olympic walking

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  1. SuperTyke

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    Complete farce. Almost all of them are running
     
    SuperTyke, Aug 4, 2012
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    The most pointless event in the Olympics.
     
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    Its barmy - dont know why they dont have the oly,pic egg and spoon race and sack race as well
     
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    agree, walking is a hobbie in which I do but is never a sport.
     
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    They should be made to do it with a newspaper under the arm and carrying and Litre of milk.
     
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    So they would all be disqualified or are you saying you know better than the experts or are you an expert on competative walking ?
     
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    Got to have one foot on the ground at all times. If both are off at the same time you are running.
     
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    No, darts is an hobby!! so is snooker and golf.
     
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    No, i'm saying that they were breaking the rules and running. I have a TV which shows this, the judges/referee's don't. I don't know more than them but I had a far better viewpoint than they did and could quite clearly see that they were running. Unless of course you normally walk with both feet off the ground at the same time.

    One guy actually ran quite fast past three others to overtake them. Quite how the officials missed it i'll never know.
     
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    Yep and most of them had both off the ground every time you looked down. It's about time the sport was dropped from the olympics until they can govern it properly in my opinion.

    I was amazed that you can actually run three times and get warnings before you are disqualified and also that you cannot be warned by the same judge twice. Essentially if you are smart you can run past a judge, get a warning and then walk round till the next lap and sprint passed the same judge without penalty.
     
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