Athletics 2016 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

Looks like IAAF slightly changed the name of Kyrgyzstan, to Kirghizistan. What a shock.

[Ionoutz24 129]

14 hours ago, dcro said:

Looks like IAAF slightly changed the name of Kyrgyzstan, to Kirghizistan. What a shock.

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[OlympicIRL 5,660]

Incredible pace thus far in the men's event!

[OlympicIRL 5,660]

14th place for Paul Pollock and 7th place for Irish men's team, good performance!

Edited March 26, 2016 by OlympicIRL

[intoronto 6,408]

I am surprised to see Tejada of Peru competing. She was caught for doping at the Pan Am Games last summer...

[uk12points 434]

Some more updates in Russian doping scandal:

• Russia’s Tatyana Beloborodova is facing the prospect of being stripped of her Olympic hammer throw gold medal she won at London 2012 after she was provisionally suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for retrospectively failing a drugs test.
• Last month, Russia's Sergey Kirdyapkin was stripped of his Olympic medal he had won in the 50 kilometres walk at London 2012 for doping.
• Elena Lashmanova, another athlete coached by Viktor Chegin, who has now been banned for life, had won the women's 20km race at London 2012 and has been allowed to keep her gold medal, despite testing positive herself in 2014.
• Yuliya Zaripova is set to be stripped of the gold medal she won in the 3,000 metres steeplechase because of doping
• Mariya Savinova, the 800m gold medallist, is also under investigation and expected to be disqualified.

[OlympicsFan 860]

Crazy race walking times in Podebrady (Czech Republic) today:

Men:

1) Karlström (Sweden) 1:19.11 (previous PB 1:21.03)

2) Linke (Germany) 1:19.19 (previous PB 1:20.37), 3rd on german all time list and fastest german time since 2000.

3) Pineda (Mexico) 1:19.20 (previous PB 1:24.54)

4) Vega (Mexico) 1:19.20 (previous PB 1:21.08)

5) Palma (Mexico) 1:19.38 (previous PB 1:21.02)

6) Pohle (Germany) 1:19.58 (previous PB 1:21.29)

 

Women:

1) Ortega (Mexico) 1:29.35 (previous PB 1:31.04)

2) Buziak (Poland) 1:30.36 

3) Szwarnog (Poland) 1:30.50 (previous PB 1:30.56)

4) Galikova (Slovakia) 1:30.53 (previous PB 1:31.42)

5) Trapletti (Italy) 1:31.49

6) Golba (Poland) 1:32.36

 

Those might be new national records for Slovakia and Sweden. 

 

I dont really understand those times ...

It looks as if something was wrong with the timing ... or the course was too short ...

By looking at the times i would say that the course might have been about 500m too short.

 

Full results:

http://www.podebrady-walking.cz/vysledky

 

 

Edited April 9, 2016 by OlympicsFan

[Bearas 581]

6 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Crazy race walking times in Podebrady (Czech Republic) today:

Men:

1) Karlström (Sweden) 1:19.11 (previous PB 1:21.03)

2) Linke (Germany) 1:19.19 (previous PB 1:20.37)

3) Pineda (Mexico) 1:19.20 (previous PB 1:24.54)

4) Vega (Mexico) 1:19.20 (previous PB 1:21.08)

5) Palma (Mexico) 1:19.38 (previous PB 1:21.02)

6) Pohle (Germany) 1:19.58 (previous PB 1:21.29)

Women:

1) Ortega (Mexico) 1:29.35

2) Buziak (Poland) 1:30.36

3) Szwarnog (Poland) 1:30.50

4) Galikova (Slovakia) 1:30.53

5) Trapletti (Italy) 1:31.49

6) Golba (Poland) 1:32.36

 

I dont really understand those times ...

It looks as if something was wrong with the timing ... or the course was too short ...

By looking at the times i would say that the course might have been about 500m too short.

 

Full results:

http://www.podebrady-walking.cz/vysledky

 

 

 

Something is definitely wrong. All of the Lithuanians reached their PB and even the athlete who finished "20km" course for the first time in her life reached Olympic standard. 

[OlympicsFan 860]

4 minutes ago, Bearas said:

 

Something is definitely wrong. All of the Lithuanians reached their PB and even the athlete who finished "20km" course for the first time in her life reached Olympic standard. 

Or no doping tests ... 

Everyone was at least 2 min faster than expected, so i would say the course was at least 500m too short (1km = 4min) or something went wrong with the timing.

Thank god Diniz didnt compete here, he wouldve destroyed the world record.

[heywoodu 16,004]

8 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Or no doping tests ... 

Everyone was at least 2 min faster than expected, so i would say the course was at least 500m too short (1km = 4min) or something went wrong with the timing.

Thank god Diniz didnt compete here, he wouldve destroyed the world record.

Wow, 500m would be a pretty big mistake