Summer Paris 2024 - Track & Field

[dexter_]

lol USA

 

[ReidBetweenTheLines]

Seppos bottled it

 

[Royces Hart]

Happy for Canada but would have loved South Africa to get the gold.

 

[ReidBetweenTheLines]

2nd American runner took off way too early

Wtf is this shotput American lady wearing?

 

[Plugger35]

Canada get the gold providing there isn't another Ben Johnson amongst them.

The USA bungled it to get the bronze behind South Africa who stole the silver.

 

[Plugger35]

The 400m women's final.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Wow, she doesn't ease off there and she probably runs sub 48. What a run in the wet.

 

[Plugger35]

The Dominican dominating, she was running her own race out in front.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Geez that was a dominate run and bloody quick time by Paulino.

Reckon that knocks off Marie-Jose Perec's Olympic record from Atlanta.

 

[ReidBetweenTheLines]

The winner of that 400m final ran it almost a full second quicker than Cathy Freeman in Sydney 2000. Crazy how these athletes just keep improving.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The Poles have a big 400m relay programs for both men and women. They don't produce many 400m final starts and stars, but good to see they finally have a medallist in Natalia Kaczmarek.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The winner of that 400m final ran it almost a full second quicker than Cathy Freeman in Sydney 2000. Crazy how these athletes just keep improving.

The hot weather helps.

Sydney was cool September in Oz, which isn't as hot as August in Paris or Atlanta. In the heat of Atlanta it was 32-35 degrees most nights in Atlants and high humidity, and Perec ran 48.25 and Freeman 48.63.

The sprints at night time at the Brisbane Winter Olympics will be affected and I doubt any super fast times will be run at night.

There might be pressure to move some of them to the 12pm -2pm morning session time. US TV would like that, Europe not so much.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The Valerie Vili/Adams affect on the women's shot put with another Kiwi in 1st place, with Maddison-Lee Wesche at half way mark of the fields 4th attempt. She has had 3.

 

[Plugger35]

A few Aussie girls in this heptathlon 800m race and Ch9 are showing the football on delay.

They all finished at the back of the pack which might have been why Ch9 decided to ignore them.

 

[juice t]

The deciding leg of the Heptathlon and Channel 9 have the football on 2 channels

 

[Plugger35]

The deciding leg of the Heptathlon and Channel 9 have the football on 2 channels

Both on delay, I'm watching the football on 9Now to watch it live, bloody hopeless.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Belgium's Thiam wins her 3rd in a row Heptathlon probably with 2 seconds to spare in that 800m final event of 7.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Wesche extends her lead in the shot put with her 5th throw.

 

[juice t]

They both ran PBs in the 800m

Thiam with the hat trick of Golds by 36 points

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

German with her last throw thows the shot put over 20m and into the lead. 20.00m to lead by 14cms. Kiwi has 1 throw left.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Kiwi Wesche might have just won it.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Nope not long enough young German Yemisi Ogunleye takes the gold after slipping due to rain in the circle on her first throw.

 

[Plugger35]

Germany spoiling the party again.

NZ having to settle for the silver.

Too much weights, not enough speed work.

 

[ReidBetweenTheLines]

25 laps of the stadium for the 10k run. Wouldn’t want to be stuck 2-3 wide for many laps. You’d run an extra 50m

 

[Plugger35]

The women's 10,000m final on and once again Ch9 have dropped the ball showing the synchronised swimming instead.

Has Gerard Whateley caught Covid? Why aren't they showing any of the track events on their channels, I'm relying on 9Now.