Summer Olympics gets scheduled for the summer! News at 11!
Unless you are suggesting having the summer Olympics in hemispheres undergoing winter this is always going to be a problem.
Summer Olympics gets scheduled for the summer! News at 11!
Unless you are suggesting having the summer Olympics in hemispheres undergoing winter this is always going to be a problem.
If anyone is going to be a snowflake about the time of the Olympics then they shouldn't be running for starters.
Flabbergaster wrote:
The rumor mill in Japan says that the 2020 games are being held during the hottest days of summer because the U.S. TV network that has purchased the exclusive rights to broadcast the Games doesn't want them to conflict with the American football season. If that's true, the IOC needs to be reformed.
The rumor mill in Japan is not good at conspiracy theories. What is much more likely...the IOC doesn't want their product to have to compete with NFL (and MLB playoffs) in the US, with EPL in the UK, and with all the other soccer/football leagues in Europe and around the world. People in the US don't even watch NFL that much anymore (data easy to find).
In the 1956 Olympics all events with horses took place in Stockholm because there were quarantine or other veterinary issues with shipping the horses to Australia. Maybe we should simply have the Marathon, maybe also triathlon and bicycle road races in Scandinavia instead in 2020.
Tokyo, Japan and Little Rock, Arkansas are on about the same latitude line, app. 35 latitude north. Winning Marathon time will be about 2:10:30. We will see tactical 5000m and 10000m races. We will see usual Olympic results.
war of attrition wrote:
I love a good old fashion war of attrition. It will probably be a winning time of 2:15+ and have a few heat strokes.
Yuki FTW!!!
Porkie wrote:
war of attrition wrote:
I love a good old fashion war of attrition. It will probably be a winning time of 2:15+ and have a few heat strokes.
Makes for good tv.
Good for the sport to sacrifice a few.
Yeah. Japanese people love this kind of horror show on TV. Just look at their high school baseball tournament. Totally brutal and inhumane.
Shoebacca wrote:
Summer Olympics gets scheduled for the summer! News at 11!
Unless you are suggesting having the summer Olympics in hemispheres undergoing winter this is always going to be a problem.
Munich, Montreal, and Moscow were fine. Maybe the IOC should stick with cities that start with the letter M.
war of attrition wrote:
I love a good old fashion war of attrition. It will probably be a winning time of 2:15+ and have a few heat strokes.
This is exactly what Yuki needs to bring home gold. He'll win in a sufferfest as everyone else wilts.
Banana Bread wrote:
I'm talking about Ethiopian flash in the pans which denied Haile the chance to get into the Olympics and easily win that marathon. He would have literally destroyed Stephen Kiprotich
I'm not so sure about Geb winning London 2012. I think he would be in a medal position, but by then I think he had lost a step.
Consider the race before London, Geb ran 2:08:17 which is a nice time, and if he had won, then maybe he had more left. But he didn't he was 4th. But still, maybe once he saw he wasn't going to win he shut down. The race after the Olympics, and the two races before Tokyo, Geb DNF. So in his last 4 marathons, he had 3 DNF and a 4th place in 2:08.
Before those, he had a pair of 206s in which he tried to break the WR.
You watch what happens either in Dubai 2019 or Dubai 2020. You will have again "flash in the pan" Ethiopians that come to the fore and take Bekele's spot. Especially if Bekele underwhelms in Amsterdam and whatever he does in 2019.
The Land of Rising Sun wrote:
Yeah. Japanese people love this kind of horror show on TV. Just look at their high school baseball tournament. Totally brutal and inhumane.
At least the Japanese baseball kids are acclimated. Some poor schmuck from Norway or Finland would be frothing at the mouth. The Italians seem to do well in the heat for some reason. I'm thinking of Bordin in Seoul and Baldini in Athens.
The fact that Sammy was acclimated to the Japanese weather no doubt helped him a lot in Beijing. And Taniguchi won the Worlds marathon in Tokyo in '91 (in 2:14+).
Shitara for the win?
This would be Rupps dream Olympic race don't be surprised if he upsets the goat no one races in heat like Gallen.
Flabbergaster wrote:
The Land of Rising Sun wrote:
Yeah. Japanese people love this kind of horror show on TV. Just look at their high school baseball tournament. Totally brutal and inhumane.
At least the Japanese baseball kids are acclimated. Some poor schmuck from Norway or Finland would be frothing at the mouth. The Italians seem to do well in the heat for some reason. I'm thinking of Bordin in Seoul and Baldini in Athens.
The fact that Sammy was acclimated to the Japanese weather no doubt helped him a lot in Beijing. And Taniguchi won the Worlds marathon in Tokyo in '91 (in 2:14+).
Shitara for the win?
The brutality towards high school players in Japan is not playing in hot weather, but how pitch counts are ignored. The team's ace pitcher might throw a 160-pitch complete game and then another 50 in relief the next day.
has an elite distance runner ever died from running in the heat when they weren't taking amphetamines?
Banana Bread wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
I was at the 2007 WC in Osaka and it was miserably hot with record temperatures. Only 57 out of 94 finished, but nobody died.
Bekele literally destroyed the field in the 10,000m in Osaka in 2007 so maybe he will do well in Tokyo in the Olympic marathon. I expect gold. It will be like a sequel to his 10,000m golds.
Banana Bread, he didn't literally destroy the field. If he had, they wouldn't still be living. He FIGURATIVELY destroyed the field.
You used literally to mean the opposite of what it literally means.
joalturn wrote:
Why not make it a night marathon? It'll still be hot, but not nearly as bad. They could market it up as the only major marathon to ever be run at night. They'd probably pull more viewers in this way too.
Let's also not assume that Japan's weather in 2020 will be as hot as its weather this year. Would it be wise to bring thousands of heating blankets to next year's Boston Marathon based upon the weather everyone ran in this year?
The criminals will come out. There is more crime in Japan than you think there is.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
The brutality towards high school players in Japan is not playing in hot weather, but how pitch counts are ignored. The team's ace pitcher might throw a 160-pitch complete game and then another 50 in relief the next day.
Oh. I thought we were talking about the weather. But yes, I noticed that one pitcher had pitched in every game of this year's Koshien tourney, according to the announcers.
Japan still seems to produce some pretty good pitchers despite all the brutality, though. Maybe it's like a lot of NCAA track and x-c programs: those who survive thrive.
MurderDub wrote:
The criminals will come out. There is more crime in Japan than you think there is.
Gee, maybe I should start locking my bike when I'm out in the water surfing. Nobody else seems to bother, though.
joalturn wrote:
Why not make it a night marathon? It'll still be hot, but not nearly as bad. They could market it up as the only major marathon to ever be run at night. They'd probably pull more viewers in this way too.
I think this is a good idea and definitely worth considering. There are always millions of spectators on the other side of the world who can't watch as many live Olympic events as they would like. A marathon at night would be a lot more easy to watch.
But it would be more difficult to organise and the crowds on the course would be smaller.