The video that ends race walking?

Professional crawlers would have mighty strong bodies, bounding away on all four limbs.

USATF, please remove race walking from all of your championships. It's a joke!

They all do a pretty good job of locking out the knee as it passes below the torso. I believe this is another Walking rule. Officials might have thought they had to find 3 people to give the medals to.

In that Olympic racewalk video, when you watch the side view it kind of looks like they're doing the moonwalk in reverse.

Are hurdle events really dumb? Are high jumpers "morons" because they don't use a pole to get over a higher bar? All sorts of athletics have rules. But we can agree, race walking is really silly looking and I wouldn't do it if you paid me.

swum wrote:

Are hurdle events really dumb? Are high jumpers "morons" because they don't use a pole to get over a higher bar? All sorts of athletics have rules.

Tard Of Day!

Not Cool Bro wrote:

waddle waddle wrote:

Looks to me like every race walker in this video at USATF indoor track championships is actually running.

https://vid.me/hAk8

That chick in 3rd is straight up fat. If you want proof that race walking is not a sport, it's the fact that someone who looks like that can be a professional "elite athlete" at a national championship.

Her cross training sport of choice is competitive eating.

fgkasopkgv wrote:

Like running a sertain distance, but wait, you have to jump hurdles along the way? Or jumping as far as you can, but you must make certain strides before actually jumping? There are several odd events in track and field, not just racewalking.

They are not odd (except for the Triple Jump). They simulate natural things or (ancient) soldiers' training.

congrats! wrote:

swum wrote:

Are hurdle events really dumb? Are high jumpers "morons" because they don't use a pole to get over a higher bar? All sorts of athletics have rules.

Tard Of Day!

I think you beat him.

How about XC race walking?

Does any of you clueless fvcking idiots ever read a rule book? It doesn't matter what you see in a slo-mo. IAAF rule 230.1 clearly states

race walking is a progression of steps so taken that the waler makes contact witht the ground, so that no visible (to the human eye) loss of contact occurs

racewalker_1 wrote:

Does any of you clueless fvcking idiots ever read a rule book? It doesn't matter what you see in a slo-mo. IAAF rule 230.1 clearly states

race walking is a progression of steps so taken that the waler makes contact witht the ground, so that no visible (to the human eye) loss of contact occurs

So it's only cheating if you get caught? What a joke of a "sport"!

asdfadsfdf wrote:

[/quote]So it's only cheating if you get caught? What a joke of a "sport"![/quote]

It's always only cheating if you get caught. It's that way in any sporting event. So those distance runners & cyclists who blood dope must make their sports look like a real joke. For that matter what about Football I mean how many times are the Patriots going to "bend" the rules... Must be some joke of a sport.

Get over it.

racewalker_1 wrote:

Does any of you clueless idiots ever read a rule book? It doesn't matter what you see in a slo-mo. IAAF rule 230.1 clearly states

race walking is a progression of steps so taken that the waler makes contact witht the ground, so that no visible (to the human eye) loss of contact occurs

In other words if your coach or training sponsor can pay off the judges.........

In the 1987 indoor world championships the local paper had a picture of the first 2 completely airborne in a new WR.

Technology is such now that paid off judges should not be needed. Just insert sensors and watch the finishing times balloon.

waddle waddle wrote:

Looks to me like every race walker in this video at USATF indoor track championships is actually running.

https://vid.me/hAk8

Oh my god that ass though

racewalker_1 wrote:

Does any of you clueless fvcking idiots ever read a rule book? It doesn't matter what you see in a slo-mo. IAAF rule 230.1 clearly states

race walking is a progression of steps so taken that the waler makes contact witht the ground, so that no visible (to the human eye) loss of contact occurs

So why aren't sports rules written something like the following:

Baseball - A pitch is a strike if it appears to the human eye as if it entered the strike zone.

Football - A touchdown is scored if it appears to the human eye as if the ball crossed the goal line.

Basketball - A player is guilty of traveling if it appears to the human eye as if he took too many steps.

Oh wait, that's right, because these are actual sports.

Here's a video for you about whether or not racewalking is a sport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTfm03T3VAE

The rule is VISIBLE loss of contact to the naked eye. Try reading it. It allows for a 30ish msec before it become visible as before then you're not considered to be gaining an advantage. It was updated quite a few u years ago. Like many Americans, you're ignorant in regards to the sport. Americans mightn't like it but Europeans, Asians and South Americans do. Your country is not the centre of the universe as much as you'd like to think so. IAAF like their walking so it's not going anywhere anytime soon. Sorry to disappoint you.

racewalker_1 wrote:

Does any of you clueless fvcking idiots ever read a rule book? It doesn't matter what you see in a slo-mo. IAAF rule 230.1 clearly states

race walking is a progression of steps so taken that the waler makes contact witht the ground, so that no visible (to the human eye) loss of contact occurs

So basically the race-walking judges are far worse than judges in ice skating or gymnastics because the race-walkers are all breaking the rules, but arbitrarily every once in a while a judge penalizes a race-walker for something they're all doing. Wow.