Dubman She’s no Andy Ruffle!
Dan Wasn’t he a BMX star
Dubman Yeah….. I’m going back a few years.
Dan He wasn’t as good as Eddie Fiola
Mad_Cyril It was a classic for sure. I don’t understand how anyone finishes that strong after the early pace.
303abuser Easy to underestimate what it takes to win gold, I guess.
Events like that give the lay person (fat bastard here) a small insight.
Literally everything beyond the limit .
Will watch when I can, thanks for posting
303abuser another close, quick race and another American beating the Brit to silver. Hudson Smith couldn’t have done much more beating his own PB.
Mad_Cyril Race pacing is a really difficult thing to get right and at that level, it’s a knife’s edge. Every marginal detail matters and sometimes it just comes down to having the legs on the day or not. It’s one of the reasons I love racing so much, you really get to find out where you sit competitively.
alistair Was that the 400? Haven’t seen anything today, had to work unfortunately.
303abuser yep, the American snuck through at the end again!
303abuser always aim for a negative split - if you over cook it in the early stages, it can really bite you hard later. Don’t follow the early pace. Doesn’t suit everyone and is open to exploitation.
Cool, I’ll go back and watch the replays later.
Along_the_Wire Yeah my best 5-21k efforts have been negative splits. Psychologically it just feels easier when you’re passing people at the end instead of getting passed. I tend to aim for even splitting really long runs.
Skateboarding stuff has been decent throughout. Fair play to Andy Mac at 51. No Nugenix needed.
Amps one thing I’ve discovered is that the women are absolutely shit.
Along_the_Wire Compared to the male pros, maybe, but they’re also still better than about 99% of all other skateboarders out there.
It seems they’re now allowing Special Olympics constestants to compete in the regular Olympics:
Hugo have you heard of a concept called life?
BECAUSE YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY GET ONE IF YOU HAVEN’T.
Smallman1 listen Ed I know you’re offended ’cos I’m taking the mick out of someone who probably looks as much of a spacker as you when dancing, but no need to lash out!
KJT’s total score of 6844 would of been good enough for gold at Tokyo and Rio. Great effort.
mono-stereo Pity that in Thiam, she is up against the greatest Heptathlete of all time. KJT did so many PBs, she has to be pleased. See Ingebritsen got his redemption in the 5000m
