2011 IAAF World Athletics Championships: Day 5 aka Walk This Daegu

[allezfred]

Startlist and Result

Just the women's 20k walk today. Watch those arses wiggle!

Medals Table:

1 UNITED STATES (USA) 4 4 1 9
2 KENYA (KEN) 3 2 3 8
2 RUSSIA (RUS) 3 2 3 8
4 GERMANY (GER) 1 2 1 4
5 JAMAICA (JAM) 1 1 0 2
5 PR OF CHINA (CHN) 1 1 0 2
7 ETHIOPIA (ETH) 1 0 1 2
8 BOTSWANA (BOT) 1 0 0 1
8 BRAZIL (BRA) 1 0 0 1
8 GRENADA (GRN) 1 0 0 1
8 JAPAN (JPN) 1 0 0 1
8 NEW ZEALAND (NZL) 1 0 0 1
8 POLAND (POL) 1 0 0 1
14 GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. (GBR) 0 2 1 3
15 CUBA (CUB) 0 1 2 3
16 BELARUS (BLR) 0 1 0 1
16 ESTONIA (EST) 0 1 0 1
16 HUNGARY (HUN) 0 1 0 1
16 SUDAN (SUD) 0 1 0 1
16 TUNISIA (TUN) 0 1 0 1
21 BELGIUM (BEL) 0 0 1 1
21 COLOMBIA (COL) 0 0 1 1
21 FRANCE (FRA) 0 0 1 1
21 ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (IRI) 0 0 1 1
21 LATVIA (LAT) 0 0 1 1
21 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS (SKN) 0 0 1 1
21 SLOVENIA (SLO) 0 0 1 1
21 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (TRI) 0 0 1 1

[allezfred]

2/3 of the way through and it's beginning to look like a Russian 1-2-3. It's them and one Chinese walker left to battle out the medals.

Hopefully they'll be some ahead.

[allezfred]

Race walking is so ! Some Ukrainian throwing a strop at cameraman after being disqualified.

[Michalle]

Why is there only one event today?

[allezfred]

Why is there only one event today?

There's traditionally a rest day at Worlds. Don't know why, but there usually is.

[allezfred]

Looks like Kaniskina is on to retain her title and about to break the "Curse of the daily programme cover".

[allezfred]

Kaniskina wins, Liu second and Kirdyapkina third.

[allezfred]

News is that hapless Channel 4 presenter Ortis Deley has been sent home.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/oth...-coverage.html

[Loves_Shizuka]

^why the hell was he picked in the first place?! I just remember him from god-awful kiddies programmes on BBC. He's not a sports/athletics expert anyway, before you even question his presenting skills.

[gingercrush]

Yay for Eurosport. Do Brits get Eurosport or is there an exclusive with Channel 4? Thus Eurosport Britain can't show the athletics?

[Loves_Shizuka]

^No we get the athletics on ES too; I just usually prefer the terrestial coverage of sporting events, as usually it is a little more polished. Usually.

[nuge]

I was quite liking the change instead of listening to Edwards Jackson and Lewis for BBC

[Loves_Shizuka]

I love me some Denise Lewis.

[allezfred]

^why the hell was he picked in the first place?! I just remember him from god-awful kiddies programmes on BBC. He's not a sports/athletics expert anyway, before you even question his presenting skills.

Spoiler

Oral favours

I was quite liking the change instead of listening to Edwards Jackson and Lewis for BBC

I can tolerate Edwards and Lewis and think they're OK at times. Jackson is clueless (which I don't know how is possible given that he was a world champion ), but pretty. If there was some way to have him on, but not speak...

I miss Steve Cram and the BBC presenters the most. Just goes to show how professional they are. Katherine Merry has been good and Dean Macey OK if a bit talkative. Iwan Thomas I find dreadful.

Michael Johnson is the best analyst because he doesn't beat around the bush.

[Loves_Shizuka]

^I actually like Iwan Thomas. He hasn't aged that well, and I don't enjoy his sleeve tattoo's, but I still find him a bit porny. At the risk of sounding rather snooty, I find Dean Macey's accent really irritating, but he seems likeable. Katherine is cool enough. But yea, it's all about the Johnson. As usual.

[allezfred]

I don't enjoy his sleeve tattoo's

I was trying to figure out if those were tattoos or sleeves that looked like tattoos and it was driving me crazy.