The meet comes on tv in 2 hours.
It should be a dandy as everyone has had plenty of time to recover from Beijing and get over jet leg. Galen Rupp wants the American record. Will he get it? Will Ben True break 13:00?
55% of LetsRunners think we will see at least one American sub-13.
Who wins the 200 showdown between Felix and Schippers?
How amazing will Justin Gatlin be?
Meet preview here:
Schedule here:
Do we really "know" that Rupp wants the AR in this race?
How come the preview talks about Rudisha and he isn't in the startlist?
sandra perkovic and denia caballero are dueling it out in the W Discuss right now
perkovic's 4th attempt just put her into the lead, 67.50m, caballero still at 65.77m
perkovic has already secured the DL win
the M Shot Put just got started. all the big names are here, but the showdown is Storl vs Kovacs. whoever beats the other will win the DL.
after round 1, its Richards 21.37, Storl 20.71, Kovacs 20.70
reed wrote:
55% of people are nuts. pace is unlikely to be really fast, and there's no way rupp, true, or especially hill will go after the rabbits, merber style.
I'll bet you up to $1000 straight up that Rupp goes with the rabbits. Why woulnd't he? In other races, he wants to work on his kick for Worlds. Here who cares about your kick, who cares about what place you are (unless it's first). It's just about running fast.
Rupp is in tremendous shape. He wants the AR. The meet director said so. Rupp ran 12:56 after running 27:22 at Worlds. I certainly think Rupp is a better runner than Ritz and Rupp ran 27:08 at Worlds.
rojo wrote:
reed wrote:55% of people are nuts. pace is unlikely to be really fast, and there's no way rupp, true, or especially hill will go after the rabbits, merber style.
I'll bet you up to $1000 straight up that Rupp goes with the rabbits. Why woulnd't he? In other races, he wants to work on his kick for Worlds. Here who cares about your kick, who cares about what place you are (unless it's first). It's just about running fast.
Rupp is in tremendous shape. He wants the AR. The meet director said so. Rupp ran 12:56 after running 27:22 at Worlds. I certainly think Rupp is a better runner than Ritz and Rupp ran 27:08 at Worlds.
Wanna bet whether or not he gets the AR? I would take the no side. Not that I want to see him fail, quite the opposite. I'd love to see him go sub 12:50.
rojo wrote:
reed wrote:55% of people are nuts. pace is unlikely to be really fast, and there's no way rupp, true, or especially hill will go after the rabbits, merber style.
I'll bet you up to $1000 straight up that Rupp goes with the rabbits. Why woulnd't he? In other races, he wants to work on his kick for Worlds. Here who cares about your kick, who cares about what place you are (unless it's first). It's just about running fast.
Rupp is in tremendous shape. He wants the AR. The meet director said so. Rupp ran 12:56 after running 27:22 at Worlds. I certainly think Rupp is a better runner than Ritz and Rupp ran 27:08 at Worlds.
typo, you meant Ritz, but i'm civil and won't let that eb the focus of my argument.
Rojo I hope you're right. does anyone know what the pacers have been asked to run? hopefully 7:48ish for 3k, which is 13 flat pace.
also, i didn't really say this clearly, but i just meant that neither rupp, true, or hill would be the person to chase after the rabbits themselves. certainly they'd all follow if the pack was with the rabbits.
perkovic's 67.50m holds up for the win in Brussels. she takes the W and the DL title.
rojo wrote:
reed wrote:55% of people are nuts. pace is unlikely to be really fast, and there's no way rupp, true, or especially hill will go after the rabbits, merber style.
I'll bet you up to $1000 straight up that Rupp goes with the rabbits. Why woulnd't he? In other races, he wants to work on his kick for Worlds. Here who cares about your kick, who cares about what place you are (unless it's first). It's just about running fast.
Rupp is in tremendous shape. He wants the AR. The meet director said so. Rupp ran 12:56 after running 27:22 at Worlds. I certainly think Rupp is a better runner than Ritz and Rupp ran 27:08 at Worlds.
Rupp may be in good shape, but he was in BETTER shape in each of the past three years and only broke 13 once. He will not break 13 today. Talk of an AR attempt is laughable.
No-one cares.
kovacs is ahead of storl in the shot put, but neither are winning.
tom walsh leads over jamaica's richards. close battle in top 3 actually but the focus is storl vs kovacs
I got Brett Robinson (or whoever the Brit is) winning the 5000m. Anyone want to give me a billion to one odds on that? I put up the $1, you put up the $1 billion. Isn't it sad that there is literally zero chance of that guy winnning, unless the other runners all died? A little sad.
It's not on beIN Sports WTF???? why ? I have sling and its not on..... I am so pissed.
reed wrote:
kovacs is ahead of storl in the shot put, but neither are winning.
tom walsh leads over jamaica's richards. close battle in top 3 actually but the focus is storl vs kovacs
order remained the same.
walsh wins 21.39
richards 21.37
kovacs 21.35
storl 21.09
not good for my fantasy DL team, I had Storl winning
kiowavt wrote:
Nittany Pion wrote:Anyone got a link for a live feed?
I bought into the BeIN Sling option, but they (again!) don't seem to be showing the meet. Argh! But LR implies they are.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/09/television-and-streaming-information-for-2015-memorial-van-damme/Anyone know why it's not there despite the implication that was the channel for all track action?
Seriously same here, I buy into this but it's showing f**^%^* soccer replays.
Wtf is going on, what do I have to click or buy? Anyone?
kiowavt wrote:
Nittany Pion wrote:Anyone got a link for a live feed?
I bought into the BeIN Sling option, but they (again!) don't seem to be showing the meet. Argh! But LR implies they are.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/09/television-and-streaming-information-for-2015-memorial-van-damme/Anyone know why it's not there despite the implication that was the channel for all track action?
It will be on there, it just isn't in their guide for what they will be showing. Same thing happened last week. Calm down.
ibarguen takes it in the final round of the triple jump! my fantasy team is saved! 14.60
Laalou is back baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's no live feed available because the televised meet doesn't start until 20:00 CET (9 minutes from now).
