Athletics 2025

[cdbearsfan]

Silver for Wightman, Kerr got injured halfway through.

[Villa Lew]

Great effort from Wightman, but that was a brilliant finish by the Portuguese guy Nader.

[cdbearsfan]

Colin Jackson explaining that one of the athletes "literally just popped up inside her". Surely that's against the rules?

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

I think whenever I've seen him jump he's broken a world record.

14 times so far.

I wonder how this happens? How can he be THAT far ahead of everyone? I don't think I've ever heard of anyone breaking a world record 14 times in any discipline.

[cdbearsfan]

Because he raises the bar by a tiny amount each time then stops competing once he has broken the record. There is a cash prize every time he does it so he would be foolish to add fifty centimetres to the record in one go.

Sergey Bubka broke the pole vault record thirty-five times, for the same reason.

[paul_e]

Yep, it's a money thing that makes it a bit silly.

Specific to pole vault it's pretty unique in being an event where equipment plays a vital role but that degree of minute control is possible.

[cdbearsfan]

Happy Femke Bol won, she seems nice and I like her voice.

[cdbearsfan]

Great triple jump final. Gold medal changed hands twice in the final few jumps.

[cdbearsfan]

Silver for GB in the 200, Amy Hunt.

[Brazilian Villain]

Silver for GB in the 200, Amy Hunt.

Pleased for her, she seems nice.

[Brazilian Villain]

Happy Femke Bol won, she seems nice and I like her voice.

Everybody loves Femke, including the other athletes. As an aside, I don't think I've seen a championships with as much camaraderie between the athletes.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Yep, it's a money thing that makes it a bit silly.

Specific to pole vault it's pretty unique in being an event where equipment plays a vital role but that degree of minute control is possible.

I just find it amazing that none of the other competitors get anywhere near him even though they have access (I assume) to pretty much the same level of equipment. I guess these generational talents pop up every now and then.