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  • canefanC Online
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    No flies on Klaver 🧐

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    • canefanC canefan

      No flies on Klaver 🧐

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      #3686

      @canefan said in Olympics Thread:

      No flies on Klaver 🧐

      I thought the wee Mexican girl (Moran) looked a bit more athletic..,

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      • mariner4lifeM Online
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        Spunky Dutch girl ran a great 200

        Pity it was a 400

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        • mariner4lifeM mariner4life

          Spunky Dutch girl ran a great 200

          Pity it was a 400

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          @mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:

          Spunky Dutch girl ran a great 200

          Pity it was a 400

          Lieke Klaver

          19795921.jpg

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            PB for McPherson. Fastest qualifier on the 400m.

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              Good first lift for David Liti. What a chiller.

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                This steeplechase is good!

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                • voodooV voodoo

                  This steeplechase is good!

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                  @voodoo I kind of hoped Frerichs could stay ahead.

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                  • voodooV voodoo

                    This steeplechase is good!

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                    @voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

                    This steeplechase is good!

                    Conditions look brutal.

                    Heaps of Aussies trained up here before departure. Should have come in summer

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                    • KiwiMurphK Online
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                      Georgian weightlifter breaks his own world record. Not a bad day's work.

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                        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasha_Talakhadze

                        This fucking unit. 197cm and 176kg

                        First lift at snatch was 208kg was a WR.
                        Went on to lift 215 and 223. Without even trying.

                        Fuck a duck.

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                        • KiwiMurphK KiwiMurph

                          Georgian weightlifter breaks his own world record. Not a bad day's work.

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                          @kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:

                          Georgian weightlifter breaks his own world record. Not a bad day's work.

                          Everyone else is playing for second.

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                            That Polish hammer thrower already has two throws over 81m!

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                              David Liti with a PB in the clean & jerk. Brilliant!

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                                Why don’t they get the men and women to throw the same hammer weight?

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                                  It’s pretty crazy that Peter Snell ran the same winning 800m time ( 1:45.1) when he won gold on a cinder track in 1964.

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                                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasha_Talakhadze

                                    This fucking unit. 197cm and 176kg

                                    First lift at snatch was 208kg was a WR.
                                    Went on to lift 215 and 223. Without even trying.

                                    Fuck a duck.

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                                    @nta absolute unit, and has mint technique. The bar speed is fucking mental on his jerk in particular.
                                    6/6 and records all over the show. Well done that man.

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                                      and Liti got 5th which is bloody good. A very strong field!

                                      ahem.

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                                      • PaekakboyzP Paekakboyz

                                        @nta absolute unit, and has mint technique. The bar speed is fucking mental on his jerk in particular.
                                        6/6 and records all over the show. Well done that man.

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                                        @paekakboyz said in Olympics Thread:

                                        @nta absolute unit, and has mint technique. The bar speed is fucking mental on his jerk in particular.
                                        6/6 and records all over the show. Well done that man.

                                        Could lose a bit of the gut tho. Get down to, say, a lazy buck fifty...

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                                        • gt12G gt12

                                          Why don’t they get the men and women to throw the same hammer weight?

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                                          @gt12 said in Olympics Thread:

                                          Why don’t they get the men and women to throw the same hammer weight?

                                          Because the women's distances would be tiny (not even making it out of the throws cage at lower levels), and injury risk very high.

                                          Men's shot and hammer are both 7.26kg vs women's 4kg.

                                          Men's discus 2kg vs women's 1kg, but crucially men's is much wider diameter as well. Most women's hands couldn't spin a discus at all.

                                          Javelin is closer, 800g men's and women's 600g.

                                          BTW who is that in your avatar?!

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