Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[dcro 10,211]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Was a Japan clean sweep even remotely expected by anyone though?  

It was.

[heywoodu 16,458]

7 minutes ago, dcro said:

It was.

In which event, if I may ask? Because in the 20km they had three, including one who would absolutely have a total fail again, and in the 50km they merely have outsiders  

 

Can't imagine they have more than one marginal outsider in the women's 20k neither.

[JoshMartini007 2,833]

Luo still holding a 22 second lead over the rest of the field after 15km

[thiago_simoes 1,458]

This is kind of off topic, but I'm absolutely mesmerized by the fact that 60 men were allowed to qualify for the 20 km march and another 60 for the 50 km march. That's 120 men qualifying for only 2 events in 1 sport. In the entirety of artistic gymnastics, only 98 men are allowed to compete in total. I know I sound salty, but this is not fair in my opinion. 

[dcro 10,211]

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

In which event, if I may ask? Because in the 20km they had three, including one who would absolutely have a total fail again, and in the 50km they merely have outsiders  

 

Can't imagine they have more than one marginal outsider in the women's 20k neither.

50 km

[heywoodu 16,458]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

50 km

Oh. Well, two medals would be a more than excellent result there (one would even be good), three would be incredibly surprising, but who knows  

[heywoodu 16,458]

6 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

This is kind of off topic, but I'm absolutely mesmerized by the fact that 60 men were allowed to qualify for the 20 km march and another 60 for the 50 km march. That's 120 men qualifying for only 2 events in 1 sport. In the entirety of artistic gymnastics, only 98 men are allowed to compete in total. I know I sound salty, but this is not fair in my opinion. 

I can get the point, but feel way worse about the men's junior event in football taking up even way more quotas. Even though I know I guess the event is important for the Olympics, unfortunately. Hard to believe since I barely know any actual sports fan who actually watches it after the opening ceremony, but general audience usually doesn't consist of actual sports fans, so yeah  

[JoshMartini007 2,833]

3 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

This is kind of off topic, but I'm absolutely mesmerized by the fact that 60 men were allowed to qualify for the 20 km march and another 60 for the 50 km march. That's 120 men qualifying for only 2 events in 1 sport. In the entirety of artistic gymnastics, only 98 men are allowed to compete in total. I know I sound salty, but this is not fair in my opinion. 

To be fair, in artistic gymnastics there is a lot of overlap between the events. Even outside the Olympics FIG is barely welcoming towards specialists.

 

[rybak 3,425]

 Dawid Tomala is on second place at 15km. STOP THE RACE!!

[heywoodu 16,458]

Diniz nearly joins the group.....and then doesn't.