#439

Ok, so to improve an athletics competition, what 3 events would you remove, and 3 that you would add?

Throwing events are boring but are mainly there to give you something to watch while other stuff is sorted

400m hurdles can go
Steeplechase can go
Walking can fuck right off

So instead, I’d go for:

  • A 20 person elimination race. Say 10 warm up laps and then another 19 for the elimination each lap of the runner in last
  • A medley relay with 100, 200, 400 and 800m legs
  • A legends 100m (over 40s). See who’s legitimately rapid now that the drugs have worn off
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#440

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Rubbing it in much???

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#441

400m hurdles is one of the best ones!
Sack off the hammer

#442

Did make me laugh when our guy couldn’t even get the hammer out of the cage. FFS

#443

Bin -

Triple jump
Walking
One of the decathlon/pentathlons

#444

Add -

I like the elimination thing
Cross country run
Combination event - like 100 m sprint followed by a high jump over a certain height and then javelin throw to a certain distance. First one to finish wins. Bit like ninja warrior

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#445

Bin:

Shot Putt
Walking
100m (make it a doped only event. Let’s get under 9 secs). Not serious,

#446

Yeah a sprint hepthalon/combination type thing would be cool

#447

Isn’t pentathlon one of the daft ones with fencing, show jumping, pistol shooting and all that?

#448

I dunno but the I don’t like the format of any multi events apart from my idea above and I think they should be binned off.

#449

Men do decathlon, women do heptathlon. Modern pentathlon is a stupid event in the Olympics but isn’t related to track and field.

#450

Surely GB gets disqualified there for running in Germany’s lane on the last changeover??

#451

Even the Biathlon?
Cross country skiing and shooting - What more could you want from a sporting event?

#452

YES an ana gold! Such a proud moment😭

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#453

I called it upthread

Should have played the Gazprom theme

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#454

That hedgehog has been brilliant

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#456

Those meets, worlds and Olympics with Backley and Zelezny trading WRs were great to watch. A staple of my childhood.

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#457

Would be brilliant if Bolt became a mascot after retiring, I could watch that all day.

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#458

Turkish team being lead out by an economics PhD student

#459

Not 100% on the rules for the relays, but I believe as with the non-relay events that are run lanes, it’s okay to stray into the outside lane on a bend so long as you don’t impede the runners who were drawn in there. What’s not okay under any circumstances is straying into the inside lane.