Talk About Tennis 2.0

The weight thing is brutal - but more so because it's a DQ for the whole tourney and not that match.

On the other hand...
That is the reason you have weight classes. She was 100 Grams overweight. Suppose you let her compete. What do you do with the person that was 150 grams over? How about 250?
You draw a line somewhere. And the line was her weight class.

I think the issue is the Olympic weight classes are different from regular competitions, so athletes are moving up or down to find a good fit.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 3:42 pm On the other hand...
That is the reason you have weight classes. She was 100 Grams overweight. Suppose you let her compete. What do you do with the person that was 150 grams over? How about 250?
You draw a line somewhere. And the line was her weight class.

I agree she shouldn't have been able to compete. In the final.

But disqualified from the whole tourney??

There's petty and there's this...

I didn't get to watch any track and field/athletics yesterday so I just saw the replay of the mens 4x100 on Peacock. Horrible doesn't begin to describe the handoff to Bednarek. His teammate was literally running tandem with him for a few seconds. I also think the US women got away with a bad one from Gabby to Sha'carri but it was nowhere as bad as the men's.

Nice analysis of what went wrong for the US men. It's for track and field nerds only though

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2024 9:21 pm There's petty and there's this...

I'm sure he had to try for his mother. She'd dyed her hair gold, after all

But yeah... Not entirely the Olympic spirit shall we say

Yemisi Ogunleye of Germany won the women's shot-put with a 20m throw. Amazing.