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World Athletics Final Preview: Sprints
Posted September 11th, 2008 at 12:30 PM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Rankings, World Standings
The fourth installment in our preview series for the IAAF’s season-ending championship looks at the sprinting events and how they will affect the final World Points Standings.
Mens’ 100 meters: Usain Bolt is done for the year, but has clinched the #1 ranking. Asafa Powell likewise is locked in to #2 and if Walter Dix competes he will hold his #3 ranking.
Men’s 200 meters: Bolt is #1 here as well and will stay that way. Dix is all but assured of holding his #2 ranking, but Wallace Spearmon must run decently to hold off Brian Dzingai for third.
Men’s 400 meters: Jeremy Wariner and LaShawn Merritt enter the meet tied for first in this event, so naturally the winner will end up #1 for the season. Chris Brown will be third in the rankings regardless of what happens in the race.
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World Athletics Final Preview: Throwing Events
Posted September 10th, 2008 at 9:30 AM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Rankings, World Standings
On Saturday and Sunday the IAAF World Athletics Final will be held in Stuttgart. Coverage will be live on both the new Universal Sports TV channel and its website, UniversalSports.com (formerly WCSN.com). The webcast will be free of charge.
The third in our preview series covers the throwing events. The IAAF’s preview ishas been posted, and here is how the World Athletics Final will affect our World Points Standings.
Men’s Shot Put: This one will go down to the wire. Olympic champ Tomas Majewski, World Indoor champ Christian Cantwell, and Olympic Trials champ Reese Hoffa are separated by just three points. The World Final will determine their season-ending rankings.
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World Athletics Final Preview: Hurdles
Posted September 9th, 2008 at 10:28 AM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Rankings, World Standings
Continuing where yesterday’s preview left off, we go on to the hurdles. The IAAF has posted its own hurdles preview, and here is how this weekend’s season-ending meet will affect our World Points Standings.
Men’s 110 Hurdles: The standings are extremely close, with Olympic champ and World Record holder Dayron Robles just five points ahead of David Oliver, and Oliver could concievably pass him for the top spot. But Robles would have to finish worse than second, which he has not done all year.
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World Athletics Final Preview: Jumps
Posted September 8th, 2008 at 1:02 PM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Rankings, World Standings
The IAAF’s tour-ending World Athletics Final will take place this Saturday and Sunday in Stuttgart. It is the second-most important competition of the year.
Coverage will be live on Universal Sports TV and UniversalSports.com from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday and 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Sunday. The webcast will be free, but available only in the USA.
Today, a preview of the jumping events has been released. Here is a preview of how the meet will affect the World Points Standings in each jumping event…
Men’s High Jump: Russia’s Olympic champion, Andrey Silnov, has clinched first place in the standings. Stefan Holm (second) and Yaroslav Rybakov (third) are separated by just two points, and whoever places higher out of the two will claim the runner-up spot.
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Meet Preview: Zurich Golden League
Posted August 28th, 2008 at 1:46 PM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Tommorrow the IAAF’s Golden League comes to Zurich for the Weltklasse meet, the fifth out of six competitions in the series.
TV / Web coverage:
- ESPN Classic, 4-6 p.m. Friday (replays Saturday at 7 a.m.)
- CBC, 4-6 p.m. Saturday (replays Monday at 12:30 a.m.)
- Trackshark.com, 2 p.m. (live)
Still in the hunt for the $1 million jackpot are Kenya’s Pamela Jelimo in the 800 meters and Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic in the high jump.
Other superstars among the 41 Olympic medalists slated to compete are Usain Bolt, Kenenisa Bekele, Dayron Robles, and Yelena Isinbayeva. Great matchups are the sixth faceoff of the year between Jeremy Wariner and Kerron Clement, a rematch between Vlasic and her Olympic spoiler Tia Hellebaut, and a men’s 4×100 relay featuring the USA and Jamaica.
A deeper listing of top entrants can be found at The Track & Field Superblog.
What To Watch: Running & Track Events on TV, Webcast
Posted August 28th, 2008 at 7:46 AM by Jesse Squire
Section: Columns, What To Watch
Here are the track & running-related events coming your way for the next week. As always, all times are EDT; if you know of anything I’ve missed, please add it in the comments section.
A brief programming note: Olympic sprint champion Maurice Greene will be among the contestants on the seventh season of ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars”. The season premiers on September 22.
AF Golden League: Weltklasse Zurich
ESPN Classic, 4-6 p.m. Friday (replays at 7 a.m. Saturday)
CBC, 4-6 p.m. Saturday (replays Monday at 12:30 a.m.)
Trackshark.com, 2 p.m. (live)
The penultimate event in the IAAF’s Golden League series is nicknamed “The Olympics in One Night” as it is the deepest invitational in the world. Pamela Jelimo (800 meters) and Blanka Vlasic (high jump) are the two athletes remaining in the hunt for the $1 million jackpot. Others slated to run include double Olympic champions Usain Bolt and Kenenisa Bekele.
Meet Website
Aviva British Grand Prix
Universal Sports and UniversalSports.com, 9:55 a.m. Sunday (live)
The IAAF’s World Athletics Tour comes to Gateshead, England. Top Americans slated to compete include Tyson Gay, Shannon Rowbury and Bernard Lagat.
Meet Website
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IAAF Meet Preview: Herculis Monaco Super Grand Prix
Posted July 28th, 2008 at 11:21 AM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
On Tuesday, the IAAF World Athletics Tour comes to Monaco for the Herculis Meeting, a Super Grand Prix event in Stade Louis II. It is the final major meet before the Olympic Games.
- Coverage: Universal Sports and WCSN.com, live from 2-5 p.m. EDT
- Meet Website (in French)
- IAAF preview
Event-by-event Previews
The meet begins with two women’s field events, the start lists for each of which are quite strong. The long jump includes six of the world’s top ten: #1 Naide Gomes, #3 Brittney Reese, #5 Tatyana Kotova, #6 Tatyana Lebedeva, #8 Lyudmila Kolchanova and #9 Karin Mey. The pole vault should be even better, with only American Jen Stuczynski absent; #1 Yelena Isinbayeva, #3 Svetlana Feofanova , #4 Monika Pyrek, #5 Fabiana Murer, #6 Yuliya Golubchikova, #7 Silke Spiegelburg, #8 Anna Rogowska and #9 Tatyana Polnova make this competition potentially better than the Olympic final.
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World Points Standings:
Men’s Running Events
Posted July 26th, 2008 at 12:16 PM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Rankings, World Standings
These standings are a numerical summary of race results for each athlete, and are based on an athlete’s six best races (two of which can be in another event). Since the last update of the men’s running events on July 9, the major competitions have been the Golden League meets in Rome and Paris and the Super GP meet in Stockholm.
100 meters
1. Usain Bolt, JAM, 109
2. Nesta Carter, JAM, 81
3. Tyson Gay, USA, 78
4. Derrick Atkins, BAH, 76
5. Walter Dix, USA, 66
6. Asafa Powell, JAM, 62
7. Kim Collins, STK, 62
8. Mike Rodgers, USA, 62
9. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, NOR, 60
10. Olusoji Fasuba, NGR, 59
Bolt holds on to his #1 ranking despite his surprise loss to Asafa Powell in Stockholm, which powered Powell into the top ten. Carter’s consistency gets him into the second spot, ahead of the idled Gay.
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World Points Standings:
What Are They?
Posted July 26th, 2008 at 9:00 AM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Rankings, World Standings
No doubt you’ve seen the World Points Standings that I regularly post here. But you might be wondering what they are and where they come from.
They are a numerical summary of each athlete’s accomplishments in the 2008 season. Wins and losses in big meets and small and times run under various conditions are a complex set of variables. My intention is to put it together in a meaningful form. But if you really need to know how I get them, keep reading.
The template from which I work is not original. The IAAF keeps points standings in each event for its World Athletics Tour of the globe’s top outdoor invitational meets. Those meets are classified into different levels: Golden League, Super Grand Prix, Grand Prix, and Permit. The scoring system originated in the 1980s and treated all meets on the circuit equally, even though they clearly were not, and the system has been adjusted. Golden League and Super GP meets score double that of the Grand Prix meets, and Permits score roughly half.
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IAAF Meet Preview: Aviva London Super Grand Prix
Posted July 24th, 2008 at 12:01 PM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
The IAAF’s World Athletics Tour comes to London’s Crystal Palace for a Super Grand Prix meet on Friday and Saturday.
TV coverage: Universal Sports, 1-4 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday
Web coverage: WCSN.com, 1-4 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday (subscription required)
Note: free coverage will likely be available at BBC.co.uk; watch the comments section for details
Event-by-Event Previews:
Friday’s headline event is the men’s 100 meters, where Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell will face off. Powell showed on Tuesday that he is once again a force to be reckoned with by defeating Usain Bolt, the world record holder. Will Gay be fully recovered from his injury at the Olympic Trials?
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- World Points Standings:
Men’s JumpsHigh Jump
1. Yaroslav Rybakov, 56.5
2. Stefan Holm, 56
3. Andrey Silnov, 49.5
4. Ivan Ukhov, 42
5. Andra Manson, 33
6. Jesse Williams, 30
7. Dusty Jonas, 29
8. Kabelo Kgosiemang, 29
9. Linus Thörnblad, 26
10. Kyriakos Ioannou, 23
World Indoor champ Holm and world list leader Rybakov are neck-and-neck. Silnov’s win last […] - World Points Standings:
Men’s HurdlesOver the last two days I’ve rolled out my World Points Standings for the men’s sprints and the middle & long distance events. We continue with the various barrier events:
110m Hurdles
1. David Oliver, 73
2. Joel Brown, 54
3. Liu Xiang, 42
4. Dayron Robles, 38
5. Ryan Wilson, 24
6. Anwar Moore, […] - What To Watch: Running & Track Events on TV, Webcast
Here are the running and track & field events coming your way on TV and/or through online webcasts. All times EDT. If I’ve missed anything, put it in the comments section. Check your local listings and enjoy!
NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (live)
CBS College Sports Network (aka CSTV), 7-10 p.m. Friday
CBS, 4-6 p.m. Saturday
Coverage of […] - World Points Standings:
Men’s SprintsMy rankings are being run on a pilot program this summer and I’m sharing them with the track community via The Final Sprint. Last year I did a trial run on just the men’s 100 meters and it correctly predicted the World Championships medalists in order, and then by the end of the summer […]
- What To Watch: Running & Track Events on TV, Webcast
Here are the running and track & field events coming your way on TV and/or through online webcasts. All times EDT. If I’ve missed anything, put it in the comments section. Check your local listings and enjoy!
NCAA Midwest Regional Track & Field Championships
Huskers.com, Friday and Saturday
Free live coverage of the national championships qualifier from Lincoln, […] - World Athletics Final:
Who and how many qualify?With the IAAF World Athletics Tour 2007 nearing its conclusion, we can really start looking forward to an exciting climax of the season at the 5th edition of the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final, which is taking place in Stuttgart, Germany, on 22 and 23 September 2007.
The World Athletics Final is closely linked […] - IAAF Fantasy Athletics Game: Osaka 2007
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Now that the IAAF is starting up a fantasy “game” for Osaka, however, I might just have […] - VIDEO: Jeremy Wariner edges Gary Kikaya in the 400m
World and Olympic 400m champion Jeremy Wariner missed a $10,000 bonus after missing the 44 second barrier, but won his specialty handily in 44.43, well outside his season’s best and world-pacing 44.03 from Osaka. Gary Kikaya of the Democratic Republic of Congo was second.
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