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Yaroslava Mahuchikh became the youngest female DL winner ever and got the Olympic standard (1.96)

Has IAAF added field events to that rule? Women with high levels of testosterone got 3 times bigger advantage in Hammer Throw than in 800m. Otherwise it's even more uglier and obviously aimed at particular athletes rather than fighting for clean sports. Thankfully I'm not a racist or homophobe Asians from those sports are admired in ex-USSR. Football and athletics walk hand-in-hand in racist department here, especially if you're black.

Black athletes should be next according to such logic. The ex-Soviet camp (especially Russia and its satellites) talks all the time that black athletes have physical advantage over white athletes No black marathoners, no black sprinters. Yeah, it's discriminative, but... we won't win otherwise. "We aren't racists... we just want to ban all blacks". It's not a sarcasm, this is real attitude even among certain coaches & athletes. The laboratory can issue "the right" decision and the case is closed. They would have done it already if not USA. Btw, one of our current F800m runners wrote "Those blacks!" in her FB after she lost and then deleted it. She also liked a racist comment.

There's always a "brilliant" statement: "such discrimination is a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the IAAF's aim".

Yulia Levchenko jumped 2.00 in France

Yaroslava Mahuchikh refused from taking part in major senior events and she will stick to her age group. Women's high jump at the National Indoors Championships. 1. Yulia Levchenko - 1.97 2. Iryna Herashchenko - 1.97 (she found her mojo back ) 3. Kateryna Tabashnyk - 1.97 (she almost cleared 2.01 twice) Yuliya Chumachenko almost had 1.95 (the bar fell in the last moment). Oleksandr Sokolov from my city won men's 60m (6.68). ps. As for 50km drama - Start the riots! IAAF became 1 huge circus

17 years old Yaroslava Mahuchikh jumped 1.99 in Czech Republic =U20 Indoors World Record. She refused from jumping 2.01. https://twitter.com/emenews/status/1089246239860969473 Another Ukrainian, Kateryna Tabashnyk won these competitions with 1.99 (PB). Very close attempt at 2.01.

Svitolina is dating Gaël Monfils The guy keeps slaying those tennis players

Bohdan Bondarenko has had his first competitions this year already. He jumped 2.10 at the regional competitions, wearing ordinary sneakers & sportswear, using a short run + There was a 10-15cm margin.

"Christmas Starts" in Minsk: 1. Maria Lasitskene - 2.00 2. Kateryna Tabashnyk - 1.98 (PB) 3. Yuliya Levchenko - 1.98 4. Yaroslava Mahuchikh - 1.96 (=U18 WB , U20 ER) ..... horrendous 1.80 for Iryna Herashchenko. quite modest 1.80 for Alina Shukh from heptathlon. Yaroslava Mahuchikh: Maksim Nedasekau won men's competitions with 2.30.

Austrian police came to Russians few hours ago & blamed people from this list in anti-doping rules violation during the WCH 2017:

The entry standards:

Svitolina is the winner: 3:6, 6:2, 6:2.

Athletics. Mahuchikh has just set the new PB of 1.95 The 3rd best U18 result in history. edit: can't believe she refused from 1.97

2 athletes have been provisionally suspended: Glory Onome and ECH silver medalist in 50km race walk Alina Tsviliy. Alina's failed test was taken in less than a month after the ECH She was clean at the ECH. The meds weren't prescribed by the team doctor so my guess is that she wanted to find allowed substitude for meldonium and failed to check the WADA list.

Yulia Levchenko is there too, as a YOG amabassador. And to spport Yaroslava Mahuchikh

Yas! UA:PBC (our public broadcaster) is gonna broadcast it too

Holy smokes Olha Abramova: Women's team for Pokljuka: Vita Semerenko Valya Semerenko Yulia Dzhyma Olena Pidhrushna Anastasia Merkushyna The 6th one will be selected later. Unfortunately Belarusians didn't cancel Blashko's quarantine.

U18 Ukraine-Belarus-Turkey match meeting. It was cold and rainy. Valeriya Ivanenko set the national record (75.80). She's just 25cm away from the world record best performance in women's hammer throw. Yaroslava Mahuchikh (women's HJ) had awesome jump at 1.85 but she refused from jumping 1.90 because of heavy rain/weather conditions + she didn't want to catch cold before YOG.

The 20 years old one has a dictator-mom-coach ... the whole country found out that she gained 2 (friggen 2!) kilos on the TV. Gaining weight in heptathlon is unacceptable because it changes your technics. She's tall and skinny but she competed with seniors in women's javelin (not heptathlon) where you need a strong upper body (ie. more weight). She's phenomenal. You can see another one with your own eyes at the YOG Yaroslava Mahuchikh (she's just turned 17 yesterday ). Even if she won't set the world youth record she's just 2 cm beneath it which is quite impressive. Gaining weight in high jump is tragic and it also decreases results immediately. The only way to gain weight is to increase muscles in your feet but it doesn't compensate a lot & it works better for men than women. The only way out is to stay in the stable shape all the time. I live in high jump mecca (national record, Olympic medals etc) so I've seen a lot of talented girls. Nutrition is the base knowledge, at least here. She's 180cm tall and her weight is 54kg (!) only. Her upper limit is 58. All of them are doomed to control their weight for a decade or even 2 but the final goal is worth it.

What does make you think that she's not developed already? We have 2 similar teens in athletics (1 has held the world record, another one will try to achieve it). One of them will turn 20 in February but she's still skinny and has the same proportions like 3 years ago.

IBU told insidethegames journalist they suspect 65 Russian biathletes:

TASS quoted their reliable sources: Svetlana Sleptsova, Evgeniy Ustyugov, Aleksandr Pechenkin, Aleksandr Chernyshov.

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Fialkova Merkushina o___0. She's been preparing in Obertilliach before Nove Mesto unlike others who chose less difficult places. Pidhrushna skipped 1 month of trainings because of problems with a shoulder but she showed quite good shape too. Disappointed in Semerenko sisters, esp Valya... first - wrong roller skis, now - high temperature, what a disastrous championships for her.