"Berlin fliegt" (FRA/GER/RUS/USA)

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Going to take place this Sunday in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

Participants (Long Jump Women/ Long Jump Men / Pole Vault Men):

France: Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida / Nicolas Gomont / Emile Denecker
Germany: Sosthene Moguenara / Sebastian Bayer / Björn Otto
Russia: Darya Klishina / Aleksandr Menkov / Dmitry Starodubtsev
USA: Brittney Reese / Will Claye / Brad Walker

There are going be 4 rounds, points will be awarded according to the ranking of each round and individual event. 4 points for the best of that particular round - 3 for second place, 2 for third, 1 for fourth or no points in case of a foul. After the 4 rounds the winner will be the nation which collected the most points overall, a maximum of 48 is possible.

Not sure why the French team is relatively weak, but the rest of the field is looking extremely strong.

More information (German): http://leichtathletik.de/index.php?SiteID=874

[j-a-m]

Going to take place this Sunday in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

Good idea with respect to the location, not so much with respect to the rules (reward mediocrity, four mediocre jumps can be better can two great ones plus two fouls).

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Final results

Germany 35
USA 29.5
Russia 24
France 20.5

Progression

LJ women:
Sosthene Taroum Moguenara (GER): 6,01 (0.1) - 5,85 (0.9) - 6,44 (1.1) - 6,14 (0.4)
Brittney Reese (USA): 6,57 (-0.4) - 6,20 (0.1) - 6,40 (0.6) - 6,65 (0.1)
Darya Klishina (RUS): 6,29 (2.5) - 6,35 (-0.1) - 6,37 (0.2) - 6,56 (1.5)
Marine Vialle-Taverne (FRA): 5,62 (-0.3) - 5,85 (0.6) - 5,84 (1.4) - 5,66 (-0.3)

LJ men:
Sebastian Bayer (GER): x (0.9) - 7,84 (-0.5) - 7,97 (0.3) - 7,76 (-0.7)
Will Claye (USA): 7,58 (0.6) - x (0.0)- 7.45 (0.0) - 7,50 (0.8)
Alexander Menkov (RUS): 7,16 (1.8) - 8,06 (1.5) - 7,68 (-0.8) - x (1.7)
Nicolas Gomont (FRA): 7.45 (-0.4) - 7,59 (0.1) - 7,59 (0.1) - x (0.2)

PV men:
Björn Otto (GER): o (5,57) - o (5,69) - o (5,70) - o (5,70)
Brad Walker (USA): o (5,57) - x (5,76) - o (5,78) - x (5,80)
Dimitriy Starodubtsev (RUS): x (5,40) - o (5,50) - x (5,65) - x (5,70)
Emile Denecker (FRA): o (5,00) - o (5,20) - o (5,30) - o (5,40)


The conditions with the artifical runway and tactical circumstances just weren't conducive to big marks.

[gh]

at least the 27th meet of year for Otto.... busy dude!

[nevetsllim]

at least the 27th meet of year for Otto.... busy dude!

And just Starodubtsev's fourth outdoors this year.

[norunner]

One of the most pathetic attempts to turn T&F into a circus. The only reason this gets the media attention it does is the location, even german TV, which shows hardly any T&F anymore, wasted some air time on it. So on a sunday afternoon we got to watch a french woman repeatedly jump well below 6 meters, something that wouldn't be worth mentioning anywhere, but because she jumped at the Brandenburger Gate, she got on live tv.

[gh]

from where I sit, track on TV is never a bad thing.

Nor is any time track draws a crowd, which I suspect this did.

[leoesharkey]

Alas, you are right.