Besides any financial incentive Simplot might have offered, I found this on DyeStat: “Crouser, winner of the past three indoor championships, is expected to attend the Simplot Games in Idaho in honor of his 2011 national high school record in Pocatello.”
By Erik Boal, DyeStat EditorThe following is a list of 10 men’s storylines to follow Feb. 16-18 at the USATF Indoor Championships at Albuquerque Convention Center in New Mexico. The meet returns to Albuquerque for the first t...
all the geezers who tried to vote this wrong are an embarassment to the sport. Derpa is right, stop holding us back.
Try this: write down all those old imperial marks you remember most fondly, convert them, and memorize it. It could be easier than you expect. Powell 8.95 beat Beamon 8.90, what could be simpler?
Use both, then you have doubled the amount of barriers to break, bringing more interest to the sport. If the long jump ever ends it’s stagnation the next stud can jump 9 meters-and then 30 feet(which Lewis did but officials bungled in Indianapolis).
Field events are not measured in feet and inches. They are measured in meters. Please provide the correct measurement for people that actually follow athletics. Thank you.
all the geezers who tried to vote this wrong are an embarassment to the sport. Derpa is right, stop holding us back.
Try this: write down all those old imperial marks you remember most fondly, convert them, and memorize it. It could be easier than you expect. Powell 8.95 beat Beamon 8.90, what could be simpler?
Or...you could be a good, self-sufficient little fetus, reverse the mathematical equations you're entitledly attempting to impose upon others, and NOT be an annoying burden on folks who really don't owe you any consideration whatsoever. 😃
77-2.75 is actually the distance of the HS record he set her back when he was a HS senior. That was really his breakthrough into the "legend" territory that he now occupies, so Simplot has huge meaning for Crouser.
Also, for those who don't know, Simplot is a HUGE high school meet. Arguably the biggest meet in the entire Western half of the country. They draw kids from California, OR, WA, CO, UT and most western states, as well as sometimes national class kids from Eastern States, too. More than 2,000 athletes. There's a lot of pageantry and tradition with the meet and it's the biggest regular season indoor meet of the season for most kids who go.
Yes, Idaho seems like an odd location for this big of a meet, but ...
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I would just call Ryan's put 7 decads, 8 feet, 3 inches, 3 lines and 5 points, or 78.335 Jefferson feet. True Freedom Units!
Not bad except for keeping the word "furlong."
that accursed medieval nonsense was equal to however far a peasant's mangy ox could drag a plow through the putrid British mud. And then they added 10% to the total so their church could exact a tithe. That's how we got a mile divisible by ELEVEN.
This paper said the altitude effect was approximately linear, and with Pocatello at just under 1400m (1360m), I just added the differences at 600m and 800m, and got 3.0cm of extra distance. Not quite the ~1% of difference a 2.0m/s wind in the 100m makes, but not nothing, either.
Lots involved in certifying that as a record. The landing surface itself, the device used to measure the throw, drug testing, sequestering of the implement used, and so on.
Tremendous throw under any circumstances, with a significantly modified technique. Really interesting to see. Thanks for posting!
On his Instagram page, Crouser said his shot got impounded for certification purposes after the first record throw and he did his remaining throws with a shot he doesn’t like as much.
I think that USADA has some kind of hotline for ‘accidental’ world records outside of major meets because I remember hearing about a few Katie Ledecky world records set at mid-season meets where there was something of a scramble to find both someone nearby certified to collect an anti-doping sample and then an engineering company to certify the pool size was FINA specifications.