Summer Tokyo 2021 - Track & Field

[RussellEbertHandball]

Great throw by Denny. 65m isn't an auto qualifer but it will get him into the final. 65.13 best throw by an Aussie at the games.

 

[Royces Hart]

Top run by Buckingham. That last steeple was average but everything else in the last 600m was good. Don't think he was fastest enough to get into the final.

Did I see he was DQ’d?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Did I see he was DQ’d?

Yes something about going inside the barrier when he got bumped.

 

[Bugz]

Starc clears 2.28 - will surely final and looks in good form.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Starc clears 2.28 - will surely final and looks in good form.

They need 2 athletics channel on 7+ one for the track and another for the field to keep up.

 

[drd23]

Is the British woman in this 4th 800m heat wearing one-piece swimming bathers?

 

[Bugz]

Starc through to Sunday nights final.

 

[yabsy]

I see there's a young American bloke (Harrison) doing the high jump & long jump double. Pretty rare to compete in those two events at the same Olympics. Came first in the US trials in both as well.

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[RussellEbertHandball]

I see there's a young American bloke (Harrison) doing the high jump & long jump double. Pretty rare to compete in those two events at the same Olympics. Came first in the US trials in both as well.

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Yeah I watched him in the US trials at Eugene and read somewhere its been about 100 years since someone has done both at the Olympics

 

[drd23]

Great throw by Denny. 65m isn't an auto qualifer but it will get him into the final. 65.13 best throw by an Aussie at the games.

Officially through

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Matthew Denny is thru to the final of the discuss with the 4th longest throw. Only Stahl of Sweden thru an autoqualifer of 66.00 with his first throw. That's a big effort. 9th is best result at an Olympics for an Aussie.

 

[drd23]

Did I see he was DQ’d?

fwiw

 

[Royces Hart]

Ta Lou’s 100 heat, jebus

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Missed the first heat of the 100m heat for women, saw the 2nd on the live feed, the US caller is hopeless, Jane Flemming is doing special comments, but saw it also on delay on 7 and defending champ Elaine Thompson-Herah ran a supper relaxed 10.82 - very Bolt like in running within herself and cruising to the line. stamps her authority straight away.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Good start by the field part of the team to get 2 into the finals. The field is where our best chancesare to win medals but also make the top 8 placings and World Athletics has a points table 8 for 1st down to 1 for 8th to try and work out the overall strength of competing nations.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Fraser-Pryce quick 10.84 and very smooth.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I missed it but Ivory Coast runner Mariee-Louise Ta Lou ran a 10.78 in the heat a PB and an African record. She is ranked 3rd in the world.

There have been a couple of other national records run. So bloody fast for a heats stage.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Run next to someone fast and you might do a PB and break a national record - in a bloody heat.

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Bib Number	Name		Reaction Time	Result
1	7	2521	THOMPSON-HERAH Elaine		0.158	10.82			Q
2	5	3506	KAMBUNDJI Mujinga		0.111	10.95		=NR	Q

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Bib Number	Name		Reaction Time	Result
1	4	1522	TA LOU Marie-Josee		0.161	10.78		=AR	Q
2	7	2016	NEITA Daryll		0.107	10.96		PB	Q

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Bib Number	Name		Reaction Time	Result
1	4	2480	FRASER-PRYCE Shelly-Ann		0.128	10.84			Q
2	5	3499	del PONTE Ajla		0.131	10.91		NR	Q
3	6	3048	NWOKOCHA Nzubechi Grace		0.161	11.00		PB	Q
4	7	1993	BASS Gina		0.134	11.12		NR

 

[Royces Hart]

I missed it but Ivory Coast runner Mariee-Louise Ta Lou ran a 10.78 in the heat a PB and an African record. She is ranked 3rd in the world.

There have been a couple of other national records run. So bloody fast for a heats stage.

She was impressive as hell. Looking around from about 70, cruised to the line

 

[Forward Press]

Officially through

That's great stuff.

Are they both realistic medal chances? Imagine the scenes if we somehow grabbed a gold - was the last track and field gold medallist Steve Hooker?

 

[Mateyman]

That's great stuff.

Are they both realistic medal chances? Imagine the scenes if we somehow grabbed a gold - was the last track and field gold medallist Steve Hooker?

I think yes for the men. Sally Pearson of course in London for the women. Sally won again at the world championships in 2017 and so did Kelsey Lee-Barber in the javelin in 2019, but none since then in the Olympics.

 

[Forward Press]

I think yes for the men. Sally Pearson of course in London for the women. We've had few world champions since but no more gold medal winners.

Yep I meant for the men.

Jared Tallent got a retrospective gold. But yes this is in modern times an area we're relatively poor in.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

That's great stuff.

Are they both realistic medal chances? Imagine the scenes if we somehow grabbed a gold - was the last track and field gold medallist Steve Hooker?

The high jump can be a bloody flukey event. 2.33 was the qualifier for the Olympics but only half the field achieved it and the rest got in based on season rankings to get to 33 entrants. Starc jumped a 2.33 this year, I think twice.

If Starc jumps 2.33 he could medal. If he jumps his PB of 2.36 or breaks it with a 2.37+ he could win it. 2.37 is the best time this year. Its very rare that a gold medalist jumps his PB at an Olympics but minor medalists do. The last 3 games starting in Beijing, the winning heights have been 2.36, 2.38*, 2.38. Bronze medalist has jumped 2.34,2.29, 2.33. He is in good form and looked really good today.

* winner was stripped of gold in 2019 after a restesting of his sample under the 10 year retesting rule.

Denny has a PB of 66.15m - if he throws that he probably finishes 8th, if he throws 67.xx maybe gets as high as 5th. The top 2 have all thrown 70m+ this year and the next 2 have thrown 69m.

 

[Mateyman]

Yep I meant for the men.

Jared Tallent got a retrospective gold. But yes this is in modern times an area we're relatively poor in.

I wouldn't say we're poor. I think it's probably the most competitive sport worldwide (with the possible exception of soccer) and we don't have a particular natural advantage so are relatively average overal relative to our population. We still make finals and usually win a few minor medals at world champs. Add to this that many of our best athletes pursue other sports like AFL because it's so much easier to make it professionally. Andy Mcgrath and Max Holmes for example were top class junior hurdlers but ended up pursuing AFL instead.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I wouldn't say we're poor. I think it's probably the most competitive sport worldwide (with the possible exception of soccer) and we don't have a particular natural advantage so are relatively average overal relative to our population. We still make finals and usually win a few minor medals at world champs. Add to this that many of our best athletes pursue other sports like AFL because it's so much easier to make it professionally. Andy Mcgrath and Max Holmes for example were top class junior hurdlers but ended up pursuing AFL instead.

That's why World Athletics / formerly IAAF, still used to the old names uses placings tables to try and work out the true depth of different nations across so many events. ie 1st gets 8pts, 2nd 7 down to 8th gets 1 pt. Athletics Australia aims to get to top 10 based on the placings table,