Vaulting is dangerous enough. But organizers at Porto Alegre worlds are upping the risk, according to Facebook postings. One from American Doug “Bubba” Sparks says: “Our poles are not here yet and may not be, the box is 6 (inches) deep rather than 9 (inches) and the pit is a straight back and short. They have brought in pieces of another pit that they have covered with an orange tarp rather than a fitted top cover. Poles on loan have tennis balls on them rather than plugs. Can anything else happen? Oh yeah, probably rain.” Meanwhile, results are finally dribbling out at wma2013.com/results/. Anything missing? But organizers aren’t neglecting YouTube, where two “highlight” videos are posted. But spare us the head-banging music and long into. Just show us the action.
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Fair call about the PV gear and the HJ pit was hard as a rock, but as an athlete who competed on Day 1&2 and watched all of Day 3, I can say that it has been a blast.
They ran a full day of 100m heats and semis (about 10 hrs) and finished only about 20 mins late, which I thought most venues would struggle to do.
There may have been a bit of chaos among it all, but if all days to like today; it won’t be all bad.
Putting together highlights form decathlon ain’t easy either so getting that official content up is better than any official content I could find from the entire Sacramento meet! And spare me the “headbanger” music reference…
The world looks better with a glass half full…
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