Julius Yego 91.39 For the Win!?!

So the angle of the sector has to be 28.96 Degrees from 8 meters behind the scratch line.

http://www.pntf.org/officials/ivars/Throwing_Event_Sector_Angles_Rev_F1.pdf

If they made the angle too narrow or started it too far back, then the side foul line would be too far in.

So it's not just like hitting the board in the long jump where you can see the board and have to hit.

This involves the officials creating the correct angel and lines.

With that much margin of error I'd say err on the side of calling it good.

Seems like they re-calibrating the angle to make it good anyway.

If the throw was 91.39 m then the foul line on the other side would have to be less than 49.69 m away for the throw be good.

Letsjavelin

Puts him #9 performer ever.

Longest throw in the world in the last 9 years.

Massive PR.

Oh,

It counted!

http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/yego-javelin-birmingham

Bad Wigins wrote:

When will this ridiculous myth die?

Just a few tribal groups (with millions of members each) are responsible for most of the population of Kenya. There are 4 million Kalenjin alone. A tribal group is not a small population living in a few villages, it's a classification of many different, culturally related tribes. There are elite Kenyan distance runners from ALL the major tribal groups.

Average calorie consumption per capita in Kenya - national average, not just a few tribes - is among the bottom 15 countries on Earth. No, most of the country is not different from skinny. The horn of Africa is a place of widespread poverty and hunger.

Bad are you trolling or just ignorant?

Yes 40% of Kenyans are below the poverty line but Kenya has one of the highest economic growth rates in the world. It's middle-class is booming. It's already become the second biggest financial market in Africa and is rapidly catching South Africa.

Life expectancy has increased from 53 to 62 in 10 years.

There are 32 million mobile phone users in the country. It's invested heavily in it's ports and is in the middle of building a $330 billion super-highway to help attract freight.

Nairobi has many shopping malls and multiplex cinemas (Westgate being the most well known of course).

Ouch! First the Kenyans stole our reputation as the greatest distance running nation. Now they are taking over the javelin too? What's left for the Finnish people?

(Just kidding. I'm glad the throw was accepted.)

it was outside the extended line, should not really stand. regardless of the lines being measured and were supposedly slightly out, then remeasured 'correctly'. you play by what is in play i.e. the comp. sector lines and in this case the extension of them. i take his agent is one of the bigger ones, with clout. consider: if this was a 80m throw by an athlete and without agent x, also it was a pb for him, do you think they would re measured if he protested....

No I don't think thing they would have remeasured for an 80m throw.

But when if it's one of the longest throws ever you treat it differently and try to get it right.

It's worse to call a good throw a foul then call a slightly foul throw good.

He still threw it that far.

LRC pictures wrote:

There were boundaries where the spear landed. Look at LRC's picture.

Idiot.

Star wrote:

But when if it's one of the longest throws ever you treat it differently and try to get it right.

It's worse to call a good throw a foul then call a slightly foul throw good.

And lots of people are still wondering what might have been if Carl Lewis' "non-foul" had been measured and accepted. It was supposedly right at 30 feet.

agreed, they would not 'remeasure' for a 80m throw, even if a pb for that individual. though because this was a big throw, they did. all should be treated the same i.e. in this case 'play' the lines on the day, ideally the beauty of t and f.

greg rutherford had a foul 8.51 jump and got the benefit, it was a foul. carl lewis did not and by all accounts a 9m+ jump.

Sweet Nell Fenwick wrote:

Star wrote:

But when if it's one of the longest throws ever you treat it differently and try to get it right.

It's worse to call a good throw a foul then call a slightly foul throw good.

And lots of people are still wondering what might have been if Carl Lewis' "non-foul" had been measured and accepted. It was supposedly right at 30 feet.

Carl's jump in 1982 is exactly what I was thinking about, too.

The official said his toe went over the line but he didn't break the plasticine that was laid out right behind the board.

Then they raked the pit without measuring the monster jump.

Iv'e seen a video on TV in the past but can't find it online.

neil wrote:it was outside the extended line, should not really stand. regardless of the lines being measured and were supposedly slightly out, then remeasured 'correctly'. you play by what is in play i.e. the comp. sector lines and in this case the extension of them

no

Yego was shafted because the markings were incorrect according to iaaf stipulations

when the iaaf stipulations were enforced, the correct sector markings made it a legit throw

if it was still outside the redrawn sector lines then it was a foul period, & it wouda still been called a foul

bottom line : according to iaaf stipulations, it was a legit throw

that's all that counts

neil wrote:agreed, they would not 'remeasure' for a 80m throw, even if a pb for that individual. though because this was a big throw, they did. all should be treated the same i.e. in this case 'play' the lines on the day, ideally the beauty of t and f

no dissing some 80m guy, but this is iaaf diamond league where best throwers in the world compete & people pay hard $$$ to see 90m threatened

a guy who doesn't even have an 80m pb shoudn't even be in a diamond league meet & therefore shoud never even be in a position to have a questionable 80m re-adjudicated

if he threw his 80m in some regional ncaa or regional meet in some small county then of course he shouda asked to have it reassessed & i have little doubt most judges wouda agreed to it

however, a non-80m guy has no place in a diamond league meet

Star wrote:Carl's jump in 1982 is exactly what I was thinking about, too.

The official said his toe went over the line but he didn't break the plasticine that was laid out right behind the board.

Then they raked the pit without measuring the monster jump.

Iv'e seen a video on TV in the past but can't find it online.

don't be misled by that "scientist"

he's using primitive early '80s analysis & has no clue about the King's jumping style

he was a low-angle jumper because of his incredible speed

this jump he got stratospheric lift, far more than i ever remember for him

i have no doubt it was a 30'+

Randy Oldman wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

No, most of the country is not different from skinny. The horn of Africa is a place of widespread poverty and hunger.

Bad are you trolling or just ignorant?

Yes 40% of Kenyans are below the poverty line but Kenya has one of the highest economic growth rates in the world. It's middle-class is booming. It's already become the second biggest financial market in Africa and is rapidly catching South Africa.

I didn't say a damn thing about 40%. I said AVERAGE per capita caloric consumption. How much food have most of them got.

As of 2009, it was 2092 kcal/day/capita, with no upward trend. It was lower than Ethiopia. The last time it was above 2100 was 1999.

Whatever bell curve you imagine around that average caloric intake, you're gonna end up with a pretty small portion of the population eating enough to be anything but skinny. Your "middle class" is not middle by western standards, but by the standards of a poor country without much food. A few years of centralized capitalist activity is not going to trickle down to a feast for the masses.

It's not a myth dykhead. The Kalenjin (10% of Kenyas population) come from the Nile Valley in the North, what is now Sudan. The great majority of tribes came from West Africa during the Bantu Expansions.

Randy Oldman wrote:

Yes 40% of Kenyans are below the poverty line but Kenya has one of the highest economic growth rates in the world. It's middle-class is booming. It's already become the second biggest financial market in Africa and is rapidly catching South Africa.

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Highest economic growth rates in the world is more of a reflection of Kenyas population not its productivity. Kenya has had for the last 40 years one of the most rapid increase in population (3x). If you triple the population that lives in abject poverty, then the economy has tripled as well, but with absolutely no tangible measure of increased productivity or standard of living.. You still have 58% of the population living in abject poverty >>> BY KENYAN STANDARDS.

"Kenya faces many challenges. Rapid population growth plus declining economic performance has translated into less income per person. More than half (55 percent) of people live below Kenya's poverty line, up from 48 percent in 1990. In 2006, 58 percent lived on less than $2 a day."