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It seems they're engineering a season with minimal risk of losing, and lots of rest between meets to ensure only fast times.
Running fast and not losing...Sounds a good plan to me!
Running fast and not losing...Sounds a good plan to me!
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Wait, so your telling me the creation of the Diamond League over a decade ago, which was billed as getting the biggest stars to go head to head, hasn't solved this issue yet?Originally posted by berkeley View Post
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The DL meets are fine for the most part. I found them entertaining.
Coe with the Rankings for qualifying is trying to improve the meets. But you can only do so much if the stars don't want to run.
Anyways nothing new. The Covett series was supposed to get Coe and Ovett to race more. That was a bust but some memorable races nonetheless, such as the 3000 in Crystal Palace in 1982Comment
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With the advent of more sophisticated peaking regimens, it's no surprise that medal contenders back off the smaller pay days for the bigger one (enhanced by contract incentives).Originally posted by Conor Dary View Post
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Lest we forget, Covid was (and is) still a thing. I don't count abbreviated seasons against anyone right now.Comment
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Meanwhile....
After winning Olympic gold as a teenager, Mu became the youngest woman to ever claim both world and Olympic titles in an individual athletics event when she again held off Hodgkinson to secure victory on home soil at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. Clocking a world-leading 1:56.30, Mu maintained her unbeaten year and an outdoor win streak that dates back to September 2019.
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Nothing new, but it just seems particularly bad this year on the womens side.Originally posted by Conor Dary View PostComment
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I think having an "early" WC not in Europe, COVID, combined with a "late" 2021 Olympics were bigger factors for lack of DL competitors than one might think, plus DL prize money is just not that great for those at the top of the game.Originally posted by Conor Dary View PostComment
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How often has someone who has set a world record (not relay) in a standard "in stadia" track and field event not been selected for AOY because it was given to someone else who did not break a world record that year? I believe on the men's side, since 2000, it has pretty much gone to athlete's breaking a world record except in years when no records were broken (Barshim 2017, Bondereko 2013, etc).... is the women's side similar? Was 2022 was pretty unique in the number of world records broken (in this century) ?
Has anyone who has broken a standard event world record ever been ranked lower than Amusan at 6th? Strange (but great) year indeed !
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I think it would be someone like Pechonkina in 2003 - WR, but not much of a season outside Russia and finished 3rd at the WC, then 3rd in the TFN rankings for 400mH, so I can’t see her being too high up the AOYComment
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Makes you wonder about the incentive structure of the contracts, etc., if the athletes are steering toward fewer comps when they are at their absolute peak. Not saying it's good or bad. In the business world you structure a pay plan to give you the results you want from the employee. I'd say the same thing is happening here.Comment
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We've had a couple of "weird" years which likely contributed to some lack of competitions...Covid and an early WC as mentioned above. I think if this continues through '23 we'll have both a pattern and a problem.Comment
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we've had at least one incident (Povarnitsin) of somebody breaking WR aand not even making the HJ rankings, let alone having a low AOY ratingOriginally posted by DET59 View PostComment
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