The Retirement Thread

[berkeley]

Wow, thanks dj! Good information.

Just looking at Larsson's site, I see Powell also had: 10.00 (-0.6), 10.00 (-0.5) and 10.01 (-0.7). He was sooo close.

He also had 9.72 (+2.1), 9.75 (+2.6), 9.81 (+2.3), and 9.84 (+3.4). All sub-10 on Mureika's wind adjustment calculator.

But I'm assuming he also had a few that were just sub-10 but aided by a legal tailwind. These would not count if we're adjusting for wind.

[Fortius19]

Peter Larsson’s site credits Powell with 97 legal sub-10.00s, the number Alfons Juck cites in the story you linked.

Add in one mark that was annulled because of a doping infraction = 98. Add a hand-timed 9.9 = 99.

Different numbers depend on the person doing the counting.

Wow, thanks dj! Good information.

Just looking at Larsson's site, I see Powell also had: 10.00 (-0.6), 10.00 (-0.5) and 10.01 (-0.7). He was sooo close.

He also had 9.72 (+2.1), 9.75 (+2.6), 9.81 (+2.3), and 9.84 (+3.4). All sub-10 on Mureika's wind adjustment calculator.

[dj]

Peter Larsson’s site credits Powell with 97 legal sub-10.00s, the number Alfons Juck cites in the story you linked.

Add in one mark that was annulled because of a doping infraction = 98. Add a hand-timed 9.9 = 99.

Different numbers depend on the person doing the counting.

[Fortius19]

Asafa Powell, whose 40th birthday was yesterday, had a retirement and birthday party in Kingston.

https://trackalerts.com/asafa-powell...irement-party/

That article says Powell has 97 legal sub-10 times. I've seen the figure 98 and also 99 attributed to him. How can it be that difficult to count the legal sub-10 times?

I wonder who will be first to 100.

[18.99s]

Asafa Powell, whose 40th birthday was yesterday, had a retirement and birthday party in Kingston.

https://trackalerts.com/asafa-powell-40-holds-birthday-and-retirement-party/

[El Toro]

Sadly, Swiss 800m runner Selina Büchel has retired from athletics citing long COVID (she was first infected in April 2021).

She was twice the European Indoor 800m Champion in 2015 & 2017 and twice finished Top 6 at the World Indoors. She had an outdoor PB of 1:57.95.

https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/...g-covid/

LuckySpikes, the link wouldn't work for me. It does work if you edit the link by removing the following text from the end of the URL (just after "...-covid/" ): %E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B

[LuckySpikes]

Sadly, Swiss 800m runner Selina Büchel has retired from athletics citing long COVID (she was first infected in April 2021).

She was twice the European Indoor 800m Champion in 2015 & 2017 and twice finished Top 6 at the World Indoors. She had an outdoor PB of 1:57.95.

https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/runs-races/two-time-european-800m-champion-retires-from-running-citing-long-covid/

[18.99s]

Alexa Efraimson announced her retirement at age 25:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CkeGTPYvbhn/?hl=en

One wonders if she would have performed better if she didn't go pro as young as 17.

[gh]

and what can happen when you don't retire "properly"

https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/news/story?id=5524896

[18.99s]

I wonder what the implications are of announcing one's retirement in track and field anyway. In other indiviual and team sports their are some serious financial implications... Does retirement in track often coincide with no longer having a good shoe deal? Or the need to take a coaching position that is full time?

Retirement means no longer being required to do out-of-competition testing and whereabouts updates. It also means having to go through un-retirement formalities and a waiting period if you want to resume elite competition -- they don't want somebody to be able to declare retirement, spend a year or two training and drugging, and then immediately jump back into competition with an untested drug-enhanced body.

[El Toro]

I wonder what the implications are of announcing one's retirement in track and field anyway. In other indiviual and team sports their are some serious financial implications... Does retirement in track often coincide with no longer having a good shoe deal? Or the need to take a coaching position that is full time?

Can you delete the WADA "Where I am" App from your phone for PEDS testing at some point ?

In relation to testing obligations, you just can't disappear, you have to take active steps on retirement.

From the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules (In force from 1 January 2021) with added formatting for readability:

5.5.5
An Athlete in the International Registered Testing Pool will continue to be subject to
the obligation to comply with the whereabouts requirements set out in the
International Standard for Testing and Investigations unless and until

(a) the Athlete gives written notice to World Athletics/ the Integrity Unit of their retirement; or

(b) the Integrity Unit has informed the Athlete that they are no longer in the
International Registered Testing Pool.

Note that (b) will relate to former elite athletes that have continued to compete but have moved so far down the performance list that the AIU doesn't really care about them. They have to prioritise their resources so will always focus on higher risk athletes.

[DET59]

I wonder what the implications are of announcing one's retirement in track and field anyway. In other indiviual and team sports their are some serious financial implications... Does retirement in track often coincide with no longer having a good shoe deal? Or the need to take a coaching position that is full time?

Can you delete the WADA "Where I am" App from your phone for PEDS testing at some point ?

[aaronk]

Are they---or aren't they??
Meaning, have we seen the last of Barbora Spotakova and Kara Winger in the elite portion of the Women's Javelin Throw??
Both sort of announced their retirements, but now both have hinted they might stick around!!

ADD: I saw the front page notice of Spotakova's retirement, so I'm probably wrong about her.
As for Winger, there's lots of people begging her to keep going.
I'm thinking she might change her mind!

Also, while not coming under the label of "retirement", Elle Purrier St Pierre just announced she's pregnant, and baby is due in early March.
Meaning she was pregnant at the WC's, and maybe even at USATF!!
And will miss the 2023 WC....unless she makes a spectacular return to form just 3 months after giving birth!!
Congrats to Elle!!

[Awsi Dooger]

I see that Ajla is not retiring. Good news. The question was asked and answered on her Instagram.

But my gosh I don't know how anyone could craft a message like that and have it mean anything other than retirement. I went back and checked it again to detect if I was seeing things this morning, before going to sleep. Hardly. She immediately says now we come to an end. I note she added the words "to a season" later. They should have been there from the outset. Then she refers to track and field multiple times in the past tense and toward conclusion writes, "I am ready to go on in my pursue and to explore and to stretch a bit more the reality we live in."

How the heck does that not signify departure from what you're doing now? I guarantee many believed the same thing. You never see a soul searching post like that to merely announce the season is ending, especially since we're already in September anyway.

Well, many of us are guilty of overwriting. I guess she meant that to attach to a previous post from weeks ago, specifically on July 26th...the Part 1 to today's Part 2. Social media doesn't work that way. The attachment needs to be toward something from yesterday or today.

[Wiederganger]

Del Ponte has confirmed she is NOT retiring! It was just a philosophical reflective post after a poor season.