Summer Paris 2024 - Track & Field

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Interesting photo.

Brilliant photo

 

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Marschalll's first attempt at 5.80 was a nice clearance by height but knee clipped bar on the way down.

 

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Strategically passing to save his injured leg from unnecessary extra jumps with no real benefit.

 

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Brilliant photo

This one is pretty cool too

 

[Cmarsh]

My goodness this commentry is way to Lyles focussed. Got the last olympic champ beside him FFS.

 

[largebus]

**** yeah kurtis 3rd jumper over 5.85

 

[AdelaideGT]

Kurt over at 5.85m and isn't he happy.

4th atm

 

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Just saw Kurtis' vault. Bloody nice clearance.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

This one is pretty cool too

This one interesting as well.

 

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Mondo passes at 5.90, says those who want silver, you can have a crack at that.

 

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Kurtis struggle at first attempt at 5.90. These losses could be costly if there are ties at higher clearances.

 

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Gabbi Thomas is such a smooth mover. A bit like Alyson Felix was.

 

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All over for Kurtis. Will end up 6th.

 

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All over for Kurtis. Will end up 6th.

In another era 5.85 would've gotten him on the podium. Shows how much of a freak Duplantis is, clearing everything by miles. Decent effort considering his shoulder injury

 

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US discuss thrower Valarie Allman is like watching perfection in motion. Leads after 4 throws with a 69.50 on her 4th was leading after 2nd throw of 68.87.

 

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Holy shit Kipyegon lost to Chebet. The WR 10000m holder out sprinted the 1500m in 5000m.

What does that mean for Kipyegon's 1500m?? What does it mean for Jess Hull's chances?

Hassan got bronze about 10m behind the winner but never looked a chance.

There was some argy bargy between Kipyegon and Tsegay with 3 laps to go that pissed off Kipyegon.

Rose Davies ran well in a 14.49, 8 seconds off her PB and 21 seconds behind Chebet

 

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Kipyegon disqualified from silver medal position for interfering with Tsegay.

It will be appealed. But it might work in favour of Hull, or just piss of Kipyegon and make her run faster.

 

[scoman]

Kipyegon disqualified from silver medal position for interfering with Tsegay.

It will be appealed. But it might work in favour of Hull, or just piss of Kipyegon and make her run faster.

I thought the reaction from our comms team at the time was that it was Tsegay in the wrong?

 

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Great run in the end by Hodgkinson but geez it looked like there might be a collision they were tightly bunched until about 120m to go.

 

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I thought the reaction from our comms team at the time was that it was Tsegay in the wrong?

They seem to have changed there opinion with front on slow mo vision. I immediately though Tsegay has cut her off.

 

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Mondo knocked off the Olympic Record 6.10, commentators said he cleared it by 20cms, then set the bar at a new WR height of 6.25.

He cleared it by a nice distance but on the way down chested the bar.

Haha first failed attempt for the night is at a new WR height.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Ch9 you absolute ****wits. Ruined a WR with more out-of-sync audio...

 

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Mondo breaks the WR again on 3rd attempt 6.25m

The stadium was probably 80%+ full almost an hour with no other event on people waiting for him to break the WR.

 

[Cmarsh]

I can't think of another athlete who is so far ahead of anyone else in their discipline than Duplantis.

 

[sideswipe]

I can't think of another athlete who is so far ahead of anyone else in their discipline than Duplantis.

If you want real dominance in the pole vault go back to Sergei Bubka who broke the WR 35 times - reputedly because he received a bonus for every break. So he held back each time so he could break it again.