And this was on purpose? Even if it was or wasn’t (or just an accident based on the fact that the ENTIRE WORLD is there trying to cover all events and I’m sure theres just no room to do anything), shouldn’t they be prepared for that possible contingency?
A dumb photography ran over to a spot right after he and Sun Yingsha won gold and stepped on his bag. I guess you feel its not a big deal but I've never seen anything like this happen. Not the Olympics, not WTTC in (Houston in 2021), never. It's stupidity by the photographer and poor planning by organizers.
It sounds awful and shitty especially if these blades can never be replicated similarly or are expected to last forever, then it most certainly is a big deal…. I just figured they were more like tennis rackets or baseball bats or hockey sticks or even golf clubs or any of the other sports I’ve ever seen that uses a tool to make contact. And I’m still surprised this has never happened before. Maybe we can design better cases or protective bags that may prevent a future episode? You’ll get partial credit… (wink).
I just want to chime in and say that I love the Olympics. Money corrupts all, but, I love that the world is gathered to at least try to celebrate greatness, Cheers
Shacarri catches a lot of heat for her and her handlers being idiots and not realizing mar1juana was banned by the IOC and her continuting to smoke and being banned 4yrs ago. If you are a trash talker and don't shine in big moments you are going to get smoke. There was talk before the 100m final that she looked like she was on the verge of a panic attack so if thats the case that explains why she smoked mar1juana but her people need to find something whether its thearpy or medication to manage her anxiety.
This is the one event I really want to see other than the 100m/200m/400m/relays. I'm pro-Sydney, but Femke winning Silver is fine with me. :
I was just saying if Richardson had not choked her first few steps, she may have pulled off a late miracle similar to Lyles. Lyles' start was very bad also but he passed 4 guys the last 15m, which is INSANE!
Bro none of these sprinters are clean. Neither are swimmers. If you ain't cheating you ain't trying. 100% chance majority of these athletes are on some sort of peds
Man, it's f**king wild what a freak outlier Usain Bolt was. Dude ran a 9.58, now 15 years later not a single active sprinter has a personal best better than 9.76, and 9.69 is the best anybody else has been able to muster.
You should see some of the records from the 80s when pretty much everybody was pumping themselves with horse hormones. Germany's Marita Koch's 400m world record still stands from the mid 80's, and there was always controversy about her doing stuff.
FloJo's 100m record has stood since 1988 and I don't think anyone has come within .20 of her time since she set the mark.
There have been a few that have come closer than that in the past few years - from looking around, maybe 5 or so? Thompson-Herah and Fraser-Pryce both came within about .05-.10 of it a couple of years ago. Sha'carri Richardson did it, too. Carmelita Jeter was another one. We won't talk about Marion Jones (lol).
Bouldering is no doubt a hard event for the athletes, but damn is it boring to watch. Table tennis doubles is wild though
At that time, there was still an East Germany and West Germany. I think that she was from East Germany. Eventually, some in West Germany pumped themselves up as well. WORLD SPORTS SCENE : German Steroid Scandal Unfolds Rapidly Dec 1990 Suspicions that East Germany emerged in the 1970s as a world sports superpower with chemical help have been confirmed through a story Monday in a Berlin newspaper by swimmer Raik Hannemann and through reports by Germany’s Stern magazine last week. “We all took them (anabolic steroids),” wrote Hannemann, a silver medalist in the 200-meter medley at the 1989 European Championships, in a new publication, Berliner Kurier am Abend. “I admit that I experimented with several drugs, because I was after privileges, such as an apartment, a place in a university and a car.” East Germany’s former communist government rewarded successful athletes such privileges. Hannemann said he first took turinabol, an anabolic steroid, in 1985, at the urging of his club coach. Hannemann’s revelation, and that to be published this week in Der Spiegel that former West German athletes also used steroids, come in the wake of a story by Germany’s Stern magazine, which published a report based on confidential documents that it bought from the former East Germany doping control laboratory in Kreischa. Stern reported that it paid a substantial sum “before they were shredded like most incriminating documents.” According to Stern, the documents reveal that every major East German athlete for the last 20 years, except figure skater Katarina Witt and ski-jumper Jens Weisflogg, was a systematic user of oral turinabol, which was given under strict medical supervision. Several East German athletes, including swimmer Kristin Otto, long jumper-sprinter Heike Drechsler and shotputter Ulf Timmerman, denied the report, but Stern said the documents were verified by Dr. Manfred Hoppner, who was vice-chairman of East Germany’s sports-medicine services. “Athletes were not forced to take drugs, but they were given full details of what were commonly called in (East Germany) ‘support products,’ ” he told Stern. When contacted by a Dresden newspaper, Die Union, Dr. Claus Clausnitzer, the head of the laboratory in Kreischa, said, “It is quite clear that drugs were used as a matter of course (by East German athletes).” The documents are “proof of what we all believed for decades,” Stern concluded. “Compared to the East Germans’ exploits, the scandal surrounding Ben Johnson at the Seoul Olympics was a farce.” Also, the Reuters news agency, said Sunday that Der Spiegel will report this week that a West German coach, employing information he got from an East German colleague, supervised the drug use of four West German female athletes who competed in Seoul. Der Spiegel named Helga Arendt, the 400-meter indoor world champion, and Silke Knoll, a member of West Germany’s 1,600-meter relay team as being among the users...
Lyles with a good start probably could have put out a time in the .6’s. It would seem his top end speed rivals Bolts. He is easily the fastest when he is in high gear in today’s races.
