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It's a complete joke of a sport. There is a famous photo of Robert Korzeniowski on his way to victory in the Athens Olympics with both feet clearly off the ground.
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I don’t understand the the rules of this sport (something to to with ground contact and straightening your leg?) but if the woman that got third isn’t running then I’ll eat my hat.
There is absolutely no way to monitor these athletes for the entire distance. There is no way they are walking, almost all of them are floating.....both feet off the ground at the same time.
My question is why is she already wearing a flag if she didn’t even finish yet? that makes it even more embarrassing!
That wasn't her fault: there was an official practically forcing national flags onto the first three into the stadium.
I know nothing about race walking (other than it apparently doesn't destroy your pelvis/hips) but I don't understand how the eventual bronze medalist could legally make up a supposed eight second deficit in the space of less than 400m.
It's a complete joke of a sport. There is a famous photo of Robert Korzeniowski on his way to victory in the Athens Olympics with both feet clearly off the ground.
Photos or videos don't matter. Loss of ground contact must be detected by the naked eye of the officials.
It's a complete joke of a sport. There is a famous photo of Robert Korzeniowski on his way to victory in the Athens Olympics with both feet clearly off the ground.
Photos or videos don't matter. Loss of ground contact must be detected by the naked eye of the officials.
Yes, it's totally subjective and ridiculous.
Yes, the subjectivity has always struck me as uncomfortably high. Race walking itself is a sound concept for a sport though. It seems not that hard to automatically detect cheating by requiring threshold pressure sensors under shoes and maybe allowing a small limited number of fouls, for example, you could require at least 25% body weight on at least one sensor all the time.
It's a complete joke of a sport. There is a famous photo of Robert Korzeniowski on his way to victory in the Athens Olympics with both feet clearly off the ground.
Photos or videos don't matter. Loss of ground contact must be detected by the naked eye of the officials.
Yes, it's totally subjective and ridiculous.
It's crazy that they're so subjective about the rule that literally defines the sport. The fact that it ISN'T running is literally the whole point...then they ignore the rule that prevents people from running.
It's like having a stock car race where all the participants show up with formula 1 cars and everyone just pretends not to notice.
Lots of things wrong with this. 1) Celebrating before the finish line. 2) She's not even celebrating a win. She's celebrating because she thinks she got the BRONZE. 3) It's race walking, so what is there to celebrate even if she did win?
4) She lost to someone who had served a doping ban for 4 years... in f'ing race walking.
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