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Flingué ce meeting, les perfs en sprint sont toujours nazes. + Marseille quoi Mais sinon les Pro Athle Tour c'est sympa mais pas le haut du panier non plus. Y'a jamais eu de grosses grosses têtes d'affiche, plutôt des Américains en quête de cachets (notamment les infatigables Mike Rodgers ou Jarrett Eaton).

Pourquoi détestable ? Il a un style à la Lavillenie un peu, torse à l'air, déambulations Sinon les Français étaient un peu chacuns dans leur coin sur ce concours. Chose rare puisqu'on a rarement trois perchistes dans le même concours qui ne partagent pas, au moins pour deux, le même coach (en l'occurence D'Encausse). Plusieurs athlètes ont confirmé ce soir que l'équipe fonctionnait un peu par clans Non en vrai c'est normal, ils ont leurs habitudes, ça se mélange un peu mais voilà. Par contre un peu déçu de la comparaison avec les Italiens qui se sont faits spécialistes de l'ambiance, notamment au moment de la cérémonie du 4x4H où il entonnaient les noms des relayeurs. Je m'attendais à une réaction des Français pour le 4x4F juste après mais c'est resté timide ... Sur le steeple c'est un défaut qui est à mon sens palpable dans le demi-fond français : le manque de profils de coureurs de compétition. En fait on se gargarise d'une énorme densité (pas faux) mais elle est un peu artificiellement créée par le très bon circuit de meetings qu'on possède (il faut le dire). Du coup les Français bénéficient de courses avec lièvres, gros train, et boostent leurs chronos. C'est tout à fait légitime et ils les valent ... mais pas dans toutes les configurations. Tu te retrouves en championnat avec des coureurs de train et quand il faut aller jouer à l'emballage ou supporter des ruptures de rythme ça coince. Le Baron fait une faute de débutant mais il est très jeune sur la distance. Bresc avait montré ses limites à Chorzow avec la A. Guyon sauve l'honneur, pas si loin de son PB et avec pour le coup un beau sprint, mais ça reste chanceux avec la chute du polonais dans la rivière, et le fait qu'il arrache le bronze à des gars qu'il devait cartonner si on se fie aux records.

2) Once again, progressions are not linear. It's normal to see athletes face a setback at some point. Especially in a throwing event like the hammer. 4) Well, except for 2015-7-9, 6m90 would have been enough for a medal (sometimes even gold) in every WC in this century. So there's a regression back to normal more than anything.

As some pointed the ultimate goal of these U23 is to show off a decent pool of future good athletes with a few world-class potentials. You get to see how some seemingly talented athletes fare in a competition which is theirs to lose. It's revealed that some are not winners, when others, less expected, declare themselves. So good championships overall for France. Zhoya has delivered, Meziane has delivered, both with a younger teammate not far off (Cinna and Anselmini). Bonnin did what she had to do at the good moment. She really is a fan favorite, which can be an asset coming into a professional career. Gore was not particularly expected but he put a strong showing, while far from the 17m, but I feel he could get them soon. Don't know what to think of race walking when it comes to future ambitions. Quite disastrous 3000ST final but not that surprising. Underwhelming PV too, Emig is always the least awaited but always delivers. Ammirati seemed to be on a roll after a difficult start, but then he was not. Really underwhelming LJ. Pommery was afraid to jump after a dangerous slip on the board. Konaté ... well. The guy has board issues in every competition, and it looks like he's more into modeling than LJing. A favorite of mine shone to. Maraval was an heptathlete two years ago in Tallinn, with no particular predisposition to burst onto the world stage. But she impressed during the 4x4 relay with really good splits. At the time I reckoned she'd better embrace the 400 if she wanted to have a career. She eventually did go for the 400H, with success, and split a 50.62 to win the relay, with the 400H final a few hours back in the legs.

Pour Budapest on semble se diriger sur Belocian, Kwaou-Mathey, Zhoya. Mais d'ici l'année prochaine PML peut revenir, Manga me semblait un peu hors-jeu mais il fait une course correcte hier à Chorzow, pourquoi pas l'ancêtre Bascou, et d'ici 2024 Cinna sera à mon avis un sérieux concurrent. Sans oublier d'éventuelles percées d'athlètes de "second rang" genre Mohamed, Lecoeur, Fletcher ...

Pro-Lavillenie et anti-PML, quel drôle d'animal es-tu ? Plus sérieusement PML devra d'abord faire les minima s'il veut être sélectionné, et ensuite ça se décidera probablement aux "trials" français l'année prochaine. Vu qu'ils ont tous plus ou moins prouvé au plus haut niveau autant régler les éventuels litiges sur une course sèche comme le font Américains et autres Jamaïcains.

I see lost to 8-10. Can we get some feedback on this match ? Seems pretty surprising to me.

Pas la moindre brève sur le water-polo dans l'Equipe. Ils se réveilleront deux mois avant les J.O en t'expliquant "pourquoi ces sports co ne fonctionnent pas ?"

Well, relay and nations cup results last year were pretty good for such a weak team spirit squad. I don't see any particular reason to consider it worse than in any other team.

Well, he ran in the relay so

Bizarre. Mais pas autant que de voir quelqu'un avoir confiance en Lavillenie

Tu sens Lavillenie 😅

Well this looked like a swan song from Germany 7s. They were close to getting to the WS a couple times but now they've gone backwards.

Algarve 7s results : Ireland look dominant. GB really disappointing, losing two times against Ireland (close calls though) and two times against France Development. As I said in an other topic Georgia was unknown quantity, and they mean business. Strong showing in the playoff games after an anonymous pool stage. Disastrous finals for Spain. On the paper they're at least deemed to get a final OQT spot. Germany disappointing once again. Portugal confirm their dark horse status. Not much to take out for Belgium, like I said the pools were utterly unbalanced, with a strong French B squad all in all. So pools for Krakow : A B C

Algarve 7s results : As Ireland and France are already qualified, GB-Poland in the semis was a rehearsal of a potential OQT final. GB have the edge obviously but the match against Spain in QF shows that nothing is set in stone. Belgium look a bit further, the other teams even more. As for Ireland they look pretty toothless without Mulhall/Murphy-Crowe, but their main goal of the year has been achieved so probably some unwinding here. France on the other hand brought a really strong team, the best of the year I'd say, with key players coming back from injury. Pools for Krakow : A B C

As I expected the first leg of the European Championships in Algarve this week-end will determine the seeds for the Krakow OQT. A B C France and Ireland are not concerned, though Ireland was set to take part to the European Games. That could shake the order of those seeds.

As I expected the first leg of the European Championships in Algarve this week-end will determine the seeds for the Krakow OQT. A B C Really unfortunate sequence of events for Belgium, who's probably the best up-and coming team of the tournament (having won one of the Challenger Series leg back in April), but suffer the worst draw of the lot. GB and Ireland promoted from Trophy last year, where they were relegated after missing one season of the EC. None of the two managed to qualify for the Games so they will bring full strength in Portugal. Not the case for France though (on the men's side).

The 400m hurdles only features half of last year's WC finalists, including the bronze medallist, the 4th and the 5th + 2 of the 10 fastest men of all-time + the current n°2 in the world lists. Besides the obvious absences, this is the best lineup we can hope for. I would have dreamt of such a DL field ten years from now.

Ireland qualified for the Olympics, but they're set to take part in the European Games, which work as the European Qualification Tournament. Don't know if they will be replaced, since their participation would take away a team the right to try and qualify (Norway it seems), and would unbalance the tournament. France weren't even invited despite the European Games status, so this is first and foremost an OQT. Also looking forward to the draw. World Series + 2022 European Championships results or Algarve 7s (1st leg of the 2023 European Championships) results ?

There won't. I think I read it will consist of three stages, which is not worthy enough. With the pathway to elite level shrinking the incentives are less and less clear for those nations. Really gutted for Uruguay who have been the best promoted team (ever ?), reaching two QF, placing 12th, one point shy of the 11th, beating Fiji, South Africa and al. in the process. Now they get thrown away in a farcical tournament ... With the Olympic qualification in a few weeks time and no Argentina in sight they might well get to Paris, enough to keep them going ?

Keep in mind London 7s will be a 12-teams tournament since three of the current core teams will play the repêchages : + Depending on which scoring system they decide to use Australia could settle for 5th (women's series with 12 teams scoring). As for the repêchages Uruguay would have started as favorites before Paris but Canada is cooking. It appears all three of the core teams were in the same group and Canada surely gained some huge confidence. Heartbreaking situation for Uruguay, losing to Fiji with Spain edging them by one point as they beat Samoa. Tonga could pull an upset and Kenya seem out of touch. Looking forward to the regional qualifiers Uruguay could redeem themselves should they fail to maintain thanks to Argentina qualifying directly through the World Series. Europe, as usual, will be the most interesting. and are the favorites, but has shown great consistency lately and their renewed core status will give them an extra boost. Then you have the outsiders, namely and . Germany looks to have missed the boat of elite status, failing repeatedly to access the WS and now that the gateway is shrinking they are at their lowest. Belgium on the other hand are steadily improving and the Challenger can offer them some hope to shaken up the established order. Then you have one or two dark horses in and . Don't know which side will turn up but I'd keep an eye on those two.

Semi-finals Men : - - As expected, pool A was the pool of death. 3 of the 4 teams made it to the semis. "Good" loss against Chile for HK, they benefited from being 2nd in pool B (thus facing Brazil in QF) rather than 1st (facing Belgium). Tonga looked impressive against Germany, they may be favorites now. Chile and Uganda are, unofficially, out of contention for promotion. Women : - - No surprise here. After a good impression yesterday Poland looked shaky today, quite the opposite for China.

Only good point is that future play-offs will be played between 8 teams, meaning that we could see up to four promotions (and thus relegations) at the same time. But it could also be 0 promotion.

They don't have faith in much in fact. Still the same old boys club as it was a hundred years ago.

Awful coverage. Streams working intermittently (and no replay available), no commentary, loud music in the background, no score, no time, horrendous pitches. An utter shame for World Rugby, and a very bad sign as they plan on shrinking the World Series next year. If that's all they can offer for T2 teams, just stop the circus right away with historical teams (but not XV powerhouses ) such as Kenya and Canada possibly out next year ... No real surprises on the pitch, apart from South Korea, even weaker than expected and the Czech Republic. Germany and Poland still the favorites for now.