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14 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Errm......isn't this just the language the rest of the world knows as....German?

 

Judging by the massive number of z's in this example (and the overall lack of feeling like anything resembling German), not at all, no

8 minutes ago, dodge said:

I’m not sure I’d argue with Australia and US swimming given how they perform at every major championships  

Oh it definitely wasn't meant as argueing, I am sure they have infinitely more knowledge about all of it than all of us combined  

It was mostly a matter of curiousity, as to why this would lead to peak results. I can also imagine it works best to go for a peak at moment X, then take it a bit easier to recover somewhat and rebuild to a peak at moment X + 1,5 months. It clearly works for them, I'm just always interested in the timings of peaks and supercompensation and those kind of things  

39 minutes ago, dullard said:

June 10-15 and US trials follow immediately after.

Alright, that's a bit close, yeah  

I do wonder why these countries with trials somehow want the trials to be that close to the Olympics. Why not just hold them in March or April, so there's plenty of time for recovery and then rebuilding to peak shape again?

9 hours ago, dullard said:

Looks like Paris will be the last time we have to put up with that ridiculous world record line that gobbles everyone up in the last 100.

It'd be great to not have that line at all. As in, for the love of God just remove that graphic from the screen, it takes away so much tension and excitement  

By the way, interesting to think Biedermann's world record was only barely faster than Thorpe's previous world records (plural), but somehow after that, it stopped entirely. Thorpe was well before the annoying super suit, wasn't he?

7 hours ago, dantm said:

Could be a risk not peaking at trials and holding that taper until Paris.

But then again, I do not see any 3rd Australian challenging, therefore Short could still go 3.45 and still take the second spot.

 

As for the Women's 100M Free at the trials,they all need to be at their peak!   

When are the Australian trials? Olympics are wtill three months away, and as we see in plenty of other sports, it definitely shouldn't be impossible to have two peaks separated by 2-3 months  

8 hours ago, dodge said:

While I don’t think she will win a medal (she hasn’t been top 5 in any race this year), she’s a very interesting character. Shes 28 and this is her first ever professional season. Before this year her only races were representing her country

Like I said, she's definitely not a medal favourite, but "she hasn't been top-5 in any race this year" is rather underselling her qualities/performances  

Since January, every single race she has done from the Deakin University Elite Women's Road Race on (where she finished a more than excellent 9th) has been a big one-day World Tour race, none of those smaller .1 races in between. A very respectable 25th in a tough Strade Bianche, after being in the breakaway for a long time, 11th in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, 9th in De Panne, 13th in Gent-Wevelgem and probably the best of all, 10th in Roubaix after very much being part of the main part of the race at the end. Her weakest race in the past two months was a 23rd in the Tour of Flanders, of all places. That being one's worst result says a lot (in a good sense).

In her entire pre-Olympic career, Anna Kiesenhofer had basically accomplished nothing remotely near to what Pienaar has shown in the past three months alone. Again: that does not make her the (or a) favourite, obviously, but in road racing weird things can happen and she is definitely a contender to keep an eye on, instead of one of the default 'exotic nation riders' who we often see in the first lead group of the world championships.

As far as I could tell, there is no specific thread for this but with the first gold medals, and I didn't think it'd be big enough to open one, so here we go

It's not a first medal, since Mauritius  has won one bronze medal in boxing once, but they surprisingly have a shot in women's cycling this year. It's not a huge chance, obviously, but in Tokyo we saw how someone who wasn't even considered on any list of dark horses ended up with the gold due to the Dutch women totally fucking up their tactics, so weird things can always happen

Kimberley Le Court Pienaar has been very impressive this year, often fighting at the front of the very biggest one-day races. Again, she is far from being the favourite, but I'd say her chances are significantly bigger than Anna Kiesenhofer's chances were ahead of Tokyo, and we know how well that ended. Definitely worth a mention, the chance exists!

9 minutes ago, Josh said:

Too cocky, and has way too big of an ego for my liking. Not saying you can’t be confident, but if you’re going to talk the talk at least back it up. Sure, he did win the three gold medals he said he was going to win in Budapest, but he also said he was going 9.65 in the 100m, 19.10 in the 200m, and a WR in the 4x100m relay. He was nowhere close to those times, going 9.83 in the 100m and 19.52 in the 200m, along with being about a half second off the WR in the 4x100m relay. In 2022, Lyles was talking about how United States would be guaranteed gold if he was on the 4x100m relay. He was on the squad, but had a bad handoff and it wasn’t a great leg of running by him either. Overall, he just seems to be such a dick. Props to him for the “World champions of what?” comment though.  

So I'm guessing you're even less of a fan of Omanyala?  

At least Lyles backed up the most important of his talks, Omanyala just said he was going to win every 100m and then lost everything  

As a sport I'd put (men's) weightlifting high on my list, haven't seen it since Tokyo despite always enjoying it. Just have mixed feelings about it because of the tiny field size. Same kind of thing with wrestling, I find it fun to watch but never really get to it, so I'm looking forward to that as well.

Most of the running events in athletics, the 100m freestyle in swimming, most of the rowing, obviously the mountainbike...I'm surely forgetting some things but off the top of my head I am definitely looking forward to those  

23 minutes ago, Josh said:

I must be alive then. 

 

Him, along with Sha’Carri Richardson are my least favourite athletes in athletics probably. 
 

(If anyone is curious, I also don’t like Tom Dean in swimming, Thiago Seyboth Wild/Stefanos Tsitsipas/Beatriz Haddad Maia/Jelena Ostapenko in tennis, and Ana Patricia in beach volleyball)

What's the problem with Lyles? I get Richardson, but Lyles doesn't seem to be all over the top (for a sprinter, at least)? Of course anyone has their favourites and dislikes  (personally for example I'm beyond happy that the aggressive idiot Mekhissi-Benabbad isn't competing anymore, although it'd have been even better to see him compete and fail miserably at home...probably the only athleted I'd wish that one, since most of my other dislikes I just, well, kind of dislike, but don't really wish ill or anything  ) 

Where can one find the full timetable for the apparatus finals? All I can find on Wikipedia and official websites is a generic thing saying "apparatus finals, part 1" or something, but I want the actual timetable  (like, at the very least which apparatus finals are on which day?)

5 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

She gave it a legitimate attempt, but could not make it work.  I give her lots of props for the attempt.  It had to be frustrating to go from the top of the world to one who is almost irrelevant.  Still a better biathlete than I could ever be :).  Good luck Stina, thanks for showing the world how difficult biathlon is.

Now I'd like to see William Poromaa try and fail miserably*, after his comments about biathletes basically being failed cross-country skiers.

*unlike Nilsson, who like you said gave it a real attempt and definitely did not 'fail'. Most World Cup athletes never get a podium at all in their career, so she's done a fine job. Nice to see her in the races for the real tough ones from now on  

21 minutes ago, bestmen said:

No triple jump , what kind of event is that 

A regular Diamond League. 

1 hour ago, EselTheDonkey said:

According to several German speaking media sites, Marcel Hirscher plans to make his comeback: For the Netherlands! Marcel Hirscher steht offenbar vor dem Comeback im Skisport: Österreicher will für die Niederlande starten - Eurosport

Also according to Dutch media, press conference later today. That is awesome!

On 4/21/2024 at 9:51 PM, bestmen said:

African champs 2024

 

 

Men Elite 

Gold 

Silver 

Bronze 

 

Women Elite , only  are in 

 Gold 

 Silver 

 Bronze

But more importantly, which riders?  

34 minutes ago, dullard said:

Anyone know if Sydney is still planning to double 400 flat and hurdles?

I'm already surprised she is planning to even run anything at all  

1 hour ago, Orangehair43 said:

 

Super surprising anyway to see doping in a sport where world records set in rocket suits are falling left and right all the time...  

1 hour ago, Josh said:

HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. (sorry for swearing)

 

Katzberg WITH A HUGE PB OF 84.38m in Round 5 of men’s hammer throw 

Best throw since  Ivan Tikhon  in 2008!

45 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Dunno about that. Our own  athletics commentators who suddenly find themselves doing the Olympic bobsleigh have certainly matched that standard.

And to think Martin Haven (and John Morgan), the gods of bobsleigh commentary, are native English speakers...throw them a bag of money and let's go.

52 minutes ago, Biathlonfan said:

he had to have been sarcastic,there's no way someones this dumb

Definitely not sarcastic, but honestly I also don't think it's a matter of being dumb

My guess is that the main athletics commentator, who is sick, was supposed to be replaced by someone who is kind of the default backup commentator...but he also wasn't available, so the guy doing it today is someone who as far as I know literally only does commentary for football usually.

With that in mind, he actually did a pretty good job overall, just that Perkovic/Elkasevic mistake was a bit unfortunate  

10 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Truly embarrassing race in the 110hs, clearly they all have a problem with fatigue and disposal of preparation

What was embarrassing about the race? The times were definitely fine. Women's 200m and men's high jump, those were probably the lowest-level events of the day I'd say  

"In Croatia, the women are good with the discus, for example this Sandra Elkasevic. No Sandra Perkovic this time in Xiamen."

I hope the main Dutch athletics commentator gets well soon, because the replacement has a bit to learn, let's say  

1 minute ago, Biathlonfan said:

this is so unfair ,i'm missing discus results,i demandwhoever owns the site to send me a personal apology 

Made the screenshot without looking, because I didn't get to the discus yet, but I hope my blind screenshot caught the full result for you  

4 minutes ago, Biathlonfan said:

yeah,noticed that also  but i assumed the rest of you were watching live somewhere so i thought this was a personal problem

I am definitely watching (although not entirely live, 20 minutes behind because I forgot ), but it'd be good to have the results to check and so on. Omega isn't updating neither.

https://www.omegatiming.com/2024/Xiamen_2024-live-results

Edit: whoah, there's life in the DL website!

11 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Any idea what time the programme will air tomorrow?

I see nothing besides regular sports programming focusing on football..