well said keith.I know a few race walkers and they train so f***in hard.
Its a great event,just to many dip shits not walking well and make it look bad.when don right its class to watch.100 f***in grand back is the guy demented who typed that,why would she.if anything the womens pole vault is a joke,she should be ashamed,I reckon she will break the record in worlds or event after worlds.
>>>>>i believe the rule is lifting 'according to the human eye.' so of course you could take a high speed camera and see she's lifting. then again, if you were to ever watch a racewalking event closely (and believe me, i have both in road races and on a track) then you would know it's not as easy to see sometimes that someone may or may not be lifting.
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Exactly. Those infrigements that can't be detected by the human eye are all of 15-20msec flight phases, in other words, f*** all. Under the way modern walking is judged that is not considered to be gaining any significant advantage at all. A still picture always makes things look worse. Remember the rules were written at the turn of last century and with advances in training, science (and drugs), like any sport, the rules are adjusted for modern times, this case contact is judged to the human eye, not cameras. Thus Ivanova produced a perfectly legal racewalk under the current rules. For those who think they are running, if you can't tell the difference betwen the running and walking gait I don't like your chances of doing anything of use in life. Then again Ivanova could probably walk the distance faster than alot of the people on this board could run it, hence they pull the sport down to make themselves feel better. Remember she'll always be a better athlete than alot of you guys, no matter how much you rationalise it.
They shouldn't be allowed to take photos of racewalking, because every picture I see of it always shows multiple athletes being dq'd.
ha.
really, they should be forced to give back money and medals because it's not a real athletic event!
Racewalking has evolved in a way similar to NBA's evolution - they now get away with all sorts of violations that used to be grounds for DQ. I saw Jefferson Perez's "race" on TV and, God bless him, no one can tell me the guy wasn't RUNNING, albeit in a weird stiff-legged way. He was in the air quite a bit of the time.
Some racewalking fan is probably now going to come on here and say I don't know the real rules of racewalking, but maybe it's 'cause I don't really care.
If racewalkers want to so that, that's fine, but take it out of track. Let them walk in their own little world.
I am ashamed that it is part of track. It doesn't even make sense.
Racewalkers are to T&F what the Transvesites & Leather Boys are to the gay rights movement.
Just when you want to accepted into the mainstream as a legit "sport" the Worlds or Games come come on TV and there they are, the race walkers, broadcast around the world, embarassing us all.
They have trained just as hard, probably harder, than you have. They qualified, made the team, and raced.
What have you done? What tiny narrow part of track and field do you recognize?
Erbli wrote:
What tiny narrow part of track and field do you recognize?
i recognize that "tiny" part of track and field which consists of EVERYTHING but racewalking.
i have no problem with the sport of racewalking, but they do violate the rules like a mofo. but they still put in the work in training, so you can't knock 'em there.
It's a contest of who can scream the softest...or who could whisper the loudest.
speaking of putting in the training to be a world class race walker, think about the heckling you would get from people if they saw you RACE WALKING down the street. the stuff i hear when i'm running is bad enough.
Like it or not, while the walk is a joke in North America, its popular in Russia, Central America, Spain, Italy, etc. While I'll watch it and swear it looks like they are all running, I really don't think its any stupider than the breaststroke/greco roman wrestling/icedancing/any other "lesser" event of a more popular sport. Deal.
Rather than rag on Ivanova's event, why not rag on the fact that she's been proven a drug cheat in the past???
I heard that they are gonna introduce the 10,000m Crawl in the next World Championships.
and they can WALK a half marathon probably faster than half the people on this board can run it
really wrote:
and they can WALK a half marathon probably faster than half the people on this board can run it
no they cant
Si, that is mi problema. No way these suckers are walking legit and besting me running 10K. No way!
When will a racewalking, midget, black woman become president of these United States?
How is that for minority?
I really don't think its any stupider than the breaststroke/greco roman wrestling/icedancing/any other "lesser" event of a more popular sport.
Agreed. What about American Football which is only played in one Country (USA) and where they stop every few seconds to figure out what's happened or what to do next.
[quote]Jizzmo wrote:
Racewalkers are to T&F what the Transvesites & Leather Boys are to the gay rights movement.
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Too funny and fully agree. I've been running for a long time (29 year??!) and I always thought this event was something out of Monty Python. Should have been knocked out when they start adding more women's events, when they had the chance.
Any time you have to spend more time defending your "sport" as a sport than doing it, you've got a problem.
And the only thing worst than a drug cheat is a race walkin' drug cheat.