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She won the U20 european championships with 6.58 m only shortly after turning 17, her name is Larissa Iapichino.
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Another african sweep in mens 10000 m, no surprise sadly.
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Speed is more important in sprint than in long jump obviously, so drugs that improve your speed are less effective in LJ than in sprint. I also think there are far less doping cases in LJ. Like i said: When you reach that level, you are for sure suspicious, but i dont think that GDR methods had anything to do with her improvement. Today science is much more developed, only athletes in 3rd world countries still have to use GDR methods to dope.
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No, for sure this isnt the reason for her improvement. She got better because she got faster. You have to ask yourself how she got faster and doping for sure is a possibility, but if she would have used steroids, she would look very different.
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The measuring is really weird here ... Vetter's throw landed before 85 m but they measured 85.37 m?
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Sure ...
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Yeah, when you reach that level you are suspicious by default. Mihambo, Kaul and Röhler are the least likely to be doped out of all the world class german track and field athletes, but in this day and age noone is beyond any suspicions. Still i would consider a) athletes in jumping events less like to be doped than athletes in track events b) her progression at age 25 more "natural" than Lewandowski's progression at age 32.
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When i watch Mihambo here i have a hard time imagining Germany not winning bronze in the 4 x 100 m relay with Mihambo instead of Kwadwo in it. If Germany gets Lückenkemper, Mihambo, Pinto and at least one out of Mayer/Müller/Kwayie healthy into Tokyo, then the european record is toast.
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Finally a halfway decent jump by Mihambo, despite giving away 8 cm and having a -0.8 m/s headwind. Now only 1 cm behind Reese's lifetime best. If she would have had the same tailwind as Reese (+1.7 m/s) and would have hit the board, then we might have seen a world record.
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Interesting progression by the polish guy, improving his PB by more than 2 seconds at the age of 32. Overall this probably was one of the 5 dirtiest events here alongside mens shot put, womens 400 m, womens 1500 m and mens 100 m.
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Would be a fitting end to this competition if the biggest favorite in an individual event (Mihambo) wouldnt even win a medal. If she doesnt win gold here, i dont see her coming back, given how superior she has been the whole season. This would probably break her.
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Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games
OlympicsFan replied to OlympicIRL's topic in Athletics
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Very interesting line-up for Japan, no Cambridge and no Koike. Also nice to see that GB had a white guy in there for some diversity.
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What is the role of Renato Canova in your opinion?
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Sure, tell that to the clean athletes ...
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Who was the girl screaming "Let's go" in the background? Edit: Never mind, it was Justin Gatlin.
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Great time for the mixed (half caught/half not caught (so far)) american 4 x 100 m relay!
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Lol, i just walk away 10 m, it will take him half a day to catch up with me, probably he will have to stop on his way to get some fast food. Edit: Also sorry for speaking the truth.
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To be fair there are also more than enough italian coaches/managers over in africa who are more than shady, but for some reason you never talk about them?
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Thats complete nonsense. They had no girl finishing top 3 here and Hassan or Hooligan didnt even compete.
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Says the guy who was caught for doping before ...
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Germany's season best easily would have been enough for silver. Too bad! I think the odds of Germany competing with their best relay in Tokyo are 100:1.
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The girl Gemechu has an interesting progression. Before this year she didnt have a single 5000 m/10000 m time and between 2017 and 2019 she improved her 10 km road time from 33:07 to 30:15.
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Helen Monsanto Obiri ... that explains a lot.
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Nope, get the facts right and then we can lead a discussion if you are still interested.
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