If i was the World Athletics president i would eliminate the hammer throw, discus, shot put and the javelin. These simply suck!! They are so boring
Michael Johnson had the right idea to eliminate field events as no one really cares
Long & Triple jump, high jump & pole vault can stay but the rest need to go.
Lets ignore for the moment that you want to get rid of the boring old throws events, but keep the perennial crowd favorite--triple jump??
But by your logic really we would get rid of half the winter olympics, certainly race walking, wrestling because its not real popular, field hockey, water polo and on and on. Field events are fairly popular in the US and abroad.
Miss Trunchbull competed in the shot put, javelin, and hammer throw. She competed in the 1972 Munich Olympics. She once threw a student, Amanda Thripp, like a hammer using her pigtails.
yes exactly who also really cares about the winter olympics? No one its terrible!! If you go to a diamond league event and ask every single fan in the stands what event they are most excited to see - guarantee NO ONE will say hammer throw
If i was the World Athletics president i would eliminate the hammer throw, discus, shot put and the javelin. These simply suck!! They are so boring
Michael Johnson had the right idea to eliminate field events as no one really cares
Long & Triple jump, high jump & pole vault can stay but the rest need to go.
If running the meet there goes...
hammer throw
triple jump
everything over a mile
Add the 4x2
The rest is cool,
That shall be an unpopular answer. Why the heck isnt there a 4x 2? The best part of sprints is the mayhem of relays. What other HS event isnt in the olympics?? Weird. Not counting 15-16 30-32 conversion.
That shall be an unpopular answer. Why the heck isnt there a 4x 2? The best part of sprints is the mayhem of relays. What other HS event isnt in the olympics?? Weird. Not counting 15-16 30-32 conversion.
The best part of relays is the 4X400m. For the 4X100m, it’s kind of hard to tell who’s winning until the last leg and the U.S. often messes up the exchanges. There’s no reason to split the two with a 4X200m, and it couldn’t be worked into the schedule anyway.
I prefer them. I know this is a running site, but it's the field events that give it the spectacle factor for me. More the jumps and the multis than the throws, but they still add variety.
Totally different and complimentary. Field events are a chess match, virtuoso performance punctuated by periods of silence, and allow the viewers total focus on a single athlete and what they can do, every aspect of prep and technique. The sense of competition is defined by the position of the bar or mark which represents the leader, except in Mondo's case where there hasn't been any such competition for years and he operates a purely exhibition event. But Milty, Tara etc don't get to do that.
Running is moving drama in which the tension is created by constant relative movement between athletes, sometimes screening the viewers in distance races, and rarely, mostly in JIngy's or Keely's cases now, a duel with the clock but still against the ghosts of Komen, Kratch etc.
The Pre meet particularly thrives on this juxtaposition and differential absorption. Despite the aura and centering of distance running, the Pre crowd certainly knows their field marks and is totally into e.g. Crouser and Kovacs or Taylor and Claye.
field events were invented by old-school prep school types in England and France. They are the kind of contest only an unathletic nerd could make up.
The long jump arguably is a basic form of athleticism. Pole vault, triple jump, and high jump under its current rules, are not basic forms of athleticism. Jumping 3 times is something you will literally never have to do in any situation.
Hurdles is equally ridiculous. Running with things in your way and jumping over them is not important. An event where you run around obstacles would be about basic athleticism. Sort of a slalom sprint