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08-03-2024 , 05:51 PM

#826

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it was like she was running against high schoolers

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08-03-2024 , 05:59 PM

#827

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She's having a slightly good year.

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08-03-2024 , 06:04 PM

#828

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oof job she’s a white European. Imagine if she was Chinese - we’d all think she should be banned

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08-03-2024 , 06:09 PM

#829

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oof job she’s a white European. Imagine if she was Chinese - we’d all think she should be banned

Or a man.

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08-03-2024 , 06:18 PM

#830

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Really great 100m run by Alfred from St Lucia. Richardson’s slow start put her under so much pressure but she wasn’t really catching her

200m will be fun. Hope Sharicka runs well too

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08-03-2024 , 06:25 PM

#831

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I missed the finals, but Alfred was very good in her heat.

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08-03-2024 , 08:34 PM

#832

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What happens if someone diarrheas in an indoor pool?

Right in the middle of a race.

You're in 1st place last lap but you see a brown blob inches from where you're about to swim..what happens? Stop redo?

Would they have to clean out the entire pool for the next event or would be there acceptable levels of poo particles?

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08-03-2024 , 09:17 PM

#833

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unsurprisingly, the one who crushed the 1500m also crushed the 800m.

Same is likely to happen for the males tomorrow

Traditionally I don't think there was an Olympic event for the 800m - only in the world champs

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08-03-2024 , 09:17 PM

#834

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While it was still allowed pre race, US swimming great Janet Evans used to dive into her key opponent’s lane, get out and then tell them that she’d pissed in it to try to put them off mentally

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08-03-2024 , 10:23 PM

#835

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play on

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08-03-2024 , 10:28 PM

#836

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I watched that clip over and over and over and over wow

she just floats. doesnt look like shes trying

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08-03-2024 , 10:29 PM

#837

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Traditionally I don't think there was an Olympic event for the 800m - only in the world champs

What do you mean by traditionally? It's been run since the 1800s

Edit: derp. I now see it's about swimming, not running. Ignore me.

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08-03-2024 , 11:37 PM

#838

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If I had to pick a track & field sport that correlates strongest to hitting a golf ball, it would be shot put.

Rotation, ground force, extension, components of both endeavors.

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08-03-2024 , 11:45 PM

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If I had to pick a track & field sport that correlates strongest to hitting a golf ball, it would be shot put.

Rotation, ground force, extension, components of both endeavors.

Discus more like it

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08-03-2024 , 11:52 PM

#840

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Shot put World Record has only progressed by 50cm in 35 years. Less than 2.5%.

Discus WR has only progressed 27cm in 38 years - about 0.3%

Hammer throw hasn’t changed in 38 years

Steroid era impact stuff I guess, albeit the men’s sprints have improved since then. Women’s sprint not so much

I wonder how long Marita Koch’s 400m WR might last

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08-04-2024 , 12:07 AM

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Discus more like it

Maybe. Have to think there is more pure power/energy in shot put tho.

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08-04-2024 , 12:23 AM

#842

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If you throw out Bolt, how have times improved compared to Ben Johnson's 9.79?

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08-04-2024 , 12:40 AM

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Maybe. Have to think there is more pure power/energy in shot put tho.

I'm just thinking more of the rhythm of a golf swing is more like discus than it is shot put.

Plus

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08-04-2024 , 01:10 AM

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I got to thinking about shot put comparing it with Bryson DeChambeau's swing, and other long distance driving competitors.

They have quite a bit of the elements of shot put technique IMO. Although rythym is important, there is no substitute for pure power and energy.

One technique that seems to be stressed in shot put but not discus is ground force. I'm no expert, but it seems to me discus focuses on radial acceleration, not ground force.

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08-04-2024 , 05:10 AM

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If you throw out Bolt, how have times improved compared to Ben Johnson's 9.79?

It took 11 years after Johnson for 9.79 to be reached officially and 11 people have ever run under that time (including Bolt). The best time run this year is 9.77.