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No european girl faster than 51.21 s, very painful to see ... Marita Koch was almost 4 s faster, back in the days people just trained much harder than people do nowadays.

Win what? The long jump? Very likely, yes.

A very pleasant surprise indeed (for the eye). She is without a doubt among the 10 most beautiful athletes here (all sport combined).

Any chance she ran that time in La-Chaux-Fonds?

Not a very trustworthy explanation ... how do we know that you didnt inherit a fortune and are now spending your time watching sailing and drinking champagne everyday?

And a bang average talent like Panziera doing it too, swimming a time that will 99% be enough to win a medal at the next olympics. Whatever the italians are on i hope that the americans, russians, canadian, chinese and so on will get a hand on it too, this italian farce cant be rewarded. Probably even team sky would be embarrassed to cheat that obviously.

Sorry, but the italian performances here are just ridiculous. I get it when some athletes overperform, but basically everyone setting PBs and even older athletes like Codia destroying their PBs is more than suspicious. I hope that someone will put an end to this joke.

I also think that Van Rouwendaal will win gold, although maybe someone like Köhler migth be a serious danger to her, but i dont think that Weertman will win gold. I am sure everyone was annoyed by the water temperature and the full bodysuit + Sharon won the 5 k yesterday, it is clear that she is miles ahead of everyone else here.

How do we know that it isnt from your own bottle?

Super disappointing results for Germany although the goal of 2 medals is still possible. Would be great to see the first german gold at world championships (in an olympic discipline) since 2000. I am sure that womens 49er FX and both 470s will qualify later on. In Finn and Nacra it will be more difficult, in both RS:X there is no hope. I just found out that Germany is competing with a 15 year old guy (Silas Mühle) in Nacra, must be one of the youngest participants ... ?

Mihambo with clearly the best performance of all favorites. Both Ugen and Proctor (with her gloves) just looking ridiculous.

Yes, Poland will finish ahead of Germany in the medal table her, but i am pretty sure that GB will win the medal table. They already have 2 golds + 5 more pretty safe gold medals (mens 4 x 100 m, womens 4 x 100 m, womens 200 m, mens 400 m, womens 1500 m). I dont see Poland getting to 7 gold medals, 6 would be the maximum probably.

Drechslers long jump record of 7.48 m is untouchable, the same is true for Kochs 400 m record of 47.60 s, but the 200 m record of 21.71 s and especially the 100 m record of 10.81 s dont seem completely out of reach. The 100 m record was set with a tailwind of +1.7 m/s, which converts to 10.91 s with 0.0 m/s wind, so Lückenkemper probably wouldnt be that far off if she would get perfect conditions. Also keep in mind that 200 m actually is her better event and that she ran 22.41 s (with +2.3 m/s wind) 3 years ago when her 100 m PB was still 11.25 s (with +0.9 m/s wind, which converts to 11.31 s with 0.0 m/s wind). She wasnt able to train the 200 m recently because it would have been too much stress, but i think in the end this will turn out to be her better event (given how poor her start is).

You clearly havent read any interviews by Christoph Harting so far, he said that his goal is to throw 80 m, so throwing 73 m or 74 m will be no problem for him.

If we are only talking about olympic events then its the womens 3000 m SC record by Gesa Krause from last year (9:11.85), on the mens side its in the javelin throw by Johannes Vetter (94.44 m). The oldest record on the mens side is the long jump record from Lutz Dombrowski (8.54 m, 1980). Both Sebastian Bayer (8.49 m in 2009) and Christian Reif (8.49 m in 2014) came close to it quite recently but couldnt break it. The second oldest record on the mens side is 3:31.58 by Thomas Wessinghage in the 1500 m from 1980. Homiyu Tesfaye came close to it in 2014 with a time of 3:31.98. The third oldest record on the mens side is 47.48 s in the 400 m hurdles by Harald Schmid from 1982, no other german ever came within a second of that time. On the womens side the oldest record is 21.71 s by Marita Koch in the 200 m from 1979, Heike Drechsler tied that record in 1986. The second oldest record is 22.45 m in womens shot put by Ilona Slupianek from 1980 and the 3rd oldest record is 3:57.71 in the 1500 m by Christiane Wartenberg from 1980 as well, Konstanze Klosterhalfen came close to it last year with her time of 3:58.92. The oldest indoor records on the mens side are: 45.05 s in the 400 m by Thomas Schönlebe from 1988, 2.42 m by Carlo Thränhardt in the high jump from 1988 and 22.55 m in the shot put by Ulf Timmermann from 1989. The oldest indoor records on the womens side are: 21.59 m in the shot put by Ilona Slupianek from 1979, 50.01 s in the 400 m by Sabine Busch from 1984 and 4:03.64 by Brigitte Kraus in the 1500 m from 1985 (Konstanze Klosterhalfen came within 0.36 s of that record this year). The most recent indoor records are 8:36.01 in womens 3000 m by Konstanze Klosterhalfen from this year and on the mens side 17.52 m in the triple jump by Max Heß from last year.

Of course i dont care whether she breaks a polish record ... lets be honest, you wouldnt care either if someone broke a german record? I am sure it would be special for her to break such an old record that is probably from the time where there were no serious doping controls. About Schwanitz performances today: We shouldnt forget that Schwanitz was involved in a car crash only 1 day after the german championships 3 weeks ago and injured her finger, so this might have played a role in her poor performance today. You sounded as if you thought that polish athletics is in a better state than german athletics, so i had the feeling that all of those things werent obvious to you, but of course you are right, its only normal for Germany to be better than Poland in sports. Of course that doesnt stop Germany from being a complete disaster in fencing and swimming, so i guess as a german fan you have to be glad that german athletics is in a much better state.

No, Thompson for sure is an expert, but i think he just got emotional (like i did after Schwanitz lost the gold) because he saw an athlete from his country losing a medal and thought "All the other guys are much faster, why cant you run any faster" and he certainly had his own PB of 4:20 in mind. I would say you will have a hard time to find a normal person who is able to run sub 5:00 for the 1500 m.

Depends on what you define as jogging pace ... 4:58 equals a time of about 33 minutes for the 10 000 m, which is roughly the speed of elite females.

Maybe he did a Spanovic (if you know what i mean)?

Close to 8 m, he deserved 4th place. The same happened with Heinles 4th attempt that was way beyond 7.77 m. Would be more interesting to know where Torneus is though ... ?

Guba is miles away from being in medal contention at the olympics, unlike Schwanitz, so nothing to worry from a german perspective. In addition to that Germany has the 2015 U18 world champion (Julia Ritter), the 2017 U18 world champion (Selina Dantzler) and the 2016 U20 world champion (Alina Kenzel) in this event, so absolutely nothing to worry. At the last 2 youth world championships and the 2018 U20 world championships as well as the 2017 U20 european championships, the 2017 U23 european championships and the 2018 U18 european championships Germany was ahead of Poland in the medal table, so if anything Poland has to worry. At the moment Poland it looks as if Poland might win medals at the olympics in both hammer throws and maybe mens shot put, but once Wlodarczyk retires, it looks pretty dark. Kszczot is old as well and not a medal contender, the same is true for Malachowski. Lisek might surprise, but currently Lavillenie, Duplantis and Kendricks are clearly ahead of him. I think 4 medals are realistic for Poland at the next olympics. Germany on the other hand has 3 javelin throwers, C. Harting, mens decathlon, womens heptathlon, 20 km race walking, womens 4 x 100 m relay, Schwanitz, Dutkiewicz/Roleder and "sidekicks" like Gierisch, Mihambo, womens javelin throw or Storl and talents like Heinle, Lückenkemper, Klosterhalfen and so on. If you are really convinced that polish athletics is in a better state, i would like to offer you a bet: I say that Germany will win at least 2 more medals in athletics than Poland at the next olympics, are you in?

He will compete at ISTAF in a couple of months. His little brother will take over with the self proclaimed goal of winning gold at the next 3 olympics.

Over performing in the sense that she shouldnt have won gold here, but i want to try to be fair: Schwanitz and Storl only have themselves to blame, both underperformed, the polish athletes just were better prepared, although Haratyk also wasnt at his best. I still am sad that Bukowecki won a medal, i dont consider any of his performances to be legal. Congrats to Guba, she showed massive mental strength today. It just would be nice if polish athletes would leave some gold medals for Germany, its getting frustrating to see german athletes (Schwanitz, Ringer, Harting) fail miserably.

There are a couple of guys like that, i just dont think its good for kids to have something like that as an idol. Athletes should inspire people to do more sport and therefore be more healthy, Stahl just inspires people to eat more pizza and burgers, not a good role model at all. The women in shot put werent much better, at least Schwanitz gave birth only recently, so she has an excuse, i am convinced that she will soon return to her former normal weight.