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And rightfully so. If you're not going to run an event, let someone else take that spot.

That'll be the biathlon pursuit for it being an intrinsically unfair event

I do think that was the plan, but in the sense that the 100 wouldn't work anyway and she'd focus on being fit enough for the 200..

She looked somewhat injured in her last meet, then pulled out of the 100m earlier on....didn't think there would be much hope for her to run the 200 now Hopefully it's not a Kenteris/Thanou kind of story

Shericka Jackson with the expected DNS for the 200

Voor goud, bedoelde hij denk ik Een medaille kan inderdaad in principe alleen fout gaan met een blessure of ziekte ofzo.

Yeah, if that is the real situation, that is such bullshit....being robbed of a chance of gold because of arriving with the wrong transport I assume at least those rules were known before, so it'd be on her then, but come on.

Wouldn't be surprised if this is the end of her career..

She gave it a try, but that just wasn't possible. What a tragedy

Oh fuck, Marin badly injured herself while leading the semi easily

Geinig, want met beeld zat dat er juist wel heel erg in. Commentator Ivo van Haaren zei dat al op het moment dat Bol het stokje pakte zelfs, hij zat er scherp op (en eerlijk is eerlijk, na het fantastische lopen van de mannen en het prima optreden van Klaver vertrok Bol denk ik ook wel als favoriete om het goud binnen te gaan lopen) Wel echt fantastisch, met Omalla en Klein Ikkink die echt boven verwachting goed liepen.

Massive lack of time for decent research, honestly

I should have done that more than I did

Yeah, same. Only reason I had them for a total of like 70-80% and not 90+ is because decathlon is both so injury prone and mistake prone (think no heights, no marks, etc, as we saw with Warner unfortunately).

Most even try to do decathlon/heptathlon commentary without the number one resource you really, really can't go without: a forecast. I mean, a 2,10m high jump is great, but not if you're jumping 2,20m on a regular basis (for example).

Oh me too, no doubt Still stand behind that choice though I do think he is here to stay. College days will end and then he won't need to compete with the traditional insane college schedule anymore..

Yep. Which almost every time (this time not so much since he didn't climb that much) leads to commentators talking about how he had an incredible comeback even though him being far outside the top positions after day one is perfectly normal. It's like if there's a running event where we combine 200m and the marathon, and the commentators say it's disappointing when Eliud Kipchoge is far behind Noah Lyles after the 200m I mean, duh.

Not just a matter of checking their points. He has had an incredibly full college season and we have so often seen college athletes just be kind of burned out after that, when it's time for the international events. Of course it's not like he was bad, otherwise he wouldn't get silver, but it really isn't weird that after two full heptathlons and two full decathlons on top level this year the third one isn't exactly on his peak performance anymore (don't get me wrong, definitely still had him as the biggest favourite, like most people I think).

Honestly his second day was slightly worse (not by much though, overall he just didn't have a good decathlon at all, only the hurdles and javelin were somewhat ok, but nothing more than that).

That was a bit of an overexpectation, to be fair

Now we wait for wrestling to start to get the likes of and taekwondo for all one's other random exotic flags

Let's see if Neugebauer can pull off a massive upset, but otherwise this should be a fantastic gold for Norway!

Small hope for this 800m to get interesting...?

Swimming and athletics sessions at the same time with both Dutch NOS and Eurosport switching back and forth all the time (and so me needing to switch streams all the time) is...so....tiring Please just make the Olympics 3 days longer just so we can avoid any day with overlap between these two, this is impossbile.

Neita also really escaped a false start there