Athletics IAAF World Championships 2017

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Just now, DaniSRB said:

Wrong thread

 

Damn 

[Jur 689]

Susan Randall from US, PB 4:54 is now listed in the entrys in women's 50km. ¿Why? She clearly didn't reach the mark. I mean Spain has a women in 4:47, why can't we send her?

[Dunadan 1,103]

1 minute ago, Jur said:

Susan Randall from US, PB 4:54 is now listed in the entrys in women's 50km. ¿Why? She clearly didn't reach the mark. I mean Spain has a women in 4:47, why can't we send her?

Apparently she is area champion for North America

http://www.fairborndailyherald.com/sports/19077/randall-beats-iaaf-heads-to-london

[dcro 10,210]

Yay, 7 athletes now.

[heywoodu 16,434]

4 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

Apparently she is area champion for North America

http://www.fairborndailyherald.com/sports/19077/randall-beats-iaaf-heads-to-london

Yep, with help from a Belgian-US lawyer (the one who travelled from the US to London earlier to lobby with all IAAF Council members to try and keep the 50k on the schedules)

 

[Jur 689]

 

 

I thought it was the IAAF having some criteria and accepting more women to enlarge the field... poor peruvian women who came second in that race being left out.

[heywoodu 16,434]

9 minutes ago, Jur said:

 

 

I thought it was the IAAF having some criteria and accepting more women to enlarge the field... poor peruvian women who came second in that race being left out.

Well yeah, but area champions apparently are qualified, so that's the way it is. 

[dareza 911]

About Ivana Spanovic, sorry about Serbian team: So Ivana Spanovic team, sorry again, Serbian team have only one chance for medal. Guess where? In long jump. And I hope not only bronze...

Edited July 30, 2017 by dareza

[George_D 1,591]

7 hours ago, dareza said:

About Ivana Spanovic, sorry about Serbian team: So Ivana Spanovic team, sorry again, Serbian team have only one chance for medal. Guess where? In long jump. And I hope not only bronze...

what about that guy in 400m hurdles that had taken bronze in 2013? i havent seen him since then

[heywoodu 16,434]

2 hours ago, George_D said:

what about that guy in 400m hurdles that had taken bronze in 2013? i havent seen him since then

6th in European champs a year later (but nowhere near the time he had in the 2013 final), then in 2015 he had exactly zero serious results (5 races, 4 of them really slow, 1 DNF), and after that DNF in June 2015 all I can find about him in terms of results is an indoor 500m (not impressive) in January of this year, so literally nothing last year.

 

Now I'm curious as well about the reasons for all that  

Edited July 31, 2017 by heywoodu