Athletics IAAF World Championships 2017

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2 minuty temu, heywoodu napisał:

Anyone looking particularly forward to tomorrow? The only thing I can really get excited about when looking at the schedule is the women's long jump final and Alina Talay's heat in the 100m hurdles  

Hammer throw final 

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Richard Douma has been added to the 1500m semi's, his protest was accepted 

 

Apparently they protested a move by Musagala, which the IAAF accepted. Odd, I was certain it was his own fault. 

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2 minutes ago, rybak said:

Hammer throw final 

Hopefully not with a mighty Fajdek or else that's gonna be a boring affair as well  (I mean, the man can win, no problem, but please don't let it be over after 1 throw  )

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vor 4 Minuten schrieb heywoodu:

Anyone looking particularly forward to tomorrow? The only thing I can really get excited about when looking at the schedule is the women's long jump final and Alina Talay's heat in the 100m hurdles  

Why not womens 3000 m SC? Should be legendary. Womens 800 m and mens 1500 m semifinals should also be interesting, those are by far my favorite track events, because there are at least some tactics involved. The three-way battle in womens 200 m should also be interesting.

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3 minuty temu, heywoodu napisał:

Hopefully not with a mighty Fajdek or else that's gonna be a boring affair as well  (I mean, the man can win, no problem, but please don't let it be over after 1 throw  )

Actually Nowicki have more chances for gold than Fajdek  I think that hidden Russians can challenge us, I hope that both Fajdek and Nowicki will leave London with medals 

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8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Anyone looking particularly forward to tomorrow? The only thing I can really get excited about when looking at the schedule is the women's long jump final and Alina Talay's heat in the 100m hurdles  

Well, I'm excited for 800m semi-finals. Also, Perkovic starting her campaign in the morning session.

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3 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Why not womens 3000 m SC? Should be legendary. Womens 800 m and mens 1500 m semifinals should also be interesting, those are by far my favorite track events, because there are at least some tactics involved. The three-way battle in womens 200 m should also be interesting.

 

Because I don't care much about these Kenyans in the women's steeple. Nothing against them, I just don't really care (also nothing against Kenya btw, I like Yego, I like Asbel Kiprop, just these specific steeple athletes, great as they are, don't get me excited).

 

Sure semifinals are interesting, but not the 'omg I can not miss this' kind of interesting. Neither is the women's 200m this time, no Thompson, no Bowie, Ta Lou who had to go full pull to get to 22.50, Miller-Uibo who might be feeling that 400 a little too much, Schippers who almost walked her way through the semi's. I expect Schippers to win by a relatively big margin, but I definitely hope I'm wrong and it'll be as close as the men's final. Don't really care who wins, as long as it's a close final I'm happy. 

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2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Dutch interviewer asking Makwala in the mixed zone: "Are you sad you didn't get a medal in the end?" 

 

No, I'm sure he's dancing in the streets to celebrate his not winning a medal! 

 

loool

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11 hours ago, rybak said:

Actually Nowicki have more chances for gold than Fajdek

Why? Is Fajdek injured? It's true that he failed in Rio, but he is 23-2 against Nowicki over the last 2 years.

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this 1rst heat of deca was very weak