Josh

Yeah, for people who aren't too interested in the decathlon this isn't a great session. Personally I am actually very happy with it, so often the decathlon has to make do with like 5 minutes of attention in between replays of heats where people run 11.50 in a 100m and qualifyings of triple jumps of 13 meters or something, so great to finally see some full decathlon action
 
Plus there already was the marathon, I've been entertained with athletics already since I woke up, it's something else than all the field stuff being ignored because of a billion running heats  

Right, Neugebauer has dropped the fight for gold now..

Now that the Worlds is in its final stages I just want to say: I would have never ever expected to see this many spectators in Hungary for athletics. I mean, look at how many people are in the stadium for a morning session of decathlon when we don't even have a Hungarian in decathlon. The organizers went above and beyond to market this event to the public and it clearly payed off in a country that never had any big traditions in athletics beyond hammer throw. It's the ultimate proof that Hungarians like big sport events and they show up in big numbers even when we don't have a star on the level of Katinka Hosszú or Kristóf Milák. 

LePage with a 50.98m in R1 of the decathlon discus throw

Thomas-Dodd the 8th athlete to get the auto Q

Ogunleye hits the auto Q mark, with a 19.44m
 
 Mitton also safely through, with a 19.35m
 
Edit:  Ewen (19.42m) as well

Stop the count!!!

Ogunleye hits the auto Q mark, with a 19.44m
 
 Mitton also safely through, with a 19.35m
 
Edit:  Ewen (19.42m) as well

Decathlon medal standings after 6/10 events:
 
1. LePage - 5614
2. Warner - 5596
3. Neugebauer - 5520

Dongmo and  Ealey both hit the auto-qualification mark
 
Edit:  Gong as well, might need to hit the auto-qualification mark just to qualify for the final

Oh damn, Neugebauer with an awful race, but escapes a DNF  

Victor and Tilga with an excellent plus to start their second decathlon day.

Awesome bronze for Gardadi  
 
Salpeter 4th  

Yehualaw desperately needs coins for the parking meters in Budapest.

Why are the graphics broken by the way? It is only showing the time, but you know...hello? Distance to go?  

Besides, getting rid of the hammer throw would be a hate crime against Canadians.

That sounds awful  
 
Like any big city marathon wants to be turned into a slow championship race....
 
And again this insanely stupid idea of 'if we take away certain events, we will attract a wider audience'. No, you absolute fuckwit, people who don't like athletics will not suddenly start liking athletics if there's no hammer throw and 5k anymore. That will just be half an hour less of athletics for them not to watch. Just like people who didn't like the 50k race walk are not suddenly now watching the 35k race walk. It's just 15km less race walking that they don't watch.

Seb Coe had an interview where he made two very interesting comments.
 
The first is that he wants world championships on every non-Olympic year.
 
The second is that less popular events are in real risk of being dropped from the program.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/seb-coe-it-will-take-more-than-money-to-take-world-championships-to-saudi-arabia/ar-AA1fMmut

Both K4 boats for Canada finishing 4th in the semifinals. On brand.

At least we won both B-Finals so we can say we didn't benefit from the continental requirement this time

Alfred 4th 
 
Damn it!! 

Go  Alfred 

Shukla with another PB (2:00.23) in the women's 800m semi-finals.

Qualified to Paris in women's K4 500m, and men's K4 500m through World Championships.

We will have 4 finals tomorrow in Olympic events, here are the athletes in them who already won quotas:
 
Men's C1 1000m
 
none, this is the first men's canoe Olympic final here
 
Men's K1 1000m
 
none, as you would expect there isn't really an overlap between this event and the K4 500m
 
Women's K1 500m
 
 Csipes
 Carrington
 Novakovic
 
So this means that the 6 other athletes in Final A already won the athlete quotas.
 
Women's C2 500m
 
 Cirilo Duboys
 Jacome
 
So it's already guaranteed that  Jensen will win an athlete quota in C1 due to the inevitable double-up. If both Spain and Cuba finish inside the Top8,  Luzan wins a C1 quota. If all of Spain, Cuba and Ukraine finish inside the Top8,  Borowska wins a C1 quota.