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2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Third at the NCAA championships, 5th at nationals. Not a bad runner at all, otherwise you wouldn't be fairly consistently running sub-51 seconds, but yeah, no top of the world. It's a bit harsh to criticize her too much I think, she basically performed at or close to her level. The bigger issue was the rest of the team.

Simon's leg time was almost 2 seconds slower than Bol's though (50.90 vs 48.95)

The Robert Lewandowski transfer saga is over and will join FC Barcelona

2 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

Dang.  Who chose this squad for the US?  That's a disappointment

USA usually chooses a second-string for mixed though Norwood is always there and Felix is to vulture the personal medal count but I have no idea who this last female runner was? She completely run into a wall after 360 meters

Epic failure from last runner!

takes gold! silver. in 4th.

Alright, 4x400 mixed final now. USA vs Dominicana for gold, Poland vs Netherlands for bronze?

Su makes the 100m SF as the slowest fastest loser 0,003 faster than Prescod!

Haratyk 20.23 and also bombs out in Shot Put qualifying.

Sutej qualifies for the PV final from shared 12th place on countback. First time clearance at 4.35 was enough.

Newman and Kyriakopolou are the big casualties except Bradshaw.

7.93m enough to make Men's LJ final  Defending champion Gayle 3x NM

Su Bingtian only 10,15 in 100m heats while Kerley 9,79!

Sutej bombs out at 4,35 in PV qualifying.

Sofia Ennaoui has mismanaged another race tactically and had to steam home for the automatic Q

She missed the landing bed alltogether?

Shot Put has an actual sand pit instead of grass

1-2 for Japan, Sweden with bronze and Kenya in 4th place.

2x and in the leading group. Not your everyday walking front runners...

22 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Probably due to the time in Europe. Gotta show events in primetime!

It's 12:43 am here in Poland. That's not exactly prime time

Barrondo in the penalty box. It seems like he's always DQ since winning OG silver in 2012

TVP Sport interview with Zdziebło and she says she only targeted a Top 8 finish at 20km and 35km was supposed to be the main distance at these champs

I hear Tim Hutchings is still commenting after Eurosport but what channel is that?

9 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Honestly weird overperformance from Katarzyna with no prior honours even in European level.

 

Makes me sad that so many Lithuanians were not able to replicate this success having so many good athletes in the past, Brigita Virbalytė and Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė came closest with 4th and 5th in ECH 2018.

Race walking is the low-hanging fruit with Russians banned. You only have to compete vs Spain & Latin America countries plus China. USA, Africa and most western Europe don't give a damn about this sport and will never be competitive at it save for maybe one-off crazy enthusiasts but they are very rare. Australia has also vanished from the sport.

Gold for Kimberly Garcia Leon! Silver for Katarzyna Zdzieblo! Bronze for Shije Qieyang!

First ever athletics WCh medal for Peru!

Last km! Looks like gold for Peru, silver for Poland. That would be a huge success for both of them.

Qieyang is cooked. Zdzieblo moves up to second place with 3kms left.

Just now, AsensioWillemsen said:

I'm not well known in race walking, would this be a huge upset if  wins?

Someone from South America winning gold in race walking isn't an upset but Peru of all countries winning it would be one IMO.

European Champion Maria Perez DQ.

14 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Also, she was DQ'ed  

What's the point of being made to wait in the box if she was DQ anyway? She didn't come back out in first place.

12 kms. Zdziebło still in third place...

England wins 5:0 while Austria easily hangs on to beat Norway 1:0. This means vs is one of the QF.

A complete disaster for Norway, they are lucky they played in the same group as Northern Ireland to claim one win. They didn't even score a goal in the other two games. I won't be surprised if Hegerberg quits on NT again.