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Athletics 2016 Discussion Thread


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1 minute ago, dcro said:

Lol, what about our team then. Defending medalist Šimić didn't even make the final.

Seeing her struggle was indeed a surprise. She might redeem herself in Rio though

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1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Vivian Jemutai. Well, Vivian Cheruiyot if you ask hckosice, but I'm fairly sure Cheruiyot still runs for Kenya :evil:

 

nah a small mistake :d

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2 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Seeing her struggle was indeed a surprise. She might redeem herself in Rio though

 

What's with Egle Balciunaite? 2:08 today, and apparently 2:07 SB this year. :wacko:

 

Will she be going to Rio?

#banbestmen

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12 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

What's with Egle Balciunaite? 2:08 today, and apparently 2:07 SB this year. :wacko:

 

Will she be going to Rio?

Well, she's been plagued with some injuries. Actually all of her career is just one big rollercoaster of unluck. She clocks 2:01.00 gets injured, doesn't perform for 2-3 years, clocks under two minutes in the Universiade, gets injured again and still hasn't came back after that one. Speaking of injuries, we sure have been getting a lot of them. Another 800m. runner was qualified, but got injured a couple of weeks ago, Grinčikaitė got injured a couple of weeks ago, but she'll be starting, then our 400m. Hurdles runner Staišiūnaitė started a gofundme page where she got the necessary funds to prepare for Rio, got injured and will be out till next year, plus our 100m hurdler Tamošaitytė, Gudžius started in our national championships one week ago after a severe injury, even Palšytė had problems and the European Championship is only her second competition this season. + Our youth world champion tripple-jumper got pregnant, which really stretched our small team. And answering your second question, Balčiūnaitė might not go to Rio, because she expects much more of herself and mentioned in an interview that there would be nothing to do there with a time like this.

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4 minutes ago, bestmen said:

ooooooooh schippers  is not in 100m f49a2ec26dfc55ffa5ba574f91492d59.jpg

Top 12 results from Europe are automatically qualified to semi-finals, which is the case for Schippers in 100m.. Also, she chose not to start in 200m

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