Athletics
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Geordie Beamish with the W!
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@nonpartizan said in Athletics:
Geordie Beamish with the W!
That's amazing. Never thought a Kiwi would ever win a distance world champs!
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@nonpartizan said in Athletics:
Geordie Beamish with the W!
Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart and more fucking heart.
What a run!
Everyone in Hastings and Hawkes' Bay should be so proud of the fella.
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This was some bit of commentary by Andrew Cotter. (Might not work outside the UK).
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This was some bit of commentary by Andrew Cotter. (Might not work outside the UK).
Hell of a last 200m
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@nonpartizan said in Athletics:
Geordie Beamish with the W!
Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart and more fucking heart.
What a run!
Everyone in Hastings and Hawkes' Bay should be so proud of the fella.
The self belief he had.
In the heats when he was running down the home straight he seemed so full of confidence, like showing off for the crowd, not in a bad way just like saying "yes, I'm here to win"..... Its like he knew this was his time to.shine.
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On another note Jamaica are back at the top of the pile in the men's 100 - Oblique Seville and Kishane Thompson 1st and 2nd.
Must be annoying as hell for Kishane to have been narrowly beaten in this and the Olympic final.last year - two silvers could have easily been two golds.
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@nonpartizan said in Athletics:
Geordie Beamish with the W!
That's amazing. Never thought a Kiwi would ever win a distance world champs!
Yeah - it's extraordinary.
Ten years ago you'd have been impressed if a NZer had finished within 10 seconds of the Moroccans, Ethiopians and Kenyans.
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Another medal prospect in Hamish kerr is in the high jump final. Takes place in about 13 hours I think - 8pm ish Tokyo time on Tuesday.
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I know Al Bakkali is a great steeplechaser, but if you watch him training on a track by himself I don't think I'd believe he's an elite athlete, he looks so ungainly.
That's the kind of race that suits him best though - a slow pace and a fast finish, so extra impressive that Beamish out kicked him.
Lamecha Girma is the current world record holder, which is about 20 seconds faster than that race was. But he was in the field too! Finished 5th. I think the Ethiopians and Kenyans would prefer a much faster race but no one wants to set the pace in the major finals it seems.
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I know Al Bakkali is a great steeplechaser, but if you watch him training on a track by himself I don't think I'd believe he's an elite athlete, he looks so ungainly.
That's the kind of race that suits him best though - a slow pace and a fast finish, so extra impressive that Beamish out kicked him.
Lamecha Girma is the current world record holder, which is about 20 seconds faster than that race was. But he was in the field too! Finished 5th. I think the Ethiopians and Kenyans would prefer a much faster race but no one wants to set the pace in the major finals it seems.
The world record is actually 40 seconds faster than Beamish's time. That's around 5 seconds per lap. It gets to the point that a fast finisher has no chance of beating those guys in a a Diamond League meet due to pacemakers but can win in major champs.
Carnage with the 1,500 qualification as well because nobody makes them fast races bringing every athlete into contention
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This was some bit of commentary by Andrew Cotter. (Might not work outside the UK).
This should work for all
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I know Al Bakkali is a great steeplechaser, but if you watch him training on a track by himself I don't think I'd believe he's an elite athlete, he looks so ungainly.
That's the kind of race that suits him best though - a slow pace and a fast finish, so extra impressive that Beamish out kicked him.
Lamecha Girma is the current world record holder, which is about 20 seconds faster than that race was. But he was in the field too! Finished 5th. I think the Ethiopians and Kenyans would prefer a much faster race but no one wants to set the pace in the major finals it seems.
The world record is actually 40 seconds faster than Beamish's time. That's around 5 seconds per lap. It gets to the point that a fast finisher has no chance of beating those guys in a a Diamond League meet due to pacemakers but can win in major champs.
Carnage with the 1,500 qualification as well because nobody makes them fast races bringing every athlete into contention
I’ve never understood that
Why don’t athletes run their race and pace regardless of the opposition
Especially if you know you can run up to 40 secs faster
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Girma’s world record run 2 years ago in Paris at a DL, he got out to a massive lead and it was just a case of him not tripping up at any of the final jumps. Second came in 17 seconds after.
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Kerr came close, agonizingly close to clearing 234. None else has looked like clearing it.
He has one more attempt. As things stand he gets bronze.
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Yes! Over.. as is woo - so it's a two man fight to clear 236;for gold.
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Huge from Kerr
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That first attempt at 2.34 for Kerr was so close
