Track & Field (men and women)

[Firemans4Horn 17674]

Quincy Hall’in ass!

[kingkoopa6 8283]

QSA!

[tokamak 6331]

Holy shit he just fucking willed his body to do it

[InkaUtexas 25183]

he fast.

[WBT 20339]

Damn, what a close by Hall

[kingkoopa6 8283]

Mikey gave up. Gotta be hindered by something 

[Fudge Nuggets 19094]

1 minute ago, G650 said:

Dude he looked horrible the whole way around but just kept getting faster lol

It's like he lit the afterburner the last 40m.

[CooterBrown 17808]

I like that Kennedy's coach, Paul Burgess, is tied for the #20 best pole vaulter of all time.  Nowadays he looks like he is one cheeseburger from a coronary.

[hookem2010 2588]

Holy fuck, I was in pain watching that. Insane willpower.

[Underdog 28363]

Looked to be laboring down the stretch or is that just his style of running? 

[UTexasFight 9313]

Sonya just nailed it and what I thought:

watching Hall around the curve, his face said “ain’t no way”… and he just kept gaining 

[TonyTexas 10458]

Just now, WBT said:

Damn, what a close by Hall

I thought he was done. He dug to deep to make that final kick

[G650 13747]

Just now, UTexasFight said:

watching Hall around the curve, his face said “ain’t no way”… and he just kept gaining 

 I mean, that was it. Going in the first turn he had a pain face on. I'm genuinely stunned.

[WBT 20339]

Just now, Underdog said:

Looked to be laboring down the stretch or is that just his style of running? 

Looked like me in 8th grade when I would stop breathing down the home stretch and throw up after every race

[Machinator 32097]

 

[LonghornSean 3931]

The USA golds in men's 100, 400 and 1500 have all been epic

[Ghost of LL 15321]

I don't think I've ever seen a runner gritting his teeth like that in a winning effort.  Just incredible.

[hookem2010 2588]

Track men doing what the swimmers couldn't. Closing strong all over the place.

[G650 13747]

2 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

The USA golds in men's 100, 400 and 1500 have all been epic

This has been a great Olympics

[jimmyjazz 45333]

That 400m was especially crazy given what was posted earlier today in this thread, the video showing how the body can't summon peak energy past about halfway and that lactic acid buildup is a certainty.  I guess the others suffered a bit more than Hall.

[Firemans4Horn 17674]

6 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

Track men doing what the swimmers couldn't. Closing strong all over the place.

China cheating their ass off in swimming has a little do with that. 

Edited August 7 by Firemans4Horn

[Fudge Nuggets 19094]

Two Olympic records set in the men's discus.  Stona from Jamaica wins it by 0.03.  Crouser cheering him on.

[WBT 20339]

Just now, Fudge Nuggets said:

Two Olympic records set in the men's discus.  Stona from Jamaica wins it by 0.03.  Crouser cheering him on.

That was great.  3 cm difference between gold and silver.

[Pato del Muerto 52187]

Two of my favorite things in sports are when someone comes from way back to win, and when someone does something they’ve never done before because that’s what it took to win. Team sports can’t really do that, and sports where single competitors compete on time like most skiing events can’t provide that visceral comeback/ chase down. 
 

track and swimming provide those things quite well.  Hocker did both yesterday. Sounds like I have some good tv to watch again tonight. 

[Jive Turkey 12496]

track events have straight up delivered.  still have Sydney v. Femke in the 400M hurdles and men's 200M final tomorrow, both of which should be epic.  and the relays are gonna be killer.  plus a bunch of golds still to be handed out in middle distance and hurdles.

 

[kingkoopa6 8283]

16 minutes ago, G650 said:

Dude he looked horrible the whole way around but just kept getting faster lol

He was running as if never trained how. Just flailing around. Haha. 
 

but he sure is fast. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19094]

If we hold on to the fucking stick we gone dominate relays.

[CooterBrown 17808]

Newman is gonna make $1-million on OnlyFans this week. 

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19094]

Men's steeplechase up.  I've grown to love this event during these Olympics.

[UTexasFight 9313]

2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Newman is gonna make $1-million on OnlyFans this week. 

 

I could watch the camera follow Kennedy around all day 

[tokamak 6331]

6 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

I could watch the camera follow Kennedy around all day 

Camera guys do sure love that low angle shot. They know. 

[shadow_operative2.0 15764]

Ouch, that fucking dude ate it. 

[tokamak 6331]

Damn some guy just fell like a rag doll in the steeplechase. 

Edited August 7 by tokamak

[G650 13747]

Damn, ate shit

Rooks good race

[Fudge Nuggets 19094]

We got silver in the Steeplechase.  The Moroccan was not going to be beaten.

[jimmyjazz 45333]

Holy shit, he hung on for the silver!

[Fudge Nuggets 19094]

Rooks gave it everything he had.  He did great.

[InkaUtexas 25183]

Hell yeah! That was some determination from the last three.

 

[Jive Turkey 12496]

all those dudes are looking at Rooks like, "who the fuck are you?"

 

[Machinator 32097]

 

[shadow_operative2.0 15764]

5 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

The Moroccan was not going to be beaten.

Yeah, he looked like another lap would have been no problem. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19094]

Why are they doing the women's 200m medal ceremony 24 hours after the race?

[tx 3 putt 75851]

35 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Quincy Hall’in ass!

 

 

 

[Buzzrock 14790]

Scary looking fall by that one guy. He was out cold. Did they show what happened to him?

[UTexasFight 9313]

3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Why are they doing the women's 200m medal ceremony 24 hours after the race?

Didnt they do this for the M 100M too?

last event of the night so they come back the following day?

Edited August 7 by UTexasFight

[Fudge Nuggets 19094]

I really haven't kept up with the medal ceremonies, but I saw some at the start of the next day for events that finished late the previous day.  That makes some sense, but at the end of the following day seems stupid af.

[InkaUtexas 25183]

2 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Scary looking fall by that one guy. He was out cold. Did they show what happened to him?

Hit the hurdle and went down hard. They said he was knocked out.

[UTexasFight 9313]

4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Hit the hurdle and went down hard. They said he was knocked out.

Yeah, just slo mo’d the replay above.

knee caught the hurdle and went down hard. his melon hammered the track on the whiplash 

Edited August 7 by UTexasFight

[AUinHsv 573]

3 hours ago, kingkoopa6 said:

The training for that is the worse. 
 

Coach has you doing like 5 200s with little rest. Run em under 30sec if I remember. 

then like 3 300s blah blah 

a couple 400s to end the day  

and thats on like a random Monday … still got 4 more days of the week haha 

 

Not to go old school but that was not close to what we ran. I ran distance and every Tuesday was 25 ( yep twenty five) quarter miles at race pace with a 220 jog (not a walk) between them. We had the number one high school miler in the USA and the number 1 or 2 two miler so those were run at just over 60 seconds. Our workouts for the quarter milers were equally intense.

[AUinHsv 573]

1 hour ago, Jive Turkey said:

mmmmm, Lieke Klaver.  she got lucky there.

No kidding.  What in the world was she thinking? It was like she heard the starter call it off except he didn't. And yeah - the hold times before the gun seen really long.