Athletics IAAF Indoor World Championships 2018

[heywoodu 15,159]

I think Christian Coleman just broke the 60m race walk world record with his 6.71

[heywoodu 15,159]

False start Kemar Hayman, Cayman Islands: DQ

False start Andrew Robertson, Great Britain: Warning

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,159]

Ugh, these championships are not good so far. Emmanuel Korir and Ayanleh Souleiman so far as big names who simply couldn't come because they couldn't get a visa, then Sadik Mikhou with this, leading to another DNS today:

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,159]

Dovile Dzindzaletaitė still not close to her PB. Maybe it's time to let Richard Kilty go because that ain't working   

[thepharoah 2,405]

Kevin Mayer achieved 5.00 meters only on Pole vault  

[thepharoah 2,405]

this's going to be very hot in 1000m tonight between Mayer and Warner 

Edited March 3, 2018 by thepharoah

[MHSN 3,625]

We have only one athlete here and I was hoping to see him "at least" in the final , he has the 4th best result of the year but based on his heats results his chance looks really slim to pass the semifinal.

 

thanks to the organizers, he received his visa only last night and just made it to the United Kingdom to participate. obviously not in a good shape. funny that he was training in France and asked for his visa from there and not even directly from Iran. that was supposed to make things easier.

[Agger 1,663]

45 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Ugh, these championships are not good so far. Emmanuel Korir and Ayanleh Souleiman so far as big names who simply couldn't come because they couldn't get a visa, then Sadik Mikhou with this, leading to another DNS today:

 

 

 

 

Rather interesting. I have some friends who had their flight to Accra cancelled this week. They managed to get a hotel, though.

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[heywoodu 15,159]

5 minutes ago, MHSN said:

We have only one athlete here and I was hoping to see him "at least" in the final , he has the 4th best result of the year but based on his heats results his chance looks really slim to pass the semifinal.

 

thanks to the organizers, he received his visa only last night and just made it to the United Kingdom to participate. obviously not in a good shape. funny that he was training in France and asked for his visa from there and not even directly from Iran. that was supposed to make things easier.

Another one with visa problems? Come on...at least he got here, but this really is something IAAF has to look into, because this ain't good.