Pedro's Cup, Szczecin, 17 September

[Half Miler]

Another solid performance by Melaine Walker to end the season, 54.55. Did she even lose a single race this year ?

She lost her first GP race in Sydney in Februrary, but after that, 12 straight wins. Fantastic season for her. Now if she could just fix that hurdle technique! :wink:

[Powell]

I know you're the TOE, and it's not my native language, but I've heard the word being used in T&F context many times, e.g. from the British Eurosport commentators. The event is called the shot put, but they call a throw a putt. Maybe it's one of those British-American things?

[Marlow]

The Olympic champion had a putt close to 21 meters in the second round

Even Tiger would be proud of a 69-footer!!
(It's the Shot Put)

[croflash]

And nobody outside of the stadium could see it because the camera wasn't working...

Camera was working fine (Eurosport). Just happened to be focussed on starter as he pulled the trigger. Then it slowly panned to show--"9.89"--on the results board. Not a millisecond of the race shown live. Is that a first?

Well, a camera was working, but not the right one who would cover the race. I don't understand why they couldn't switch to the right spot immediately, there was a lot of time inbetween the malfunction and start of the race.

[Powell]

I have no idea why that happened. The race was shown live on TVP, and the pictures were just fine :?

[Grazerism]

And nobody outside of the stadium could see it because the camera wasn't working...

Camera was working fine (Eurosport). Just happened to be focussed on starter as he pulled the trigger. Then it slowly panned to show--"9.89"--on the results board. Not a millisecond of the race shown live. Is that a first?

[PanAfrican Athletics]

And nobody outside of the stadium could see it because the camera wasn't working...

I know :evil:

[Powell]

9.89 officially confirmed, wind speed was +1.1

[Powell]

And nobody outside of the stadium could see it because the camera wasn't working...

Nobody outside of Poland, perhaps, but it could be seen on Polish TV

[joeltetreault]

Asafa 9.89 unofficially! He looked like he was determined to run fast today, pushing hard until the end.

Using pela2's alltime-athletics site, that makes it 9 sub9.90's for Powell this year (Bolt has 8). Is 9 the record for most sub9.90's in a season?

[croflash]

And nobody outside of the stadium could see it because the camera wasn't working...

[Powell]

Asafa 9.89 unofficially! He looked like he was determined to run fast today, pushing hard until the end.

[croflash]

Pawel Czapiewski: Who is Usain Bolt ? I'm celebrating on the entire homestraight :lol:

[Powell]

Czapiewski easily beats Bungei in the 800 :shock:

[Powell]

Majewski just fell short in the last round with 20.90 and finished in second place, 2cm behind Cantwell.

Lishchynska won the 1500 in 4:10. Dobriskey marginally overtook Sylwia Ejdys in the final meters to take second. Beijing medalist Natalya Tobias was only fifth.