We merged two threads into 1 and then re-named it so this would be the offiicial thread for the day. The other threads were titled, "Euro 1500 final" and "Euro 1500 final today - can anyone challenge Jakob?"
LRC add: You also have the women's 800 final at 3:28 pm ET and men's 10:000 at 3:44 but they've put Jakob as the featured entree - the last individual events of the championships - at 4:26 pm ET.
I’m annoyed we don’t get Nordas in the race and the race organizers complaints afterwards. I get they want to not punish fallers, but a couple of the fallers were far more competitive than the others.
I’m annoyed we don’t get Nordas in the race and the race organizers complaints afterwards. I get they want to not punish fallers, but a couple of the fallers were far more competitive than the others.
Less Nordas ... less threads in LRC, less insults to other countries, more realism.
From the title I thought this thread was going to be about Ciara Mageean shoving Jemma Reekie out the way yesterday. I've seen people disqualified for less!
I hope this trend for bigger fields in track races continues.
Ideally, championships will do away with rounds alltogether, and just have 50 - 100 runners in each final. You could even have the entire Championships condensed into one day, which would make for better television.
It's getting ridiculous where by you are better to take a fall early on in a prelim and save yourself the exertion of running hard knowing that you will get promoted to the final. Take a fall, that's just how it goes unfortunately, unless someone has rugby tackled you to the floor you should be out in my book. Run wide, or take the damn thing out hard, otherwise stay in the pack and accept the lottery of falling.
Sad to see that Nordås and Garcia didn't make it to the finals. And that Laros didn't run in the heats. Nader was really impressive. Fell with less than 400m left, got up, finnished 6th and advanced to the finals.
The podium is gonna be pretty unpredictable (I'm 99.99% sure Jakob will win though)
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I think that you should gather the 20 best runners from each country, to get an approximate 300 runners in the final, no rounds or semis. Additionally, the athletes should be given a stick they can use to poke other athletes to make them fall, which would make it more exciting. For every 5 poke-takedowns in one race, you get 1000$. Also, everybody races with one shoe to shift the focus towards being more ennvironmentally friendly
Falls are caused by slow paces. If they go out like that again with a big field, there will be more falls. The question is whether anyone tries to make it a sub-3:35 race.
I hope this trend for bigger fields in track races continues.
Ideally, championships will do away with rounds alltogether, and just have 50 - 100 runners in each final. You could even have the entire Championships condensed into one day, which would make for better television.
State championship races in india have massive fields . As many athletes as can be squeezed into a middle or long distance track race.
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