Springy Jumping Platform Rome 2024 European Championships

@rojo, @wejo, @jgault you guys need to address it

If you can have Super Shoe PRs, then you can have Super Runway’s PRs !!!

Yeah! That Tentoglou guy came out of nowhere, it must be the track! I mean the shoes! I mean the board! no wait, the wind!

I took one glance at your posted results and was 2nd hand embarrassed for you.

Well, take a look again.

Also take a look at the footage: there's obviously something wrong with this platform.

These guys didn't came from nowhere, but they are not even peaked and performing their best results of their careers, settings, PBs, NRs, CRs...

It's the platform, not them.

They won't reach these marks at Paris, as there will be no platform there.

Is Rojas jumped on this platform she would reach 16.50 on triple jump.

I kind of agree. I don't think we will see similar marks in paris

the decathletes/heptathletes in Rome also all saw great results in the LJ

but the finals in Paris will be worth watching anyway

the TJ will be spectacular between cubans playing for spain, cubans playing for portugal. cuba cubans and the italian cuban. and the Burkinabe man.

If this is true, you are wasting your breath. The tech will continue to proliferate the sport. Record books will be written. Past giants of the sport will be lost in an endless sea of talent-less hacks and nobodies that put in less than half the work. You will be told that technological evolution is inevitable and that the current generation is more talented and hard working and…Covid. The inevitable increase in marks will continue until the tech over saturates the sport and jumps stagnate until the next big tech development pops up 20 years from now. Have fun.

You are correct, but I hope you one day come to a compromise that still lets you enjoy the sport. The compromise is to enjoy the individual eras and the athletes within that windows in isolation. to regard Abebe Bikila as the best, but also Eliud Kipchoge as the best in the context of their time and place.

I feel the sport can and should continue to honor past greats to ensure their legacy lives on despite times/marks/distances being surpassed. it's why we argue about why winning the Olympic gold will be infinitely more important to Josh Kerr than what time he ran at the Rabat diamond league in 202X.

The only point I disagree with is the notion of putting in half the work. With the smallest amount of fact checking, it is likely that on average the talentless hacks of today are putting in far more work that predecessor eras in the nuclear arms race that is training.

Outliers like Zaropek aside, there was markedly less volume of training throughout history than we see today.

some people are saying they will use this platform in Paris

If they do, Zango has the most to gain, he will probably break the WR.

Maybe do the same thing they did with Javelin WRs

Mihambo 7m22

lmao

I guess all european jumpers just decided to peak for the European Championships