OlympicsFan

Yeah, the level will be indeed higher, especially at the olympics, but the goal for Germany has to be to stop the bad trend of the last olympics and world championships. From the medal winners here Przybylko, Hofmann, Röhler, Schwanitz, Hussong, Schäfer probably would win a medal at world championships/olympics too with their performances from this week. Mihambo, Gierisch, Jungfleisch, Roleder/Dutkiewicz, Krause and the womens 4 x 100 m relay will need some luck. Currently i dont see Lückenkemper (in the 100, in the 200 she might have a chance), the female discus throwers, Abele, Heinle or Storl winning a medal at world level and the same is true for the female pole vaulters (Ryzih, Spiegelburg and Otchere (despite her huge potential)) and Holzdeppe. Linke (5th at the 2016 olympics and the 2017 world championships), Heß, Kaul and Klosterhalfen have the potential to break through and win a medal. C. Harting and Kazmirek/Schrader will hopefully be back. I think 8 medals would be good, 10 medals would be great.

Yeah, that was my point, amazing performance for Poland. I think they will also be the best european nation at the next big events, concerning number of golds, not number of medals. Poland has 2 pretty safe gold medals, which will be pretty hard for all other european nations to do. For Germany this was a good competition, although many medal contenders didnt deliver (Heß, Holzdeppe, C. Harting, Linke, Ringer, mens 4 x 100 m relay, Klosterhalfen) and others were missing due to injuries (Lisa Mayer, Lisa Ryzih, Silke Spiegelburg, Kai Kazmirek, Rico Freimuth, Michael Schrader). I think the best possible realistic result for Germany would have been 23 medals (19 + Heß/Harting/Linke/Klosterhalfen). Holzdeppe and the mens 4 x 100 m relay wouldnt even have won a medal if in top shape.

Is it normal that we already have 30 more pages for this event than for athletics at the last olympics?

I agree with you about this competition being far less important than the world champs/olympics, but i dont agree about most of the rest. How was Malachowski expected to medal? The same is true for mens 4 x 400 relay. For me GB and Belgium were probably the favorites for gold/silver and it was maybe 55/45 between Spain and Poland for bronze. In mens pole vault Lavillenie/Duplantis for me were the clear favorites for gold and silver. I thought bronze would be between the polish guys, Morgunov and maybe Holzdeppe, so maybe Poland was favorite to win bronze in the pole vault, but not the clear favorite.

The rest of the sports year will be super boring, no important events left sadly.

Interesting view, but ok ...

But what about their relay?

Of course i am well aware of that, but outdoors is a different thing (ask Maslak) and the polish guys just werent in as good a shape as the guys from Belgium/GB/Spain. It was pretty obvious even before the start of this competition.

I asked a clear question. Who was expected to medal (according to the entry list for example) and didnt win a medal here?

Maybe, although i didnt expect a medal for them. I considered Belgium, GB and Spain stronger. Thats maybe like saying that Holzdeppe not winning a medal here was disappointing.

Organizers trying everything to prevent Poland from winning the medal table.

Is Poland in athletics what Italy is in swimming? Has any polish athlete undeperformed here? Was there any polish medal contender who didnt medal?

Breaking news: The organizers try to find a reason to disqualify all other nations from heat 2 of mens 4 x 100 m relay so that Germany makes the final. Thats the reason why it is taking so long.

Only one medal for Germany, even worse than expected. This certainly isnt a german strength, but it could be a bit better. German athletes peak out of nowhere from now and then but noone is even remotely consistent.

Good or bad? In my opinion slower than expected. Just sad that Germany had to compete with Haase, i think even if Lückenkemper would have run both the 2nd and 4th position, then Germany still would have had a faster time than 42.2. The future for Europe looks bright in this event anyway, i think the record will go down until 2024 the latest.

Hopefully its not me, i wont accept the victory. I just entered for fun and thats also the reason why i didnt predict anything in womens 50 km race walking (for me this event doesnt exist).

Would be stupid, but good to know.

Much closer than expected. With Mayer in last position instead of Haase Germany wins the gold medal here.

Like i said, he wants to save the world record for when he gets money for breaking it.

I am a bit sad for the polish guy. He was never the biggest talent, but he worked his way up there and now when Lavillenie seems to become beatable, 2 completely new guys show up and spoil it for him. I am sure that he will continue to work very hard, but i have a very hard time to see him reaching the level Duplantis, Morgunov currently have. Duplantis was known as monster talent for many years now, but Morgunovs progression is more than surprising to be honest.

No, otherwise Lavillenie wouldnt have looked as hopeless as he did just now. Duplantis is the biggest pole vault talent ever and will do things that noone thought were possible. He redefines this event just like for example Isinbayeva did on the womens side. Lets just hope that he wont be quite as dominant as she was.

I dont think so. Will he get any money if he jumps world record tonight? He might safe it for the diamond league final. Imagine future pole vaulters looking at the junior world record ... i think before this year it was at 5.80 m or so for ten years. I think Duplantis could do the same to the senior world record, maybe when he ends his career it will be at 6.30 m or more.

I cant believe it, this is the best competition i ever witnessed? Thanks to everyone! Holzdeppe must seriously think about what to do, he is lightyears away from this level, he has to change everything now if he wants to be competitive again.

Holy shit!

How so? Those events had at least a great mark for 1st place, in mens triple jump everyone has been shit so far.