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Horrible performance by Klosterhalfen, just horrible. When will she and her coach learn how to peak at the right time? It was the same last year. She will probably run some crazy times later this year, but if she cant perform at big competitions, she will never be more than a sidenote in the history of running.

I cant believe it Hanna Klein made the final beating Dibaba! The result in mens discus throw on the other hand is just disgusting ... 3 guys who were completely irrelevant until this year suddenly destroy their PBs, it cant get more obvious than that. Hopefully Harting will come back next year to show them their place. Also very disappointed by Abdul, he was destined to make the final but completely choked. Very slow times overall, would be amazing if Prescott would medal, really love his running style.

I hope that Masso will win a medal, would be cool to have a world class cuban long jumper again. Sadly i dont see anyone beating the doper, so congrats to South Africa in advance. A doper and a man running against women ... way to go.

Ironic? How is it surprising? I dont remember him ever running close to his best at an international competition, not even sure if he ever made it out of the heats ...

My prediction before the start of this event was that Sani Brown would make the final in the 100 and 200 and i think it looks more and more likely to become true. A japanese guy winning medals in the sprint, we are on the verge of witnessing something historical. Hard to see anyone else than Hassan, Dibaba, Kipyegon and Semenya winning the medals in "womens" 1500 m.

I was very skeptical about the schedule, but ... watching prelims and qualification with such a crowd gives me chills, a lot of athletes must feel the same, amazing job London!

Interesting picks by Athletics Weekly: Womens 400 m: Gardiner to medal (instead of Makwala) Womens 100 m: Dont see Ahye beating Ta Lou Womens 800 m: Wilson to beat Wambui Womens 100 m hurdles: Only 1 medal for the US Womens long jump: Spanovic to beat both Americans ... yeah ... Womens shot put: Marton to take the gold ... ? Overall their predictions are pretty good in my opinion.

Yeah ... thanks for reminding me, it was really a painfully long time without a medal, but Germany always is very weak the first few days. About Karsch: It really was a great comeback and it reminded me how much i cheered for her being selected for the german team, despite not winning a quota place. Some person (i wont give his name ...) even said "If they were something special they would qualify " about Karsch and Engleder, because they werent qualified at that time and i asked for the german federation to switch quotas for them ... http://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/25-shooting-qualification-for-summer-olympic-games-2016/&page=3 End of the story: Karsch won silver at the olympics and Engleder won gold ... so i guess they are something special after all.

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Versailles is a great location too of course, but i remember the "Paris Eiffel Jumping" in front of the Eiffel tower and its one of the best locations ever in equestrian for me. On the other hand they couldnt host the eventing competition there, so its probably better to have all in one place. Glad to here that open water and triathlon will take place in the Seine, should be spectacular.

Sorry, absolutely wasnt supposed to be a critique, i prefer your version, because it allows you to really relive the olympics. For example if Germany won a gold in rowing on day 7 and a silver in artistic gymnastics, then watching those two events after another brings much more joy for me than watching them a couple of days apart, because it brings back a lot of memories. So again, great job! By the way: I don't think that anyone here is too lazy to just pick out those events that he is interested in, so i doubt that anyone has a problem with the way you ordered it.

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Great job! Did you order it by days or did the IOC order it like that on their website?

Great news, i think we can be sure that Trump will be gone by 2028 (of course it only matters if the US/world stille exists by then). I would have clearly preferred any ways and i am pretty sure that those will be my first olympics in person, considering that the next 3 olympics will be in Asia. I think Paris will be an amazing host. They basically have all the facilities for cycling (beautiful Velodrome), team sports and many more sports. Cycling, marathon, archery and equestrian (jumping) at the Champs-Elysees will be breathtaking. Hopefully triathlon and maybe canoeing, rowing or open water swimming will take place in the Seine.

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Anyone else had a look at the timetable? Only days with morning sessions are days 2 & 3 (first weekend), day 8 (second friday) and days 9 & 10 (second weekend), all other days there wont be any competitions before 18:30 local time (19:30 german time). Not sure if i like it ... Interesting that they are giving up 5 morning sessions, don't think that this is really in the athletes interest.

IAAF Previews event by event: https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/iaaf-world-championships-london-2017-5151/news/preview

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What about Michael Phelps ... gold at 2001 world championships and 2016 olympics ... no one ever heard of him? Or what about Anthony Ervin? Gold at 2000 olympics and 2016 olympics. There is an american swimmer who won gold at the 1984 olympics and also won multiple medals at the 2008 olympics, i wont give his/her name. I have the feeling that our italian fan is too emotional and is losing his perspective.

Detti at 1500 m: 2014: 14:52.53 2016: 14:40.86 Improvement by 11.62 seconds, 0.778 seconds per 100 m, from age 20 to age 22 Wojdak at 800 m: 2015: 7:45.90 2017: 7:41.73 Improvement by 4.17 seconds, 0.521 seconds per 100 m, from age 19 to age 21 Who is more suspicious, the guy improving by 0.521 seconds per 100 m from age 19 to age 21 or the guy improving by 0.778 seconds per 100 m, from age 20 to age 22?

I dont think the time for Vaskina is that impressive, Atherton and Smith have both been much faster already. Of course its still a great time. 52.06 on the other hand is a great time for a guy born in 2002, Russia seems to produce tons of great butterfliers on the mens side, first Pakhomov, then Kuimov and now Minakov. Mens butterfly is clearly the discipline with the most talent right now, hopefully some of those guys will battle it out at junior worlds. We are potentially looking at sub 52 and sub 1:55 to medal at junior worlds ... Just as a reminder the championship records in those events are 52.28 by Pakhomov from 2015 and 1:56.42 by Seliskar from 2013.

Hello ... ? Where have you been? This has been a huge story and it also shows the historic quality of Hungary in this event. We could have possibly seen an hungarian sweep of the medals, if he would have been allowed to compete. The US had the same quality in mens backstroke a couple of years ago, but right now Hungary in mens 200 fly is the biggest dominance by any nation. The fact that Hungary should still have 2 guys in the top 4 shows that. I think medals will be between Japan and Hungary, add the fact that Hungary has the home advantage and its very hard to see Hungary not winning the gold. This is one of not too many events where we could see a fourway battle for gold, the other events are probably mens 50/100 free, mens 200 breast, womens 200 breast, womens 200 fly, mens 200 back and mens 400 IM. In womens 50/100 free (Sjöstrom), womens 200/800 free (Ledecky), womens 400 IM (Hosszu), womens relays (USA), mens 1500 free (Paltrinieri), mens 100 fly (Schooling/Dressel), mens 200 IM (Hagino), mens relays (USA) we have 1 or 2 clear favorites. The retirement of Phelps certainly has made mens 200 fly and mens 200 IM more interesting.

Haha ... Bukarest = Bucharest, i guess where are not in Romania? Sorry Hungary & Romania! Although i guess that Romania would indeed be happy if Hosszu, Cseh and so on would be romanian and if the world championships would take place there ...

A couple of years ago they said that those records should be erased, because no one would ever break them, now they are broken left and right. I am irritated, what happened? I think its safe to say that they invented a new substance, but it doesnt have too much of an effect in athletics?

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