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A pet gripe of mine is when parents do that with twins who turn out to be athletes. Remember Alan and Andrew Graffin? -
Whilst some poster talks of bogus athletics venues, one is aware of other venues which Americans boast about, e.g. Chula Vista is a laugh a minute for the discus throwers. If you credit all those famously fast sprint times in Florida, like Clermont, that's your bag. Chaux de fonds is high for sure, but is it an A or not acc to the WA. -
As a retired meteorologist it is not altitude that assists performance but the air pressure at the venue. This varies with the weather. The air pressure at Chaux de fonds for the meeting was c905mb, ie c90% of the oxygen affecting air resistance normally at most sea level venues. How much this improves performance I do not know, but it must have a huge beneficial effect for sprinters.
For record purposes it would make more sense to record the track side air pressure rather than altitude, not difficult, even in retrospect. I would suggest c970mb at track side being a lower limit. I would also suggest track side air pressure is as important to record as wind speed.
PS I am a new poster, I have watched either in person, or more usually on TV, every major meeting since 1964, except the 2007 WC when I was overlanding between Nairobi and Cape Town. That is the sum total of my athletic expertise, for what it is worth.Leave a comment:
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Track and field is full of surprises, like Jefferson who was last I recall at the NCAA 100m and won the Trials or my fave, Camel who went from 20.96 to 20.00 second in such a short time. Chaux de fonds is a bit of a crazy place, admittedly.Leave a comment:
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Yep.
If I was the holder of the Cuban men's 200m record, I'd be seriously pissed off that it was shattered in such a bogus athletics venue. Just a couple of feet separate Chaux-de-Fonds from being considered at altitude, and yet it's treated like other venues that are at sea level or close to it. Ridiculous. -
Yeah... Not gonna take much notice of these results to be honest.
Apart from Mena, Masilingi, Kloster and Kielbasinka, who have all run fast times at sea level, I'm not buying what La Chaux-de-Fonds is selling. And even with the likes of Mena, he'd run a 100m and 200m best of 10.14 and 20.04 before his trip to Switzerland, so making such a dramatic drop down sub 10 and seriously sub 20 seconds, is stretching credibility to the limits.
Being just a couple of feet below the cut off point that determines if a venue is at "altitude" or not, really makes the results from there very unreliable.
I'd be *shocked* if the likes of Zeze, Vaisman, or Mena, got close to those times ever again, if they raced elsewhere, let alone at Heyward Field. -
At the Resisprint International in La Chaux-de-Fonds:
M 100 (+1.6): 1 Yupun Abeykoon (SRI) 9.96 NR, 2 Reynier Mena (CUB) 9.99, 3 Michael Zeze (FRA) 10.00
M 200 (+1.5): 1 Mena 19.63 NR, 2 Michael Zeze 19.97, 3 Tortu 20.15
M 400: 1 Makwala 45.03
W 100 (+1.2): Diana Vaisman (ISR) 11.06 NR, 2 Schippers 11.13
W 200 (+0.2): Maisilingi 22.29, 2 Line Kloster (NOR) 22.51
W 400: 1 Kielbasinska 50.31
W 400H: 1 Line Kloster (NOR) 53.91, NR by 0.81s
Full results: https://slv.laportal.net/Competitions/Details/7558Leave a comment:
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Kenyan team named for Eugene - https://worldathletics.org/competiti...ya-team-oregon
Jamaican team too - https://www.worldathletics.org/compe...ca-team-oregonLeave a comment:
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He started a 200 in Trieste at the end of May but pulled up after about 50m. -
Some poster elsewhere states he ran sub 45 last year and did nothing at Tokyo. His glory days were 6 years ago, dont see them returning.Leave a comment:
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