Official 2016 Zürich DL Live Discussion Thread

Women's 800 is just pathetic! What a joke.

agreed. Shows me they are clean. Daniel could run 12:52 three days a week back in the day!!!

Nice PB for Grace.

grace another pb

Semenya wins and wins the diamond race, to be honest I was kind of expecting her to go for the WR and then be on pace and then purposefully fade the last 100m to barley hang and win the race but try and appear human

Hahaha. Semenya is sandbagging all the way.

Easy day at the office.

I'm starting to agree with the opinion that SeMENya doesn't have it in him to get down to 1:53.

Shame, Shame, Shame wrote:

Semenya wins and wins the diamond race, to be honest I was kind of expecting her to go for the WR and then be on pace and then purposefully fade the last 100m to barley hang and win the race but try and appear human

I wasn't expecting a WR attempt. If she went for it and blew up, she could cost herself $40,000. It just didn't make sense. I was also worried that Ethiopians wouldn't go for it in the 5000 for a similar reason.

All season long, I've never believed Semenya could run way faster than she has been running (which everyone else did). SHe's just better than everyone else . I don't see 153 but would like to see her in a time trial where she at least goes out in 55.

Sandbagging ? I thought you said Teabagging.

If it helps Simpson was clipped by Kipyegon.

Post line dive wrote:

oh no! wrote:

Illegal dive from Rowbury!!!!

She dove after she crossed the line running in an upright position.

And where was the pool?

Btw, nice dive from Simpson on Rowbury.

800 and 1500 W results.

Women's 800m - 01.09.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Caster SEMENYA RSA 91 1:56.44

2. Francine NIYONSABA BDI 93 1:56.76

3. Margaret Nyairera WAMBUI KEN 95 1:57.04

4. Joanna JÓŹWIK POL 91 1:58.21

5. Kate GRACE USA 88 1:58.28

6. Marina ARZAMASOVA BLR 87 1:58.36

7. NatalÑ–ya PRISHCHEPA UKR 94 1:58.60

8. Melissa BISHOP CAN 88 1:58.84

9. Eunice Jepkoech SUM KEN 88 1:59.31

10. Selina BÃœCHEL SUI 91 1:59.48

11. Lynsey SHARP GBR 90 2:00.55

- Ilona USOVICH BLR 82 DNF

Women's 1500m - 01.09.2016

1500 Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Shannon ROWBURY USA 84 3:57.78

2. Laura MUIR GBR 93 3:57.85

3. Sifan HASSAN NED 93 3:58.43

4. Jenny SIMPSON USA 86 3:58.54

5. Dawit SEYAUM ETH 96 3:58.63

6. Besu SADO ETH 96 3:59.47

7. Faith KIPYEGON KEN 94 4:01.86

8. Meraf BAHTA SWE 89 4:03.06

9. Gudaf TSEGAY ETH 97 4:04.29

10. Laura WEIGHTMAN GBR 91 4:04.77

11. Hellen OBIRI KEN 89 4:08.54

12. Axumawit EMBAYE ETH 94 4:12.49

13. Angelika CICHOCKA POL 88 4:17.37

- Jennifer MEADOWS GBR 81 DNF

Lavillenie wins the diamond race with a joint first with Kendricks in the pole vault.

God the women's 110H are a relief after watching the men in the women's 800.

Not a great race by Harrison, but still enough to win.

Harrison wins in an average 12.6, but has the WR and the Diamond race besides not going to the Olympics.

Ruth Beita wins the HJ and the Diamond race.

Semenya after the race was hardly fatigued at all when congratulating the other intersex athletes for their 1-2-3 finish. Anyone who wins every single race in a distance or middle distance event without ever being challenged is substantially better than the times they have run. My feed faded out for much of the race, but I saw that Semenya let a huge gap emerge to the leader, so as not to get out all that fast and then ran easy to the finish ahead of the usual suspects. I plugged in 50 for 400m and MacMillan gave me 1:49.x 800m. With 4:01.99 in a sit and kick African champs win this year and a 50.8 400m probably unpushed, Semenya can surely run low 1:50 or better. If there is a sub 50 there against world class opposition, there is also probably a 3:55 in this 1500m race. Obviously, no woman has ever had this ability across 400-1500m.

Shame, Shame, Shame wrote:

Lavillenie wins the diamond race with a joint first with Kendricks in the pole vault.

Explain this please. Did they tie in this meet or for the overall Diamond League PV?