[GT] Thursday August 18

[dash_pinched]

Originally Posted by Arsenal14

Erica Wiebe is in the gold medal match for the Women's 75kg Freestyle wrestling! It's the last match of the day, so not sure on the start time. If somebody is watching coverage on TV, hopefully they'll say. I'm just following the results online.

I found a time of 2:35 PM for the gold medal match, not sure if's that local time for me (I'm in the Pacific time zone) or Eastern time.

Edit: Just double-checked, that time is 2:35 PM Pacific, so 3:35 PM Mountain time for the gold medal match. Good luck Erica.

[CofR]

Nyhaug wins his quarterfinal heat! And just misses a huge crash too!

[CofR]

Originally Posted by Kybosh

So, I just read that the USA women's 4x100m will get to run again. Canada and China have the exact same time, so if the USA beat them, then Canada and China will also have to run again to qualify. This is bizarre.

Per IAAF, China's preliminary round time was faster than Canada's when expanded to 1/1000ths seconds. Hence, USA must displace China.

https://twitter.com/sitimlayden/stat...14454845980673

[flames_fan_down_under]

So the Canadian womens relay team is all but eliminated then?

[CofR]

China is now filing a protest against the American reinstatement

[CofR]

Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under

So the Canadian womens relay team is all but eliminated then?

Layden apologized afterwards for the tweet as he accidentally typed faster instead of slower. It's China who will be eliminated by the US, not us

[Violator]

Watching the BMX races there has been at least three crashes per race.

[MRCboicgy]

https://twitter.com/SITimLayden/stat...15301818474496

[GirlySports]

so Canada was slightly faster than China?

[CofR]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

so Canada was slightly faster than China?

By 1/1000 of a second!!!

[GirlySports]

So the girl from India that beat Michelle Li (remember Li won the first set) has made it all the way to the final.

What could have been....

[Arsenal14]

Originally Posted by CofR

Nyhaug wins his quarterfinal heat! And just misses a huge crash too!

Nyhaug won the second run as well. As long as he finishes the last run he'll qualify for the semi-final.

[Resolute 14]

I am pretty sure I have seen them run 9 racers/teams in track events in the past in cases like this. Understandable that the US would get to re-race to see if their time qualifies, but it is interesting that they wouldn't run the final with nine.

[cDnStealth]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

I am pretty sure I have seen them run 9 racers/teams in track events in the past in cases like this. Understandable that the US would get to re-race to see if their time qualifies, but it is interesting that they wouldn't run the final with nine.

There are only 8 lanes on the track. It has to suck for the Chinese team but this was probably the fairest way to solve the problem.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Race off between the Chinese and Americans!

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

There are only 8 lanes on the track. It has to suck for the Chinese team but this was probably the fairest way to solve the problem.

Ahh, I double checked, and on this track, it looks like there are 10 lanes for the 100m track, but only eight for the full 400m. So yeah... sucks to be China.

[MRCboicgy]

Unless they wanted to turn it into a 4x100 shuttle run

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

Unless they wanted to turn it into a 4x100 shuttle run

that should be an event, track needs more events.

[Mango]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

that should be an event, track needs more events.

Throw a beep test in there.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

that should be an event, track needs more events.

Only if they used bean bags, though - and gave out Participaction patches for every event.