Spain, France, Italy, Sweden and Germany have won a total of 4 medals in T&F at these Olympics, two of them in the race walk. Even if you had low expectations for those nations, this is a borderline embarrassing summary.
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Agree, and thank you for the sober reminder - it is needed when keeping everything in perspective; we (Sverige) had a banner Games in Athens, and will have to find the magic again as the future unfolds.
Speaking of Europeans, however, I am thoroughly excited that we went 1-2-3 in both the men:s and women:s high jump; the men:s affair was nearly a EC all by itself. We also did quite well in the m-400m semis and m-4x400m, not to mention the Russian gold in w-4x100m and long-sprint silver.
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Re: The downfall of Western European T&F
Originally posted by croflashSpain, France, Italy, Sweden and Germany have won a total of 4 medals in T&F at these Olympics, two of them in the race walk.
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Originally posted by EPelleSpeaking of Europeans, however, I am thoroughly excited that we went 1-2-3 in both the men:s and women:s high jump; the men:s affair was nearly a EC all by itself. We also did quite well in the m-400m semis and m-4x400m, not to mention the Russian gold in w-4x100m and long-sprint silver.... nothing really ever changes my friend, new lines for old, new lines for old.
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Originally posted by paulthefanSome would say that the m4x4 performance was long overdue and that Alexeyev' s final leg should be the norm not the exception.
a country which produced a 44.6 markin 28y ago shoud be able to dig up 4 guys of 45 who shoud be good for 2'58
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Originally posted by lapsusThen again, Norway, Poland, Belgium, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Portugal have a total of 14 medals so far. So the medals are perhaps more spread out among the European countries this time.
apart from poland who used to produce odd medallists, the rest of those used to produce nothing more than spear-chuckers & some multi-eventers
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Originally posted by eldrickOriginally posted by lapsusThen again, Norway, Poland, Belgium, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Portugal have a total of 14 medals so far. So the medals are perhaps more spread out among the European countries this time.
apart from poland who used to produce odd medallists, the rest of those used to produce nothing more than spear-chuckers & some multi-eventers
I seem to recall some pretty big names in distance running coming from Countries such as Norway, Belgium, Finland and Portugal.
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Re: The downfall of Western European T&F
Originally posted by eldrickOriginally posted by croflashSpain, France, Italy, Sweden and Germany have won a total of 4 medals in T&F at these Olympics, two of them in the race walk.
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Originally posted by rasbEldy,
I seem to recall some pretty big names in distance running coming from Countries such as Norway, Belgium, Finland and Portugal.
norway - rodahl from 12y ago & he woudn't have won if kip was there
finland - it's 24y ago since likes of vainio, maininka
portugal - ribero 12y ago & was lucky to beat an inexplicably poor wang & as soon as the thopys came thru in numbers, she got crushed
belgium - are we going all the way back to puttemans 32y ago ?
these countries eras were so long ago it's hardly woth remembering
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Originally posted by eldrickOriginally posted by rasbEldy,
I seem to recall some pretty big names in distance running coming from Countries such as Norway, Belgium, Finland and Portugal.
norway - rodahl from 12y ago & he woudn't have won if kip was there
finland - it's 24y ago since likes of vainio, maininka
portugal - ribero 12y ago & was lucky to beat an inexplicably poor wang & as soon as the thopys came thru in numbers, she got crushed
belgium - are we going all the way back to puttemans 32y ago ?
these countries eras were so long ago it's hardly woth remembering
Finland - you could add Viren and Vasala and go all the back to Nurmi.
Portugal - Lopes, Mamede, Mota, Ribeiro (sp?).
Belgium - yes, Puttemans, Van Damme, Roelants.
Norway - Waitz, Christensen.
There were many others of course, but certainly several of these athletes were at the top of the World.
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Originally posted by eldrickdifferent era with no floods of africans to deal with
imo, few of those woud have been elite champs if curent calibre of africans were competing back then... nothing really ever changes my friend, new lines for old, new lines for old.
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