Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: Comrade Blitz on March 02, 2018, 11:51:06 AM
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Highlights from Day One of the World Indoors in Brum:
Dibabe wins 3,000 - Laura Muir takes third
https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/world-indoor-birmingham-2018-women-3000 (https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/world-indoor-birmingham-2018-women-3000)
Lasitskene wins Women's high jump:
https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/womens-high-jump-2018-world-indoor-championsh (https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/womens-high-jump-2018-world-indoor-championsh)
Lysenko wins Men's High Jump over Barshim
https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/mens-high-jump-2018-world-indoor-championship (https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/mens-high-jump-2018-world-indoor-championship)
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Any more Brits in with a shout of a medal?
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A British woman won the 60m race last year and is in it again this year I believe.
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60 metres? Lazy sods, even I could run that!
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Any more Brits in with a shout of a medal?
Katrina Johnson-Thompson is second in the pentathlon after three events but just 13 points with two of her stronger events to come - long jump and 800m.
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She's just won the gold, superb.
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Crazy amount of Athletes disqualified! 800m mens result a farce.
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Crazy amount of Athletes disqualified! 800m mens result a farce.
British officials got the result correct. It was the Portugese international official who made it a farce. First saying Ok then Dq’d USA who won their appeal. If result had been clear at first then GB could have appealed instead, might then have had a chance to win appeal.
Lifts stopped working after a pipe burst when it started to thaw. Athletes had to climb 5 flights of stairs to get from warm up area to track. Lots of problems behind the scenes but we coped with it all.
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Andrew Pozzi from Stratford wins gold on 60M hurdles.
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Pozzi's win was awesome - hope CJ was watching.
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Poland's men win the 4x400 with a new world (indoor) record. Awesome!
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Did you know that the IAAF uses a "placing table" in addition to the medals table? Here's how Great Britain fared in the placings table.... We need to stop just focusing on Gold, Silver and Bronze when it isn't the Olympics. Many other sports use more than the top 3 rankings to measure success......
(http://thumb.ibb.co/mUiCQ7/Screen_Shot_2018_03_04_at_21_34_20.png) (http://ibb.co/mUiCQ7)
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Two world records were broken at the 2018 NCAA Indoor Athletics Championships:
Men's 400m: Michael Norman, University of Southern California 44.52
Men's 4 x 400m: Texas A&M University 3:01.39*
* In this race the University of Southern California actually had a faster time (3:00.77) but world records can only be awarded if all runners are from the same nation - USC had a runner from Antiqua and 3 Americans.
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"Lord Coe says new IAAF testosterone rules are appropriate"
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43995246
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Not much talk on here but I think Dina Asher-Smith deserves a mention (and will surely be a nominee for SPOTY) 2 individual golds (both with new British records) and a stunning anchor leg in the relay. Her records are also the best times in 2018 in each event. Given she's still only 22 I think she could go on to be a very special athlete.
Laura Muir was fucking brilliant as well, it's takes some guts to take control of a race like that.
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I did think she might be a decent bet for SPOTY, then thought Kane is bound to win. A quick Google reveals that Shearer didn't win in 96 and neither did Lineker in 86 so you never know.
If she can win double gold at the Olympics she's bound to win it. No pressure.I
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It's a good year for everyone to work hard since there are no worlds or olympics.
Laura Muir currently leads the Diamond League women's 1500 list and Lorraine Ugen is top of the long jump. Asher-Smith is 5th in the 100m and 200m but hasn't competed at every event.
Full Diamond League standings here:
https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-diamond-league/standings/2018/men
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Two world records broken on the same day recently:
Men's marathon: https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/45539546
Decathlon: https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a23256285/decathlon-world-set-by-ashton-eaton-broken/
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Pretty poor that it wasn't the same bloke. Lazy bastard.
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That Marathon record is seriously impressive, he didn't just beat it, he smashed it.
For the decathlon I honestly don't know what the record means in that context because it's so subjective.
(https://thumb.ibb.co/me58SK/decathlon.png) (https://ibb.co/me58SK)
Are all of those achievements really exactly the same difficulty? I genuinely don't know but if you put the world records in each event into a calculator it suggests that the running events (110 hurdles and 400 in particular) are massively undervalued.
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For the decathlon I honestly don't know what the record means in that context because it's so subjective.
(https://thumb.ibb.co/me58SK/decathlon.png) (https://ibb.co/me58SK)
Are all of those achievements really exactly the same difficulty? I genuinely don't know but if you put the world records in each event into a calculator it suggests that the running events (110 hurdles and 400 in particular) are massively undervalued.
Some decathletes and heptathletes do compete in the individual disciplines from time to time - and occasionally do very well. But there is a trade-off as far as strength vs speed - but it is more about endurance in these events anyway - doing everything over two days. You can see it at the end of each day when they're all shattered doing the final runs.
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For the decathlon I honestly don't know what the record means in that context because it's so subjective.
(https://thumb.ibb.co/me58SK/decathlon.png) (https://ibb.co/me58SK)
Are all of those achievements really exactly the same difficulty? I genuinely don't know but if you put the world records in each event into a calculator it suggests that the running events (110 hurdles and 400 in particular) are massively undervalued.
Some decathletes and heptathletes do compete in the individual disciplines from time to time - and occasionally do very well. But there is a trade-off as far as strength vs speed - but it is more about endurance in these events anyway - doing everything over two days. You can see it at the end of each day when they're all shattered doing the final runs.
I agree completely, so should better performance in the end of day events be worth more than the earlier ones and should day 2 be worth a little more, comparatively, than day 1. As I say this is in no way undermining the achievement, it's purely pointing out that I'm not sure what the point of a 'world record' is in this instance.