Racewalking

>racewalking
Why is this a thing? At the Olympics no less!?

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Racewalking is fucking brutal
Did you miss the London death march threads?

>we're incapable of winning something therefore it shouldn't be at the olympics

you have to go back

Post a better deathwalker than pic related.

Pro tip: you can't

>other countries have to make 'sports' with arbritary restrictions on athletic ability

>What is swimming?

It's a legit athletics sport.

Shitshows such as equestrian should be removed.

you do realize these people are walking 20k or 50k right

Hal
That guy doesn't even have the suit

Probably about 95% of people on Sup Forums claiming to be in those threads weren't there

Yes, but why not RUN the 50k? Wouldnt that be a better showing of athletic talent? Why do we have to put arbritary restrictions on this?

At what level does poo skills need to be to go deathwalk pro

Are pooinloos naturally talented to withstand the heat and maximized poo bursts to hit overdirve and the favorites every olympics?

so whites can out run the blacks

>Running

Nice way to waste your energy.

>tfw I was in the thread
Aus won silver

But its been upgraded to gold since the Russian was confirmed doping lel

Which is sad really because those threads were fucking gold and we all promised we would get together for 2016's deathmarch.

>All those posts bitching about the ref
>All those posts saluting the fallen
>All those posts saying that bitch is running

Good times

these athletes can walk faster that you lardasses can run.

Date/time of this year's Deathmarch?

>doping to walk

lyl

This is the ultimate mixture of athleticism and intense discipline. And the rules actually make it much more grueling and awkward on your body.

And you get to see grown men waddle like ducks and take it very seriously.

Plus the carnage when people actually collapse during the race

When is the deathmarch this year? I can't seem to find it in the schedule.

Google olympic walk schedule

I can't believe so many people are defending this.

>dat paddlebitch

No to lazy if you know just say.

Inb4 something something murtifat

I bet youre one of those faggots that wants runarmor in the games

THAT'S AAAAAAAAIR

If this shit is as brutal as it was in London, I am pumped.

How do they define how fast they're allowed to walk vs running? Like at what point does a walk become a run?

t. guy that does neither

It's because you were underaged (or still are) when the London deathmarch happened and it was one of most entertaining events and threads of the whole Olympics

at least one foot has to be on the ground

but of course people cheat all the time since it's just a minuscule team

walking must maintain one point of contact with the ground at all times.

running obviously doesn't

Their Paralympic team got banned for doping. The fucking Paralympic team.

here

There's 2 rules in deathmarching:

- Always one foot on the ground, i.e. tip of back foot can't leave the ground until heel of front foot touches the ground
- Forward leg has to be stretched until the body passes over it

They look silly gyrating their hips because that's where they are absorbing the inevitable sideways motion

I'd rather run a marathon non-stop than racewalk a marathon non-stop

that shit destroy your glutes and thighs

because pic related

Holy fuck I'm HYPED for this now.

>russians actually used steroids to cheat at fucking walking

lmfao

GET
HYPE

I was watching the balance beam a few minutes ago and couldn't help but wonder why that is a sport.

Way back in elementary school we had to walk a mile and I got put in timeout because I "ran"

Fuck this gay earth.

You see a pack of Russians race walking at a BLISTERING 8.0 miles perhour behind you.

WHAT DO YOU DO?

when is it at?

I completely forgot about her until you said that, she was ruthless.

>Do athletics when younger
>Break racewalk whirl rekky
>Get disqualified for "cheating"

Fuck this "sport"

the 20km race is on August 12

the 50km race is on August 19

Did you see the cycling? It's going to be hell.

i told my normie brother this and he lost his fucking shit

Don't they walk something like a 7 min mile for like 15 miles?

She absolutely fucked up that guy

Shiiit I'll be at work for the 50km deathmarch. Is the 20 at all as entertaining?

what happened? i didn't even know this sport existed until this thread

this friday is the men's 20k
the next friday is the women's 20k and men's 50k

He literally broke stride for a nanosecond one hour deep into the most import race walk of his life. He is getting disqualified.

They should do this but each of them half to have electrodes placed on their bodies and have it randomly shock them

50k is 7am here, I have never set an alarm for shitposting before in my life

Looks like you'll have to now

>They literally eliminated wrestling (before wising up) and kept this

didnt some chick get DQd on the last small stretch of one of these before?

Racewalking.
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I know who is getting no ass in the Olympic Village...

this is my shizzz

these men - these warriors peer into the abyss one step at a time, no amount of ass would be enough to satisfy them

>And you get to see grown men waddle like ducks and take it very seriously
>Plus the carnage when people actually collapse during the race

>all the screencaps from the 2012 deathmarch

I wasn't with you back then, Sup Forums, but god damn will I be watching with you this time.

20km deathmarch this friday the 12th, 50km next friday the 19th

When i was 8 years old I saw racewalking on the olympics and was like 'I want to do this'

Shame I never followed the dream, but where the hell would I have went to learn racewalking technique anyway?

And I ended up six-foot-four, probably way too big for the sport.

>runarmor
I don't know what this is

It's an olympic sport.
I swear you bongs get fucking dumber by the bing

>Shitshows such as equestrian should be removed.
This and all sailing

>tfw will be stuck at work and will only catch the last half hour of the 50km death walk.

Fuck my life.

Didn't she also wait until the racers were right in front of her to DQ them?
I mean, I understand why you would, but I remember one dude making a mistake further back and she just waited like a hawk and DQ'd him right as he got up to her.

I think so, but the only thing I really remember from the women's race is that one racer who was puking just after she finished.

I mean it "sounds" easy and boring, but this shit is brutal and entertaining.

I think it's 4am here, considering getting up before work just to kek

New Balances are the most fashionable and affordable shoe out rn....

why were they so magnificent?

> The walker at the right appears to be illegal in that both feet are off the ground, but according to the current rules, an infraction is only committed when the loss of contact is visible to the human eye

SO

SUBJECTIVE

>just watch whole London death march
>Russian finishes looking like he could do it all again
>think that guy must be doping
>check results
>DQ for doping

Doping really makes a big difference huh?

I was there

You are part of that 95%

I'm sure it was blood doping, not sterons.

Wait so the Australian got the gold?

see

No, Russian just had gold stripped.
You got fucked m8.

>The ultimate in meme competitions

Nevermind, is right.

Results table just shows it as silver still.

Steroids and the like literally increase every single aspect of your body

Its not just a strength thing. Your endurance and stamina? Up. Your reaction time? Up. Your hand-eye coordination? Up. Your innate sense of depth/persoective? Up.

A fucking darts player taking steroids would literally improve his abilities.

That shit makes you superhuman (for a period of time)

truly, a sport befitting of Sup Forums

>literal walking memes

can't fucking wait

>not telling the guy he's disqualified until like 10 kilometers later

Fucking brutal

I was there. I was here for Beijing too and South Africa World Cup. Get at me.

when? who?

There was a death march at the world cup?

You know nothing

Nowhere else in the Olympics have I seen despair, pain, and heart like there was in the race walk.

Imagine walking 50 miles with another 50+ to go and having some one disqualify you

Or watching teammates carted off one by one dropping like flies to the heat

Or watching someone struggle desperately to stand before shitting themselves and collapsing onto the pavement

You, owe it to yourself to watch this shit this year if you do nothing else.

No. Just mentioning other big events that happened while I've been on this stupid site. I've literally wasted almost a decade of my life here. There've been some good times though.

>it's been humid as fuck in Brazil so far
>might rain

This is going to be a good one.

They don't bump up the other winners, they just strip the medal away from the winner. It's like the NCAA stripping away championships - utterly meaningless.

i have been waiting 4 years for these threads to come back. i can't wait for the deathmarch 2016.

yes they do. I literally watched the aussie walker do an interview on the news a couple months back where the retarded interviewer asked if he will get the russian's gold or if they'll give him a new one.

abc.net.au/news/2016-05-07/jared-tallent-to-collect-olympic-gold-medal-walking-in-june/7393416

Huh. Did they change the policy?

it's not for a period of time

it's all the time until you stop taking your doses