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You got to see something of that? I forgot to turn on the Eurosport Player stream of that specific final. Too bad, because in the main broadcast basically nothing was shown except for a random throw by Fajdek or Nowicki and some replay of a decent attempt by Katzberg (not even his winning throw). And all of a sudden that final was apparently over

Yeah financially it's probably gonna be difficult, but judging by the past few years, Budapest would definitely be a worthy Olympic city!

Ah, Ferdinand 'I will remain unbeaten outdoor in all of 2023' Omanyala, who lost 3 of his 4 races right after saying that and then went on to be invisible in today's final Much nicer to see Goku Lyles win instead of Mr Bigmouth

I mean, we're traveling across the world for surfing alone next year and though that is technically France, I doubt more than 0,1% of non-French people see it as such at all, so no problem if it's way outside of Hungary during Budapest 2036

Depends what you look at. A local heptathlon, no, not really, but the top level athletes in big events are usually placed high enough to have an incentive. If you look at that, anywhere between 2:02 and 2:04 is realistic for Hall, anywhere between 2:07 (if in mega shape) or 2:12 or so for KJT and 2:19-2:22 or so for Vetter. Like in time trials in cycling, one can definitely get a bit of a sense of what athletes are capable of.

The point is Vetter would likely still be 3rd if taking her 800m into account, as one would do in multi-events 2:20 is awful for Hall or Johnson-Thompson, but perfectly fine for Vetter, for example. And when taking a 2:20-2:22 or so into account, she would probably still be 3rd, unless those behind her really have one of their best ever runs.

Vetter should be good for bronze if she has a decent 800m, meaning not too far above 2:20. Unless Oosterwegel, Vidts, Hawkins or Krizsan really improve themselves as well. Main fight should really be the one for gold. If Hall has a (for her) somewhat normal 800m, Johnson-Thompson needs to basically have her best race since roughly 2019 to have a real chance for gold. The biggest question seems to be whether Hall is physically fit enough for a full and strong 800m, if she is, she is definitely still the favourite for gold.

Oh, referee helps Spain out and ends it early Quite something, after the whole Vilda saga. World champion despite someone like Vilda, these players are amazing.

The way Spain is rolling around at the end, this should go to at least 17-18 extra minutes (adding the 3-4 Spain wasted in the extra time).

PB for Nguyen of Vietnam, but no spot in the next round, because she wasn't fast enough for that.

Although Crumpton isn't organizing rollerski races in far away South America to gain qualifying points (not like that's even possible anymore nowadays, but still)

Damn, fast heats

It forces you to run a championship kind of race, at a championships I really do think it is a lot better than the old system. Say heat 1 went in 8:15 in the old system, then in heat 2 they could 'simply' pace themselves to go for 8:10 or something, which is a rather unfair advantage one would get.

I honestly don't see how this system is worse than the old one with screwing everyone who has the bad luck to be drawn in heat 1 (meaning all later heats can base their pace on that).

Finally a correct decision. And in the end the time of heat 1 was nothing special at all compared to usual at big events. Not faster, not really slower.

Toth's 'beard'

Wait what?

Well, Klaver and especially Bol barely needed to breathe

Surprise, we go back to the walk and the whole thing has been thrown upside down during all the replays and intros in the stadium.

And here we go: race walking moving towards the deciding part and we get shown 37 replays of someone jumping over hurdles

Ah, so we get the traditional "show the first half of the race walk entirely and when it starts to get exciting, switch to seeing mediocre shot put and triple jump qualifying attempts until the last 50 meters of the race walk"

Not too sure about Cofil being there neither

Yeah looks fantastic

Samukonga

That sounds like something you really shouldn't be exercising with...