Monzanator

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.

I wonder how many Canadians here actually watched the entire 50km race?

Dunfee steals bronze out of nowhere!!!

Dawid Tomala is an Olympic champion!!! Insane upset!!!

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

every race walk fan in the world know where dudince are

Yes, guess anyone who watches 50km walk from start to finish can call himself a fan

12 minutes ago, dcro said:

Apparently Tomala walked his first 50 km... earlier this year.

Yes, this is his second 50km walk ever. The first one was in Dudince in March this year.

Probably @hckošicecan tell us where Dudince is

15 minutes ago Korzeniowski said Tur & Hilbert look the best from the chasing pack and guess what, they have pulled clear indeed.

Dunfee getting dropped. Probably no medal for him.

Looking at the wrist watch is a good thing

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Ouch. I can see some rhythm errors in Tomala.

He's clearly hurting now but 3:11 lead with 6 kms left.

If he hangs on he'll easily become the most anonymous Olympic medallist in Polish history. Right back to Fortuna 1972 indeed. Nobody knew Tomala before today.

Korzeniowski says Tur & Hilbert should start the serious chase now. Rules Vieira out as he "doesn't have the strenght".

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Surely Korzeniowski is getting more confident? @Monzanator

Yeah, he said he might just get excited soon. Still watching the chasers and says he doesn't see much fire among them.

You can probably tell when cycling peloton gives up the chase on breakaway too?

Early leader Luo lapped after 40 kms.

Barrondo DQ

Haukenes DNF

Korzeniowski analyzing Tomala's breathing technique. No teeth showing means Tomala is still comfortable

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

Because some sport climbing is better than no sport climbing 

 

In fairness, quotas weren’t as tight for Tokyo as they are for Paris. There’s also a lot of rumors as to why the combined event was chosen for the Olympics instead of the individual disciplines, but that’s a loaded topic I don’t feel like getting into.

I think we can safely presume the mixed events are there to cut down the quotas as chief reason. Gender diversity is just a convenient excuse. Getting rid of 470 class in sailing proves that. IOC will be making space for new "urban teenage" events and sailing remains an old school sport that isn't aimed at the teenagers whatsoever. I'm fairly sure we'll have e-sports as Olympic "sport" come 2032.

Korzeniowski says Tomala needs to build 5 min gap in 12 kms for this charge to make sense. He doesn't like the idea at all.

2:10-2:20 hour mark is usually when Korzeniowski started his solo walking up front. Someone needs to tell Tomala he's not Korzeniowski

1 minute ago, dcro said:

Any chance for a fluke Italian gold?

Nope

7 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Which is exactly what the majority of the climbing community, myself included, wants of course. It’s just tough to get there when quotas are tight like there are currently.

Yeah, quotas are tight but one would have thought the new sports will get the glass half-full treatment and some of the old ones get trimmed down. But here they brought a new event and clearly butchered the concept already. If you want to keep the quotas in sport climbing low then why introduce this sport to the Games to begin with?

lead the pitstop contest. One on three warnings and the other at two.

Just now, heywoodu said:

Me too, but I think that's the argument I've seen on here mostly. It's easily the most ridiculous thing in the entire Olympics to have a junior tournament, and a senior men's tournament would be useless, but I doubt they'll ever accept to have only women's football at the Olympics (which would be great)  

The men's senior tournament was basically for communist bloc and Asia for years (because IOC was still following the amateur rules and pro players from Western Europe or South America were ineligible to compete). That's why Poland won the 1972 gold medal with a squad consisting of 90% of players that finished third at the World Cup two years later. Back in 1972 teams like Sudan or Burma managed to qualify, later other scrubs like Guatemala or Cuba. Brazil had some future stars as they fielded junior teams alright but those players weren't quite up to the standard aged 19-20 yet.