Athletics IAAF World Championships 2017

[dcro 10,210]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yes, and Arevalo too. Or so that's what my mind has been saying for the past hour 

 

Oops.

 

[mrv86 3,138]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah, never trust Colombians  

Indeed, I don't like them in athletics (Ibargüen being the sole exception) or cycling, as they're blatant cheaters (of course, within the rules)

[hoversaBR 441]

Brazil's fourth place in the women's 20km walk and bronze on the men's 20km walk. Years ago I would have thought it impossible that this category was our strongest.
 

[OlympicsFan 858]

Really sickening results in mens race walking. 50 year old Diniz walks the second best time in history and wins by almost 8 minutes. In mens 20 km race walking we had a guy from Russia (self-explanatory why this result is disgusting) and two guys from South America + a no-name from South Africa (also self-explanatory) at the top. If IAAF is really planning to cut race walking from the Olympics, it would be amazing news. The performances of Diniz and Bigot make it impossible to trust any french athletes in London.

[Federer91 2,793]

Why is the last session scheduled late again... It's the last one, it's on a sunday, there is not a reason why it shouldn't have started earlier like in prior years..  

Edited August 13, 2017 by Federer91

[Quasit 865]

The schedule overall is certainly one of the thumb-downs this time around.

Men's 400m and 800m on the same day... all walking events in one day. Seriously?

[heywoodu 15,141]

1 hour ago, Federer91 said:

Why is the last session scheduled late again... It's the last one, it's on a sunday, there is not a reason why it shouldn't have started earlier like in prior years..  

Is it late? I'd say 19.00 is a rather ok time actually...much better than the swimming world championships, where every finals session started at a time when a majority of people would either still be working or just finishing/getting back home.

Edited August 13, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,141]

Although yes, in general scheduling just sucked. Lack of morning sessions meant there were way too many track events (including heats) at night, leading to the field events being shown in a miserable way. Earlier today I heard a BBC commentator call this "maybe the best world championships ever", but I think he has been blind or something, because apart from the presence of a full stadium nearly every time I can't think of a single good thing about these world champs.

 

- Live timing in long events was bad

- Scheduling sucked

- Field events were shown horribly poor

- All walking events in one day

 

I'm sure more things can be added to the list which I forgot now.. 

[Federer91 2,793]

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Is it late? I'd say 19.00 is a rather ok time actually...much better than the swimming world championships, where every finals session started at a time when a majority of people would either still be working or just finishing/getting back home.

 

It's late here.  No, seriously i see no reason why they didn't start an hour or two earlier. The race walks ended a long time ago. 

[heywoodu 15,141]

2 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

It's late here.  No, seriously i see no reason why they didn't start an hour or two earlier. The race walks ended a long time ago. 

For today they could indeed have done so  

 

For the other days (especially Monday-Friday) I'd say this was a very good time.