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World Athletics Championships 2017

I don't know anything about Gatlin but I thought it was a bit shit that everyone booed him for winning gold - is he famous for kicking puppies or something?

Obviously I wanted Bolt to win, but y'know, sportsmanship and that.
 
I guess we wanted a fairytale ending but he's had a fairytale career and life. The greatest, forever.

"Nineteen point two? You gotta be KIDDING me" - Steve Cram, 2009
 
May Kasahara said:
I don't know anything about Gatlin but I thought it was a bit shit that everyone booed him for winning gold - is he famous for kicking puppies or something?

Obviously I wanted Bolt to win, but y'know, sportsmanship and that.
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He has been banned twice, I think, for taking performance enhancing drugs
 
QueenOfGoths said:
He has been banned twice. I think, for taking performance enhancing drugs
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He has. Although Michael Johnson made a good point earlier that he's been painted as the bogeyman of athletics when there are quite a few other athletes who have been banned for similar reasons who don't get the shit he does. It's not his fault that the system means that cheats can still compete and not fair to scapegoat him personally.

He's still a cheaty twat tho obv
 
People will forget, if not forgive, the first suspension. But to come back and then do it again creates really intense anger, and justifiably so.

Cheaters ruin other people's careers. The cheaters cost other people podium places, which affects their funding, their self-confidence and also changes the target for them to aim at. Jenny Meadows blames having to push herself unrealistically far for the series of injuries she got that ultimately ended her career -- unrealistically far because the athletes she was losing to ultimately had all their titles stripped from them, but by then it was too late.

And the suspensions don't really make up for the extra conditioning that the drugs allowed the cheats to obtain in the first place. First offence should be 5 years, second offence should be life ban.
 
Today's schedule:

Morning Session

10:00 W Long Jump - Heptathlon
10:05 M 3000 Metres Steeplechase - Heats
10:40 M Pole Vault - Qualification
10:55 M Marathon - Final
11:05 - M 400 Metres Hurdles - Heats
11:45 W - Javelin Throw Heptathlon Group A
11:55 W 400 Metres - Heats
13:00 W Javelin Throw - Heptathlon Group B
13:15 M 110 Metres Hurdles - Heats
14:00 W Marathon - Final

Afternoon Session

19:00 W Pole Vault - Final
19:05 W Javelin Throw - Qualification Group A
19:10 W 100 Metres - Semi-Final
19:40 M 400 Metres - Semi-Final
20:10 M 110 Metres Hurdles - Semi-Final
20:30 W Javelin Throw - Qualification Group B
20:35 M Shot Put - Final
20:40 W 800 Metres - Heptathlon
21:15 M 800 Metres - Semi-Final
21:50 W 100 Metres - Final
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Switched windows on my PC just in time to see KJT throw a SB in her first javelin attempt. No idea where that puts her on the table, but I think she came into the javelin in third.

She's apparently got a strong 800m, so I think she should still be in contention for a medal.
 
At my gym this morning, there was an American woman, late 40s, who was having a chat with the instructor. She was saying she's over here to support her daughter who's running in the US team. Feel like I'm practically a world class athlete by vicarious association. :thumbs:
 
Hollis said:
Dunno, but my wikipedia research skills have found this:

'On May 29, 2016, former World Champion Kim Collins improved his personal record by running 9.93 +1.9 in Bottrop as a 40 year old. He improved his own standing as the oldest man to break the 10-second barrier, the first over the age of 40.'

10-second barrier - Wikipedia
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Looks like that was the only one (before yesterday):
Sub-10-seconds-by-Age.jpg
 
Yeah - I'm not here really to defend Gatlin.

Though it's easy to very construct a narrative around anything if you believe it to start with, especially when by definition you're in the realm of elite sports:

This is doing the rounds on twitter at the moment.

 
Hollis said:
Yeah - I'm not here really to defend Gatlin.

Though it's easy to very construct a narrative around anything if you believe it to start with, especially when by definition you're in the realm of elite sports:

This is doing the rounds on twitter at the moment.

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Yes, technically true but Asafa Powell and his colleague were caught out by a supplement whose manufacturers had not revealed it had changed to include a banned substance and they settled with the company. I don't condone cheating and they were ultimately responsible, but I'm more willing to look favourably on him than Gatlin. Maybe a blind spot, but I do think they were unlucky rather than malicious.
 
felixthecat said:
Omg omg omg. I sat trackside. At the finish line. Omg.The atmosphere is incredible. One of the most exciting things I've done AND I'M DOING IT AGAIN TOMORROW!!!
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Well. Jeal!

We were 6 rows back from trackside which was brilliant, but even then you could sense that being the other side of the barriers was a completely different experience. It's one of the things I love about volunteering, feeling a part of an event rather than just a spectator.

One of my mum's friends is also volunteering and walked straight past us when leading the athletes out. Gave us a little wave, which I'm pretty sure he's not supposed to do :D
 
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