Summer Olympic Sports in between Olympics thread.

[AdelaideGT]

Sherman wasn't even really a 400m runner until this year. We can probably forgive him that inexperienced rush of blood.

Very talented and hopefully better things to come from the 20yo in the future.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Did some stats on the 5 relay events. 14 of the 16 places per event were filled in Bahamas today ie 70 of the possible 80 slots.

The other 2 places per event are based on world rankings. The men's 4x400 wont get close where as the girls probably will be ranked about 18th - 20th by time qualifying period of 30 June closes.

The women's 4x400m were a bit unlucky and were drawn in a tough repechage heat. I think it was based on rankings before World Relays. They were 11th fastest in the Saturday heats in 3.28.30.

Repechage heats and time rankings from Saturday's heat
1st Jamaica 12th, India 13th, Brazil DQ, Germany 16th - Jamaica 3.28.54, India 3.29.35 both qualified for Paris.

2nd Netherlands 10th, Switzerland 15th, Cuba 18th, Portugal 21st - Netherlands 3.27.45, Switzerland 3.28.30 both qualified for Paris.

3rd Belgium 8th, Australia 11th, Spain 14th Czech Republic 19th - Belgium 3.26.79, Spain 3.27.30, both qualified for Paris, Czech Republic 3.27.76 and Australia 3.28.05.

Of course its not always all about times over 1600m, as sometimes, when people are challenged they will produce a faster result, so different nations in different heats would produce different times, but given the Oz girls ran faster than 3 of the 6 qualified teams, to produce the 5th fastest time in the repechage heats and heat seedings always can be tough, the girls would be pleased with their efforts, but disappointed at not qualifying.

29 nations have qualified at least 1 team for Paris.

USA and GBR qualified 5 teams for all 5 events.
France, Jamaica, Poland, Italy, Germany and Nigeria qualified for 4 events
Canada, Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland qualified for 3 events
Australia, Japan, India, Ireland, South Africa, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago qualified for 2 events
China, Ghana, Liberia, Botswana, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Norway, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, and Ukraine have qualified for 1 event.

 

[AdelaideGT]

This weekend sees a Continental Tour-Bronze meet in Osaka featuring a bunch of Aussie athletes including Rohan Browning.

Some of our top swimmers - inc Cam McEvoy, Matt Temple, Zac Stubblety-Cook - will be competing in the Sydney Open & Unisport Champs.

Other swimmers - inc Titmus, O'Callaghan, Winnington - will be racing in a strange 'Olympic simulation' unofficial event at the St Peters Western Pool. They are selling tickets ($43!) to spectators who can attend from 6am (that's a no for me..) for a couple of hours. Swimmers won't be available for autographs or pictures. I'll be interested to see if anything interesting happens at this bizarre event.

 

[AdelaideGT]

Australia has named our largest ever World Junior team for the Championships in Peru, headed by stars Torrie Lewis, Claudia Hollingsworth, Delta Amidzovski, Marley Raikiwasa, Sebastian Sultana, Peyton Craig and Cameron Myers.

All of these are medal contenders as are our 4x100 relay teams for both sexes.

Supersized and Superstar Australian Under 20 Team Bound for Lima

Australia will send its biggest and boldest team yet to the 2024 World Under 20 Championships, as a star-studded contingent of 68 athletes featuring sprint sensation Torrie Lewis and world Under 20...

www.athletics.com.au

 

[Drummond]

This is unbelievable. What a joke. And how’s the arrogance? Why even bid for the games if you aren’t prepared to create an Olympic standard venue? This is going to be an embarrassment.

 

[AdelaideGT]

That statement was put out quite a while ago when there was no detail about any of the upgrades.

I quite like QSAC as a stadium though it obviously needs some work.

Be nice to see the $ used on an actual athletics facility instead of one immediately handed over to a non-Olympic footy code.

And neither Sally or Liesl could be described as 'the smartest tools in the shed'.