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I find it more interesting how he still sucks at 400 m ...

Its probably always the same guy competing under different names. Noone can tell the difference anyways.

100 € for you if GB wins a gold and 100 € for me if they dont?

It is really nice to see that russia is back to dominating mens high jump. You have to admire the russian mentality. Everyone is suspecting them of being doped to the gills and they just dont give a shit. Athletes from most other nations would try to make it less obvious, but russians just dont care.

Nice to see qatari fans being so passionate about the african championships in mens 3000 m SC. Who is Girma?

Not very surprising. Black athletes in the US are on average poorer, so they are more willing to dope. Just like people in Africa or China.

Interested in a bet?

What sad times are we living in when i cheer for two cubans ... I guess Perkovic is bound to steal another medal, but it would be nice if it wouldnt be gold again.

Germany is no surprise, there were only 3 or 4 weaker relays in this field.

No, not really. They were 4th in 2016 and 2017. I think Netherlands and South Africa are the upsets. Everyone knew that South Africa had the potential (especially when they still had Van Niekerk), but now they finally got it all together.

Business as usual, they almost always mess up somehow.

Amazing run for GB, especially considering that Kilty was part of that relay. If they would replace Kilty with a fit Prescod, then they would be almost unbeatable. A 4th gold incoming for them, far better results than they could have ever dreamt of. Too bad Timothy Duckworth wasnt here, he probably would have won gold too. If ski jumping would be part of athletics and Eddie the Eagle would still be active, then he probably would have won gold here too.

Very good to see that mens 4 x 100 m relay is one of the most competitive events here, a lot of diversity.

GB is the favorite for the gold, would be amazing for them to end this competition with 3 golds, especially because it is pretty unlikely for them to win any golds next year.

Wouldnt surprise me, most of the time she comes out of nowhere for the biggest competitions.

Yeah, if USA, Jamaica or GB drop the baton and the german relay does have better exchanges, then maybe they could win a medal, but to be honest it would be pretty embarrassing if this german B team would win a medal.

German officials need to get their shit together and find out why about 2 dozens of the best german athletes are injured. At least 10 athletes who could have finished top 8 arent here and one or two of them even could have won a medal. If this doesnt dramatically change next year, then some heads need to roll.

The performance by the german 4 x 100 m relay makes me really sad, with all the best girls competing this would have been a safe gold, but when 4 of your 5 best girls (Mayer, Müller, Pinto, Mihambo) are missing this is what you get.

Great performance by Seitz in all-around and uneven bars, given that she had a far from perfect preparation. She should have secured a spot in both finals with her score. Also a pretty nice score for Voss on balance beam, but probably not enough for the final. The german team did a solid job considering that Alt and Scheder are missing and with both of them the german team probably could have scored 3 or 4 points more.

Mainly the javelin throw, where Thiam was hindered all season long by an (elbow?) injury. Also the long jump and the high jump were subpar for Thiam + KJT setting new personal bests in the shot put/javelin throw of course also didnt help Thiam. Edit: KJT was having an almost perfect competition for her standards, only her 200 m run was a bit disappointing, thats probably were she lost the points she needed to get over 7000 points. With 22.8 or 22.9 she would have gained another 30 points or so.

Not sure anyone was doubting that, especially after her running 21.74 into a headwind in Zürich.

So before the start of the competition, what made you sure that he would beat at least 2 out of Coleman/Simbine/Hughes/Gatlin in the 100 m and/or at least 1 out of Lyles/Guliyev/Quinonez in the 200 m, given that all of them have been faster than him (multiple times) in those respective events?

Yes, in which other events than mens decathlon did you predict a medal for Canada?

I think the guy who won a medal in race walking is called Dunfee. Both mens 50 km race walking and mens 5000 m seem very open. Both canadian guys could win gold next year or finish without a medal. I dont see a medal for Warner next year and 1 or 2 bronze medals for De Grasse at best. Not sure any other canadian athletes realistically could win a medal in Tokyo. Watson, Debues-Stafford, Crew and Newman are all progressing nicely, but i still would be surprised to see them winning a medal. Also your womens 4 x 400 m relay seems to be in a good place although i think they are more likely to finish 5th here than to win bronze. Your mens 4 x 100 m relay cant be considered a medal favorite here or in Tokyo (at this point). I think GB, Japan, China and the US are all more likely to medal and other nations like Jamaica or the Netherlands are not far off.

According to Wikipedia Kaul is now only the 10th athlete to win gold at youth, junior and senior level. The other 9 who did it are Adams, Campbell-Brown, Stevens, Pittman, Isinbayeva, Storl, Bolt, James and Freitag. He is also the first to do it since Storl and James did it in 2011 and only the 3rd european athlete to do it.