controversy in women's long jump

VoR wrote:

trails for life wrote:

Rules like this are on the list of things that keep track & field from being popular. You gain no advantage by dropping or not dropping paper from your person. This is so lame to have in the rulebook.

After the jump it may not be easy to determine whether or not a given mark was made by part of the athletes body. By making all marks count such ambiguity is avoided.

I recently heard about this amazing new invention called slow-motion replay. Have you heard about this?

trails for life wrote:

I recently heard about this amazing new invention called slow-motion replay. Have you heard about this?

No. Tell me more about this fascinating development.

If your bib makes a mark which is closer to the board than the one made by you backside - but the two overlap - I struggle to see how a slow motion replay is going to enable you to identify exactly what the extent of the backside-made part of the total mark would have been if the bib-generated one had not been there in the first place.

Clearly you've never watched anything in replay. The beauty is you get to see what hit first, and where (by using other objects in the video).

Look up the medal table yourself.I know facts are over you alt/right heads and I was generous

enough to give you white folks credit for the shemale's medals in the 100 and 200.You still

don't measure up to black women.Even with all the absences,injuries,black women still

dominated this championships.

They should use those smaller stick-on bibs that they use at the pre classic. Dunno why all the meets don't use them and then there's no messing around with safety pins and whatnot.

Karma ! wrote:

Look up the medal table yourself.I know facts are over you alt/right heads and I was generous

enough to give you white folks credit for the shemale's medals in the 100 and 200.You still

don't measure up to black women.Even with all the absences,injuries,black women still

dominated this championships.

Take out the obvious black men and clear dopers and I believe blacks won about 2 medals. At least they're on the scoreboard. Way behind whites and Asians, and even hispanics, but at least they're catching up to the Semites.

Rules Lawyer wrote:

I guess it makes sense to have strict rules in high level competitions, but it still sort of sucks. At the very least one would hope that in the world of overly detailed rules they would take time to account for this in the next revision.

Also if she has had trouble with the bib before then why didn't a coach take the time to address this? I get that when jumping your bib can get torn off the pins since it is a dumb piece of paper, but you would think someone could be assigned to check these things on world class athletes.

No.

The bibs are heavy waxed paper. If you pin it right, it will not come off from anything short of tearing the clothing.

She is obviously not all that sharp?

The bib is not part of the body and should have had no bearing on the measurement. Commonsense needs to prevail of which the the IAAF have very little.

Are the bibs made from the same material as those we hobby joggers wear for our week's end roadraces (Tyvek)? It seems Brittney Reese and Barshim Muzaf (HJ) were able to rip them off pretty easily.OAN - why can't the IAAF have uniforms like the triathletes have, name and country (and sponsors) printed on them?

rupp-certified saladbra wrote:

Rules Lawyer wrote:

I guess it makes sense to have strict rules in high level competitions, but it still sort of sucks. At the very least one would hope that in the world of overly detailed rules they would take time to account for this in the next revision.

Also if she has had trouble with the bib before then why didn't a coach take the time to address this? I get that when jumping your bib can get torn off the pins since it is a dumb piece of paper, but you would think someone could be assigned to check these things on world class athletes.

No.

The bibs are heavy waxed paper. If you pin it right, it will not come off from anything short of tearing the clothing.

She is obviously not all that sharp?

Karma ! wrote:

Look up the medal table yourself.I know facts are over you alt/right heads and I was generous

enough to give you white folks credit for the shemale's medals in the 100 and 200.You still

don't measure up to black women.Even with all the absences,injuries,black women still

dominated this championships.

Even you can't be this dense, hundreds of photos of Schippers exist of her looking feminine. We will never see one of Caster looking like anything but an XY or XXY athlete destroying all athletes of all races, creeds and colors. By the way how did you avoid jail in the riots in Virginia?