Olympics Thread
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
What was wrong with Walsh' throw? I didn't see him go out of the circle.
I reckon has been called for brushing the ground just to the left of the block.
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Lol did you see that Swede's vault? He was like half a metre over the bar!
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He looks like he's getting fucked here.
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@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
Old mate with the flag is rather trigger happy
I think the guy on the other side was making hand signals to indicate whether it was a fair throw or not. He was wrong twice.
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IMO all the throws should be simple like the long/triple jump and javelin - just a line you have to stay behind.
Different circle sizes for hammer/shot vs discus, shot with a stop board, all unnecessarily complicated and prone to officials flagging stuff for minor nonsense.
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Tom Walsh speaks.
"I'm not sure what the guy was calling me on. I thought my first throw was fair, but he ruled it a foul, though it was over the qualifying mark. Sometimes you get some that go for you and sometimes you get some that go against you. The second round throw I got a little bit tight and a little bit pushy and he called me for a foul again and I was like hold on, so i got that one overturned. Then that last one was much better and sailed over the qualifying mark. Then he called me on a foul again there and I was like what is going on here? It's good to get it done, it's not the way I would have liked it to be done, but there were two really good throws there and now I've got to get ready for [the final]."
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Or, why not have a huge take-off area, with your jumo/throw measured from wherever you took off/threw from? We don't care where a high jumper takes off from, why do care where a jumper takes off from, or a thrower throws from?
Get back to measuring the jumping/throwing and not how good people are at measuring a run-up?Before all you picks lay into me, this is a half-baked suggestion made after a bottle of wine (fuck you dry August)
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@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:
Or, why not have a huge take-off area, with your jumo/throw measured from wherever you took off/threw from? We don't care where a high jumper takes off from, why do care where a jumper takes off from, or a thrower throws from?
Get back to measuring the jumping/throwing and not how good people are at measuring a run-up?Before all you picks lay into me, this is a half-baked suggestion made after a bottle of wine (fuck you dry August)
The reason they don't do this is it only works at an elite level comp where there are a million cameras to accurately mark take off points. At local athletics/club level with 1 official and no cameras it wouldn't work. And having some artificial barrier between lower and upper levels of the sport in terms of performances, i.e. one has the added benefit of "take off where you like" isn't good for athletes progression.
