World Athletics Championships (Potential Spoilers)

Mr Jack said:
I wonder who the "Sports Integrity Initiative" are? I can't find much about them, and the name sounds suspicious to me. Much like the faux groups set up by tobacco companies, etc. to spread FUD.
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http://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/about/

Check their article history. Does not look particularly biased to me.

The information was taken from the official reports. I have not seen the source docs yet, but it's text lifted directly from the panel's documents.

Seems legit to me.
 
yes you're right

The Sports Integrity Initiative (‘The SII’) was created to air key issues in sports integrity and to provide a platform for debate. The SII is independent of any party and will remain neutral in order to provide as balanced a discussion on the issues as possible

The Athletics Integrity Unit represents a new era in the management of threats to the integrity of sport. Through the formation of the Athletics Integrity Unit, athletics has become the first sport internationally to delegate complete authority for the management of its integrity programs to an independent body. Fully separated from the IAAF, and reporting through its own Board, the Athletics Integrity Unit operates with the level of rigour and transparency expected by the world’s athletes and supporters
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the latter seems to be Coe("not the perfect script") & Co disssociating themselves
 
Lavillenie was capable of winning that pole vaulting. He already did a 5.98 in Rio where he got silver. Still, it's a very difficult discipline to be consistent in. You've got to be pixel perfect to avoid rattling that bar.
 
zophiel said:
so the iaaf know they have messed up and are now allowing makwala to run a time on his own to try and get to the final.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/40880484
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All seems like a bit of a shambles unfortunately which isn't good for the competitors or athletics generally. Well done to Makwala for qualifying although it does appear odd to have made a decision and then reverted from it. Is there some sort of obligation on sporting bodies to do their best to act in ways that don't seem in the best interests of their sport?

There's been some pretty good performances by British athletes so far but not quite converting them into medals - Kyle Langford and Laura Muir especially.
 
Wow, women''s 400m final, Bahrain's Miller-Uibo way ahead of the others, about 20 yards from the finish line, then she jumps in pain due to a hamstring or something and ends up 4th. Very sad as she was the clear winner by a country mile.
 
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