Athletics IAAF World Championships 2017

[heywoodu 15,145]

15 minutes to go, hopefully it'll be shown somewhere...my biggest hope is on the Eurosport Player, on TV there's nothing yet. 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Eurosport Player is live, my fear that it wouldn't be shown anywhere was incorrect

[heywoodu 15,145]

Odds of 1.4 for Ines Henriques to take the women's gold. Sounds brilliant judging by her PB being 14 minutes faster than anyone else, but I guess with all of these women having walked only one 50k it's a bit hard to really know what anyone's capable of  

[Mkbw50 438]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Eurosport Player is live, my fear that it wouldn't be shown anywhere was incorrect

And I get to watch it on an actual TV screen

[heywoodu 15,145]

No live timing so far, even though they've already come past the start line two times. These championships really are not very good in terms of these kind of organizational stuff. 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Now there's timing, and for some unknown reason they've chosen to only do it every 5km, that just makes no sense at all. Come on London 

[Mick 0]

22 hours ago, heywoodu said:

That will only makes things more complicated and harder to see for viewers, plus you'll get all kinds of protests and video reviews to see if it really was touched or not etc. Nothing but disadvantages.

Well, if you rest the bar on narrower plates the bar will fall off if you touch it! 

[heywoodu 15,145]

3 minutes ago, Mick said:

Well, if you rest the bar on narrower plates the bar will fall off if you touch it! 

It would still be possible to touch it without having it move. If you make it so narrow that with every possible touch it falls, it could just as easily fall from a breeze of wind and you'd go to video reviews to see if it was touched, or if it only was a bit of wind etc

[Mick 0]

I agree!

[heywoodu 15,145]

Two leaders in the women's race are already 1:20 ahead of everyone else after 5km