desisa and geremew now contending for 1st and 2nd absolutely hammering
desisa and geremew now contending for 1st and 2nd absolutely hammering
Wow, ETH POWA !
Desisa flying. Can Callum grab third as Kipruto hurts...not sure.
Quite the finish from Desisa, and a painful but impressive 4th from Hawkins. I know if I were him I'd be in "what if" land inside my head for a while.
Also, a moment of silence for Hawkins trying to get a hand shake from a dancing Desisa
Well done Desisa ! Showed his mettle again after Boston and NY...a long way now from the Breaking 2 disaster.
anybody have data for the average conditions during this race? Hawkins ran a pretty even race, wondering if this would be a 2:07 type of performance with good conditions. he ran 2:10:57
reed wrote:
anybody have data for the average conditions during this race? Hawkins ran a pretty even race, wondering if this would be a 2:07 type of performance with good conditions. he ran 2:10:57
Not sure what you're looking for? Temp at start 87. Temp at finish 86. Humidity 50%. Winds about 8MPH. Flat course. No sun. No rain. Pollen count? Don't know. Road surface, probably concrete, too hot there for macadam. Lots of 180 degree turns, not exactly hairpin, but a bit tight. Barometer 29.68.
oldlegs wrote:
Desisa flying. Can Callum grab third as Kipruto hurts...not sure.
Stoked for Callum, that was a beautifully timed effort, just came up short
Forgot link. Scroll down to "It all began to go bad for the US..."
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-08-sp-2704-story.html
SlowFatMaster wrote:
Forgot link. Scroll down to "It all began to go bad for the US..."
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-08-sp-2704-story.html
Found it anyways, but thanks.
You'd think "It all began to go bad for the US" would be a wildly popular phrase but it's rather unique, according to Google.
What do you make of "... beating two Russians, one of them wearing horn-rimmed glasses."? Horn-rimmed glasses symbolized what at the time? There was no Russia at the Olys back then, just the Soviet Union. LA Times has always been hysterical about Russia.
Any idea how Larry Black, with the fastest Q in the 200, wound up in lane one in the final?
I remember the bullshit around Seagren's poles. Ryun should have been advanced. This is almost common nowadays. Prefontaine just blew it, nobody did him wrong.
Mind you, the US was still up to its tits in Vietnam, so nobody was much in the mood to do us any favors or cut us any slack.
Chilli Boy wrote:
SlowFatMaster wrote:
Forgot link. Scroll down to "It all began to go bad for the US..."
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-08-sp-2704-story.htmlFound it anyways, but thanks.
You'd think "It all began to go bad for the US" would be a wildly popular phrase but it's rather unique, according to Google.
What do you make of "... beating two Russians, one of them wearing horn-rimmed glasses."? Horn-rimmed glasses symbolized what at the time? There was no Russia at the Olys back then, just the Soviet Union. LA Times has always been hysterical about Russia.
Any idea how Larry Black, with the fastest Q in the 200, wound up in lane one in the final?
I remember the bullshit around Seagren's poles. Ryun should have been advanced. This is almost common nowadays. Prefontaine just blew it, nobody did him wrong.
Mind you, the US was still up to its tits in Vietnam, so nobody was much in the mood to do us any favors or cut us any slack.
Considering that the measurement is taken from the closest point where the soil has been touched by the shot ("edge of the hole" as someone put it)
and the shot is 11cm in diameter, you could hit a marker dead on and still be (correctly) ruled that the throw was as much as 5 cm shorter.
Not that there haven't been deliberate cheating incidents in measuring (Evangelisti ring a bell?)
Anybody catch Felix’s split on that relay? She looked pretty good, will they run her in the final??
It will be interesting to see if they use the hurdlers, or if they’ll even want to run it