finishing 3rd)...

he's now qualified to the Rio Olympics, where I hope he can destroy the field and win another Gold medal*...

 

*I have always been very tough against all doping cheaters, but, frankly, I'm more sick and tired of all those shameless cheaters denying any personal responsibility and having their sport and political system protecting them beyond any limit...

therefore, who cares about Schwazer's past (he has paid his due...and he has paid a very high prize for it)? Until some justice will be done (especially in certain Countries and, above all, against certain Countries), I'm not...for sure...

 

In the 20km events, meanwhile, it was a Chinese one-team show, both among the men as among the women...

 

Men's 20km

 

Individual Race

 

1st :CHN Zheng Wang, 1h19m22s

2nd :CHN Zelin Cai, 1h19m34s

3rd :ESP Alvaro Martin, 1h19m36s

 

Team Result

 

1st :CHN China, 16 pts

2nd :CAN Canada, 28 pts

3rd :ECU Ecuador, 41 pts

 

Women's 20km

 

Individual Race

 

1st :CHN Hong Liu, 1h25m59s

2nd :MEX Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez, 1h26m17s

3rd :CHN Shenjie Qieyang, 1h26m49s

 

Team Result

 

1st :CHN China, 10 pts

2nd :AUS Australia, 43 pts

3rd :COL Colombia, 61 pts

 

         
           
     

 

It's especially a huge shame Jared Tallent gets robbed by a dirty cheat AGAIN. It happened in 2008, 2012, probably some more times I'm forgetting and now that asshole is back, it happens again...

 

As the entire race walking community said yesterday: Schwazer's win meant a really, really black day for the sport. Yesterday was one of the worst days in history of race walking. 

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36 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

It's especially a huge shame Jared Tallent gets robbed by a dirty cheat AGAIN. It happened in 2008, 2012, probably some more times I'm forgetting and now that asshole is back, it happens again...

 

As the entire race walking community said yesterday: Schwazer's win meant a really, really black day for the sport. Yesterday was one of the worst days in history of race walking. 

 

no way...I don't agree at all...

 

First of all, in 2008 mr. Tallent wasn't robbed, since Schwazer at that time was absolutely clean...all of his Beijing samples have been re-exhaminated more than 10 times in the last 4 years with all the new techniques and the final result was always the same: no doping at all, not even substances at that time legal and then become prohibited...so, for what concerns 2008 (and Barcelona 2010 Europeans), it's only an infamous bla bla bla...:evil::wall:

 

second, I know that he has been robbed of the pleasure of the medal ceremony, but in 2012 mr. Tallent won his Gold medal, which he will receive in the next weeks, after the final words over Kyrdyapkin's career have been written)...so, late justice...but no robbery once again...

 

and now...well, we all know the rules...the first doping ban can't be for life*...Schwazer has paid his tribute to the cause (and he has paid more than almost every other athlete in the world, receving no support at all by the Italian institutions - unlike all the other Countries, where politicians and judges are always ready to cancel doping bans to their athletes, meanwhile Alex here in Italy has been even sentenced and fined by a "general" trial court and he's considered a criminal more than proved rapists and killers) and now he has the full right to get back and win again (since he was the best race walker in the world before being exhasperated by the Russians and consequently decide to race with their same weapons and he's still the best now)...

and his current coaching staff, I'm sure that right now he's as clean as no other athlete (WADA are doing his doping tests by themselves, not delegating them to the Italian Authorithy, which is the normal procedure used with 99.9% of athletes...just to say how he's still treated by the sport community)...

 

so, basically he's just another of those athletes who failed a drug test and got a second chances...frankly, I'm sick and tired of seeing all those hate against him, when I never read so many disgusting lines against all the other cheaters, even those billion times worse than him...

 

*no misunderstanding...I don't like cheaters and I'm in favor of life ban at the first doping infraction...but it must be the same for all the athletes of all sports...I hate rules made "ad personam" (and it's the same for the Russian case...I don't think they are the only ones doing what they do)...

 

by the way, these are my first and also last words on this question...

 

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Just now, phelps said:

 

 

 

by the way, these are my first and also last words on this question...

 

Let's just be smart and agree with this then :d 

 

On to more athletics :p 

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