NearPup
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I think it’s a good sign that we can have our men’s sprint team have a huge underperformance and… we still have by far our best worlds ever. Canada has real depth in athletics now. -
Marco Arop is my current pick for the Northern Star award (assuming no Canadian athlete does something unexpectedly impressive for the rest of the year). There is just so much depth in middle distance running, and this is a really unprecedented achievement for a Canadian athlete.
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Amazing victory for Arop!
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As a bonus they were in the wrong lane order too :P
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Official now. The final will be crazy.
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Will be disqualified for a changeover outside the zone… in a 4x400m O.o
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Besides, getting rid of the hammer throw would be a hate crime against Canadians.
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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
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At this, after so many cycles where the team underperformed, just an Olympic qualification would be satisfying.
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This includes every player who played at the World Cup. Everyone here who dismissed this as a minor issue or as being overblown really needs to do some serious soul searching imo.
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Women's Volleyball Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024
NearPup replied to Totallympics's topic in Volleyball
deserves this spot, but gosh is this a terrible Olympic qualification system. -
doing the double in the hammer throw. It feels very weird to say that.
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They managed to find footage of the golf cart accident and showed it on the broadcast.
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Saw it in real time (stepped on the inside of his lane), it was a pretty clear one IMO.
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And Linke is fifth again.
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There was a jump-off in the men's high jump at the 2015 worlds, but that was between three athletes (Drouin, Bondarenko and Zhang). Probably would have been a little ridiculous for there to be a 3-way tie for gold between athletes that jumped to 2.33m...
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Ya but even if you are the more competitive athlete... what is the downside, really? Especially at the Olympics where you don't have to share prize money. Even if the odds for the jump-off are *really* loopsided, you take a 100% chance to win a shared gold over a 75% chance to win a solo gold any day.
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Ya, if we are going to essentially do away with the jump-off then the countback should revert back to the old rule where ties were less common.
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I honnestly like the possibility for ties in general (I really hate contrived tie breakers or races that are timed to a degree of precision that doesn't make sense), but the rule for how it can happen in the vertical jumps is a bit ridiculous.
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I don't think we are ever seeing a jump off in a major championship again (unless they change the rules).
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Heh, we had the same thought xD
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is Ingebrigtsen's krypronite.
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Fun fact: Marilou Duvernay-Tardif is the younger sister of Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a Super Bowl winner with the Kansas City Chiefs and co-winner of Canada’s athlete if the year in 2020.
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And some AC.
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Gardiner is down and out O.o
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