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adarqui:
news!
adarqui:
NB indoor championships today @ 5 PM ET on NBC Sports:
http://www.nbindoorgrandprix.com/events-results/
seifullaah73:
From April IAAF has plans to change the athletics ranking system.
--- Quote ---What's the change?
A new world ranking system - similar to those seen in tennis or golf - will provide a run-down of the best athletes in each event.
So in the same way that tennis' tour organisers, through heavy-duty number crunching, define Roger Federer and Simona Halep as the best players in the world, the IAAF will rank their stars.
It won't end the eternal bar-room debate, but it will attempt to provide an objective answer.
What rides on it?
Not just prestige. Qualification for IAAF events will move away from obtaining one-off qualifications times, distances and heights and instead be based on athletes' position in the rankings.
No longer will it be possible to bank on an early-season high-altitude outlier performance as a ticket to the biggest championships.
--- End quote ---
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43259616
adarqui:
--- Quote from: seifullaah73 on April 15, 2018, 02:25:16 pm ---From April IAAF has plans to change the athletics ranking system.
--- Quote ---What's the change?
A new world ranking system - similar to those seen in tennis or golf - will provide a run-down of the best athletes in each event.
So in the same way that tennis' tour organisers, through heavy-duty number crunching, define Roger Federer and Simona Halep as the best players in the world, the IAAF will rank their stars.
It won't end the eternal bar-room debate, but it will attempt to provide an objective answer.
What rides on it?
Not just prestige. Qualification for IAAF events will move away from obtaining one-off qualifications times, distances and heights and instead be based on athletes' position in the rankings.
No longer will it be possible to bank on an early-season high-altitude outlier performance as a ticket to the biggest championships.
--- End quote ---
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43259616
--- End quote ---
hmm. cool!
seifullaah73:
Edit 3: I actually wrote a bit but then saw it was posted on 1st april and it was the only news. So now i am thinking is this news fake.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/iaaf-announces-mo-farah-dqed-2017-worlds-10k-plus-10-additional-dqs-world-indoors/
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