Summer Olympic Sports in between Olympics thread.

[RussellEbertHandball]

Snoop is just so much fluff.

I guess - since we are still 10/20 years behind the US in many things - we will have our own fluff taking time on camera away from the actual sporing events in future Games.

Hope I'm dead by then..

The Olympics is always full of fluff by the broadcasters, especially during prime time when because of time differences the best events aren't live and they have to maximize interest with casual watchers of Olympic sports.

That's why we needed and finally got dedicated sports channels be it free to air or pay tv during the Games.

 

[GreyCrow]

I stopped watching prime time for that reason - how many times can you see a ''brave'' 4th place and interview? Let alone the flood when its a Gold Medal

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

On a side note I feel the Olympic Organisers and the TDF organisers missed a trick not having the final stage finish inside the Olympic Stadium just prior to the Opening Ceremony

The last week of the Torch Relay is in Paris. They don't want any competition against that and the final general build up.

Sunday before the Friday opening ceremony will be huge on the Champs-Elysees and the crowd and security issues will be so much bigger than ever.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Forgot to put some stuff up about the men's 400m at US trials final on Day 4 Monday USA time before the break.

The 400m was won is a pretty good time of 44.17 by Quincy Hall, which makes him the 5th fastest for 2024 and the 5th fastest time produced in 2024 with only Michael Norman producing 2 of the quick 12 times for 2024 but he finished 2nd to Hall.

But the person grabbing the most attention is 16 year old Quincy Wilson ( born January 2008) who ran a 44.94 which is an Olympic standard and there is talk that he will be selected to run in the heat of the 4x400m relay.

In the SF, the previous day he ran 44.59 to finish 3rd behind Deadmon and Norwood to set a new Junior WR ie U/18. The previous record was 44.84 set at altitude in Albuquerque by US runner Justin Robinson.

Now 16-17 years old doing something special and not going on with it is pretty normal, but this kid has captured a lot of attention.

Lets compare the progress of another young star US runner who took the 2021 US Olympic trials by storm. Erriyon Knighton after breaking junior WR's is slowly but surely making his mark as an open age athlete but not dominating the world like some predicted.

In January 2021 a couple of weeks before his 17th birthday he ran a 9.99 in the 100m but the wind was +2.7m so isn't not considered a legal mark. In May as a 17 year old he breaks Usain Bolt's U/18 200m WR by 0.02 sec with a 20.09. At the US trials he runs a 19.88 in the SF and breaks Bolt's U/20 WR by 0.05sec. Then in the final he improves that again with a 19.84 and finishes 3rd behind Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek, and qualifies for Tokyo.

He goes to Tokyo, at 17 years and 7 months, as the youngest US male track and field athlete since middle distance runner Jim Ryun in Tokyo 1964 Games. In Tokyo he wins his SF and ends up finishing 4th with a 19.93. He finished 3rd at Eugene World Champs in 2022 behind countrymen Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek, then next year at Budapest world champs takes silver behind Noah Lyles.

He has made fantastic progress. Because he broke Bolt's under age record in 2021 people expect him to be as great as Bolt. It doesn't work that way. He turned 20 in January. Bolt was week short of his 22nd birthday when he won in Beijing and only really started running 100m seriously in 2008. Berlin was almost a year to the days that he repeated his 100m/200m double at 2009 Berlin world champs.

Knighton's hasn't raced much this year because of injuries and looks like he has had a positive doping test, which probably meant he could run for a couple of months. He was cleared 8 days ago.

Erriyon Knighton Receives No Fault Violation From Independent Arbitrator - FloTrack

US Sprinter Erriyon Knighton received a 'No Fault Violation' from an independent arbitrator after a positive out-of-competiton drug test on March 26, 2024.

www.flotrack.org

https://www.reuters.com/sports/athletics/wada-considers-appeal-over-knighton-decision-2024-06-20/

 

[PoopingHindi]

another reigning Olympic champ that won’t be defending.



no real surprise. she’s been injured and has barely raced the last 12 months.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

another reigning Olympic champ that won’t be defending.



no real surprise. she’s been injured and has barely raced the last 12 months.

Man that is sad news re that particular injury, but as you say she has been injured a lot. Having done the sprint double double at Rio and Tokyo, I was keen to see if Elaine could join Usain Bolt and do a treble in one or both of the 100m and 200m.

I was looking at Athletics multiple medals/golds winners in total and also in individual events a few weeks ago, and she is the only female to have won 4 gold medals in individual events ( 13 blokes have) and her 5 gold in total puts her 7th of all time for both male and female ranking in golds won, and her 6 medals in total, only 11 other male and female athletes have won more than that.

She gets over looked by many sports fan because she has a low profile and is from a small country.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Noah Lyles won US trials in 9.83 +0.4 m/sec. Grant Hollaway produced another great run to win the 110m Hurdles Friday night USA time.

 

[AdelaideGT]

The US 100m trial was pretty good but...

 

[RussellEbertHandball]