Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[heywoodu 15,302]

By the way, which moron thought it'd be a good idea to have the heptathlon and decathlon at the same days?  

[intoronto 5,815]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

By the way, which moron thought it'd be a good idea to have the heptathlon and decathlon at the same days?  

Gender equality 

[heywoodu 15,302]

2 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Gender equality 

Yeah true, I guess it is equal when both are equally impossible to really pay attention to with everything else going on  

[dcro 10,210]

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

By the way, which moron thought it'd be a good idea to have the heptathlon and decathlon at the same days?  

When reading the schedule for the following day, I increasingly get surprised at the lack of marathon and race walk events. We are going to have 3 walking events in 1 day, aren't we? 

[heywoodu 15,302]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

When reading the schedule for the following day, I increasingly get surprised at the lack of marathon and race walk events. We are going to have 3 walking events in 1 day, aren't we? 

The main race walk on an unholy time on Thursday evening/Friday morning and then two days of midnight marathons, which all come after two days of pre-midnight open water swimming. Come Sunday afternoon, I am going to drop into my bed and sleep straight to Beijing 2022  

[Orangehair43 253]

51 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Gender equality 

Through in the case they should do all the events like that - you could even have the jump’s combined with both going at the same time. 

[Orangehair43 253]

Is Mu really DSD ? 

[Grassmarket 3,574]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

By the way, which moron thought it'd be a good idea to have the heptathlon and decathlon at the same days?  

This seems to be one of World Athletics' Big New Ideas this season - had it at the European U20s and U23s as well.  

[Grassmarket 3,574]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

When reading the schedule for the following day, I increasingly get surprised at the lack of marathon and race walk events. We are going to have 3 walking events in 1 day, aren't we? 

Men's 20k - Thursday

Men's 50k - Late night Thursday/early Friday

Women's 20k - Friday morning

Women's marathon - Saturday morning

Men's marathon - Sunday morning

 

So you will have time to savour every glorious moment of each.

[Makedonas 2,193]

7 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

He was born in Athens to a Greek father and Ugandan mother so I would have thought Greek is his native language. 

This is correct. Greek is his native language and he lived his entire life in Greece.