'09 London GP mSP

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18:12 - SHOT PUT - Men START LIST

Personal Best Season Best
1 Tomasz MAJEWSKI POL 21.51 21.26
2 Dylan ARMSTRONG CAN 21.04 20.92
3 Kieren KELLY GBR 18.83 18.83
4 Adam NELSON USA 22.51 21.01
5 Ralf BARTELS GER 21.36 21.11
6 Dan TAYLOR USA 21.78 21.78
7 Reese HOFFA USA 22.43 21.89
8 Christian CANTWELL USA 22.54 21.82
9 Scott MARTIN AUS 21.26

[gadlor]

Cantwell's figure is disturbing - his legs are very small in comparison to his upper body. After two throws, in the lead...I'm not a great judge of shotput technique but they didn't look like perfect throws.

[gadlor]

Hoffa to the lead! 21.5x. He looks happy.

[Jon]

Apparently Majewski dropped his shot on Cantwell's foot before the competition! :shock: If you're going to ambush your opponents, at least be subtle about it! :lol:

[Jon]

Quick question for Powell - how do you pronounce 'Majewski'? British commentators tend to pronounce it "Ma-JEFF-ski". Is that correct?

[Marlow]

Yeah! CC at 71-7 for the win.

[Powell]

Should be "ma-YEFF-ski"

[gadlor]

One of Majewski's competitors held out his hand to shake...and Majewski just looks at him funny. Competitor goes , drops his hand.

Nice final throw from Cantwell! And a good deal more sportsmanship.

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Official Results - Men - Shot Put
Pos Athlete Nat Mark Pts
1 Christian Cantwell USA 21.82 20
2 Reese Hoffa USA 21.55 16
3 Tomasz Majewski POL 21.43 14
4 Adam Nelson USA 21.07 12
5 Ralf Bartels GER 20.91 10
6 Daniel Taylor USA 20.76 8
7 Dylan Armstrong CAN 20.34 6
8 Scott Martin AUS 19.22 4
9 Kieren Kelly GBR 18.33

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Should be "ma-YEFF-ski"

After a generation on this continent he'd be ma-JEW-ski (that's a linguistic analysis, not a joke of some kind).

Although in my high school there were two sets of Wiszniewski siblings. One family went by wish-nev-skee, the other wiss-noos-kee