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Number of top 8 finishes after today: 44 19 14 14 8 7 7 7 6 (would have been 8 if Hassan/Bol wouldn't have crashed) 6 5 5 5 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Coe claimed on german TV that winning a medal in athletics is more difficult than winning a medal in any other olympic sport. What a stupid thing to say ...

Insane world championships for GB, they convert all their medal chances and even win unexpected medals. Pretty much the same happened in swimming. They are certainly among the best in the world (maybe alongside Australia) when it comes to performing at their best on day X. Of course the times in men's 400 m were pretty slow and Gardiner was clearly missing.

Very unlucky world championships for Canada (and Italy of course), all those 4th places. Luckily for them they won 2 golds, but of course those were expected.

BBC should tell Max Burger that he wasn't hired as a pacemaker ... How embarrassing for him to act like that just to then almost be lapped. He must feel really ashamed right now.

Sorry, but this discussion with you clearly leads nowhere. Either you are just uninformed or you just can't express your opinion properly in english. It is very hard/impossible to follow and you keep bringing up new things that aren't really related.

Kzczmarzczek, Bol and McLaughlin are all also very young, the same applies to them. So those 3 and Adeleke will all beat each other obviously. Young athletes always keep improving, it is a law of nature.

Could someone please create a liveticker so i don't have to wait for our british users to tell us everything the BBC said about Ingebrigtsen? Thanks!

No brit... scottish guy in men's 5000 m, obviously afraid of Ingebrigtsen's revenge.

Events will be broadcasted from tomorrow on by german TV. It is borderline insane to expect television to show FREAKING HEATS at 1 pm on a weekday (when athletics world championships and hockey european championships take place on the same day).

Always weird when you rely on the opinion of one person to make a judgement. Of course you can decide to take his words as truth, but obviously you can't expect others to then take your comment seriously. The funny thing is that athletes also complained about the missing/insufficient AC at the athletics world championships taking place in Hungary of all places right now ... Haven't read anything from you criticizing the organization of that competition, but maybe i just missed it? If we add the fact that your claim that there is no streaming was apparently also wrong and that you act as if Szeged is heaven on earth when it comes to canoeing, the most likely conclusion is that you an agenda. Sadly too obvious, maybe next time.

Interested to see what Neugebauer can do in the decathlon tomorrow. Last year he scored 200 points less at worlds than he did during the college season. If the same happens again this year he will end with 8600-8650 points. On the other hand he this time had 4 more weeks to recover, which might help him.

Looks like Germany might have a chance for a quota place in women's trap. Very surpising. Why is skeet mixed team olympic but not trap mixed team? Don't really get the reason for having individual and mixed shooting events at the olympics, seems like an overkill.

Obviously not, but the same is true in many other sports (100/200 m, swimming, track cycling, gymnastics, cross-country skiing, biathlon). Personally i would prefer if they would get rid of race walking, would free up spots for other sports/save money. If they want to keep race walking, they should at least try to make it an actual sport.

1) SB's of Josh Kerr: 2017: 3:35.99 2018: 3:35.01 2019: 3:32.52 2020: 3:34.53 2021: 3:29.05 2022: 3:30.60 2023: 3:29.38 Huge explosion after covid hit. Quite common for a lot of athletes. 2) Katir once again underperformed. 3) Progression of Olivia Gürth (same coach as Mismas and Krause): PB before 2023/SB in 2023: 800 m: 2:07.37/2:03.70 1500 m: 4:20.59/4:14.86 3000 m: 9:42.13/9:12.76 3000 m SC: 9:47.76/9:24.28 Maybe she can break the european U23 record (9:13) next year. Her and Lea Meyer both have a shot at making the top 8 next year.

1) There definitely was some interaction between them, but i think it was Kerr who initiated it. 2) Not sure if "politneness is a cultural difference" (doesn't really make sense, but i think i know what you tried to express), but the american (and apparently british?) way of acting best buddy with everyone isn't seen as "politeness" in other countries (for example eastern or northern europe). There is a difference between being polite and pretending to be polite. 3) Still don't understand why it is so important for some (british) people that everyone else congratulates them. Does your achievement have less value if others don't congratulate you or is it mostly about some people feeling the need to "remind" others that they beat them? I guess that is also a cultural thing ...

Actually there was some interaction between them. Sadly, unlike you, i was not in position to see/hear everything that happened between them after the race, so i can't say for certain what happened. Personally i never got why it is so important that everyone hugs after the race. If an athlete is disappointed after the race, he should be allowed to get some time for himself, it is not as if Ingebrigtsen actively tried to not congratulate Kerr, it just apparently wasn't a priority for him.

That obviously is the (by far) most likely explanation. I am sure that the officials are living very comfortably (in some 5 star hotel) though.

It is (almost) impossible to have shared golds in most other events (track, triple/long jump, throws), so it is also somewhat unfair.

Have to mention again how impressive the Netherlands are. Not sure if the competitions so far could have gone any worse for them and still they will end with a lot of medals and top 8 finishes. Could very well see them being the best european country at the olympics next year. Van Klinken, Klaver, Laros and some other could all finally break through next year.

1) Nordas improving by 7 seconds in one year after switching to Ingebrigtsen's dad ... 2) Ingebrigtsen dominating again all season long just for a scottish guy to completely explode at worlds ... 3) Why are most of the top british runners from Scotland? Rather weird given that they only account for a tiny part of the population. I guess Scotland is to GB what Norway is to the other scandinavian countries, something in the food there ...

Not quite the level of Silke Spiegelburg or Christopher Linke yet, but maybe she'll get there.

World Athletics is doing a pathetic job, the website is down every evening, obviously they can't handle the traffic.

1) Great atmosphere/crowd, but i hate the schedule. 2) Very impressed by Australia and Ireland so far. 3) Sadly german athletes are barely noticeable ...

Definitely not. Hussong could have competed, but the german federation didn't nominate her since she is completely out of shape. Looking at the level of competition she definitely would have had a shot at making the final.