well?
well?
no
it all depneds if you consider the special olympics part of track
So even though that the NAIA does it...it still is not apart of T&F?
No, it's idiotic.
It certainly is, Ollie....and it annoys the heck out of me. However if weren't for racewalkers, a lot of T&F meets probably wouldn't take place at all.
I think it is. Race walking is a separate discipline from running just as the long jump is different from the high jump.
It's not a legitimate event at all. No racewalker is ever legal. It's like seeing who can whisper the loudest.
Hogzilla wrote:
It's not a legitimate event at all. No racewalker is ever legal. It's like seeing who can whisper the loudest.
Thought that one up yourself, did ya buddy?
Yes, its a part of track and field, even though I wouldn't want to be caught trying to do it.
Do you mean "a part of" T&F? Or apart from T&F?
Hogzilla wrote:
It's not a legitimate event at all. No racewalker is ever legal. It's like seeing who can whisper the loudest.
If every racewalker is not legal, then why doesn't everyone get DQ'ed?
Racewalking is a part of track and field, and has been since the 1908 Olympic games, in London.
I certainly hasn't been in every olympics since the first time though. In fact, most of the olympics held since then have not contested it, because it is an even more boring version of distance running, and it is not a track event. Call it what you will, but a part of T&F it is not.
I realize that having said this, according to the rulebooks it is considered a track event. In my mind, it is as much of a track event as the 4 X Mile relay... people compete in it occasionally, but it isn't actually an official event. I don't think 99% of non-racewalkers think of it as anything but a chance to rest up between actual races.
like having a nascar race with every one in first gear.
Jokes aside, it is the single stupidest endeavor I have ever seen. Why won't they just run? It looks and is ridiculous.
its like watching the slo-mo in chariots of fire
it is.... wrote:
like having a nascar race with every one in first gear.
Jokes aside, it is the single stupidest endeavor I have ever seen. Why won't they just run? It looks and is ridiculous.
i agree - even watching sprint drills is more exciting.
I know all the pedants will pick up on my reasoning, but I don't feel it's a part of T&F.
The olympic versions of the event are not on the track, or on the field (yes, I do know there's a tiny part of the race on the track right at the end, but primarily it's a road event). I don't consider the marathon T&F either.
Yes, always has and always will be.
Roccer wrote:
I certainly hasn't been in every olympics since the first time though. In fact, most of the olympics held since then have not contested it, because it is an even more boring version of distance running, and it is not a track event. Call it what you will, but a part of T&F it is not.
Whatever your opinion may be of racewalking, your comments about the Olympics are dead wrong. Do a little research. And if you look at the list of competitors in any Olympic or World Championship race walk, you'll see a much more diverse group of nations represented than you will in most events.
I'm not going to argue the merits racewalking, the absurdities don't make much sense to me either. One time I read a coaching journal article how a coach had incorporated a little bit of racewalking into his cross country workouts to improve ankle strength, and when I tried it with my own team everyone got so silly that we got nothing accomplished the rest of the workout.
But we have a tendency in the USA to think that we are the center of the universe, and just because something isn't popular here doesn't mean that it shouldn't be contested. A quick check of the 2004 Olympic results showed that about 50 contestents in each mens' race and almost 60 in the womens' 20K, representing a total of almost 40 nations.
Roccer wrote:
I certainly hasn't been in every olympics since the first time though. In fact, most of the olympics held since then have not contested it, because it is an even more boring version of distance running, and it is not a track event. Call it what you will, but a part of T&F it is not.
I realize that having said this, according to the rulebooks it is considered a track event. In my mind, it is as much of a track event as the 4 X Mile relay... people compete in it occasionally, but it isn't actually an official event. I don't think 99% of non-racewalkers think of it as anything but a chance to rest up between actual races.
Just how many chromosomes are you missing??? Racewalking has been contested in EVERY modern Olympic Games, NO ONE competes in it "occasionally," and your father was also your grandfather, brother, uncle, and cousin, which explains quite a bit about your missing chromosomes!
Retard.