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Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games


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9 hours ago, dcro said:

Yes. Road to Tokyo shows that :OMA:FSM:KIR:TGA have moved :ITA Tortu from 40th qualified athlete to 44th.

Yes lmao sorry my bad I was looking at Women's marathon and they where in the bottom I didn't realize that they are in the bottom cause there are not places by ranking there.

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5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

It’s not necessary about the technology in this case. I read an interview Coe gave a while back, and he said the additional time was likely the culprit for why so many athletes are reaching the standards. World Athletics only intended for about 50% of entries for each event to reach the standard, but with effectively two full seasons to qualify, more athletes have been able to do so. That was his two cents on the topic anyway.

I think he is partially right. the entry standards in athletics are really hard, but the long qualification contributes to the fact so many athletes achieve it. 

The other part no one wants to talk about: you could do a lot of things  unobserved ;) in 2020 and has nothing to do with new shoes 

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6 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

It’s not necessary about the technology in this case. I read an interview Coe gave a while back, and he said the additional time was likely the culprit for why so many athletes are reaching the standards. World Athletics only intended for about 50% of entries for each event to reach the standard, but with effectively two full seasons to qualify, more athletes have been able to do so. That was his two cents on the topic anyway.

A large chunk of that extra time didn’t have any competition (times gained in a period of nearly 8 months weren’t counted) and it’s only at long distances really. The marathon is way over subscribed

 

It’s the shoes

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8 hours ago, dodge said:

A large chunk of that extra time didn’t have any competition (times gained in a period of nearly 8 months weren’t counted) and it’s only at long distances really. The marathon is way over subscribed

 

It’s the shoes

It has been so blatantly obvious that the shoes are making insane differences in the past one or two years, yes :p 

 

Just in the last two weeks alone we saw the women's 10k world record being broken by runners who seemed to be running relatively comfortably, whereas in the men's 5k we've seen someone gone from semi-alright continental level to absolute world class level (in terms of times) in two races. Those are not exceptions.

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

It has been so blatantly obvious that the shoes are making insane differences in the past one or two years, yes :p 

 

Just in the last two weeks alone we saw the women's 10k world record being broken by runners who seemed to be running relatively comfortably, whereas in the men's 5k we've seen someone gone from semi-alright continental level to absolute world class level (in terms of times) in two races. Those are not exceptions.

Yes. I should have said the shoes is the best case scenario

 

Some of the recent times have been absurd

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Men's Hammer Throw 

:UZB Suhrob Khodjaev - 77.56

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/uzbekistan/suhrob-khodjaev-14427108

 

Women's 1500m

:BEL Elise Vanderlest - 4:02.63

:ESP Esther Guerrero - 4:03.67

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/belgium/elise-vanderelst-14526691

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/spain/esther-guerrero-14261358

 

Women's 5000m

:ERI Rahel Daniel - 14:55.56

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/eritrea/rahel-daniel-14857262

 

Women's 10,000m

:BDI Francine Niyonsaba - 31:08.51 (Also has the standard in 5000m (800m not eligible))

:ERI Dolshi Tesfu - 31:12.86

:RSA Dominique Scott - 31:19.89 (Also has the standard in 5000m) 

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/burundi/francine-niyonsaba-14532686

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/eritrea/dolshi-tesfu-14786771

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/south-africa/dominique-scott-14941416

 

Women's High Jump

:KAZ Nadezhda Dubovitskaya - 2.00 

:KAZ Kristina Ovchinnikova - 1.96

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/kazakhstan/nadezhda-dubovitskaya-14646807

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/kazakhstan/kristina-ovchinnikova-14824486

 

Women's Triple Jump

:KAZ Mariya Ovchinnikova - 14.34 

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/kazakhstan/mariya-ovchinnikova-14646811

 

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