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Athletics 2016 Discussion Thread


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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Wow, 500m would be a pretty big mistake :lol:

Irony?

The most likely thing is that something was wrong with the timing. The second most likely thing is that the course was too short. Everyone was about 2 min fast than expected. 20 km in 80 min (1:20.00) -> 500 m in 2 min, so i assume that the course was at least 500 m too short OR the timing didn't work.

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1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

Irony?

The most likely thing is that something was wrong with the timing. The second most likely thing is that the course was too short. Everyone was about 2 min fast than expected. 20 km in 80 min (1:20.00) -> 500 m in 2 min, so i assume that the course was at least 500 m too short OR the timing didn't work.

No irony, if they indeed came up with a course that was half a kilometer too short, that would be a huge mistake obviously. I mean, 50 meters...ok, but a half kilometer? :facepalm:

 

I guess indeed the timing is the most likely source of these weird times..

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59 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

No irony, if they indeed came up with a course that was half a kilometer too short, that would be a huge mistake obviously. I mean, 50 meters...ok, but a half kilometer? :facepalm:

 

I guess indeed the timing is the most likely source of these weird times..

It happens more often than one might think. There have been many marathon/race walking competitions where the course was too short. Another explanation might be that it was just a very fast course, but thats not very likely. Last year the same competition was won by Link in a time of 1:20.37. Its interesting that two pretty famous athletes, Tysse and Campion both were rather slow today.

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44 minutes ago, EselTheDonkey said:

Linke, Pohle and Nils Brembach all fulfilled the German National Standards for Rio.

In addition to that Dohmann is already qualified for the 50 km race in Rio, so our team in race walking is complete before the season even started. In womens race walking no one will qualify.

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:ITAMarathon of Roma 10/04/2016 :ITA

final results women

:ETHTusa Rahma:ETH

:ETHDuru Mulu Melka:ETH

:ALGDahmani Kenza:ALG

 

 

top 10

 

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time of qualification 2 h 45 min 0 s

 

 

 

so top 5 are qualified to rio

 

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, panda said:

Can somebody tell me, how USA choose olympic athletes? You must be in top 3 in USA Championships or not? 

Yes :yes  The event will be US Olympic 2016 team trials Track & Field at Eugene from 1st to 10th July

 

US trials rule:

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The top three finishers in each event will be named to the Olympic team provided that each has, by the end of their event at trials, achieved the applicable qualifying standard

 

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