Happened in high jump.
They also added an extra distance event each for women and men, 1500m and 800m respectively. That was a bit of an overkill, in that they tend to be won by the same person - Ledecky for the women and Finke for the men.
I actually like the extra swimming events but it is crazy the amount of medals a single person can win. McKeon equalled the most medals by a woman in a single games (seven medals), but four of them were in relays. If you’re a swimmer from a small country like Singapore, that’s never going to happen.
Skateboarding? I am surprised that they found anyone that could pass a drug test.
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on swimming, they showed phelps watchnig some other event and it mentioned he had 23 olympic golds. so sure he is awesome, but the strokes and discipline must not differnt enough that he hoovered up that many IMO. is he out of this world awesome? of course. but 23?!
NBC’s coverage channels have a crap ton of tennis. you know, the same international tennis i only watch 2-3 times a year if that? i just don’t care but it is on a lot. equestrian was on a lot and yeah, the horses are beautiful and all, but i don’t get why its there.
i thought you could get that via NBC sports, which you can get access to via Hulu and several other carriers, for about $60 for one month of coverage.
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Really? I have Hulu now with my Disney+ subscription, I didn’t even consider the combo. Gonna have to look into that.
It has to be the Hulu with Live TV option I believe, not just normal Hulu streaming - but I can confirm that NBC Sports App on my Samsung TV has all the full events on them, live and in full replay, in addition to choosing the curated coverage.
In track there is the 100, 110HH, 200, 400, 400H, 800. But you almost never see people medaling in even 2 of those. There are the relays where it isn’t too unusual to see someone medal in an open then get another medal in a relay.
for some reason i thought of this only yesterday - if the metric system had been in place forever, would the tracks be 500M or 1000M per lap? We still might see the 100M and 200M running, but i think we’d have 500M and 1K races.
agree with 321 - even though the track races are close in distances (or seem to be) we rarely get someone doubling up. maybe not rarely, but when we do those folks are amazing
Carl Lewis would have to rank pretty high. He won 4 T&F gold medals in 84 and 2 gold and a silver in 88 then 2 more gold in 92 and 1 more gold in 96. He was on the 80 team that boycotted Moscow. And in 88 he might have gotten another gold in the 4X100 but the team was disqualified in the first round.
Why does track length require the metric system to be in place forever? Feels like the tracks are 400 m because that’s a metric length, and that track length is pretty much the shortest one that goes around a football pitch. If you’re already clearing out space to play footie, why would you double-up on your work to also create a running track? I’m guessing this is the overarching reason for the track size, rather than anything related to metric/imperial measurement system.
bc running tracks in the imperial measure were set at a quarter mile, which happens to be really close to 400m. so the replacement of the old tracks replaced all the 440yd tracks with 400m tracks. i am asking if the tracks would refelct 2 laps to a full unit in a metric-only universe, or would they be 4 laps still at 350M per lap? I doubt the default distance chosen would be 2.5x for the standard unit of long distance.
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That could be one reason. Or, it could be the other way around: that soccer and rugby rules conformed to the space on the existing track infields.
Having one solution for two sports is cost-efficient. But, nowadays tracks in most college stadiums have been torn out for more seats, for revenue efficiency.
440 yards is a funny number, though. Isn’t that the longest sprint? Maybe the distance is approximately how far a person can run full-out.
As T Frazier mentioned, 440 yards is a quarter of a mile and I think you’re correct in that it is considered the longest of the “sprints” (even though the pace is slightly slower than for 100/200 meters). As for 440 yards, also known as 1320 feet or 2 furlongs -
Wikipedia - “The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of oxen could plough without resting.” (Incidentally, an acre is equivalent to one furlong multiplied by one-tenth of a furlong - 66 feet x 660 feet).
“The Roman mile had military origins, since it was the equivalent of one-thousand double paces of their marching soldiers. The soldiers’ double paces were about five feet, so the Roman mile was about five-thousand feet. The Roman mile was about seven-and-one-half furlongs, and when the British adopted it, they lengthened the Roman mile to eight furlongs, which equals 5,280 feet.”
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But a quarter-mile isn’t an obvious length for a race, either.
I suspect it’s stuck at 400 meters instead of the “rounder” 500 meters because runners can’t just run full-out for half a kilometer, and that would be a different race.
I live my life a quarter mile at a time.
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Watching the diving events: every Chinese diver is very noticeably better at entering the water than any of the others. Some of the others get good entrances every once in a while - but all of the Chinese do it every time.
Some of the commentators have mentioned that they are trained in entering the water before they start doing any of the other stuff. My question is: why isn’t every diver trained in a similar manner? It’s apparent that this is a skill that can be learned. Why isn’t everyone learning it to the same extent as the Chinese?
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500m is still a sprint imo. It is raced indoors sometimes and those guys are sprinting.