Official Day 9 Rio Live Discussion Thread - Men's 1500 and 5000 finals. Women's 800

Just rewatched the last 400. Chelimo threw some elbows but nothing worth a DQ. To me he was just protecting his space.

What happened to Big Wave Dave?? DFL and looking bad.

os Bib Athlete Mark Detail 1.88 1.93 1.97 2.00 2.02 2.04

1 618 Ruth Beitia ESP 1.97 O O O XXX

2 457 Mirela Demireva BUL 1.97 PB XO O O XXX

3 566 Blanka Vlašic CRO 1.97 SB XO XO XO XXX

4 1353 Chaunté Lowe USA 1.97 O O XXO XXX

5 875 Alessia Trost ITA 1.93 O O XXX

6 981 Levern Spencer LCA 1.93 XO O XXX

7 1231 Sofie Skoog SWE 1.93 O XO XXX

7 755 Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch GER 1.93 O XO XXX

9 1110 Kamila Licwinko POL 1.93 XO XO XXX

10 706 Morgan Lake GBR 1.93 O XXO XXX

10 1358 Inika McPherson USA 1.93 O XXO XXX

10 1279 Iryna Gerashchenko UKR 1.93 O XXO XXX

13 987 Airiné Palšyté LTU 1.88 O XXX

13 1390 Svetlana Radzivil UZB 1.88 O XXX

13 1334 Vashti Cunningham USA 1.88 O XXX

16 871 Desiree Rossit ITA 1.88 XO XXX

17 498 Alyxandria Treasure CAN 1.88 XXO XXX

LOL, women's high jump won with 1.97. They would have been beaten by Thiam and Johnson-Thompson (1.98).

agreed - no super fast times.

I find it amazing that Mo Farah has retained speed that basically no other long distance runner at his age has retained in history. And I am not amazed in a good way.

They have Chelimo as DQ'd in the results. Same with Edris and Ahmed.

Ho Hum wrote:

trollism wrote:

Gave Ahmed a huge shove though, but he'll get away with it based on his 'nationality'.

WTF does that mean? Are you saying Americans don't get DQs (wrong) or just being racist?

They get DQs when it's obvious (Andrews, etc) but when it's marginal, they wouldn't dare.

You get what you get wrote:

Beitia, Demireva, and Vlasic all over 1.97

Is Blanka Vlasic in this?

How old is she in dog years?

Lagat bronze medal.

Superb run from Andrew Butchart - 7th and a new PB

Is it sad or pathetic that the highjump has become a clown show. Both male and female jumpers doing their look-at-me dances before and after jumps. I blame this on the head clown, Bolt, and a short attention span, reality tv viewing public.

Mo made 13:03 look easy! Also, congratulations to Chelimo on the silver and Lagat on the master's world record.

Wambui's hands look big enough to be a WR in the NFL

The top 4 would have gotten over 1.98. all just missed at 2.00

The race was paced perfectly for butchart.

Google results has Lagat up to bronze and Chelimo DQed. Wild.

cool kid wrote:

I don't think Niyonsaba is intersex.

No evidence whatsoever to prove that.

She doesn't even look super unfeminine to me.

Wambui...

It's hard, but there is no evidence other than her appearance, which I will admit isn't very feminine.

+1

Rio Website says Chelimo / Muktar / Ahmed DQ. Give Bronze to Lagat.