Who are you most excited about for next year?

[Conor Dary]

https://web.archive.org/web/20080612...836386,00.html

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on-topic, plz.

[Tuariki]

You guys want to make this about race, leave me out of it. I just looked at a 100 year old list and 2 athletes were a bit "down under" the others and weren't spotted. Forget that I said anything about transplanted Europeans, because for some people, that will be the focus, not the original salient point. Discussions of race are so damn boring by this point.

I think they were a lot down under 1.609. 😂😂😂

I saw Dixie race once.

[Tuariki]

From a kiwi perspective here are my hopes for 2022.
Walsh - over 23
Gill - over 22.30
Conor Bell (discus) - 67
McCartney - over her tendon problems - 5m
Adams - over 20
Wesche (wSH) - over 19
Ratcliffe and Bruce - 75 in wHAM
Osei-Nketia - 100m, 9.99

[1.609]

From a kiwi perspective here are my hopes for 2022.
Walsh - over 23
Gill - over 22.30
Conor Bell (discus) - 67
McCartney - over her tendon problems - 5m
Adams - over 20
Wesche (wSH) - over 19
Ratcliffe and Bruce - 75 in wHAM
Osei-Nketia - 100m, 9.99

All the best to the 2022 Kiwi fortunes. My wacky sense of humor.



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[CookyMonzta]

1:58.0 in 1964 in North Korea....one wonders how legit it was...

In 1966...Time..

Finally there was Sin Kim Dan, a delicate little North Korean lass who broke the women's records at both 400 meters and 800 meters two years ago; some time later, an overjoyed elderly gentleman in South Korea recognized Sin as the son he had lost in the war.

🤔

Are there actual videoclips to Shin's 1:58.0 and 51.2 (51.0?), or any other performance? There's a performance of 51.9 from Pyongyang in 1962 officially in the books.

[Conor Dary]

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Are there actual videoclips to Shin's 1:58.0 and 51.2 (51.0?), or any other performance? There's a performance of 51.9 from Pyongyang in 1962 officially in the books.

I saw that ....it also doesn't mean anything at all. Stella Walsh has the first IAAF 100 record.

[ralmcg]

I'm looking forward to the women's pole vault. Will Katie Nageotte go 5 meters or over? Will Sandi Morris win a major world outdoor championship? Will any woman break Isinbayeva's world record? These are the questions the answers to look forward to in 2022.

[The Klingon]

Erriyon Knighton, Cambre Sturgis, Cole Hocker

I agree.

[J Rorick]

I'm looking forward to the women's pole vault. Will Katie Nageotte go 5 meters or over? Will Sandi Morris win a major world outdoor championship? Will any woman break Isinbayeva's world record? These are the questions the answers to look forward to in 2022.

Seeing that Sidorova cleared 5.01 this year, you probably should include her in your expectations.

[ralmcg]

Seeing that Sidorova cleared 5.01 this year, you probably should include her in your expectations.

OK. Will Sidorova be the one to break Isinbayeva's world record? It would be interesting to see how Isinbayeva reacts to her world record being broken, if it is broken, especially by a fellow Russian.

[Davidokun]

It would be interesting to see how Isinbayeva reacts to her world record being broken, if it is broken, especially by a fellow Russian.

No matter the nationality of the record breaker, I doubt her reaction would be interesting. Instead, I anticipate she would dismiss it as an inferior performance by an inferior vaulter, who is obviously an inferior human being. Further, she would point out that she could have easily exceeded it with the latest shoes, poles, etc. We would all regret that we wasted our time listening to more of her nonsense.

[ralmcg]

No matter the nationality of the record breaker, I doubt her reaction would be interesting. Instead, I anticipate she would dismiss it as an inferior performance by an inferior vaulter, who is obviously an inferior human being. Further, she would point out that she could have easily exceeded it with the latest shoes, poles, etc. We would all regret that we wasted our time listening to more of her nonsense.

Maybe, since Isinbayeva loves her country Russia, she would congratulate Sidorova if she does break the world record, with relief that if the record is broken at least a Russian did it.

[Davidokun]

Maybe, since Isinbayeva loves her country Russia, she would congratulate Sidorova if she does break the world record, with relief that if the record is broken at least a Russian did it.

You may be right, but it has always seemed to me that Isinbayeva loves one thing more than Mother Russia, anyone, or anything: Isinbayeva.

[SoCal45]

No matter the nationality of the record breaker, I doubt her reaction would be interesting. Instead, I anticipate she would dismiss it as an inferior performance by an inferior vaulter, who is obviously an inferior human being. Further, she would point out that she could have easily exceeded it with the latest shoes, poles, etc. We would all regret that we wasted our time listening to more of her nonsense.

Amen!