Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

Jur · June 10, 2021

9 hours ago, dcro said:

Yes. Road to Tokyo shows that have moved Tortu from 40th qualified athlete to 44th.

Yes lmao sorry my bad I was looking at Women's marathon and they where in the bottom I didn't realize that they are in the bottom cause there are not places by ranking there.

prso1000 · June 10, 2021

5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

It’s not necessary about the technology in this case. I read an interview Coe gave a while back, and he said the additional time was likely the culprit for why so many athletes are reaching the standards. World Athletics only intended for about 50% of entries for each event to reach the standard, but with effectively two full seasons to qualify, more athletes have been able to do so. That was his two cents on the topic anyway.

I think he is partially right. the entry standards in athletics are really hard, but the long qualification contributes to the fact so many athletes achieve it.

The other part no one wants to talk about: you could do a lot of things unobserved in 2020 and has nothing to do with new shoes

dodge · June 10, 2021

6 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

It’s not necessary about the technology in this case. I read an interview Coe gave a while back, and he said the additional time was likely the culprit for why so many athletes are reaching the standards. World Athletics only intended for about 50% of entries for each event to reach the standard, but with effectively two full seasons to qualify, more athletes have been able to do so. That was his two cents on the topic anyway.

A large chunk of that extra time didn’t have any competition (times gained in a period of nearly 8 months weren’t counted) and it’s only at long distances really. The marathon is way over subscribed

It’s the shoes

Nickyc707 · June 11, 2021

Eugene, USA

Women's 400m

Nicole Yeargin 50.96

heywoodu · June 11, 2021

8 hours ago, dodge said:

A large chunk of that extra time didn’t have any competition (times gained in a period of nearly 8 months weren’t counted) and it’s only at long distances really. The marathon is way over subscribed

It’s the shoes

It has been so blatantly obvious that the shoes are making insane differences in the past one or two years, yes

Just in the last two weeks alone we saw the women's 10k world record being broken by runners who seemed to be running relatively comfortably, whereas in the men's 5k we've seen someone gone from semi-alright continental level to absolute world class level (in terms of times) in two races. Those are not exceptions.

rafalgorka · June 11, 2021

Firenze, ITA

Men's High Jump

Brandon Starc 2.33

June 10th, 2021

dodge · June 11, 2021

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

It has been so blatantly obvious that the shoes are making insane differences in the past one or two years, yes

Just in the last two weeks alone we saw the women's 10k world record being broken by runners who seemed to be running relatively comfortably, whereas in the men's 5k we've seen someone gone from semi-alright continental level to absolute world class level (in terms of times) in two races. Those are not exceptions.

Yes. I should have said the shoes is the best case scenario

Some of the recent times have been absurd