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Take away Mcgloughlins second leg and it is a battle for first with the Dutch in the 4x400m relay....
2024 Paris Olympics Track Results Thread
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The German Women 4 x 100 Relay Team making us all proud making the medal stand!
I'm happy the Olympics sh't show is over with. I think the Olympics are part of our culture and potentially could be great. I'm just depressed on what it's become.
There are still Diamond League events coming up. I'm hopeful we can still see some good performances before the 2024 track season ends. It started out with such promise. When Kalen Walker ran a 10.09 early on, I was super optimistic, but the short sprints for our people turned out terrible this year. The long sprints were a little better. I hope Alexander Doom can clear up his injury and get a PB before the season is over, and I hope Femke Bol can get her mojo back. She still has big upside.
There are still Diamond League events coming up. I'm hopeful we can still see some good performances before the 2024 track season ends. It started out with such promise. When Kalen Walker ran a 10.09 early on, I was super optimistic, but the short sprints for our people turned out terrible this year. The long sprints were a little better. I hope Alexander Doom can clear up his injury and get a PB before the season is over, and I hope Femke Bol can get her mojo back. She still has big upside.
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It seemed like the short sprints have regressed at the world level but the middle distance running and long distance running has had a running renaissance ever since the East African have had to send as close to clean athletes as possible. For two Olympic cycles we have seen Kenyans fade down the stretch in these races when before it would be White European/Americans fade from the killer pace.
Seeing star EPOians fade down the stretch after they tried destroying the field in the 10K with killer laps is a sign of that, doping apologists are going to be silent after their crowing for years about innate East African superiority in the middle to long distance events when before corrupt Western coaches and doctors came on the scene the results we saw in the last two Olympic cycles were the norm for those countries if not a worse.
PS people were asking about Botswana has had world level athletes for a few Olympic cycles now but many have failed PED tests like Nigel Amos and Montsho. Montsho was such an obvious doper that I felt she was another Caster or a blatant doper(I was right on the later).
The country is also tiny about the size of a large city ie 2.5 million so to field a decent relay team would be stretching probability but the endurance sprint relay has a history of countries that were always competitive like Germany having problems fielding a world class team because talented athletes don't want to run the event because of the lack of money and stress on the body.
I mentioned earlier about 400 hurdlers fading quickly well open 400m runners have a competitive life cycle similar to that of a field mouse in a typical grassy field.
Seeing star EPOians fade down the stretch after they tried destroying the field in the 10K with killer laps is a sign of that, doping apologists are going to be silent after their crowing for years about innate East African superiority in the middle to long distance events when before corrupt Western coaches and doctors came on the scene the results we saw in the last two Olympic cycles were the norm for those countries if not a worse.
PS people were asking about Botswana has had world level athletes for a few Olympic cycles now but many have failed PED tests like Nigel Amos and Montsho. Montsho was such an obvious doper that I felt she was another Caster or a blatant doper(I was right on the later).
The country is also tiny about the size of a large city ie 2.5 million so to field a decent relay team would be stretching probability but the endurance sprint relay has a history of countries that were always competitive like Germany having problems fielding a world class team because talented athletes don't want to run the event because of the lack of money and stress on the body.
I mentioned earlier about 400 hurdlers fading quickly well open 400m runners have a competitive life cycle similar to that of a field mouse in a typical grassy field.
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half Japanese/black Michael Norman has faded this year quite badly in the 400m especially when it counted the most. My track buddies here in my city think think Tsegay was paid off to be a rabbit for the doping 1500m champ Kipyegon to set a world record in the womens 1500m final.
Bryce Hoppel couldn't back up his words in the 800m, although he did PB and set a National record. First and second place finishers are PED users in my opinion.
Bryce Hoppel couldn't back up his words in the 800m, although he did PB and set a National record. First and second place finishers are PED users in my opinion.
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Norman is a choker he did this same blow up in Tokyo some guys can't handle internal stress while others thrive with it. He may have had medical issues as he basically jogged the 400 in the final and was left off the relay team which would have broken the world record if the high school runner hadn't had stage fright which is more understandable than Norman's poor Olympic final results.
I wouldn't be shocked if upon retesting the Algerian and Kenyan were popped down the line as the Algerian has insane lactic resistance and probably only lost because of poor race tactics as he left his kick way too late for anything but the bronze. The Kenyan could be an "age" cheat and a PED cheat as he nearly set the world record at a listed 20?
As for Arop if he cheating he is probably only hormonal boosting which I assume most competitors are doing either with drugs or advance training methods which are legal but only athletes from Western countries have access to.
Who can forgot the way the COC hung Ben Johnson out to dry they would do the same with an 800 meter runner...
PS The US women would have broken the old USSR record in the endurance sprint relay and the Soviets never sent clean athletes to the games if Thomas is left off the team and a proper 400m runner is on it the US would have broken this unassailable record. Similar to the 2012 squad that broke the East German short sprint record nobody in the mainstream media would have questioned the cleanliness of this new record.
PS2 People commented on the women's 400m dash and I agree that the Afro-Arab runner is a doper , she is coming off a doping suspension I can't see her being clean now as her hormones would be out of whack and not running elite times that would win a silver medal. The Dominican looks similar to Marion Jones and has this big country girl look but around the time she became a podium threat Dominican runners started popping out of the woodwork and becoming podium threats on the men's and women's side and all had the very lean and muscular doping look that previous busted dopers have had.
I don't know if Kaczmarek is doing anything but she hasn't failed a PED test and running 48.5 or looking like an Amazonian woman breaking Olympic records and having a chance to threaten documented dopers world records.
PS3 Speak of the devil as the Algerian bronze medalisthttps://www.barrons.com/news/french...allist-sedjati-investigation-sources-cdf3c13b is under investigation for doping, Hoppel may get the medal still warm from being on the Algerian's neck...
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I didn’t watch it actively but the bits I saw all looked pretty black so I kinda didn’t bother.
Based on what you guys say here we have some talented runners but whitey needs to either start doping or get better coaching to be a factor in short sprints it would aeem
Based on what you guys say here we have some talented runners but whitey needs to either start doping or get better coaching to be a factor in short sprints it would aeem
Yes, doping has been quite a large factor in the short sprints for years now. It's an advantage our people choose not to utilize.
Audrey Leduc (100 meters) and Abby Steiner (200 meters) did pretty decent on the women's side. They both look clean.
On the men's side, Simon Verherstraeten was the best performer in both sprints. He, and all of the guys we had hope in, Tortu, Boling, Browning, all seem like clean athletes.
Audrey Leduc (100 meters) and Abby Steiner (200 meters) did pretty decent on the women's side. They both look clean.
On the men's side, Simon Verherstraeten was the best performer in both sprints. He, and all of the guys we had hope in, Tortu, Boling, Browning, all seem like clean athletes.
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I would also throw in Swoboda as she has gone sub 11 several times this year so far.
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Hmmm it makes one wonder why, right?