That 100m men’s final was 😴😴😴😴😴

I don't give a s**t, but according to whom? the whole Europe from an ethnical point of view is considered Caucasian.

Well when by far the best guy is sitting home. Plus other guys like Norman are running other races. Kerley impressed. The kid from baylor whose been injured his whole career choked and Jamaica’s men aren’t very good.

This all leads to this race being wide open. As fast as the women were running the men disappointed. Hopefully the 200m, 400m and 400 hurdles will be more exciting.

As an athlete, I would have hated that light show before the start. It was dazzling and took too long. The Canadian guy was blinking and covering his eyes after it was over.

I mean, you're trying to do the run of your life and you have to undergo a blinding light show... that goes on and on.

I don't watch Diamond League or other world events. This isn't normal, is it?

fisky wrote:

As an athlete, I would have hated that light show before the start. It was dazzling and took too long. The Canadian guy was blinking and covering his eyes after it was over.

I mean, you're trying to do the run of your life and you have to undergo a blinding light show... that goes on and on.

I don't watch Diamond League or other world events. This isn't normal, is it?

Actually, it's been used in Worlds before. You sound uninformed about track because you only watch the Olympics. Go post on nbc.com?

False! That was super exciting to watch. This is why we love Athletics and the Olympics. And the raw emotional moments with Tamberi as well as others like Barshim and Rojas will endure as the moment of these games.

Bravi ragazzi 🤩

Dab wrote:

the whole Europe from an ethnical point of view is considered Caucasian.

"...the whole Europe from an ethnical point of view" lolololol

Dab wrote:

I don't give a s**t, but according to whom? the whole Europe from an ethnical point of view is considered Caucasian.

According to whom?

Clifford Morley wrote:

Dab wrote:

I don't give a s**t, but according to whom? the whole Europe from an ethnical point of view is considered Caucasian.

According to whom?

Though now considered archaic, whom is grammatically correct. You can check it using the He/Him substitution.

Raddison wrote:

Clifford Morley wrote:

According to whom?

Though now considered archaic, whom is grammatically correct. You can check it using the He/Him substitution.

I guess that's why he used it correctly?

Lamont Jacobs clearly has African traits. He is either mixed or a light skinned black man, not European.

Lol. I had never heard of the Olympic 100m champion before this morning, when his claim to fame in my mind was that he had just come in third behind Su Bingtian's remarkable 9.83. The man almost just tied Maurice Greene.

Most of these people dont seem to follow sprints or haven't watched more than 2 sprint championships. They think anything that's not a 9.6 is terrible. 9.80 is top 10 all time and he did it with .1 wind.

fisky wrote:

As an athlete, I would have hated that light show before the start. It was dazzling and took too long. The Canadian guy was blinking and covering his eyes after it was over.

I mean, you're trying to do the run of your life and you have to undergo a blinding light show... that goes on and on.

I don't watch Diamond League or other world events. This isn't normal, is it?

I agree, I think the "light show" is ultra cheesy and a distraction, I'm sure they think it's adding to the "drama" but for me it's "artificial". Those moments don't need any "enhancement", it isn't a Broadway show for effs sake.

If there is one event where it's not possible to add more tension to, it's the 100, you can cut it with a knife, which makes it so compelling to watch.

it was an exciting shoe ad. apparel companies that control wa likely had their guys also doped to the gills to enhance the 'wow these shoes are amazing' effect. old guys improving by multiple meters just like that. great.

paris2024hawk wrote:

If Bromell was in it and baker Su and simbine had a good race it would have been better but it was still great if your a sprint fan.

Bromell lost fair and square in the semifinal with a 10.00 time, a respectable time but hardly an Olympic medal threat with that form this year.

paris2024hawk wrote:

Most of these people dont seem to follow sprints or haven't watched more than 2 sprint championships. They think anything that's not a 9.6 is terrible. 9.80 is top 10 all time and he did it with .1 wind.

True that. Some of their comments are ridiculous. They don't understand that any time sub 9.8 is in very rarefied air.

lol, you should know that what a relatively small group of, often ignorant, Americans used to think/believe is not necessarily... fact.

Italians have always been considered white by the rest of the world and in fact they are by any reasonable definition of "white".

Out of roughly 60 million Italians around 20 millions live in the south and (the majority of?) those have darker skin than average.

And since the majority of the Italian emigrants in the 1900s left Southern Italy... those old American beliefs were based on a small % of a minority emigrating from Southern Italy so... definitely heed your own advice and learn somrthing

Boring ? Heck,the most exciting since '08.London and Rio we

already knew who was going to win.

I stayed up all night to watch this.If Bolt was still in his prime I would

have waited for NBC taped delay tonight.