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okr on 10 August 2012
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kowenicki said:
okr said:
thehusbo said:
kowenicki said:
Nobody deserves a medal in that 1500 womens race. Shite. 20 seconds slower than wr. What a mess.

Ye but when your country wins a gold and silver in that event, you really don't care. Like I'm sure you wouldn't care if Britain won a gold and silver.

Haven't you guys understood that Maryam Jamal from Bahrain went into the lead right from the start on purpose and tried to control the race with extremely slow pace in order to hold the 4 Turkish and Russian contenders behind her and win with her strong finish? Even though her tactic failed, this was clearly a tactical race, that's why it was so slow. The Turkish girls (#1 and 2 in Europe Championship) didn't fall for it.


They did fall for it. All of them did. Its just that it suited the Turks. So slow it was embarrassing.

No, they didn't fall for it. They watched and controlled Jamal from behind all through the race and then surpassed her. In the end they were both too strong for her and Jamal's tactic failed. This wasn't embarassing at all to watch, this was an interesting race with tactics and counter-tactics. This isn't the first time in a sports thread that I notice that you don't completely understand the sports events you watch.