European Championships 2022

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SailorSteve Aug 2022 12:43pm, 15 Aug 2022 2,229 posts	0 SailorSteve What a finish in the mens marathon?! Incredible.
Chrisity Aug 2022 12:44pm, 15 Aug 2022 20,466 posts	0 Chrisity Even better finish in the Men's.
macca 53 Aug 2022 3:22pm, 15 Aug 2022 30,324 posts	0 macca 53 Philip Seseman on the course this morning
Ocelot Spleens Aug 2022 8:50pm, 15 Aug 2022 34,427 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens A false start in a 10k!
swittle Aug 2022 9:22pm, 15 Aug 2022 89,682 posts	0 swittle Eilish is nails!
Hunkyteddy Aug 2022 9:29pm, 15 Aug 2022 7,452 posts	0 Hunkyteddy Well done Eilish. Tremendous result as Cąn had targeted this event when Eilish must be exhausted. I didn't like the way the panel in the studio had given her the gold medal before the race.
larkim Aug 2022 8:29am, 16 Aug 2022 18,678 posts	0 larkim Agreed, they really made it sound like she'd walk away with it. Mind you, on paper that was a distinct possibility and she'd had a decent period of time to recover after the CWG so it wasn't completely unrealistic to expect her to be close to her best. I'd not spotted it earlier, but her CWG victory was the slowest 10k she's run this year! Gutsy and intelligent performance though to know that she had to let Can go.
The_Saint Aug 2022 8:37am, 16 Aug 2022 6,991 posts	0 The_Saint I agree about the sheer number of slightly different swimming events. Why doesn't athletics have the 100 metres running sideways, the 100 metres running backwards, the 100 metres hopping etc?
Ocelot Spleens Aug 2022 8:53am, 16 Aug 2022 34,429 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens The running backwards world record is 14.6s. Sideways would be difficult in lanes.
larkim Aug 2022 9:03am, 16 Aug 2022 18,679 posts	0 larkim With a beer in hand and a twinkle in my eye, I'm with you there T_S. It's medal creation for the purposes of it. You can argue that in T&F there is at least race running and race walking at the endurance side of things, but I don't particularly see the point in finding "slower" ways to swim, especially not three alternatives. And especially as butterfly was explicitly developed as a way to do breastroke but faster. Surely the point of a swimming race is to get from A to B as fast as you can? Though I'd be quite up for a "hurdles" equivalent in the swimming to add an alternative dimension. OTOH, why not turn it the opposite way round - do as you say and create more T&F events - contest all the distances at race walking as well as race running, and the same for the field events