The athletes are performing at Lyon, but results/IT staff is not
Flo jumps during WR hep. Photo by Rob Jerome
I’ve written (nicely) to the LOC media chief, offering to host results on this site. John Seto of mastersrankings.com, headed for Lyon, is making similar suggestions.
Who’s in charge of the Lyon website? Here’s all I know from the domain registry info on lyon2015.com.
Maybe we ought to flood the email in box of hebergement@webqam.fr — listed as registrant.
I’m not feeling very patient at this point.
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I went to the TIC this morning to look at the results supposedly posted in the windows and many were missing.
Rita, congratulations on your record in the heptathlon. I have enjoyed announcing you in the past and hope to do so in 2016 at Grand Rapids nationals.
Speaking of announcing, how are the announcers in Lyon doing? Are they speaking in French only, or French plus English? Are they doing a good job of covering the throws and jumps? Do they have good sound systems?
In the track events, are they introducing each competitor and then going silent, or do they say something during the race?
P.L. Taylor
I’ve photographed in 3 of the 4 stadia. Regarding the announcing, it is done in both English and French. Sound systems are good. Attention is paid to jumps and throws, more so when nothing is happening on the tracks. Runners are announced by name and country. For sprints, nothing is said during the races. For longer races, some color commentary but nothing to build excitement like you do, Peter.
Only real downside is that annoying rock music blares in the main stadium (Balmont) whenever there is announciing downtime.. I don’t see how the athletes can concentrate and get into the zone to compete with all the racket.
I went to the Media Center this morning to see if they had paper copies of the results they could show the press. Nope.
Thanks very much for your report, Rob. I had no idea that meet management would emphasize rock music in the main stadium (Balmont); given the demographics of the athletes I would have expected a different assortment of sounds.
PLT
The weather is brutal, 100f, there is almost no shade at the track, no water available except to purchase, great indoor track next door unavailable to use,
so warm up confined to a 40 yard turf field that everyone has to use. The website is just brutal as has been stated elsewhere, so overall I would not give this facility and its organization a very high grade, I think we should be able to expect a warm up are that will let one do some strides, I know this sounds like whining but it is the reality
Maybe WMA should have entrusted Italian Fidal to do the results. Fidal is very good.
Congrats, Rita, Flo, Marie and Jean-Luc. Wat an impressive way to stat a meet! Here is a link to results from the first two days.
http://rhone-alpes.athle.com/asp.net/espaces.html/html.aspx?id=31704
Thanks Pat Kelly. Pity we still cannot get the results from http://www.lyon2015.com. And sorting the results by stadium is not user-friendly.
I don’t think you are whining, Allan. The heat is a real killer and people are getting really stressed out. The decathlon hurdles for some older men had to be rerun this morning because the hurdles were not spaced properly. Nobody was happy about that,
The real kicker is that the main stadium is right next to the huge air-conditioned auditorium that is used for the TIC. But where’s the food vendor? Outside in the heat!
I found the results from the last two days:
http://rhone-alpes.athle.com/asp.net/espaces.html/html.aspx?id=31704
Regards from Germany
Rob Jerome nailed it about the music blaring a lot of the time even with athletes competing at Balmont, main stadium, and today at smaller Stade Laurent Gerin. At Gerin they were playing grating techno crap that I wouldn’t subject my dog to much less older athletes. . . At least those of us who can still hear. I thought of putting cotton in my ears.
I did not hear a lot of English on PA at Gerin for 800’s. there was quite a bit of misinformation – when we arrived we were told by many athletes that all the heats had been advanced by half hour according to post at main stadium. This fortunately, turned out not to be true. The lady heading up the call room for a while told me that my heat and heat after me had already raced on the track. Turns out again fortuitously, this was not true at all. Very few of the assistants and officials speak English. And when I try my best at French, actually my first language along with English as my parents married in Switzerland, I would get three different answers from three different officials.
On a positive note the two tracks I have stepped on both Balmont and Gerin are very nice. Gerin has two wonderful warm up fields one natural grass and one Astro turf. The athletes today were allowed to use both. The town is a little big town reminds me of Portland, OR and all of the folks I have met in the three days I have been out and about on the strets have been wonderful, very helpful. The town has a lot if character and seems quite vibrant economically, which is not true of all mid size Nd smaller towns outside Paris. With its rivers and rugged hills it reminds me a lot of San Sebastián, site of the 2005 Worlds.
On a positive note, arriving at the airport in Lyon was amazing. There was a huge three lane red track on the floor running through the terminal. There was a clever exhibit set up for kids, I guess, and I was so tempted,…it was a start line with an electronic timer, about 10 meters, and then a huge foam pad to land on. In the airport! I want one! And lots of banners and posters for the meet. Inside the Rhone Express train into Lyon there was a continuous loop video playing of older athletes running and jumping and looking fit and happy. So the introduction to Lyon at this point was fabulous and well thought out.
The medal ceremony at the TIC this morning was well organized with the appropriate national anthems, a lovely hostess leading the athletes out to a stage with three platforms for the medal winners, a red velvet pillow being carried out with all the medals, an announcer who confirmed the pronunciation of everyone’s name beforehand and perfect introductions, and an overall moving experience. I thought it was perfect. Our U.S. national anthem always moves me to tears anyway and this was no exception.
Congratulations, Rita. What a moving experience. Well-deserved!
W55 WR in 100 13.03 if I’m reading the FB page right Nicole Alexis
Thanks Pete. About the announcing, NO ONE does it as well as you do. I certainly would like to know more about the athletes but the most we get from the announcer here is a name and a country. I suppose with all the different languages it would be nearly impossible to do much more. Just makes me appreciate what we have at our nationals.
At the Gerin stadium there was a roving announcer on the field who would give the latest distance or height which was nice since there were no posting boards. She announced in both French and English.
The official website http://www.lyon2015.com still has no results as of Thursday, August 6th, so if the peron who posted the result on the, http://rhone-alpes.athle.com/asp.net/espaces.html/html.aspx?id=31704 Thank you and keep them coming.
Great catch Stella.
The Lyon results site now forwards to the results link that you found.
Partial results appear on this new link…yesterday no womens 100 results. Tonight no W55 100m results? At the track promised results in the “windows of Stephane Hall” do not appear. I found a few results taped onto a noticeboard behind the stadium, and then lists on the call area. If you were female and checking to see if you qualified for the 100m semis today…tough! You had to go to the stadium to check. Officials keep directing us to the “windows”
Good news. The WMA website has most, if not all, of the track results up to this point. Separated by gender or cumulative. The results are also organized well – i.e. all the decathlon results by age group with final points total.
One great change of protocol for this World Masters competition is the decision to forego the whole declaration procedure previously required before each individual event. Perhaps this change occurred for the Porto Alegre competition. I don’t know as I did not attend that one. It removes a huge amount if extra work and worry, especially for those athletes competing early in the morning. It never made sense to me that you would actually prevent an elderly man or woman who night have traveled from India or Australia some ungodly number of hours by plane, train, and automobile to compete because they had forgotten to declare or perhaps misunderstood the instructions!
Today rivaled Florida’s heat for the recent USATF Nationals
As it was 101 in the shade at 3:00 PM. The humidity however was way lower nothing like Florida’s 90+ % humidity. For entire afternoon the officials at Laurent Gerin forced all the athletes out of the large building where the call room is located out into the blazing sun at 1:00 PM. It is the only significant shaded area at the entire facility and had temperatures 15 degrees cooler than the outside. After 12:30 PM they would only allow athletes into the building just before their races even though the building is very large and has many rooms to the rear where athletes could have sought shelter from the sun and heat. . . those who sensibly arrived several hours before their races but had no where to seek respite from the heat. A large contingent of our American 800 guys awaiting the semi heats along with many other sensible foreigners were unceremoniously ushered by a male official out of the cool large structure back onto the hot pavement and sun hours before race time.
Tom, as I recall it, there was no additional pre-event declaration procedure in WMA Sacramento in 2011. I don’t recall anywhere doing that before then, but at WMA indoors in Budapest in 2014 there was only declaration at initial registration too.
A down-side is that it has meant creating tighter rules for people who fail to turn up for an event. There are now forms to fill in when an athlete pulls out of one, but intends to compete in another later on. I hope the USA guys I heard about who ran the 100m heats and then skipped the semis if they qualified know this. I’m told some only ran in the heats because they were required by the team to do so if they want to be considered for the sprint relay.
It has been tough to keep track of performances. More so than I recall at past championships. If it was not for social media my friends and family back home would not know that I was silver in the W40 heptathlon of that I broke the American record.
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