Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

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1 hour ago, Makedonas said:

The funniest was in 2016 there was an Armenian girl who primarily ran 400m but somehow qualified in 400m hurdles. Her 400m hurdles PB (which she never came close to ever again) is actually better than her 400m PB, lmao 

 

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/armenia/lilit-harutyunyan-14421034

 Instead of running 400M H she ran 400M BH when of course B stands for Bureaucracy 

(If it doesn’t make you laugh then sorry In advance  for this Stupid pun joke)

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52 minutes ago, Dnl said:

 Instead of running 400M H she ran 400M BH when of course B stands for Bureaucracy 

(If it doesn’t make you laugh then sorry In advance  for this Stupid pun joke)

Bureaucratic oversight in failing to put any hurdles on the track, perhaps.

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2 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

Bureaucratic oversight in failing to put any hurdles on the track, perhaps.

As if that would have been enough...

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Was it Hungary that invented a swimming meeting and entered fake times from it to an Olympics?

Maybe 1996 or 2000?

[Dragon 2,073]

Tatabanya, HUN

 

Men's Hammer

 

Taylor Campbell 78.23

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6 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Tatabanya, HUN

 

Men's Hammer

 

Taylor Campbell 78.23

That's been coming for a little while. Just need Chris Bennett to add a metre to his PB and they'll be taking three male hammer throwers to the Games for the first time in living memory.

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1 hour ago, dcro said:

As if that would have been enough...

What over 300m? ?

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4 hours ago, dcro said:

Same thing is going on in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.

 

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are usually a little more "subtle". As in, their athletes don't achieve literally the exact required standards (like basically the whole Armenian team did for 2016). But still, they achieve massive and suspicious PBs at home events which they never repeat somewhere outside.

yes Kazakhstan too, most of those others "suspicious" qualification marks for Iranian athletes were achieved in Kazakhstan! mostly in Kosanov tournament. either the track is super fast or they do magic with the numbers

 

what's really annoying for me is that some of those probably "fake" results are national records at the moment. I seriously suspect at least our Hammer throw and 110mH records.

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5 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

That's been coming for a little while. Just need Chris Bennett to add a metre to his PB and they'll be taking three male hammer throwers to the Games for the first time in living memory.

Or at least since Rio when it happened last.... 

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6 minutes ago, MHSN said:

yes Kazakhstan too, most of those others "suspicious" qualification marks for Iranian athletes were achieved in Kazakhstan! mostly in Kosanov tournament. either the track is super fast or they do magic with the numbers

 

what's really annoying for me is that some of those probably "fake" results are national records at the moment. I seriously suspect at least our Hammer throw and 110mH records.

and then in tokyo it's going to look like this...