Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[intoronto 6,404]

9th place for 2004 Olympian Malindi Elmore!

[heywoodu 16,004]

Salpeter is still in the race by the way, going for +18 minutes or so  

[heywoodu 16,004]

And there's Salpeter in 66th, 21 minutes behind Jepchirchir and utterly exchausted. Excellent job on her finishing the race instead of recording a DNF though.

[hckošice 15,519]

Okurayama Ski Jumping hill

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Yay! Finish for Firisua  

[intoronto 6,404]

What an embarrassment,  last place and behind  Next time Athletics Canada shouldn't come up with stupid selection process and just pick the top 3 times to go (assuming they are fit).

[heywoodu 16,004]

32 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yay! Finish for Firisua  

Set quite a decent new national record, breaking it with a not-bad 44 minutes!

[hckošice 15,519]

Women's Marathon
Final Results

 

Peres JEPCHIRCHIR
2:27:20 SB

 

Brigid KOSGEI
2:27:36 SB

 

Molly SEIDEL
2:27:46 SB

 

Final Results Here

[heywoodu 16,004]

Not sure it works outside of Belgium and the Netherlands, but if it does, it's worth a quick watch. Physics teacher Mieke Gorissen started too fast and completely blew up, she had no idea where she was in the race but surely somewhere in the back, she was extremely happy to have finished the race. Then the interviewer told her that she actually finished 28th and she basically burst in tears for minutes because she was so sure she was far behind!

 

Somewhere in between: "I also think I lost a toenail but if that's the price, I'll pay it!"  

 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

Amazing 21st place for Parlov Koštro.  Just behind Lesotho.

 

Our best ever running result at the Olympics.