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yeah, they also did very well at the Cadets Worlds in Rome a few weeks ago...

I agree with you, but still... we all have to recognize that Russia not being around is a great advantage for all the Nations on top of the medal table, especially in sports like swimming, athletics and gymnastics...

he knew that today he couldn't repeat himself with only 15-hour recovery time... one of our 400m specialists explicitly said that those who made this schedule are a bunch of idiots (and also those who decided to have some people running 1 round less than others in disciplines different from the 100m)...

yes, but in decathlon the rules are different from the single disciplines... an athlete is allowed a personal false start through the whole event, so, if it wasn't Abele to make both false starts in the 100m (and he did not), it's correct that he wasn't DQ in that moment... he had to be DQ (and he actually was, before being reinstated) only after his personal second false start, which happened "only" in the 110 HS race... hope I did explain it better now...

no, in a Decathlon you are allowed to have a personal false start, the DQ only comes with the second false start (in the whole decathlon, hence this morning's DSQ after the second false start of the entire event)...

my mistake, of course... yeah, you're right...all these names and doing many things at the same time give these results...

and don't forget that yesterday was a public holiday in Bavaria...

Arriba Espana! Gold for Miguel Angel Lopez in the men's 35k race walk... Germany on their way to silver, Italy should end up with bronze... Karlsson boiled & missing in action... pretty boring races and hyper-messy organization with men and women on the same circuit at the same time...

Just getting the most benefit from Russia's ban...

she has a great fighting spirit...she also won a great race at the recent Commonwealth Games against some African specialists...

the problem is that it combines technique with pure strenght... to succeed in shot put, people necessarily need to be very big and strong and it's not easy to find many women with both size and athletic skills to reach some kind of measures... not to mention what used to be the common practice in the fabulous Eighties... with all its troubles, anti-doping right now is a very serious thing if compared to those years...

please, don't get too much of this, now...

and what a last put...

It's a small plant of a species typical of Southern Bavaria, symbol of the energy transition towards "green energy". at the end of the event the plants will be planted in a designated area of the Olympic Park...and the athletes who will go personally to make the gesture will have a plaque with their name next to the future tree in memory of their contribution to a better environment.

I'd like to see her and Ponzio having dinner together...

false start in the women's 10kms...

Croatia's on fire!

so, Ehammer is leading the Decathlon with a huge margin... and considering that he's good to great in the 110m Hurdles (13.48 PB), pretty good (5.10m PB) in the Pole Vault and not so tragic in the 1500m (4.42.x PB), he only has to survive a very poor discus throw (39m PB) and a modest javelin throw (55m PB) to take the gold medal home... I don't think there's room for Kaul (nor anybody else) for a comeback...

Dester wasn't running...he was jumping like a kangaroo in the last 50 meters of the decathlon's 400m...

p.s. you can try SVT play (with a vpn)... they have the whole session ondemand... https://www.svtplay.se/video/35677773/simning-em/sim-em-langbana-15-aug-18-00

the men's 50m backstroke was a good one (and very close)...I think it's worth watching... the women's 1500m free was a Quadarella one-woman show, with silver and bronze medallists well separated from themselves too...maybe this one is skippable...

quite a good championship for Italy, great among the girls (1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze, all 9 in the top 7), not so exciting among the boys (1 5th and 1 7th place only)... what's good in the boys' section is the fact that the best result came in the -100kg category, with our guy only losing to the eventual gold medal winner in the semifinal bout (and in the bronze medal bout)... what's not so good in the women's section is the fact that our super-talent, 18 year young world champion, plays her judo in the -52kg class, where we already have our 2-time olympic medallist Odette Giuffrida (and there's no chance to put one of the 2 girls in a different weight class until 2024 at least)... in general, Japan returned on the world scene after last year's absence and they did it in style by dominating the field with 6 gold medals in the 14 individual events and then in the team event (of course)... the remaining 8 gold medals went to 8 different Countries (6 from Europe, 2 from Central Asia)...

2022 Junior World Championships Full Results recap https://live.ijf.org/wc_jun2022/results Medal Standings https://live.ijf.org/wc_jun2022/medal_ranking

nice try by Dongmo, but still 42cm behind Schilder...

so, he's justified whatever he does... oh, Pichardo has decided to take at least 1 serious jump in the triple jump qualis...