Pathetic, Russia got more Gold Medals with 65% of the atheletes the USA has.
How much do the clowns at the USATF get paid?
Pathetic, Russia got more Gold Medals with 65% of the atheletes the USA has.
How much do the clowns at the USATF get paid?
agreed.
Russians dope and are homophobic. Why should we aspire to be like them?
You guys don't get it. This is an international sport- EVERY freaking country has an equal opportunity to have great athletes.
Where the USA lacks is in the field events. We're competitive at almost every race on the track.
When 8 people in the whole freaking world make finals in the 800 and we have 2 men and 3 women that's excellent.
The biological passport is working. You should be happy about it.
hahahahahahahaahahaha
[quote]runn wrote:
We're competitive at almost every race on the track.
USATF officials were saying 10 gold medals were expected. 6...... 6 puny golds....
90% of Russian medals are won by their women mostly in field events
and 5 of them in obscure event like race walking.The Russian men suck
majorly.
[quote]whewww thats funny wrote:
hahahahahahahaahahaha
You're an idiot who can't think. You have that typical "gold only" attitude. You watch too much ESPN and think you know sports because you know the NFL, NBA, and MLB.
Your'e an ignorant young man. Grow up,
US 4th place:
Mens: TJ, SP, PV, 11OH, and of course 10,000
Womens: 800, SP, 100
Just making the observation. So frustrating for the athletes.
I don't understand why the earlier poster was laughing at the statement about the U.S. being competitive in most, if not all, track events. Women's steeple may be our softest events. Other than that, there were a LOT of red nike uniforms with USA on the front in the finals.
Check out all those stud distance and sprint Russians....oh wait, there are none. Except maybe a couple women.
Fire everyone at the USATF wrote:
Pathetic, Russia got more Gold Medals with 65% of the atheletes the USA has.
How much do the clowns at the USATF get paid?
What do you expect USATF to do about it?
POS COUNTRY
TOTAL
1 RUS 7 4 6 17
2 USA 6 13 6 25
3 JAM 6 2 1 9
4 KEN 5 4 3 12
5 GER 4 2 1 7
6 ETH 3 3 4 10
7 GBR 3 0 3 6
8 CZE 2 0 1 3
8 UKR 2 0 1 3
10 FRA 1 3 1 5
Usual suspects toping the table.
LOWEST USA gold medal count ever.
This is the first World Championships using the biological passport - a truly efficient and effective drug testing that has a preventive effect. The result?
USA totally bombs. Russia wins several events that put a premium on technique - race walking and pole vault.
Basically, US dopers were too scared to stay on the juice and their performances showed this.
However, USATF is consistently redefining the word "incompetent;" this in itself is pretty impressive.
max siegel has been the CEO since 5/1/12. what exactly has he done? he supposedly has great ties with sponsors but USATF now has less sponsorships than when he took over. enough with the affirmative action incompetent and corrupt minorities running USATF.
The fact that Jamaica now dominates the 100/200/4x100 in both men and women has affected US gold count significantly.
There was a period when the US could expect 6 golds in these events.
That is the single major factor.
1. Work with the NCAA to shorten their season so that college runners are fresher for global championships
2. Attempt to identify talent earlier and nurture it.
3. Take away telecast rights from NBC and ensure that whoever gets it broad cast all diamond league and every heat and event of global athletics championships live.
What would USATF have done differently to get any more medals? They don't coach anyone involved, they are all coached by professionals in college or outside of it. The USATF has no power to do anything, they just book tickets and organize the training camp. USATF has no influence on this at all.
But maybe that is the problem
Well, they actually give out medals for racewalking. What do you expect? You want us to racewalk?