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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

The walking route is as boring everywhere basically.

Because they use these listless 2km loops everywhere these days. 50km used to be 50km around the city with a finish on the stadium. That was real athletics. Marathons are the stepchild anyway since all the big guns prefer the big payday marathons but race walking has been totally destroyed by IAAF.

I understand USA never actually wanted to host the athletics WChamps until they shifted their policy lately? The sport might be huge globally but I guess it's an also-run in the USA except for the major stars? Nike must sure be pouring a lot of money but it's gonna be curious how the NOP case goes from here.

This being said, I hear Nairobi is the early front runner to host the 2025 World Champs? Attendance won't be an issue there for sure but the organization could be a major problem. Tomasz Majewski was speaking about this yesterday and he said Africa isn't ready to host the WCh just yet even if the U-17 Worlds had a stellar crowd. Guess with the U-20 WCh being hosted there next year the IAAF is pretty much setting the stage for the 2025 opportunity?

4x400 W relay has been reinstated on appeal.

Front page news on BBC: Lowest medal total for since 2005! Guess the hype didn't quite work? They literally got nothing other than DAS & KJT plus these 4x100 relays.

relay falls down? In 4x400? Epic failure!

No Martyn Rooney? Guess even the Brits are tired of this old timer.

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

I am very surprised by this result, i thought that Jamaica would easily win silver, but Poland never fails to surprise in events like that.

We are the best 4x400 women's relay in Europe. Nothing surprising with us beating Jamaica & GB tbh!

Wyciszkiewicz's run really gave us breathing room. That's fresh legs for you!

Epic run from Swiety-Ersetic!!!! 3:21.89 NR!!! 

silver!!!

Vetter flops with only a bronze!

Anderson Peters is World Champion!

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Never heard of that country before, so i just assumed it was in Africa.

I thought Kirani James gave some exposure before but guess not

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

I was only 5 years old when he won his last medal, so excuse me that i didnt follow athletics back then ...

Charles Austin passed his one last remaining attempt and cleared it to take Olympic Gold in 1996. Partyka was one failure away from being an Olympic champion.

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Another sensational medal for Africa in javelin throw after Yego and Walcott. I hope this motivates the german athletes for Tokyo. Looking at the past 2 seasons only 1 bronze is super disappointint for Germany.

Since when is an African country?

No Kielbasinska in the 4x400 final. Wyciszkiewicz comes in. Probably the right decision!

Kirt is injured.

Nia Ali two PBs on the same day

Just now, dcro said:

 

No she is

Chistyakova used to be NR holder in triple jump though! Just ask @hckosice

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

No, for sure this isnt the reason for her improvement. She got better because she got faster. You have to ask yourself how she got faster and doping for sure is a possibility, but if she would have used steroids, she would look very different.

But you said doping is more likely in track events yet LJ is reliant on speed. So any sprinter doing LJ isn't less suspicious at all

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

The measuring is really weird here ... Vetter's throw landed before 85 m but they measured 85.37 m?

The line arc is obviously wrong at the ends (nothing new at the champs). His throw landed right near the sector.

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Yeah, when you reach that level you are suspicious by default. Mihambo, Kaul and Röhler are the least likely to be doped out of all the world class german track and field athletes, but in this day and age noone is beyond any suspicions. Still i would consider a) athletes in jumping events less like to be doped than athletes in track events b) her progression at age 25 more "natural" than Lewandowski's progression at age 32.

I'm sure there are some DDR methods still alive in Germany. That's why someone like Mihambo is suspicious!

Mihambo 7.30. Game over.

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Interesting progression by the polish guy, improving his PB by more than 2 seconds at the age of 32. Overall this probably was one of the 5 dirtiest events here alongside mens shot put, womens 400 m, womens 1500 m and mens 100 m.

He was 800m speciallist until Rio OG and switched full-time to 1500m at age 29.

Cheriuyot trolled everyone!

Lewandowski 3:31.46 - NR!!! Bronze!

Vargas 12,65 in a LL with Visser.

Koleczek 12,86. She'll have to go under 12,7 if she wants to be in a global final. But she did as good as expected here.

I'm gonna skip the marathon so see you guys tomorrow!