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On 4/21/2024 at 9:51 PM, bestmen said:

African champs 2024

 

 

Men Elite 

Gold 

Silver 

Bronze 

 

Women Elite , only  are in 

 Gold 

 Silver 

 Bronze

But more importantly, which riders?  

34 minutes ago, dullard said:

Anyone know if Sydney is still planning to double 400 flat and hurdles?

I'm already surprised she is planning to even run anything at all  

1 hour ago, Orangehair43 said:

 

Super surprising anyway to see doping in a sport where world records set in rocket suits are falling left and right all the time...  

1 hour ago, Josh said:

HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. (sorry for swearing)

 

Katzberg WITH A HUGE PB OF 84.38m in Round 5 of men’s hammer throw 

Best throw since  Ivan Tikhon  in 2008!

45 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Dunno about that. Our own  athletics commentators who suddenly find themselves doing the Olympic bobsleigh have certainly matched that standard.

And to think Martin Haven (and John Morgan), the gods of bobsleigh commentary, are native English speakers...throw them a bag of money and let's go.

52 minutes ago, Biathlonfan said:

he had to have been sarcastic,there's no way someones this dumb

Definitely not sarcastic, but honestly I also don't think it's a matter of being dumb

My guess is that the main athletics commentator, who is sick, was supposed to be replaced by someone who is kind of the default backup commentator...but he also wasn't available, so the guy doing it today is someone who as far as I know literally only does commentary for football usually.

With that in mind, he actually did a pretty good job overall, just that Perkovic/Elkasevic mistake was a bit unfortunate  

10 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Truly embarrassing race in the 110hs, clearly they all have a problem with fatigue and disposal of preparation

What was embarrassing about the race? The times were definitely fine. Women's 200m and men's high jump, those were probably the lowest-level events of the day I'd say  

"In Croatia, the women are good with the discus, for example this Sandra Elkasevic. No Sandra Perkovic this time in Xiamen."

I hope the main Dutch athletics commentator gets well soon, because the replacement has a bit to learn, let's say  

1 minute ago, Biathlonfan said:

this is so unfair ,i'm missing discus results,i demandwhoever owns the site to send me a personal apology 

Made the screenshot without looking, because I didn't get to the discus yet, but I hope my blind screenshot caught the full result for you  

4 minutes ago, Biathlonfan said:

yeah,noticed that also  but i assumed the rest of you were watching live somewhere so i thought this was a personal problem

I am definitely watching (although not entirely live, 20 minutes behind because I forgot ), but it'd be good to have the results to check and so on. Omega isn't updating neither.

https://www.omegatiming.com/2024/Xiamen_2024-live-results

Edit: whoah, there's life in the DL website!

11 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Any idea what time the programme will air tomorrow?

I see nothing besides regular sports programming focusing on football..

If someone could give the Diamond League server a reboot so the site with results loads, that'd be great  

https://xiamen.diamondleague.com/program-results/program-2024/

4 hours ago, dullard said:

 

About time for a new Hajo Seppelt special  

16 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Beijing Half Marathon results from last weekend will not stand.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/68853295

Well that is some nonsense.

6 hours ago, dullard said:

Sara Benfares was on quite a cocktail

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/german-runner-benfares-gets-five-131547183.html

I do genuinely hope she gets her life in order though, assuming the bone cancer diagnosis is real. She's still young enough to have a normal life outside of sports, so hopefully she gets better medically speaking, puts this behind her and starts life as a regular working person  

2 hours ago, bestmen said:

attack in iran 

Seems like a relatively small strike on some military base, which at least to the outside world Iran seems to be more or less denying in order to not 'have' to hit back. In the words of Iran at the UN after they attacked last weekend: the matter should now be deemed concluded, one would imagine (and hope, nobody needs this to keep going and going).

45 minutes ago, AustralianFan said:

Because it is much further north, Brisbane’s weather during winter is much better, warmer and drier than either Sydney or Melbourne in July and August where it is wet, miserable and cold.

 

Sydney 2000 was given special one-off approval to hold those Games in September because of Sydney’s poor winter weather in July and August.  
 

Logical, given the world's average preferences, but too bad. A Sydney or Melbourne Olympics might be my best chance ever for comfortable weather at a Summer Olympics, a rather rare opportunity  

39 minutes ago, AustralianFan said:

The IOC only allows the Games to be hosted in the July/August Hosting window.

 

Brisbane will be in winter when it hosts in July 2032 but their winter is a lot milder and drier than Sydney or Melbourne then when it is cold, wet and miserable.

 

So, Sydney, Melbourne and all southern Australian cities have zero chance of hosting an Olympics in the future.

Too bad, July and August kind of feel like the best times of year to visit both Sydney and Melbourne without worrying too much about melting away, and quite nice average temperatures  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Sydney#Climate_data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Melbourne#Climate_statistics

Brisbane at least seems to be not much worse, although June/July would have been slightly better...but like you said, IOC won't allow that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Brisbane

Beautiful victory for Kasia Niewiadoma in the Fleche Wallone, after already finishing 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd and 2nd in her career, finally she takes the win, her first in almost five years  

Bernd Hölzenbein, famous for his dive that gave West Germany a free penalty in the 1974 World Cup final, has died. He played in the US in the final years of his career, but said (long) career consisted mostly of many highly impressive years at Eintracht Frankfurt.

German football players are leaving this world fast the past few months..

42 minutes ago, Biathlonfan said:

I meant that he said that it was a mistake for HIM himself,to never chase winds,and he ended up without a world record.He basically gave Mykolas the green light to do this,he's very proud of him

Right, that makes a lot more sense  

10 minutes ago, Biathlonfan said:

Except Alekna's father who never cared to do it,admits that was a mistake and told Mykolas not to repeat the mistake.

Wow, I'd expect a prouder reaction from dad  

11 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Yeah, the lack of actual grand stands makes this "stadium" look quite unique. I wonder if it suddenly becomes the new go-to-place for throwers

Haven't fields like these been the go-to-place for throwers looking for limits and records for years already?  

39 minutes ago, Illya said:

Well, I did some research and actually we can count out Ulyanova and Mollenhauer - first is actually Azerbaijani, but was (shockingly) naturalized by Russia and then came back to homeland, and Mollenhauer moved to the Azerbaijan at the age of 5, so she's not naturalized American

Thanks, and interesting, especially Mollenhauer having basically grown up there, that's Azerbaijani enough I'd say  

16 minutes ago, Illya said:

But the fourth one is not Azerbaijani too 

Azerbaijani-Russian, apparently, but it does look like she was born in Baku?