heywoodu

I'll beat you in biathlon next season

That would be so completely fantastic. And no, not in some fancy new stadium! In the Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, where only last month the World U18 Championships were held. The most electrifying atmosphere ever seen in any athletics championships....and it was 'only' for U18 athletics! Imagine the total and complete party if it's the real deal!

2008 Olympic open water swimming champion Maarten vd Weijden in a big doping discussion with Sebastiaan Verschuren (ex-swimer) and a journalist: "It's not used systematically in swimming (doping), otherwise Dutch swimmers would not have won 3 of the 6 Olympic gold medals in the longest distances." Duuuuuuuuude. If there's one thing I hate so much, it's the often used argument: "We as Dutch are doing good, so this sport is clean", that's the most stupid argument ever One for you Maarten.

I feel like Sifan Hassan in the 1500 or Shaunae Miller-Uibo in the 400

From 4th on day 8, to 16th on the 10th and final day

Talk about extremes... If we'd go this far, we might as well scrap categories entirely and only have open events for every human.

By the way, my biggest frustration when people go and spread hate towards Semenya is that, if the stories are to be believed, Semenya is one of the friendliest people in the world of athletics. Never a bad word about anyone, always goes to each and every competitor after every race (win or lose) for a little 'well done'. Small gestures, but I don't see anyone else doing this kind of thing after every race. Treated like this for 8 years and still not turning into an angry woman, one must have one hell of a good character to remain so friendly to all their competitors.

I entirely agree with you on the first part of this quote. Semenya, Niyonsaba, Wambui, etc, are most definitely women. A complicated situation where it's not wrong to study possible unfair advantages, yes, but that doesn't mean they're all of a sudden men or should be called men. The advantages require study, the fact whether their male of female doesn't, because they're female, that's merely a fact. Not all African women look the same, obviously. But it's not racist, at all, when one would say it can be difficult to see if a certain athlete (no matter their nationality) is athlete A or athlete B, because both of them have the same nationality (meaning the same colour of clothes), the same haircut, the same length, the same running style etc. In athletics most of these cases happen to be with Kenyan athletes, in cycling it's usually even Dutch athletes I can't tell apart on the TV cameras because with helmets on many of them look alike. If they were wearing the same clothes I couldn't keep Susan Kuijken and Lynsey Sharp apart, merely because they're both as white as snow, both have the same hair (in model, colour, length, everything) and even their faces are alike. In exactly the same way there are (mostly women's distance) races where I find it rather hard to tell apart one Kenyan from another. Yes, racism and everything is a problem, entirely agreed. It's also a problem that (at least in my country) it's become nearly impossible to even talk about it, because a large majority is either on the 'everything is racist' side ("you don't agree with me? Oh you're a filthy racist!!") or on the 'nothing is racist' side ("Saying black people are stupid is not racist, it's normal!"), anything in between is sadly just ignored or put in one of the two sides anyway. Oh well, I guess that's part of today's world: everything is drawn into extremes more and more and even people you basically agree with will accuse you of all kinds of stuff because you're not going far enough.

I haven't really seen anything different in other opening ceremonies, they're usually one big parade of showing how ultra glorious the organizing nation is in every possible aspect.

I think they barely hit the news because the suspensions are so ridiculously short I mean, here it's only news when someone gets suspended like 100+ games, and that's not even close to one year.

Meanwhile there's a big fuss going on here because former stars Patrick Kluivert and Edgar Davids have sold their souls to make an appearance with one of the worst 'presidents' and most shitty dictators ever, Robert Mugabe. You know, the guy who turned Zimbabwe in one of the poorest, most racist, death-filled and cruel hellholes in the world. I can understand it from Kluivert, he might have huge gambling debts to pay off once again, but come on.

One of the biggest talents on the Dutch fields, 18-year old Calvin Stengs, got injured badly right in the season opener last weekend and his season is already over

Plus of course not any post that someone considers racist is immediately a racist post that should be deleted. Especially in today's world you've got to be careful just deleting everything that makes someone uncomfortable (since there's a huge amount of 'everything is racist'-feel on internet). I'm guessing this could be about Semenya: calling her a man is not racist, for example It's factually incorrect and (unlike saying there's a very complicated situation) it's incredibly unfair to her, but it's not racist (don't know if that's what was meant, but I'm just pointing it out since I've seen a lot of people on other places on the internet pull the racist card whenever some idiot says Semenya is a man)

The attendance was the main thing keeping the overal feel of the championships slightly positive

Good thing about swimming is that you see everything (every heat, every final). Good thing about athletics is that it's infinitely more diverse (whereas in swimming you see the same athletes over and over and over and over again, I already have no idea who won which event )

Not sure about that, London Olympics seemed to be rather good and pretty well organized (at least compared to other Olympics).

Mixed feelings about these championships: organization/coverage was really not as good as one should expect from world championships and a lot of finals were of a rather mediocre level (like the men's high jump) and whenever there was a field event of a great level (women's discus) it was barely shown. Men's pole vault was apparently rather good, but despite my TV definitely being turned on, I barely saw any of the action (or only minutes later, when it was already decided). There were some good things though and luckily it ended with small Trinidad & Tobago beating nearly unbeatable USA in the men's 4x400, that definitely made up for some disappointments The Ethiopians finally beating Farah was absolutely one of the highlights as well, and I'm glad that even though the times weren't fast, both 100m and 200m races, men and women, turned out to be rather close.

No, hold on. The Dutch commentator is the one who said this, there is no Dutch interviewer for Eurosport (the athletes have an English interview with Eurosport, which is sent to I guess all European countries with Eurosport, where the local commentators talk about the sports and interviews) Meaning he didn't specifically talk to Ingebrigtsen, he was talking about him

Which I had hoped so much they would do in the women's 4x100

Well yeah, sometimes they're not but there are always one or two who turn out to be highly competitive No way any sane person would ever get rid of the relays

Dutch Eurosport commentator is not a fan of Ingebrigtsen In the interview he was like "I could have won" etc. Commentatory: "That's bullshit Filip, you haven't been close all season and in this final you were running for bronze from the very start. If you wanted to beat them, you should have been up with them from the beginning."

No it's all coincidence

I'd say Jereem Richards is one of the mostly rising stars of these world championships

That final of Gordon That part between 100-300 meter from Richards

Wooooooow