Official Day 3 2016 World Indoors Live Discussion Thread

Also: I know he'd be vilified for it on social media, but are there official rules that would prevent an assist from Ashton as a rabbit for the first 500-600m if he were to take a shot at this?

gas man wrote:

wxw

He knows how to make big things happen on the biggest stages, and I love that we get to see a true mid-d wizard take a shot in this one. I'm not saying I'd bet money on him doing it, but I definitely won't call it "unlikely" for him to reprise his 2012 NCAA performance.

I'm not sure what you are writing. Are you saying you think Beach might win the whole event? That's not really possible.

Let's say Eaton runs 2:40. For Beach, who is 424 points down, to beat Eaton, he'd have to run a 1k in 2:05.3. So he'd have to run a world record.

TV coverage starts at 9:30 est, yes?

rojo wrote:

gas man wrote:

wxw

He knows how to make big things happen on the biggest stages, and I love that we get to see a true mid-d wizard take a shot in this one. I'm not saying I'd bet money on him doing it, but I definitely won't call it "unlikely" for him to reprise his 2012 NCAA performance.

I'm not sure what you are writing. Are you saying you think Beach might win the whole event? That's not really possible.

Let's say Eaton runs 2:40. For Beach, who is 424 points down, to beat Eaton, he'd have to run a 1k in 2:05.3. So he'd have to run a world record.

Nah, brah. I mean for Beach to move into second, which you seem to have all but written off in your first post on this thread. If he and Kasyanova both match their PRs, Beach walks out with second by 1 point (by my math, using the score calculator @

). Obviously he's not going to gun down Eaton, but I'm wondering if there are any rules against Ashton rabbiting Beach through the early parts of the race to help Curtis pull off another miracle 1k for second overall.

The evening session is coming up.

If you missed the morning session, you diidn't miss much. You can read our recap of the women's 800 prelims from that session here:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/03/womens-800-prelims-ajee-wilson-laura-roesler-look-excellent-qualifying-francine-niyonsaba-shows-shes-contend/

Also this morning, the 60mh heats were held and Venezueal's Yulimar Rojas won the triple jump (47 feet, 3 1/2). Heats were also run in the 4 x 400 to eliminate 1 team.

Tonight's evening session shoudl be great, however.

Tonight's session will feature finals in the following events on the women's side - 60m, 400m, 1500m, and shot put. On the men's side, finals will be held in the 60mh, 400, 800, triple jump and high jump. Also the men's heptathlon will conclude.

In heptathlon, Ashton Eaton is on track for yet another gold medal as he has 238 point lead on the Ukraine's Oleksiy Kasyanov (who is way worse at the 1k than Eaton - 2:39.44 pb) but there is no chance Eaton gets a WR. Eaton has done a little worse this year in every single event (7 to 37 points per event) than what he put up in 2012 when he set the 6645 WR as shown here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SCkYwHvB_JRE-SZXy_GVjbD5agQsZkvXH3MMrQ5AfJk/edit?usp=sharing

The 1k should be exciting however as American Curits Beach - who has a 2:23 1k pb - is in 6th place. Beach is 186 points out of second. To get the silver, he'd have to beat Kasyanova by 16.55 seconds which seems unlikely.

The more interesting question is, " can Beach get bronze?" To catch Germany's, Mathias Brugger, whom Beach trails by 67 points, Beach needs to beat him by 5.8 seconds (as well as beat the others ahed of him in the standings). Brugger has a 2:38.05 pb.

I wanted to start a thread last night, "Things Rojo learned while watching day 1 of World Indoors while on his phone while driving on I495".

Ok to be fair, I pulled over if there was an important race that I wanted to watch. For the rest of the day session, I was just listening to it.

1) Ryan Hill isn't winning gold. No chance. And I don't think he's going to win a medal. And that's not a diss on him. A month ago I thought he might be the best 3k guy on the planet but Kejelcha (and Ndiku but I think he may have been a little banged up) is a supreme talent and I certainly didn't expect Iguider to be in this event.

Rupp couldn't medal in this event two years ago and the field this year is better than that. One more thing about the men's 3k, it's definitely the best event in terms of talent mid-d and distance wise.

2) Boris Berian needs to take it out. If he tries to run a tactical race like he did last year at USAs or in the first round here, I'm going to scream at my computer. Get out, time trial it and see what happens.

3) It was fun to watch the 19-year old Moroccan Mostafa Smaili close heat 1 in 25.30. That reminded me of these great letsrun threads from the past:

2006: Fastest last lap ever?

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1442870

2015: What is the fastest second lap ever run in an 800

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6497668

live stream does not work!!!!!!!!! ??????????????

Of note from this morning, Keturah Orji was a nice surprise getting 4th in the women's triple jump. America is typically horrible in this event. She set an indoor PR and was 1cm off her all-time PR, and had a phenomenal series, all of her legal jumps were near her best. She is a college athlete, got an IAAF invite to the event. Hopefully we continue to see big things out of her!

30:45XC1978 wrote:

live stream does not work!!!!!!!!! ??????????????

Just says "coverage to begin shortly"??????? It is 8:25 EST LRC says coverage starts at 8:00 EST and so does NBC site.

What's up.

I've been trying toget on for 5 days 17 hours and 23 minutes

playing in slow motion

immafedup wrote:

I've been trying to get on for 5 days 17 hours and 23 minutes

Commercial(s) work but site did not. I just got it at 8:30. Missed a half hour fXXXing around with it and waiting, waiting, waiting.

Only thing going on is triple jump right now anyway.

Seriously mate? wrote:

Only thing going on is triple jump right now anyway.

Can someone tell me how the triple jump financially works? Why aren't some of the stars in it? Wouldn't Colombia's Caterine Ibargüe who hasn't lost since 2012 want to win $40,000? Admittedly, she wants to make sure she wins the Olympics.

But where is she and Christian Taylor and PPP? It looks like they never do indoors. Is it just too taxing of an event that they are afraid they'd get hurt?

link to watch live stream?

Great question. I'm not totally sure why but it seems like the shelf life of a triple jumper is not very long. Perhaps in a non-Olympic year they would have participated.

rojo wrote:

Seriously mate? wrote:

Only thing going on is triple jump right now anyway.

Can someone tell me how the triple jump financially works? Why aren't some of the stars in it? Wouldn't Colombia's Caterine Ibargüe who hasn't lost since 2012 want to win $40,000? Admittedly, she wants to make sure she wins the Olympics.

But where is she and Christian Taylor and PPP? It looks like they never do indoors. Is it just too taxing of an event that they are afraid they'd get hurt?

other options wrote:

link to watch live stream?

Michelle Carter may have thrown the winning shot right there. Half way through, though.