Rome Live Thread

Richard Kilty coming up! We could see a white sub-10 today!!!

some facts wrote:

Richard Kilty coming up! We could see a white sub-10 today!!!

Apparently it's a little chilly so I don't think we'll see it today.

Shit the BBC coverage just cut off. Never mind it's back on.

That was a HELL of a start by Gatlin...

Gatlin 9.91 for the win and he did a big X after the win.

The doper can kick anyone's ass right now. I'd like to see him race Bolt or Blake. The don't want to lose.

Speaking of X whatever happened to Xavier Carter?

10.26 for your great white hope Kilty.

Macarina wrote:

That was a HELL of a start by Gatlin...

No kidding! He had a meter lead ten meters in. Wow!

Looks like 8 people passed Makloufi as he was celebrating this time.

Now the BBC is officially out. The came back on to interview the 100 guys.

Anyone got a stream still working?

I need one too

So... no women can break 11 anymore, and a convicted doper is like the only guy breaking 10...

damn it wrote:

Now the BBC is officially out. The came back on to interview the 100 guys.

Anyone got a stream still working?

Universal Sports stopped coverage after the A 100m. Too bad, the 800 might not be an official DL scoring race but it's going to be a world class one nonetheless.

Watchathletics.com is off as well. our only hope is the local Rome station. Anyone got it?

Homiyu Tesfayye threateningly close to German National Record set by Thomas Weesinghage in Steve Ovetts World Record Race in Koblenz, if I recall correctly.

Would be a shame to see an Ethiopian age cheat that has problems speaking German taking his record.

Perhaps Timo MF Benitz beats him to it.

Amos scratched.

Right. That's how it should be, get used to it.

9.58/9.69/9.72/9.74/9.77/9.78/9.79/9.80 are all drug-assisted, hopefully we will never see them again.

Speaking of which, Gatlin seems to have 2 types of races, both of which end up in the same time of 9.90--great start, and great finish.

If he can ever put the two of them together, he will run 9.80 basic, and 9.7x if there is any wind. The trouble is I don't know if they are mutually exclusive or not, maybe in his best finishes he saved energy during his start. Not sure.

But there you have it, he could go 9.7x if everything lines up. And yes, he's a doper.

Blake, Powell, Gay, and Bolt could all go 9.7x as well, as they are all dopers. Hopefully we won't see that kind of stuff this year, hopefully there will be a blanket finish between 9.90-9.95 basic. That would be terrific, some real racing.

RAI Sport was the official broadcaster and they cut off at 21:10 before the 800

yuro wrote:

Homiyu Tesfayye threateningly close to German National Record set by Thomas Weesinghage in Steve Ovetts World Record Race in Koblenz, if I recall correctly.

Would be a shame to see an Ethiopian age cheat that has problems speaking German taking his record.

Perhaps Timo MF Benitz beats him to it.

Benitz is good, but unfortunately not that good.

BTW Tesfayes German is quite good (certainly better than Aregawis Swedish)

george oscar bluth wrote:

What happened to Kemboi? He's going to shaft my fantasy team with that DNF.

That is the big question - now that they had to show the field throw, who knows what happened to Kemboi. Even the commentators were wondering what happened.