You know where you are with the triple jump.
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World Dog Surfing Championship from Californ-i-ay is live on YouTube apparently. No, really.
I have no idea why algorithms decided to notify me about this.
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The same can not be said of the decathlon.
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They definitely should have a staggered start for the 1500, so the first guy over the line is the winner
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Is that how it works in the pentathlon?
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It definitely shouldn't be like that. That turns it into a time trial, rather than a 1500 m race.
The point about the decathlon is to find the best overall athlete across ten diverse track and field events. Not to amortise them in to one event.
The deca and hepta track and field multi events are my favourite competition.
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But it’s already a time trial. No one cared who actually won the race, it was all about what time everyone ran it and how many points that’s worth.
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Isn’t that the exact point of the competition? Why should the final event be staggered? It’s not about who wins each individual event, it’s about the overall winner over 10 events. You don’t know or care who won the preceding 9/6 events. It also gives an unfair advantage to the “chaser”.
Perhaps you could get them to throw the javelin from a different start point or alter the level they take off for the pole vault with a set of stairs?
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Hang on. I could get onboard with this pole vault from the stairs innovation.
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To clarify, they are all running 1500m, just starting at different times, equivalent to the time difference their points equate to.
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It's not likely to be much of a spectacle if we set ingo going, and in half an hour unleash Keely Hodgkinson for a couple of minutes. At least not until there's something to look at that isn't ingo.
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Yeah, but they are each running a different 1500 metres with different things going on around and ahead of them. And as we know that there are tactics in those races, and pacemakers are effective etc, that goes against the idea of everyone doing the same ten events. So it’s compromising the integrity of the event for a bit of spectacle which devalues what is a remarkable athletic contest.
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Pfft. I should like to see her run 1500mm with 8 pints of Madri in her.
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Is that practical though? How big of a gap is 1 point...? How do you do it accurately enough not to compromise the integrity of what has gone before?
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This is one of the problems with the modern world [middle aged man on 'change' klaxon], taking a perfectly great thing that works and has stood the test of time, and fucking it up on a whim to appeal to the ADHD generation. Who actually couldn't give a fuck either way.
If the greatest, purest, most compelling, track and field competition, isn't for you, perhaps go and watch teenagers falling off wheeled planks on to concrete, bikini clad ball bouncing babes on a beach, or whatever else it is that you actually like, and leave well alone with the actual real sport.
