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That is maybe a silent protest by Villanueva: He doesn't want the 50km at the Olympics to end and go the way of C2 Slalom and Individual Track Cycling Pursuit.

Wow never would have thought I have the honor to witness a German Race Walking medal at the Olympics. First Race Walking medal at major international championships since Andreas Erm won bronze in 1997 over 50km.

give Diniz 10 min and he will be back in the leading group

Olympics level include the 18km Race walk + 2km running medley event? Interesting though.

Maybe he is constantly surprised and choked?

Split times indicate a Doha winning time of about 4 hrs. I fear that no Eugene standards will be met today

Diniz breaks me

Yeah niiice, thx man. Time to grab a beer

Tried to convince myself for 5 years that I've never witnessed his ... incident

Tbh that looks like another Diniz harakiri ;-)

The great Robert Korzeniowski who won every race walking event back then when I was a kid and fell in love with Race Walking :D

Well, i guess it's DNF > DNS

Wow, all heptathletes that finshed the event are over 6,000 pts. Ellenwood with 6,077 pts at rank 20. That's a pretty high overall level. Btw Schäfer missed the (insane) Eugene standard of 6,420 by 1 pt.

I really love race walking but I did not see such ridiculous last 2km for a long time. The first three were ALL flying all the way, you could even see it with the bare eye. But of course the judges do not have the balls to DQ them. What a fucked up ending.

Stano flying his way to gold.

He injured his foot at his HJ attempt over 2.11 m. Tragedy. Decathlon is a bitch.

Damn, so close. What an incredible match.

Definitely a shame to remove imho the greatest class C2 in slalom canoeing. Leaving that aside, there are yet 6 or 7 girls in WC1 which are really really good and it's nice for them having the opportunity to perform at the Olympics. Of course, there is a HUGE gap between the best 6-8 and the rest. Hopefully there will be more competitive C1 Women in Paris. If it was up to me, I'd include the WC1 to the program too and ofc keep the MC2.

Just get rid of this corrupt sport. So many ridiculous decisions. No transparency.

Luckily for the people around Bach, stupidity is not infectious.

Good idea. What media/platform do you plan to use? As said before, it's an absolute disgrace of WA. F.e. the guy from TLS has a ~14:30 PB over 5000m and might not be world class, but he still has a very decent level (better than >99,99% of the world) and it is absolutely disrespectful to offer such an athlete a place for an event where he has no connection with and - from the point of view of WA - where the athletes least bothers the entire event. Likewise, you don't ask a dressage rider to compete in show jumping because there are no more slots available for dressage.

Spain has a great squad and they are in my opinion the favorites for Gold. However, I wonder whether especially those players will perform as expected. They had a long season with their clubs, the European Championships right afterwards and now, after a break of a few days, the next big tournament waiting. So it's absolutely possible that they are reaching their physical and mental limits and are not able to perform on the level which they showed us during the Euro. Still, if Germany manages to reach the QF I really hope we can avoid Spain there

What a surprise. They allow universality spots while restricting the number of participants. If they were not able to account for this in advance, that's blatant incompetence and ignorance.

Actually, the athlete from Timor Leste who got an universality place for the 100 meters is a 5000m runner. Guess he's not the only one. It's a shame. All that WA/IOC wanna have is as most flags as possible and the pretense of universality - they do not care about the athletes AT ALL.

Close (tbh I would have predicted the same outcome as you did )