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She might still be getting better, but OTOH it could be hard to replicate the perfect conditions of Doha. Also, according to reports, Marita Koch's WR was set in pretty abnormal conditions, with...

What's the advantage, then? Whatever the event, there are 1000 athletes in the all-time top 1000 performers. Frequency of competing doesn't affect that in any way.

Not only that, but he ended up as no. 1 in TFN's world rankings.

50k walk specialist Tomasz Lipiec (5th WC 1997, 2nd WCp 1999, 3rd WCp 2002) was jailed for corruption after serving as Minister of Sports from 2005 to 2007.

And yet, out of the 7 years, he won just one Olympic gold and no world outdoor titles. Multiple minor medals, WI golds etc., but one major major gold isn't enough to put him in contention IMO.

Not sure whe gaining traction with the general US public would be important here. This is a trade union, not a brand that's going to be associated with a product in the media.

I agree re Semenya, but I suppose the approach may vary among the voters and she is going to receive some votes.

...and weight is a lot more relevant to distance running performance than hair length.

Meanwhile, Jeopardy will be making a return to Polish TV. The Polish version debuted in 1996, but only survived for 7 years. It will be back on air starting in spring 2020.

As noted on the Polish thread, Adam Kszczot will be training under Tomasz Lewandowski and Paweł Wojciechowski under Vyacheslav Kalinichenko.

Not necessarily. Some top-class athletes have enough internal motivation to not need it, but many do need the pushing.

All citizenship applications in Poland are handled by the president's office. I think he had fulfilled the normal conditions by that time. Anyway, by the time he got it, it was from president...

Olga Ochal was never good enough to make an OG/WC/EC team, but she did represent Poland in the World Military Games in both 2015 and 2019. And she's won a few NC medals.

As for gaining Polish...

Kalinichenko has been living in Poland since 2000 and became a Polish citizen around 2011.

Yes, Peinado does train in Poland, at least for a large part of the year. I believe so does (or at least...

But he's been a Polish citizen for a while now. It's time we had a decent female vaulter as well.

After recent death of his coach Wiesław Czapiewski, Paweł Wojciechowski will now be coached by Vyacheslav Kalinichenko, best known for his work with Monika Pyrek and Robeilys Peinado.

Also, speaking of countries other than the US, the national teams may not be sponsored by Nike, but many individual top athletes are.

But there's no reason to wear them except in competition. For a top class marathon runner, even if they have to pay for them, buying one pair every 3 marathons really isn't a issue.

What do you mean "on a course like Berlin's"? That course has been the venue of more WRs than any other in the last 20+ years.

I guess the measurements in the horizontal jumps can be considered pretty accurate with the current no-marker technology. But in the throws, when humans putting markers in the landing area are...

Anita Włodarczyk has finally received her Olympic gold from 2012. She was handed the medal at the Polish T&F federation's centenary gala: https://twitter.com/sport_tvppl/status/1189294036772970496

Not sure you can say that of ALL European cities. Places like Athens, Barcelona and Rome did have heat issues when OG/ WCs were held there. Even Berlin was very hot during most of the 2018 EC.

But we don't actually report results to 1mm, so these exact differences are irrelevant.

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Yes, apparently he didn't hurt himself, although he did not take any more attempts (the pole break occured on his first attempt at 5.82).