Unofficial Day 7 Eugene World Championships Thread

Gail Devers has GOT 2 GO...

True. I'm sure that is just how they always hear it pronounced so that is how they pronounce it. BTW I like to pronounce Jones as Ho-NAYS just for fun.😎

For testing maybe…but Ngeny was ineligible with not enough tests. They did get an indoor silver out of testing Kibet sufficiently. Sedjati has run in France mostly he’s been on fire and this isn’t a surprise.

The Australian girl that ran into someone and fell, screwing up the whole race got into the final but Hoppel didn’t?

Wait, how did Bisset win her appeal? She’s the one who caused the whole thing!

I did not expect Nur to get a auto qualifying time in Heats. that was an absolutely stacked Heat. Impressive.

Bisset wins appeal. Are you serious???? Brutal

Not really -- plenty of assimilated American hispanics pronounce their own names the way Brits do. Jimenez comes out like the g in gym. Lopez comes out one syllable and the z changed to an s, like the the way you might run. Italian names are even weirder. Don't know too many Italian Americans who know what to do with -gn or -gl other than use a hard g.

It's the euro/futbol/soccer mindset. You need to fall and stay down or else it's not a problem. It's what has made soccer unwatchable to many with an american/canadian mindset, and if the decisions continue this way, 800m races will devolve into fall fests as well.

Arop is not Rudisha-esque

TBF it would sound pretentious if you pronounced it gri-hal-ba with a rolled r so it's a balance.

Europeans are all p******

Right, like the great American actor and Al Gore's Harvard roommate,Tommy Lee Cojones.

Arop's a big dude.

Arop built different lol

Arop looks fantastic. Let's go Canada -- he is a real threat to win.

bro, Arop is so BIG. Dude is built like a freight train. That is not a typical 800m build.

These Algerians must be chewing run gum and following Nick Symmonds world medal training log.

Caster is bigger