Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[rafalgorka 1,517]

4 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

Here I go crying again after a Brazilian who really deserved a medal managed to earn one. 

What is his story? He had an accident in the past? All these scars on his head... 

[OlympicsFan 858]

5 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

Here I go crying again after a Brazilian who really deserved a medal managed to earn one. 

Didn’t the athletes who finished behind him also deserve it? And if not, how can you judge whether they deserved it or not?

[heywoodu 15,135]

Just now, dcro said:

Sadly, this is the main culprit indeed.

 

Swimming barely had any records this time, I guess due to the pandemic. Athletics is turning into a farce, meanwhile.

Oh well, speed skating had the same in the nineties with the 'clap skate' (no idea how to translate 'klapschaats' in English otherwise ) and nowadays that's just the norm, even though it was incredible at the time  

 

Best thing is to enjoy what we see now and in a few years accept that that's what is 'normal'.

[Quaker2001 251]

 

[Griff88 1,952]

14 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Our commentators saying this is the greatest athletics race in history, in any running discipline  I may have to agree

I disagree, because  doesn’t win a medal  

[Mkbw50 438]

Unbelievable. Poor Rai Benjamin

[heywoodu 15,135]

Just now, Mkbw50 said:

Unbelievable. Poor Rai Benjamin

McMaster runs a time only 7 people have beaten in all of history and doesn't even get a historic medal for it  

[Federer91 2,793]

9 minutes ago, dcro said:

Sadly, this is the main culprit indeed.

 

Swimming barely had any records this time, I guess due to the pandemic. Athletics is turning into a farce, meanwhile.

While i do agree, that it could potentially turn into a farce sooner or later ( we will see the 200 m today ) , Warholm has been running great and showing he could beat the WR for some years now. Others would be way more eyebrow raising and questionable.

[hckošice 14,822]

Women's Long Jump
Final Results

 

  Malaika MIHAMBO
7.00 SB

 

  Brittney REESE 
6.97

 

  Ese BRUME
6.97

 

Final Results Here

Qualifiers Results Here

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

48 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

What is his story? He had an accident in the past? All these scars on his head... 

Yes, @heywoodumentioned it. When he was 10 months old, he hit a pan with boiling oil and it fell over his head and shoulders. He was hospitalized for months.

 

Also, the last time that a Brazilian individual won a medal on track at the Olympics was in 1988, so he broke a long lasting curse for us.