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August 1, 2021, 11:31am
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Phenomenal from Max Whitlock in the gymnastics
Set the standard from the off.



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A real Olympic moment just now, the Qatari guy asking if he can share gold with the Italian he had been equal jump to jump with rather than go into a sudden death jump off. I didn't even know that was even possible. Amazing scenes.


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A real Olympic moment just now, the Qatari guy asking if he can share gold with the Italian he had been equal jump to jump with rather than go into a sudden death jump off. I didn't even know that was even possible. Amazing scenes.


That’ll start the “you’re not allowed competitive sorts at school any more” brigade off.


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A real Olympic moment just now, the Qatari guy asking if he can share gold with the Italian he had been equal jump to jump with rather than go into a sudden death jump off. I didn't even know that was even possible. Amazing scenes.


I thought there were rules in place for them to carry on until one of them failed. Or do they just let the athletes make it up by themselves as they go along these days?


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I thought there were rules in place for them to carry on until one of them failed. Or do they just let the athletes make it up by themselves as they go along these days?



I thought that was the case too, sudden death jump off. But no, it does seem to be within the Olympic rules that they can both get gold as they had identical records. The official confirmed just before the tears flowed, the official had a clipboard and everything. Either way, it was a heart warming moment.

Just imagine if that happened at the Euro's final? Although there was some crazytalk on here about how it should've been shared as nobody really won.


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Holy $h!t!!!! 45.94s!!!!

Karsten Warholm obliterates the 400M Hurdles world record by 0.76s and has broken the 46 second barrier.

The 47 second barrier used to be a thing at 400m Hurdles before Kevin Young did it at Barcelona in 1992. But nobody has ever mentioned the 46 second barrier as it seemed totally impossible.

You have to feel for the American in 2nd place who broke the previous WR by over half a second and still losing convincingly.
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Holy $h!t!!!! 45.94s!!!!

Karsten Warholm obliterates the 400M Hurdles world record by 0.76s and has broken the 46 second barrier.

The 47 second barrier used to be a thing at 400m Hurdles before Kevin Young did it at Barcelona in 1992. But nobody has ever mentioned the 46 second barrier as it seemed totally impossible.

You have to feel for the American in 2nd place who broke the previous WR by over half a second and still losing convincingly.


That’s some time to smash too…serious graft that.

A bit like the Germans in the cycling…they were like machines.

I thought the sharing thing was a good idea and if both athletes agree I can’t see an issue. They were literally identical and neither seemed arsed about carrying on.

Anyone see the article/snapshot information about rowing receiving millions more in funding than anything else? Can’t find it now but interesting nonetheless. Meanwhile, our amazing BMXer works as a TA and has done crowd funding to afford the chance to attend competition etc…


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Super spikes, innit? Bolt reckons he'd have run under 9.5 seconds if he'd had the same technology in his prime.

That's not to say that Warholm isn't a bit good, but the times need to be taken into context. A bit like when the swimmers were breaking records in the pool the other year wearing their 'shark skin' costumes which I think were subsequently banned?
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Oh, and the track isn't exactly the same as usual, either:

https://www.theguardian.com/sp.....rds-fall-at-olympics
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In fairness to Warholm he says that he doesn't use super spikes and seems dead against them.

"The Norwegian, who was speaking after winning gold in 45.94sec, a world record and a performance widely recognised as one of the greatest in history, said his great rival Rai Benjamin “ran on air”, adding: “He had those things in his shoes, which I hate.”


https://www.theguardian.com/sp.....nd-field-credibility


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