Are you guys as excited about the 50k walk as I am?

crickets

Meh

I bet we are all exactly the same level of excitement.

if they're have walking in T and F, why not dog paddling in swimming? Makes as much sense?

I'm about as excited about it as I would be about standing in a queue for 2 hours. And actually I'd be more excited about the queue.

Is this the event that happens concurrently with the closing ceremony?

50K walk fan boy wrote:

Too bad it'll be overrun with dopers though, am I right?

There will be one less boring Italian-Doper-Cheater-Liar-Walkerâ„¢:

Alex will be back in the year 2024 to show everyone he can WIN CLEAN.

(I am sorry about that Renato. I guess Alex had weak mind disease.)

What a joke.

No

Literally all doped.

Similar to the Tour De France Pelaton circa 2000. Except at least the bike dudes had talent at something

Joke of an event

Doped dudes that don't walk according to the rules. What could be better?

Acountensy is more exicting than this

It is so exiting that I decided that my life will be divided to two, before this thrilling event and after it. The peak of my life.

My first 50km racewalk was the hardest thing I ever did in sports.

I think I'll skip coverage of the Olympic walk. Don't want to be triggered.

Once I went out too hard in a marathon and crashed. With 6 miles left to go, I reasoned that since racewalkers can walk a 7:30 miles for 50k, surely I can walk that pace to finish the marathon and still turn in a respectable time.

I was wrong.

Regardless, a racewalk is the same as if the Tour de France had a division where cyclists could only use their lowest gear. Imagine guys spinning their pedals as fast as they can, and going only 10 mph.

The usual classy Letsrun posters. No style at all. Let's just piss all over the race walkers like our swimmers urinated all over the bathroom walls. USA! USA! USA!

The French guy quit when he was over a minute in the lead. Even when they are winning the French give up.

Nobody gives a flying fvck about people walking like dorks for 31 miles. How is this even an event? How are any of the "racewalking" events an event? Let's make paper/scissors/rock an Olympic event.

I mean, we have like a hundred different non-freestyle swimming events, which are basically people swimming like dorks instead of swimming as fast as they can. I'd be fine giving up RW if breast stroke, butterfly and backstroke swimming events went away.

Apparently there are some pooping issues by the leader.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/race-walk-leader-appears-to-be-having-poop-problems-1785499773