2016 Rio Olympics: Official Day 2 Live Discussion Thread

rojo wrote:

Sorry for getting it up late. The steeple has started. Bolt runs this morning as well

Bolt tonight not this morning. Only very slow 100m runners (already finished) this morning.

Auto Q for Coburn

rojo wrote:

Sorry for getting it up late.l

Tell it to your wife.

Did you guys see that Ethiopian steeple runner? She couldn't clear the water jumps at all. Complete stop everytime

No Bolt wrote:

rojo wrote:

Sorry for getting it up late. The steeple has started. Bolt runs this morning as well

Bolt tonight not this morning. Only very slow 100m runners (already finished) this morning.

The first "real" round of heats is the last event of the morning session.

post of the day! (so far)

Check that Bolt actually running this morning at 11:36 EST.

No Bolt wrote:

rojo wrote:

Sorry for getting it up late. The steeple has started. Bolt runs this morning as well

Bolt tonight not this morning. Only very slow 100m runners (already finished) this morning.

slowerthanunot wrote:

Auto Q for Coburn

Likely AR in final, but 4th or 5th. They are going to blow WR record away.

Frereichs needs to PR to make the Final.

Hill climber wrote:

slowerthanunot wrote:

Auto Q for Coburn

Likely AR in final, but 4th or 5th. They are going to blow WR record away.

I wa just thinking that the WR will almost certainly go in the final. This track is FAST, it's 80 and sunny for these heats and people are still running fast and/or PRing. Obviously we first found that out yesterday morning.

Hshshsbzbzbbdv wrote:

Did you guys see that Ethiopian steeple runner? She couldn't clear the water jumps at all. Complete stop everytime

I saw her. It was Ayalew . Shew as 4th at the 2012 Games, 4th in 2013 and 5th in 2015. i wonder if she was injured or something. That was bizarre. She was coming to a complete stop in the water jump.

POS BIB ATHLETE MARK DETAIL

1 943 Beatrice CHEPKOECH KEN 9:17.55 Q

2 1331 Emma COBURN USA 9:18.12 Q

3 1254 Habiba GHRIBI TUN 9:18.71 Q SB

4 826 Lalita Shivaji BABAR IND 9:19.76 NR

5 325 Madeline HEINER HILLS AUS 9:24.16 SB

6 1212 Fabienne SCHLUMPF SUI 9:30.54 NR

7 640 Hiwot AYALEW ETH 9:35.09

8 1107 Matylda KOWAL POL 9:35.13 PB

9 759 Sanaa KOUBAA GER 9:35.15 PB

10 333 Victoria MITCHELL AUS 9:39.40 SB

11 842 Michelle FINN IRL 9:49.45

12 449 Tigest GETENT BRN 9:49.92

13 466 Maria BERNARD CAN 9:50.17

14 1255 Meryem AKDAG TUR 9:50.28

15 655 Sandra ERIKSSON FIN 9:56.77

16 301 Luiza GEGA ALB 9:58.49

17 399 Anastasiya PUZAKOVA BLR 10:14.08

18 303 Amina BETTICHE ALG 10:26.91

Ruth Jebet is going to pull off an Ayana.

Alayew was badly hurt the first time Coburn "broke" the AR - was carried off the track. Probably still in recovery mode.

rojo wrote:

I saw her. It was Ayalew . Shew as 4th at the 2012 Games, 4th in 2013 and 5th in 2015. i wonder if she was injured or something. That was bizarre. She was coming to a complete stop in the water jump.

Smart to get rid of sock too

Huge fall. Diro running without a shoe. Frerichs takes the lead. Diro falls back into the chase group.

Man that sucks for her

Poor diro

Aisha Praught and the Ethiopian fell, the Ethiopian attempted to get back in it while the crowd was cheering her on, and at the line Praught waved to the crowd and acted like they were cheering HER on because she fell, while they were in fact trying to encourage Diro, the Ethiopian. LOL

I think three went down but the replay was through the hammer cage and I couldn't make out what happened. Perhaps she will appeal?