Decathlon quiz with Australian flavor

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Sorry for the late response. I tried to retrieve my files but unfortunately failed (a combination of a computer virus and my own stupidity). Therefore,...

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Following the Australian marks in the last year or two, it seems to me that we are in a revival of Australian T&F.
Can one of you summaries...

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Sorry, I am still slightly confused about the procedure.

So let's assume that in a certain event (e.g. decathlon) three athletes have the...

Can you guys offer some thoughts on this new ranking system. How on earth can scantling and tilga who just posted fantastic nearly 8500 scores in the...

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Bellengee with 5m PB in the DT (51.87). Interestingly, he threw only 44.71 JT in the same meet and is JT PB is only 3m higher than his mew DT PB....

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The be fair to him only the 100 was wind aided. He broke the two jumping PBs and now is the 10th member of the "potential collegiate 8000" club...

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Answers to the quiz:

1. Russia, and CZE (44 performances of which 43 by Sebrle and Dvorak)
2. Huffins, Meier
3. O’Brien, Karpov, Meier
4. Kaul, Levicq,

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Ayden Owens in Husker
https://live.jwtimingllc.com/meets/8...s/1602/entries...

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My all-time favorite female athlete.
And of course her biggest race was in Zurich when she faced Marlies Gohr after the LA Olympics (Gohr said earlier...

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For comparison if we will do the same analysis for DT and JT (two events that are often assumed correlated)
There are 164 throws of 49+ in the DT....

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In the Australian thread there is a link to a spreadsheet that Mike prepared with targets (8500) in each event for both Dubler and Moloney and for West,...

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During the never ending lockdown in 2020, I updated my decathlon files (hence the quiz).
One of the not surprising results is the high correlation...

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To be honest, I wrote these questions to the most knowledgeable person I know in T&F.
Any thing easier - he will get 10 out of 10 in 5 minutes....

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I think that the most likely to be informed is 26mi235.

The other open question is how many quota places will be left after the Europeans...

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Dubler is very active on social media and since I have few young friends that know of my weird interest in decathlon they show me few.
He seems...

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The Australian track and field championship will start this week and recently two Australians set the qualification mark for Tokyo in the decathlon. Here...

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While scanting is my own favorite, I hope that you are wrong and four will make the Q.

ZZ had a bad starch of five events (from the 400 to...

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The NCAA heptathlon is suffering from a lack of depth compared with previous years. Yet, the big three compensate for the lack of depth with an extremely...

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Did ZZ hit a hurdle, or just had a bad race?...

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Thanks for correcting my mistake. I keep treating 2020 like it never existed. I wonder why...
No disasters and Tilga will have it in the next few...