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Never mind, I hadn't seen the 15+ for Thiam yet :d 

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Just now, Monzanator said:

 

She's a silver medal girl in the pentahlon. Not so much in the heptathlon.

 

PB in shot put means the hype will continue until the end :lol:

I wonder if BBC commentators - like the Dutch - are noobs that only look at the current standings and stuff like "she's xx points behind!" or if they actually use the forecasts like pretty much every avid multi-event follower ever :p 

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Just now, heywoodu said:

I wonder if BBC commentators - like the Dutch - are noobs that only look at the current standings and stuff like "she's xx points behind!" or if they actually use the forecasts like pretty much every avid multi-event follower ever :p 

 

Forecast is bad for the hype. They tout her as gold medal winner even though she's never won ANY medal at WCh & OG in the heptathlon.

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Just now, Monzanator said:

 

Forecast is bad for the hype. They tout her as gold medal winner even though she's never won ANY medal at WCh & OG in the heptathlon.

Which is surprising in itself, since she's without much doubt the world's second best heptathlete of the past few years.

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Just now, heywoodu said:

I wonder if BBC commentators - like the Dutch - are noobs that only look at the current standings and stuff like "she's xx points behind!" or if they actually use the forecasts like pretty much every avid multi-event follower ever :p 

 

 

No, plenty expertise in the BBC Comms - one of them used to be Jess Ennis' coach - but they are all incurable optimists. 

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Just now, heywoodu said:

Which is surprising in itself, since she's without much doubt the world's second best heptathlete of the past few years.

 

The Russians & Ukrainians are non-existent competition anymore while the US girls are also a little second tier tbh. However you can't have two bad events and count for winning a ton of medals on the global stage. Ennis struggled in SP & JV too but her PBs are significantly better anyway. KJT is just another Kelly Sotherton but even Sotherton's PB in shot is 14,66 (Ennis level) Meanwhile Denise Lewis' worst event was 200m & JV but her SP record was over 16 meters!

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