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Looking at the wrist watch is a good thing

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".

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

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

Nope

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.

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.

But the key is, those people come from influential regions of the world - China, Russia, Australia and most of the Latin America. USA is the only athletics powerhouse that has zero presence in race walking over the years.

The speed speciallists are lucky there are no 30 entries overall or else the entire Top 10 from speed climb wouldn't have made the final. So this combined event is unfair to them. It has to be separated like it is in the World Games. It's like in cycling when sprint speciallists will never contend for the overall Grand Tour or a mountain stage victory.

Yeah, I still remember the uproar when Leszek Blanik couldn't qualify for Athens 2004 despite being the reigning WCh silver medallist in the vault No love for apparatus speciallists in gymnastics whatsoever.

Very nice running from #70

Korzeniowski said there are less than 30 judges in the world who can actually work at the Olympics level

I wonder if he realized he's got no chance here so just grabbed the early attention and now he's tailing off big time?

Da hell is Diniz doing?

Diniz hits the toilet

Or get taken off by the judges 200 meters before the stadium! Thankfully Korzeniowski returned with a vengence!

The very same. The only 4x Olympic champion in history. He just said that Toth & Diniz shouldn't threaten the "Japanese youngsters" so let's see how that works.

Men's 50k walk is on. Legendary event in Poland all because of one person (who is commenting this on Polish ES right now)