Athletics IAAF World Championships 2017

[heywoodu 16,459]

No problem in having reigning DL and WCh winners gain automatic entry, but part of IAAF's job is making their sport as global as possible and part of that is letting every nation have at least one man and one woman compete here. It really is entirely impossible in a major city to have room for maybe 100 more athletes and a few more minutes in the schedule to accomodate a handful of heats (or just not have 8 minutes between 100m heats, that can easily be shortened)? 

Edited August 4, 2017 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,211]

7 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

There can't be 5 Americans in 100 hurdles, the limit is 4 even if they have WC and DL winners...and imo surely Diamond League winners and reigning World Champions deserve to be there more than 100m male runners who have a PB of 12.73.

 

Sure, defending champions/DL winners should be there, but only through the national selection. In most cases this is just a fancy rule that allows powerhouses to have their 4th best athlete entered (not the defending champion or DL winner)...

 

And yes, check the entry list, USA does have 5 athletes. They indeed have their 5th best athlete entered.

[bestmen 2,922]

bad organization  , the compete will start at 19:00

wtf kind of people they are !!,the same mistake again and again  they never learn

[dcro 10,211]

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

No problem in having reigning DL and WCh winners gain automatic entry, but part of IAAF's job is making their sport as global as possible and part of that is letting every nation have at least one man and one woman compete here. It really is entirely impossible in a major city to have room for maybe 100 more athletes and a few more minutes in the schedule to accomodate a handful of heats? 

 

Well, as I said, this rule effectively allows big nations to have their 4th best athlete, because their 1st or 2nd best is counted as some "extra"...

[Dunadan 1,103]

20 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Sure, defending champions/DL winners should be there, but only through the national selection. In most cases this is just a fancy rule that allows powerhouses to have their 4th best athlete entered (not the defending champion or DL winner)...

 

And yes, check the entry list, USA does have 5 athletes. They indeed have their 5th best athlete entered.

Provisional entry list, one American is a reserve (Nelvis)...this is the rule btw

"The IAAF  will  accept  the  participation  of the current  Reigning  World  Outdoor  Champion  and that  of the  Winner of  the 2016 IAAF  Diamond League  (in the  corresponding World Championships event) and Hammer Throw  Challenge,  as  Wild Cards, in  each individual event,  on the condition that the athlete in question  is entered  by  his Federation.  If both  are from  the same  country,  only one of  the two can  be  entered  with this  Wild  Card. "

Edited August 4, 2017 by Dunadan

[hckošice 16,605]

only one european in the 100m preliminaries. Such a honor and responsibility to represent the whole home continent in the first event

[heywoodu 16,459]

57 minutes ago, bestmen said:

bad organization  , the compete will start at 19:00

wtf kind of people they are !!,the same mistake again and again  they never learn

 

What's the problem this time?  

 

Much better times than the swimming that started way too early.

Edited August 4, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,459]

12 minutes ago, hckosice said:

only one european in the 100m preliminaries. Such a honor and responsibility to represent the whole home continent in the first event

Paul Ma'Unikeni of Slovakia  will surely do his best  

[hckošice 16,605]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Paul Ma'Unikeni of Slovakia  will surely do his best  

 

That´s not impossible to mix up I must say, Today it´s over 40 degrees here, Dude...I have this feeling that I´m more somewhere around the Tropics right now than in central europe at all.

God bless the air conditioning. The greatest invention of the past century.

[heywoodu 16,459]

2 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

That´s not impossible to mix up I must say, Today it´s over 40 degrees here, Dude...I have this feeling that I´m more somewhere around the Tropics right now than in central europe at all.

God bless the air conditioning. The greatest invention of the past century.

Something we don't have in most 'normal' (instead of very luxury) homes