Athletics

[mecheng89]

Wayde aiming for sub 43.

 

https://jayjbotes.com/wayde-van-niekerk-preparing-for-sub-43-seconds-world-record/

 

COVID19 test first positive, then negative

 

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/2020-08-01-wayde-van-niekerks-second-covid-19-test-comes-back-negative/

[Chris_]

Sweet baby...

 

 

[Stretch]

Duplantis now the greatest pole vaulter officially/unofficially after breaking Sergi Bupka's unofficial, originally official, outdoor record.

 

also Saw a cracking men's 3000m with 2 19yr olds coming in at 1 and 2

[Chris_]

Duplantis now the greatest pole vaulter officially/unofficially after breaking Sergi Bupka's unofficial, originally official, outdoor record.

 

also Saw a cracking men's 3000m with 2 19yr olds coming in at 1 and 2

Good grief, on his second attempt even. The kid sure is special.

 

https://twitter.com/ChrisChavez/status/1306657695181803524?s=19

Edited September 17, 2020 by Chris_

[Shebeen]

Duplantis now the greatest pole vaulter officially/unofficially after breaking Sergi Bupka's unofficial, originally official, outdoor record.

 

also Saw a cracking men's 3000m with 2 19yr olds coming in at 1 and 2

Norrafork. Bubka broke the record something like 32 times. Kid got some way to go

[Stretch]

Norrafork. Bubka broke the record something like 32 times. Kid got some way to go

Sure... He was one of a kind... But this kid is still special for sure

[Stretch]

There's the 3000m

 

https://youtu.be/WxBB_9EneNM

[Vetplant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tRVTCSYX8c

 

I won't spoil the finish for you...

[Shebeen]

Sure... He was one of a kind... But this kid is still special for sure

just pulling your leg, agreed

[Vetplant]

Duplantis now the greatest pole vaulter officially/unofficially after breaking Sergi Bupka's unofficial, originally official, outdoor record.

 

also Saw a cracking men's 3000m with 2 19yr olds coming in at 1 and 2

Whats the story with World Records not being mentioned anymore, officially?

 

Have the IAAF decided that past Track and Field World Records are too dodgy and difficult to sanitise, so they will only "Officially" recognise records per season, thus the term "World Lead"?

[Stretch]

Whats the story with World Records not being mentioned anymore, officially?

 

Have the IAAF decided that past Track and Field World Records are too dodgy and difficult to sanitise, so they will only "Officially" recognise records per season, thus the term "World Lead"?

For pole vault they decided there's only one record for indoor and outdoor.. Goodness knows why... He's already vaulted 6:18 indoors but was yet to vault more than 6:14 outdoors which was what bubka vaulted outdoors... Doing that last night he could say that he had bettered the great ukraine officially

[Chris_]

So either...

 

These were a massive flop in testing.

 

Or, they artificially improved times by such a margin that some bog-standard chap would take a second off his time and smoke Bolts record.

 

[Chris_]

South African kiddo, went to St Albans College in Pretoria, now living large at Houston.

Quite unbelievable this run

 

 

 

[Chris_]

He then ran 19.93 in the 200... 

[Vetplant]

8 minutes ago, Chris_ said:

South African kiddo, went to St Albans College in Pretoria, now living large at Houston.

Quite unbelievable this run

 

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, Chris_ said:

He then ran 19.93 in the 200... 

O my!

[Vetplant]

Wayde ran a 44.53 to qualify for the Olympics. (He needed to clock 44.90 to qualify) 

Still some way off his supreme best form, but at least he will be there.

Not much time left to improve, so we shouldn't load the expectations too high on him.