Is this the first time in an Olympics where nine (9) lanes will be used? Heat 3 and 4 are showing 9 athletes. It also looks like they are either missing a heat or they're only advancing 21 athletes instead of 24 (27?).
Be kind. This is how the tiny nations get to be part of the Games. The WC no place. Here? Absolutely.. And this from the planets greatest elitist snob.
aaronk wrote:In the women's 400, FOUR women from the USA are listed. The "fourth" (after SRR, Trotter, and McCorory), is Marlena Wesh, with a 51.23 PR!! Huh??
I looked her up in my FAST Annual, and she's listed as being from Haiti. So her listing as "USA" was supposed to say Haiti??
Yes - national affiliation listed incorrectly. She has dual citizenship & is representing Haiti.
Lane Athlete Country SB 1 Martina Pretelli SMR 12.26 2 Saruba Colley GAM 12.12 3 Janice Alatoa VAN 13.45 4 Pramila Rijal NEP NT 5 Hala Gezah LBA 13.15 6 Toea Wisil PNG 11.49 NT 7 Lidiane Lopes CPV NT 8 Tahmina Kohistani AFG 15.00 9 Mihter Wendolin FSM NT
Oh dear . . .
inclusion is one thing, but the woman with the 15.00 second time comes from a country with 30 million people just on numbers there has to be some girls/woman A LOT faster than 1500, and then the women from west african countries with 12-13 seconds personal best come from countries where the ancestors of the overwhelming majority of great sprinters come from and these countries are probably undiscovered gold mines for sprinting.
yes include more countries, but get their programs going before they put them in the olympics.
Lane Athlete Country SB 1 Martina Pretelli SMR 12.26 2 Saruba Colley GAM 12.12 3 Janice Alatoa VAN 13.45 4 Pramila Rijal NEP NT 5 Hala Gezah LBA 13.15 6 Toea Wisil PNG 11.49 NT 7 Lidiane Lopes CPV NT 8 Tahmina Kohistani AFG 15.00 9 Mihter Wendolin FSM NT
Oh dear . . .
inclusion is one thing, but the woman with the 15.00 second time comes from a country with 30 million people just on numbers there has to be some girls/woman A LOT faster than 1500, and then the women from west african countries with 12-13 seconds personal best come from countries where the ancestors of the overwhelming majority of great sprinters come from and these countries are probably undiscovered gold mines for sprinting.
yes include more countries, but get their programs going before they put them in the olympics.
Don't know if I fully agree about the inclusion argument, but here's some ammo for your conclusion:
In the recently concluded National Junior Olympics, the three youngest girl's age groups (ages 8 and under, 9-10, and 11-12) 100's went like this:
doug5321 wrote:inclusion is one thing, but the woman with the 15.00 second time comes from a country with 30 million people just on numbers there has to be some girls/woman A LOT faster than 1500,
Preliminary rounds... same as in Daegu (this time I'm boycotting those races) allow those athletes who advance to 1st round (with 12 sec probably) to run two races while many good sprinters will end in 1st round. Sad...
aaronk wrote:In the women's 400, FOUR women from the USA are listed. The "fourth" (after SRR, Trotter, and McCorory), is Marlena Wesh, with a 51.23 PR!! Huh??
I looked her up in my FAST Annual, and she's listed as being from Haiti. So her listing as "USA" was supposed to say Haiti??
Yes - national affiliation listed incorrectly. She has dual citizenship & is representing Haiti.
doug5321 wrote:inclusion is one thing, but the woman with the 15.00 second time comes from a country with 30 million people just on numbers there has to be some girls/woman A LOT faster than 1500,
This argument is getting so played out...
Some of us obviously disagree. The argument to uphold the status quo on the other hand...
mcgato wrote:
preston wrote:It also looks like they are either missing a heat or they're only advancing 21 athletes instead of 24 (27?).
It says that it is 3 plus 6, so with 6 heats that makes 24 for 3 semis.
When I posted they were not finished with the heats that's why I asked if a heat was missing. I also wondered if they would use 9 lanes, but it appears that they will still use 8 for the semis and finals.
gh wrote:Be kind. This is how the tiny nations get to be part of the Games. The WC no place. Here? Absolutely.. And this from the planets greatest elitist snob.
Then let's have a "not good enough for Prime Time" Olympics.
jamaica50 wrote:The only thing I care about Day 1 is the womens 100m 1st round heats and the IAAF website still doesn't have this information up yet.
They cannot set those heats up until they see who qualified in the run-in round, obviously. Too bad you don't enjoy the rest of the events. Cheers, Alan Shank Woodland, CA, USA
