Track & Field (men and women)

[Firemans4Horn 18528]

MONDOOOOOOO

[Ted Lange 16406]

That Was Awesome

[TonyTexas 10740]

Mondo is winning at life

Edited August 5 by TonyTexas

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

Glad Sweden joined NATO 

[tokamak 6687]

Pretty cool that (I think) this is the only thing still going on in the stadium.

[Buzzrock 15136]

WR and a smoke Swedish girl. Good on ya bork bork bork.

[Jive Turkey 12993]

couldn't script that any better.  last event.  last attempt.  stadium still packed.  and he did it.

[tokamak 6687]

lol the stadium is playing ABBA

[Jive Turkey 12993]

Mondo paying tribute to the Turkish hitman. 

 

[tokamak 6687]

I was mad at this dude for competing for Sweden but then I saw Swedish gf and now I understand

[UTexasFight 9807]

Take 3 Kevin Durant’s.

stack them on top of each other. Then propel over them.

 

That’s what he just did.

[MirrOlure 15254]

Kipyegon was DQed from the 5k.  She is not getting a silver medal.  Officials claim she pushed Tsegay.  But the video clearly shows Tsegay cut off Kipyegon and initiated contact.  This is BS.  Diffey and Goucher were all over this, calling out Tsegay for forcing her way into Kipyegon’s line.
 

Pfffft….that was nothing

[BurntEyes 6291]

13 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Mondo is winning at life

Goodness... yes he is!

[BurntEyes 6291]

7 minutes ago, tokamak said:

I was mad at this dude for competing for Sweden but then I saw Swedish gf and now I understand

Yeah.. pretty sure if that showed up in my life and required me to pledge my undying loyalty to China and move to Siberia.... I would.

[WBT 20966]

20 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Mondo is winning at life

 

19 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

WR and a smoke Swedish girl. Good on ya bork bork bork.

Lulz, I feel like we had this exact conversation 3 years ago

[UTexasFight 9807]

So from this last page, I’ve learned I either need to go bald and try to get an in on a coaching job at UT or,

go back to school, enroll at LSU, and hang around the gymnastics or T&F program. 

[Buzzrock 15136]

6 minutes ago, WBT said:

 

Lulz, I feel like we had this exact conversation 3 years ago

Probably. 
 

Desire Inglander on IG. Yes she’s a model. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19453]

1 hour ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Great Britain's Darryl Neita goes from attractive when she's not smiling to, "Holy shit, be still my beating heart!" when she smiles.

She and Gabby are fine as hell.

[LonghornSean 4103]

4 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Probably. 
 

Desire Inglander on IG. Yes she’s a model. 

 

[kingkoopa6 8673]

He gets his pole vaulted by that? 
 

Damn 

[BillyGoatHill 4420]

So coool watching the three pole vault medalists with flags run around the track together...

Definitely some genuine comradery between them.

[PTINS 3500]

2 hours ago, WBT said:

Wait a minute ... the world record holder in the pole vault is named Mondo DuPlantis?  That's just too good.

2 hours ago, WBT said:

The Cajun Swede.  His brother played baseball at LSU.

Family is from Louisiana, mother is Swedish. His dad has been his coach since forever, and Mondo wanted his dad to coach him for the Olympics. US said no. Swedes offered him $50,000 each time he broke the WR. I think today was #10. 

[TonyTexas 10740]

1 hour ago, BillyGoatHill said:

So coool watching the three pole vault medalists with flags run around the track together...

Definitely some genuine comradery between them.

Kendricks was cheerleading by Mondo’s side the whole time he was attempting the OR and WR jumps. 

[The Dog 44854]

DQ'd Kenyan runner won her appeal and got her silver medal back.

[Fudge Nuggets 19453]

2 minutes ago, The Dog said:

DQ'd Kenyan runner won her appeal and got her silver medal back.

Good for her.

[Deej 77805]

1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

Yeah.. pretty sure if that showed up in my life and required me to pledge my undying loyalty to China and move to Siberia.... I would.

That's a Swedish 7.

[huge 3831]

What kind of name is Mondo?

 

Comanche Indian?

[Not a cat 5807]

2 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

Mondo is winning at life

Mondo not only pawn in game of life.

[UTexasFight 9807]

1 hour ago, PTINS said:

Family is from Louisiana, mother is Swedish. His dad has been his coach since forever, and Mondo wanted his dad to coach him for the Olympics. US said no. Swedes offered him $50,000 each time he broke the WR. I think today was #10. 

He’s no dummy

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/olympics-mondo-duplantis-pole-vault-athletics-54552cba?st=txcjsmseieeae94&reflink=article_copyURL_share

 

[TonyTexas 10740]

^^^
This stick out to me in that article. 
 

If you bet $10 before the Olympics on Team USA winning gold in men’s basketball, the reward would be $2.13. Duplantis was such an overwhelming favorite that the same $10 bet on him paid out 29 cents. 

[WBT 20966]

2 hours ago, PTINS said:

Family is from Louisiana, mother is Swedish. His dad has been his coach since forever, and Mondo wanted his dad to coach him for the Olympics. US said no. Swedes offered him $50,000 each time he broke the WR. I think today was #10. 

seems like we chose poorly.  fafo, if you will

[Braff Zacklin 13676]

3 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

Chebet just dropped the hammer.  that was great.

Yeah, and she's pure distance (10K, etc.), not a 1500-meter runner, so shows how much I know.

[Braff Zacklin 13676]

2 hours ago, PTINS said:

Family is from Louisiana, mother is Swedish. His dad has been his coach since forever, and Mondo wanted his dad to coach him for the Olympics. US said no. Swedes offered him $50,000 each time he broke the WR. I think today was #10. 

The US didn't offer him $50K to set world records, so I understand the financial incentive, but athletes are free to choose their own coaches, so that middle part seems like pure spin.

Edited August 5 by Braff Zacklin

[BurntEyes 6291]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

That model for Lancombe, Dior, YSL and about 6-8 other high fashion brands is a Surly 7.

FTFY and because pics or it didn't happen..

[Deej 77805]

I'm not saying she isn't hot, but Swedish women...

[BurntEyes 6291]

2 minutes ago, Deej said:

I'm not saying she isn't hot, but Swedish women...

[Deej 77805]

Still an 11 here. I think a 5 in Sweden is about a US 9.

[Underdog 29161]

7 minutes ago, Deej said:

I'm not saying she isn't hot, but Swedish women...

Never go full aggie. 

[Jive Turkey 12993]

Saw this on X.

 

[Deej 77805]

1 minute ago, Underdog said:

Never go full aggie. 

Full aggy thinks this is a 10.

[Underdog 29161]

We're not discussing farm animals here. 

[AUS-97HORN 12050]

gotta love that NBC said there was a 29 second timeframe where "the world" didnt know who won the 100M race. 

 

motherfuckers there was another 30+ seconds AFTER the world found out before NBC watchers found out (but clearly him celebrating and running around was the clue)

 

I like how NBC conviently just skipped over that 

[BillyGoatHill 4420]

2 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

Kendricks was cheerleading by Mondo’s side the whole time he was attempting the OR and WR jumps. 

Yep. Saw that.

Aussie and others (maybe not as much) were doing it also. Pretty cool.

[Napoleon 8825]

[Fudge Nuggets 19453]

I like how Crouser didn’t sell out and represent the highest bidder.

[Wally Pryor 5407]

6 hours ago, tokamak said:

Gabby Thomas is an attractive young woman

A world class athlete, master's in epidemiology from Texas and an undergrad degree from Harvard. Charismatic and personable. 

And yeah, gorgeous. 

[The Dog 44854]

[Armybrat 41388]

4 hours ago, tokamak said:

I was mad at this dude for competing for Sweden but then I saw Swedish gf and now I understand

His mom is Swedish.

His American dad was our first 19’ pole vaulter, IIRC.

[UTexasFight 9807]

1 hour ago, Jive Turkey said:

Saw this on X.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 6 by UTexasFight

[Braff Zacklin 13676]

5 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

Kipyegon was DQed from the 5k.  She is not getting a silver medal.  Officials claim she pushed Tsegay.  But the video clearly shows Tsegay cut off Kipyegon and initiated contact.  This is BS.  Diffey and Goucher were all over this, calling out Tsegay for forcing her way into Kipyegon’s line.

This travesty was fortunately reversed. Tough gamut of emotions for the Italian bird, but the injustice of briefly having her believe that she'd won a medal she didn't earn would've paled in comparison to depriving Kipyegon of a silver she most definitely deserved.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/40737167/kenya-beatrice-chebet-wins-women-5000m-olympics

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Kenya's Beatrice Chebet won the gold medal in the women's Olympic 5,000 meters as she sprinted home to claim the title after a textbook performance on Monday, while her compatriot Faith Kipyegon was initially disqualified after finishing second and then later reinstated to claim the silver medal.

World champion Kipyegon had finished second in 14:29.60 but was briefly disqualified after a clash with Ethiopian world-record holder Gudaf Tsegay on the penultimate lap. She was reinstated upon appeal.