2009 World Championship of Track & Field

[white lightning]

Here is a mens sprint preview talking about the Lemaitre and Guliyev. Three more days to go until it's wall to wall track for a week straight. I can't wait!

http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7631&Itemid=2Edited by: white lightning

 

[mastermulti]

yep, getting close now!

I want a lot from the two 19 year olds but realistically I should be happy with good semi final runs of around 5th /6th place.

However with the best times they have posted (if only once each) this year we all expect much more and I'll have to stifle disappointment if they don't.
Poor guys even have pressure on them from me..let alone from their own countries

 

[StarWars]

It's nice that the European leaders in each event heading into Berlin are almost all white:

100m: Christophe Lemaitre 10.04 SB
200m: Ramil Guliyev 20.04 SB
400m: David Gillick 44.77 SB
LJ: Sebastian Bayer 8.49 SB
HJ: Ivan Ukhov 2.35 SB


It will be fun to see how this plays out. I am also curious of what Dwain Chaimbers will do, as well as Simeon Williamson. Hopefully, Chaimbers will retire and make things easier to qualify for for Craig Pickering.

Mainly, I want to see Arnoldo Abrantes, Tobias Unger, Stefan Schwab, Simone Collio, Emanuele Di Gregorio, Fabio Cerutti, Alexander Kosenkow, Robert Hering, Louis Tsatoumas, Fabrice Lapierre, and Mitchell Watt, to see who is doing what event and who is hurt. I would like to see Pickering on the relay team, and hope it gets a medal if he is.

My main goals:

-Wariner to get gold or silver, preferably gold
-David Gillick to medal
-Christophe Lemaitre to go sub 10 and a reach, have him make the finals
-Ramil Guliyev to make the finals of the 200m and go sub 20, and hopefully medal
-Simone Collio to reach the semifinals in the 100
-Matic Osovnikar to make the semifinals in the 100
-Robert Hering to set a new PB
-@ least 2 medals in the HJ, if not a sweep
-@ least 1 medal in the long jump
-@ least 1 4x100m medal from a team with a white leg
-@ least 2 medals in the decathlon
-any nice surprise (both Lemaitre and Guliyev are tinkering on WJRs)

 

[StarWars]

Here are the white athletes competing in the 100m heats in a couple of hours and their heat #s:

Heat 1: Arnaldo Abrantes, Matic Osovnikar, Simone Collio
Heat 2: Emanuele Di Gregorio, Stefan Schwab
Heat 3: ...
Heat 4: ...
Heat 5: Tobias Unger
Heat 6: Dariusz Kuc, Christophe Lemaitre
Heat 7: Martin Keller, Angel David Rodriguez
Heat 8: ...
Heat 9: ...
Heat 10: ...some Bulgarian
Heat 11: Fabio Cerutti
Heat 12: ...

Good luck guys!

And good luck to our shot putters tomorrow! I want Majewski to win. Or Dan Nelson or Campbell.

 

[white lightning]

For the night owls like me, Univesalsports.com is showing the meet live starting at 4.00 eastern time. So only 3 hours away. The mens 100 heats will probably start around 2.00 mtn. standard time. I will be up all night. Take a nap. Then watch the live coverage on nbc tommorow morning at 10.00 am. NBC is also live sunday at 11 am.

We have so many guys to root for. I'm still sad about Craig but life goes on. Christophe has me pumped up and so do the other guys. Hopefully our guys all know to really take it easy in the first round. Almost everyone advances. Lemaitre could jog it if he wants to. The quarter and semi finals will be tough. So much talent.

It's almost time. Good luck to all of our guys. Especially Christophe Lemaitre!

 

[Colonel_Reb]

The way I've been feeling and sleeping lately, I may be up to watch it with you white lightning.

Here's the main page for the meet: http://www.universalsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23000&ATCLID=204767807

 

[white is right]

You did your research. There were two guys representing Switzerland and Surinam that had Germanic names that I assumed were white and both were black.

 

[white lightning]

One last quick interview with Christophe. He sounds confident and he also talks a little about getting bigger(stronger) next season.

http://translate.google.com/translate?tl=en&sourceid=ie8-activity&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmondiaux-athletisme.france2.fr%2Findex-fr.php%3Fpage%3Dnews%26id_article%3D209Edited by: white lightning

 

[white lightning]

We are now live from Berlin on universalsports.com The mens shotput is the first event. These guys are monsters. The strength is just amazing. We have around an hour or so until the 100 meters first round starts. There are 12 races in the first round! I can't wait. Even though our guys will be coasting, just to see about to start is very cool. Watching the quarterfinals on nbc later on this morning will be even better! Let's hope our guys all run well.

 

[mastermulti]

we're pretty fortunate with coverage here this time. Each evening (ie their morning session) live from 7.30-10.30 and then from 2.30 -5.30am which I may tape and watch later (before I listen to the sports results on radio).
well, 40 minutes to go

 

[StarWars]

Damn Lemaitre looks good. 10.23 into a -.8 wind. Most of our guys made it through round 1 except for Collio. He has a chance to q but not Q. Unger also.

 

[white lightning]

Christophe wins his heat in a 10.23 into a negative 0.8 wind. The worst negative wind of the meet so far but he is still one of the quickest qualifiers despite his worst start of the season. He just ran everyone down with ease. I hope he didn't use too much energy as he had to come from way back. This is only the first round. He has to be happy with the time however despite a terrible start. Congrats on your first win of a round in the World Champs Christophe!Edited by: white lightning

 

[mastermulti]

no surprises there. The medalists look pretty set except whoever knows what that silly Asafa will do (after his heat run).
I'd say Lemaitre will semi.
The Japanese all made it through.

 

[white is right]

Very poor results for some of these guys. How does Unger and Collio not make it to the second round? Pepe Le Flew looks like he is just running his own race and isn't awed by the moment. He should semifinal and is a dark horse to final.

 

[StarWars]

Abrantes, Di Gregorio, Kuc, Lemaitre, Keller, Rodriguez, and Cerutti continue. Only 2 hrs. til' they go again. Do Gregorio, Cerutti, and Lemaitre all look good enough to break 10 today.

 

[jacknyc]

Based on who is in their heats, I think Lemaitre and Tsukahara can make it through to the semis.
Abrantes, Keller, DiGrigorio, and Eriguchi are all in the same heat, so someone from that group could might it to the semis.
The rest of the guys will have to be very lucky to make it through as they are in with some of the big boys in their heats.

 

[StarWars]

H1: Di Gregorio has a chance. Abrantes and Keller are unlikely to continue.
H2: Lemaitre has a good chance.
H3: ...
H4: It will be hard for Cerutti but he is looking good. Rodriguez is screwed.
H5: Dariusz Kuc is done for so he should just hope for a good time.

 

[jacknyc]

I think Abrantes might finish ahead of DiGregorio in heat 1. Either way, I hope one of them makes the semi.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Lemaitre is disqualified. Bummer!

 

[jacknyc]

Crap!!! Lemaitre DQ'd

 

[FastEuro]

The pressure got to Lemaitre. DQ! That sucks.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

That next race after Lemaitre's was a strange one. The starters were really acting weird toward the runners. They yellow carded the Japanese runner and he's out after coming in toward the end of the pack while being the only non-black in the race. I'm curious to see what the next 100M race looks like.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

i feel for the youngster. you know he is heartbroken!

 

[StarWars]

Well I'm not watching any more of the 100. f**k, it was his moment. And he f**king knew it too. He actually had a chance to medal in the final. He is that good. He better race again this season. Because he will be sub 10 th next time he goes 100% versus good competition.

 

[white lightning]

I'm disgusted. So sad and depressed. It wasn't supposed to end like this. Damn it. We seem like we never can catch a break. Still proud of him. What a season it has been. It's only one race. Guys better get used to it. Starting next season, every meet will have a new false start rule. One and done. No more cheating to guess when the gun reacts. It will speed up the meets.

We are still behind Christophe. Just a bump in the road. His career has just began and he will be back. Keep your head up Christophe.