2018 Commonwealth Games Discussion Thread.

El Keniano wrote:

Wrongo wrote:

What an awesome job by Langford!! Barely edged out by the fastest current Kenyan. Langford will be a serious contender for the 2020 gold, mark my words.

Nope. Not even close to being the fastest current Kenyan. And that run showed his inexperience. And these announcers can barely hide their disappointment.

Of course they're dissapointed. Nobody cares about some random kenyan runner they know nothing about and most likely will never be a 'personality' other than "some guy from africa".

Jonathan Gault wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Men's 800m:

? Wycliffe Kinyamal

? Kyle Langford

? Luke Matthews.

Not bad for the Kenyan B-Team

What the hell happened? My feed went down but Amos DFL? Did he fall???

He looked like me first thing in the morning, he just went backwards. He can't handle a slower first lap championship final (anymore), unfathomable. See the winning Kenyan winner go with 200m left and the Langford nearly won.

Is this Mathews the guy that stormed out on Nic Bideau last year? He got 3rd.

Jonathan Gault wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Men's 800m:

? Wycliffe Kinyamal

? Kyle Langford

? Luke Matthews.

Not bad for the Kenyan B-Team

What the hell happened? My feed went down but Amos DFL? Did he fall???

He didn't fall, he tied up badly chasing Kinyamal and after the rest started going past him on the home straight he seemed to just give up.

El Keniano wrote:

Wrongo wrote:

What an awesome job by Langford!! Barely edged out by the fastest current Kenyan. Langford will be a serious contender for the 2020 gold, mark my words.

Nope. Not even close to being the fastest current Kenyan. And that run showed his inexperience. And these announcers can barely hide their disappointment.

Of course they can barely hide their disappointment. They realize Langford is out of shape right now and had an off day, so they consider the situation unfortunate.

Turns out it was PB for Langford. Kinyamal, a year younger, is a big guy. I see he was born in Trans Mara, meaning he's Maasai like King David

https://results.gc2018.com/resCG2018-/pdf/CG2018-/ATH/CG2018-_ATH_C73G_ATHM800M--------------FNL-000100--.pdf

Bobby for life wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Nope. Not even close to being the fastest current Kenyan. And that run showed his inexperience. And these announcers can barely hide their disappointment.

Of course they can barely hide their disappointment. They realize Langford is out of shape right now and had an off day, so they consider the situation unfortunate.

Dude. He PRed!

I know Amos won Olympic silver in 2012 (in 1:41, no less), but there's no denying his recent championships performances have been awful.

'15 Worlds he looked great on the circuit but Rudisha totally outmaneuvered him in semis and he didn't even make the final.

'16 Olympics he went out in round 1. I think he was sick and hurt for part of that season, so I'll give him a bit of a pass, but he still managed to run 1:44 in his last race a few weeks before the games.

'17 Worlds, gold was there for the taking and Amos couldn't do it after dominating the Diamond League all year (and coming back to win DL final after Worlds). He finished 5th.

'18 Commonwealths may be worst of all though. DFL after looking great in the prelims. I'm not going to say it should have been an easy gold because there were some talented guys in this race, but I expected a medal at least.

Barakus Obama wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

I think you'll find that that's really is St Andrew's cross. But carryon showing out your education system to the entire world.

Thats a completely black flag. No cross silly.

Guess you didn't update your operating system.

El Keniano wrote:

Jonathan Gault wrote:

What the hell happened? My feed went down but Amos DFL? Did he fall???

He didn't fall, he tied up badly chasing Kinyamal and after the rest started going past him on the home straight he seemed to just give up.

The schedule favored the Kenyans and Europeans. Amos lives in Eugene now. The 800m heats on Tuesday were run at 7:46pm Pacific Time. Today's final was run at 5:13am Pacific Time.

Don't let history fool ya El Keniatto, Amos was surely going to win this easily. Just as in 2015, 2016 and 2017 :)

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Barakus Obama wrote:

Thats a completely black flag. No cross silly.

Guess you didn't update your operating system.

My bad!

Father Time wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

He didn't fall, he tied up badly chasing Kinyamal and after the rest started going past him on the home straight he seemed to just give up.

The schedule favored the Kenyans and Europeans. Amos lives in Eugene now. The 800m heats on Tuesday were run at 7:46pm Pacific Time. Today's final was run at 5:13am Pacific Time.

Surely the schedule favors the competing southern hemisphere nations, what with their track season leading up to this summer sport championship.

I expected gold but mainly because of that interview where he talked himself up as back on his 2012 form.

Picture of finish:

https://twitter.com/CSRashidEchesa/status/984412089791012864

Video of finish:

https://twitter.com/atanasi_/status/984408622464724993

Wycliffe Kinyamal ran wide for most of that raced. Got bumped repeatedly by Luke Matthews and Jonathan Kitilit. And he kicked to early. Someone get this kid to Bro Colm.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Barakus Obama wrote:

Thats a completely black flag. No cross silly.

Guess you didn't update your operating system.

This. Sorry BO, but it’s the correct flag.

Excuse me , father. wrote:

Father Time wrote:

The schedule favored the Kenyans and Europeans. Amos lives in Eugene now. The 800m heats on Tuesday were run at 7:46pm Pacific Time. Today's final was run at 5:13am Pacific Time.

Surely the schedule favors the competing southern hemisphere nations, what with their track season leading up to this summer sport championship.

Absolutely. They need all the help they can get given their lack of talent.

haha. Kinyamal almost got beat by a potato peeler. This is what Langford was doing as recently as a few years ago at his family's chip shop.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-4769344/Kyle-Langford-potato-peeling-800m-world-final.html

Amos is the Asafa Powell/Keni Harrison of the men's 800m. Loads of talent, puts up some great times and impressive performances throughout the year, but always seems to blow it in the big championships (since his 2014 Commonwealth gold, at least).