How do you evaluate your predictions for the women´s 10,000m?
Do you have some equally realistic predictions for the men´s 5000m?
How do you evaluate your predictions for the women´s 10,000m?
Do you have some equally realistic predictions for the men´s 5000m?
cwarcarblue11 wrote:
Impressive from Coleman. Almost had top 3 right, just flipped Gatlin and De Grasse
Looking like Boling for third 9.91 at US Olympic trials.
REAL. wrote:
Coleman proved today he is clean.
Head and shoulders above the field.
Level playing field and he is king.
Proved how?
agip wrote:
Coleman world champ. Can this sport get any more embarrassing?
Yes, yes it can.
Yes. Gatlin 2nd place. Mitchell and Drummond happy. Their methods still work.
Huh huh wrote:
REAL. wrote:
Coleman proved today he is clean.
Head and shoulders above the field.
Level playing field and he is king.
Proved how?
More like, proved the opposite. Also, no level playing field, for the others weren't allowed to evade three tests. Probably a satirical post from REAL..
african elite at wrote:
coleman is lance amstrong of athletics ,we will know the truth in 10 years
At this point I would say Gatlin is the more apt comparison with Lance.
DietBacon wrote:
TheFuture wrote:
Stop living under a rock. They're all on something.
Can we at least agree on keeping the ones we actually catch out of the sport though?
This right here. I think most rational people can agree all the top level guys and girls who are running times head and shoulder above the rest COULD be on something. The point should be that if you're caught, then its game over. If you don't get caught while being tested, then so be it. But, missing tests completely doesn't equal "not getting caught".
I finally tune in and they're showing race walking
Not good wrote:
£££££ wrote:
Why would the olympic channel cut off half way through the 10k?
Fekkin way to broadcast. I DVRd it since I had something else going on, and only got the first 20 minutes.
With NO warning. Went to commercial and came back with a fishing show or car race, cant remember which. Bizarre.
Fishing is more popular on TV than africans running in circles.
thisguy wrote:
DietBacon wrote:
Can we at least agree on keeping the ones we actually catch out of the sport though?
This right here. I think most rational people can agree all the top level guys and girls who are running times head and shoulder above the rest COULD be on something. The point should be that if you're caught, then its game over. If you don't get caught while being tested, then so be it. But, missing tests completely doesn't equal "not getting caught".
The winner got off on a TECHNICALITY because the controllers knocked on his door 1 minute late.
Claiming today: "I did nothing wrong!" Lolz and stuff..
The silver medalist has been caught twice before and medals in the fastest man on earth event when approaching 40..
Even if he doesn't dope right now, he's had no long term benefits of those 'roids?
Coleman should be serving a minimum of 1 year ban right now, while Gatlin shouldn't be competing at all.
Simple as.
Time for the US to criminalize doping maybe?
cwarcarblue11 wrote:
Impressive from Coleman. Almost had top 3 right, just flipped Gatlin and De Grasse
I nailed it, for good points in the prediction contest.
I was a bit worried about Gatlin because Hughes and Simbine were looking good, but the guy just knows how to put it together.
Nice to see ADG get in there.
CC, lol. It doesn’t matter what he does, I have already removed him from the untainted list. Why have him there? Nobody respects him, even if he wins. The USA look like idiots, because they wrongly believe that everybody respects a winner.
Even if that is true, what they are missing is that CC is a loser, even if he wins the race.
Hassan was boss, and Gayle had a big LJ breakthrough. M100m was dull with CC in it.
Bad Wigins wrote:
I finally tune in and they're showing race walking
Any suspicious performances? ?
Watching the press conference makes me wish that sprinters were smarter people.
In the modern era, it has seemed like being smart and super-fast have been mutually exclusive.
For me, that has made it pretty much impossible to favor any particular one top athlete, which means that ultimately I don’t care who wins from among them—I would rather see a kind of outsider like CL, Brown, etc win.
CC’s attitude is only good for the sport from the perspective of a 10-year-old—and at that, he might be right, who knows. Maybe it is all about what kids, and adults with the mentality of kids, think—but if that’s true, then they’re doing a piss poor job, considering track’s waning popularity.
Like someone in another thread said, it’s now a clown show, and people watch to see what new tricks the clowns will perform, and to try to guess how they did it. 9.76 was a thought-provoking performance, so CC is definitely keeping the clown show alive.
The rest of them were respectable, though. Really, it was a very good race series except for CC. Gatlin kept it together for a solid race, ADG was able to manage a rehab comeback and get his old race back over a few years, very impressive. Blake, Simbine, Hughes, etc delivered solid overall performances, if imperfect—but that’s what it’s all about. Only one sprinter in a generation is naturally perfect, someone like Bromell maybe, but everyone should bring their best, and that’s what the field did, and that’s great.
CC, otoh, brought THE best, something of which he is not naturally capable. You get THE best top end not with his form, but with form like Bromell, Lewis, Bailey, CL.
Apart from CC, this was a great competition, IMO.
BTW SAFP is invincible. Like a machine. FloJo/Pharmalita-class, relentless. Holy shxt.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
BTW SAFP is invincible. Like a machine. FloJo/Pharmalita-class, relentless. Holy shxt.
LOL at Pharmalita....so true, the most obviously dirty athlete i've ever seen in my lifetime (wasn't around in the 70s and 80s to see women that had more testosterone than most men)