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This is some bad penalty shooting!!!

Lawrence with the Socrates penalty. Of course it's saved...

Mitchell-Blake will get crushed over this. He had terrible individual 200m already and now loses the gold by 0,01 to Italy of all teams

I suppose those first week comments about Italy having terrible OG didn't age well?

Italy wins it!!!!!

Only one really iffy changeover for and they run away with gold. But the 1st changeover was close to being outside the zone!

Okay, let's see if can somehow screw it up in women's 4x100

Just now, orangeman said:

Listen, we had to have a corrupt Norwegian ref in 2012 to take it away from us, let us have this.

It doesn't work that way. But I guess if corruption benefits Canada then it's acceptable

Aleksandra Miroslaw set the WR in speed climbing but predictably finished last in lead & bouldering and still finished 4th overall. This unfair format won't be missed for sure. Let's hope Miroslaw stays in form to contend in speed climbing alone in Paris.

Silver medal for Maria Andrejczyk!!! A great performance

Barber 5 cms off silver

Tugsuz misses bronze by 4 cm in the last throw!

2 minutes ago, NearPup said:

All the Muir hype from the BBC is finally justified.

 

Seriously amazing race tho.

Because it was run like a meeting race with pacemaking. Muir can always contend in such races, she can't win a slow race with sprint finish because she doesn't have it.

Just now, Federer91 said:

Laura Muir showing who is the best middle-distance runner in Europe 

She was lucky Hassan did all the pacemaking and split the pack. That was the only way she would win a medal here.

Hassan with perfect pacemaking

leads 1-0 at half-time. Blackstenius must have read my comments since she scored the goal

Miller-Uibo takes it. Misses out on Perec's OR by 0,11

Paulino 49,20 NR with silver.

Tugsuz throws Hussong out!

1 minute ago, Orangehair43 said:

Also why is there a 35 minute gap from the end of the 1500m before the relays begin. That feels unusually long. 

Heptathlon/decathlon medal ceremonies?

Very fast first men's 4x400 SF. 2:59,06 NR good enough for 5th place.

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

I remember this one. The never arriving sensors.

 

If World Athletics cared about this event (they don't), the sensors (if they even exist) would have been introduced long ago.

Yeah, it's been 20 years since the sensors idea came around. Obviously nothing happened because IAAF didn't want it to happen. Classic bullshit.

5 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

In fairness, the addition of those sports doesn’t really have much to do with the 50km Race Walk being dropped. It has entirely to due with the fact that there’s no Women’s 50km Race Walk. Plus, the IOC also didn’t like the lack of technological innovation if I remember their report correctly.

Well, there is no men's rhytmic gymnastics or synchro swimming either? As for lack of technological innovation that is an obvious bullshit. There is nothing fair about dropping the 50k, just the usual politics. They tried 50k women's walk at World Champs not so long ago and while it wasn't pretty at least they tried it. But obviously politics had to step in.

Just now, hckošice said:

Hope all athletes will have a last celebration walk together after the race. This is the least they deserve.

 

How you can remove and completely kill this amazing and unique event. criminal act from IOC and WA

Hey, IOC wants 12 year olds kids doing tricks for 40 seconds. 50km walk stands no chance versus the urban crap

3 minutes ago, rybak said:

That's it. Dawid is last Olympic champion on 50km race walk! What a beautiful story  

 

@Monzanator @Adriano We can count his medal as always at least one surprising medal which always happen at each Games, like Sylwia Bogacka in London or Oktawia Nowacka in Rio  

Nowacka wasn't that unexpected since she won medals at World Champs before. The most unexpected I saw was probably Rzepkowski in skeet in 1996.