OT: Olympics / Athletics

[Gronk]

Aand as anticipated, a journo finds out about the 100 year old gift and wants to change it.

How did the Stawell Gift waste what should have been its greatest ever race?

That the two quickest men in Stawell on Monday could not even get to the final would suggest the handicappers had a howler.

www.smh.com.au

 

[84 Baby]

Aand as anticipated, a journo finds out about the 100 year old gift and wants to change it.

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How did the Stawell Gift waste what should have been its greatest ever race?

That the two quickest men in Stawell on Monday could not even get to the final would suggest the handicappers had a howler.

www.smh.com.au

I think they got a few of the handicaps wrong but no one wants to see backmarkers catch the field in the first 20m. What everyone wants to see is the women’s final with a runner coming off the full distance to win and you can throw a blanket over the field at the finish

 

[Gronk]

I think they got a few of the handicaps wrong but no one wants to see backmarkers catch the field in the first 20m. What everyone wants to see is the women’s final with a runner coming off the full distance to win and you can throw a blanket over the field at the finish

Historically the REDS and WHITES don't do well in the gift or any other semi-pro gift held in regional AU.

I agree with you that the ladies final was perfect, but this style of "foot racing" goes back to the mid 1800s and whilst it might suck that GG didn't get his win, history was against him.

Preparing for Success in the Sheffield Handicaps 1845-1899 | Playing Pasts

 

[84 Baby]

The chance of another 2005 Josh Ross off scratch is what makes it all worth watching

 

[bazza]

Stupid event. No-one wants to see the slowest people in the finals.

just like the Melbourne Cup

 

[Gary Gutful]

I’m going to start my own National race - the Gary Gift. If you are too slow you get jabbed in the arse by a cattle prod.

 

[Suitman]

I’m going to start my own National race - the Gary Gift. If you are too slow you get jabbed in the arse by a cattle prod.

Geez, is that what you call yours these days?

 

[Gary Gutful]

Geez, is that what you call yours these days?

Shhhh. It’s a ‘cattle prod’.

 

[Gronk]

LINK

[World Athletics Championships will be held in Tokyo from 13-21 September 2025.]

The 2025 World Athletics Championships will be streamed live and free via SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand led by Bruce McAvaney, with more information to come on how to watch the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships this September.

Australian Athletics Team – 2025 World Athletics Championships, Tokyo (17*):

100m – Lachlan Kennedy (QLD, Andrew Iselin)

200m – Gout Gout (QLD, Diane Sheppard)

800m – Peter Bol (WA, Justin Rinaldi), Peyton Craig (QLD, Brendan Mallyon & Craig Mottram), Abbey Caldwell (VIC, Gavin Burren), Claudia Hollingsworth (VIC, Craig Mottram)

1500m – Cameron Myers (ACT, Dick Telford), Sarah Billings (VIC, Nic Bideau)

20km Race Walk – Rhydian Cowley (VIC, Brent Vallance), Jemima Montag (VIC, Brent Vallance), Rebecca Henderson (VIC, Simon Baker)

35 km Race Walk – Cowley, Olivia Sandery (SA, Jared Tallent), Elizabeth McMillen (NSW, Jared Tallent)

400m Hurdles – Sarah Carli (NSW, Abbie Taddeo)

Long Jump – Liam Adcock (QLD)

High Jump – Eleanor Patterson (VIC, Fayaaz Caan)

Javelin Throw – Mackenzie Little (NSW, Angus McEntyre)

 

[JokerEel]

No 100 or 200 females going over?

 

[Gronk]

No 100 or 200 females going over?

I think you need to run/jump/walk/throw qual times for World Champs.

 

[Twizzle]

like the swimming, you have to have a qualifying time in the last 12 months or some such shit

 

[T.S Quint]

From that list it seems that NSW produces slow merkins.