Wumo 2,791 Posted December 3, 2019 #561 Share Posted December 3, 2019 (edited) Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado will end his career after the Olympic Games next year at the age of 50. https://www.marca.com/atletismo/2019/12/02/5de4f8bd22601d831c8b45b5.html Journalist: "En Tokio disputará sus octavos Juegos Olímpicos. ¿Será su última gran competición?" Jesus Angel Garcia: "Mi decisión personal es poner punto y final a mi carrera deportiva en los Juegos Olímpicos. Y así lo afrontaré. Será la última vez que me ponga un dorsal." In short, he is asked if Tokyo 2020 is going to be his last big competition. He answers that he has made the decision to end his career at the Olympics. "It will be the last time I put on a bib", he says. Edited December 3, 2019 by Wumo heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,503 Posted December 3, 2019 #562 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Already If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,503 Posted December 3, 2019 #563 Share Posted December 3, 2019 On the other hand, walking possibly the last ever Olympic 50k at age 50, that's something. Wumo and Nickyc707 2 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,503 Posted December 8, 2019 #564 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Jakob Ingebrigtsen competed in the U20 race at the European cross country championships this morning, that's just not fair Silver for Ayetullah Aslanhan of Turkey, ahead of Irish Efrem Gidey. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 305 Posted December 8, 2019 #565 Share Posted December 8, 2019 On 03/12/2019 at 18:08, heywoodu said: On the other hand, walking possibly the last ever Olympic 50k at age 50, that's something. Race walkers are a durable bunch. Don Thompson the 1960 Olympic champion in the 50 km walk wore his country's vest for the last time at the age of 58 in 1991. heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,503 Posted December 8, 2019 #566 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Jimmy Gressier won the U23 race and of course can't cross the finish line in a normal way He very much likes himself, it seems Nickyc707 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,503 Posted December 8, 2019 #567 Share Posted December 8, 2019 One of the commentators on the European Athletics stream has been regularly coughing into the microphone all day long, with that incredibly disgusting cough smokers have Turn off the microphone when you feel that coming up man If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 305 Posted December 8, 2019 #568 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Five of the six individual winners were retaining titles they won last year which is pretty unusual. I do wonder whether we need an U23 age group race. It spreads the talent pretty thinly between that race and the senior race, particularly in the women's events where the fields were a bit sparse. Surely U20 and senior races are sufficient together with the mixed relay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 305 Posted December 8, 2019 #569 Share Posted December 8, 2019 10 hours ago, heywoodu said: Jimmy Gressier won the U23 race and of course can't cross the finish line in a normal way He very much likes himself, it seems When people do stuff like that I always think back to Mekhissi-Benabbad's disqualification from the 3k steeplechase at the 2014 European Championships after taking his shirt off to celebrate winning before he crossed the line. Athletes work incredibly hard to achieve success and then inexplicably some choose to put it at risk because of their egos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,503 Posted December 9, 2019 #570 Share Posted December 9, 2019 7 hours ago, Nickyc707 said: When people do stuff like that I always think back to Mekhissi-Benabbad's disqualification from the 3k steeplechase at the 2014 European Championships after taking his shirt off to celebrate winning before he crossed the line. Athletes work incredibly hard to achieve success and then inexplicably some choose to put it at risk because of their egos. Well he did his "Look at me, I am fucking awesome" thing mostly after the finish If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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