HOT takes for Tokyo Worlds. Make 'em HOT! 🔥

Yaseen Abdalla wins the 5k final.

1500m podium:

1. Jakob

2. Laros

3. Nordas

So Jakob will win?

No Kenyan nor Ethiopian gets a medal in the men's 3000 meter steeplechase.

Lyles doesn't win a gold, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden doesn't win the 100.

Wanyonyi doesn't win the 800, Hoppel is the only American in the final.

An African-born runner wins the 1500m, a non-African wins the 5000.

Syd beats Paulino, Naser doesn't medal.

Jakob doesn't win any medal

I'll go even hotter, she wins 800m gold - she's entered in the 8!

Nico double takes and trips causing a massive pileup.

Cooper for gold in the 800.

US men nab 6+ mid d and distance medals

Radical hot takes...Mondo! Keely! And Tara wins LJ!!

I'll take my winnings now, nerfs.

I don't understand it, but it's fun, so I like it.

the f? really? seems stupid

edit: stupid of her to run the 800, why!?

One if not more of the following will occur, and the media attention from that will equal if not exceed interest in any athletic competition at the World Championships.

Two athletes from the USA get in trouble for possession of/carrying handguns as part of their trip to Japan for the championships. How they obtained the guns w hile in Japan is not discovered for years.

One female athlete becomes part of a public scandal after she receives an abortion as a result of attending the Championships,

A number of foreign protesters are injured (taken to hospitals) as a result of being quickly/forcibly removed from the marathon course by security. Quick action prevented any race interference from occurring.

Over 10 athletes are busted for possession of illegal drugs (marijuana and other, not PEDs) but the busts occur after all competition has concluded.

Five gold medal winners from these championships are eventually suspended for drug violations.

The stadium is filled to capacity for any session where there is a final, and many hundreds of thousands of spectators line all possible parts of the marathon courses. Years later it is learned that the Japanese government made special arrangements for large numbers of spectators to attend to counter the poor optics/image on no spectators at the 2021 Olympics.

A Japanese marathoner remains as part of a small lead pack of runners at the 37 km mark, until they collapse on the road and are rushed to a hospital where they spend the next 36 hours.

Duplantis does not break the world record.

Hocker misses the podium in the 1500 and Grant in the 5k after insisting on hugging the rail, but nothing opens up.

Phanuel Koech doesn’t make the final.

Brazier wins handily in sub 1:42.

Jakob easily wins the 5k.

And one that’s a certainty . . . Kejelcha breaks my heart.

Tsegay suicidal tactics pay off and she holds off a charging Kipyegon in a photo finish.

Hodgkinson drifts wide off the final bend to try to delay a kicking Hunter Bell. Werro passes both on the inside to take the win. The race is so good we don't even have to hear Rojos talking about Athing Mu again

...three current NCAA athletes make the W steeple final:

Lemngole

Kosgei

Napoleon

Clayton Young podiums!