WK Atletiek 2015 #14 Epische Schippers, falende Amerikanen

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 18:31 schreef riazop het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 16:06 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
even de herhaling:

1988 Womens Olympics 200m Final Flo Jo runs 21.34 WR

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HarryAA100m twitterde op vrijdag 28-08-2015 om 15:11:43 Scenes here at the team hotel from that women's 200m final!!! #Wow @britiathletics 😯😯 http://t.co/bOvisftwkT reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 20:46 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
morgen weer Dafne om 14.45 uur 4x100M

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 20:49 schreef Marcoss het volgende:

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Is wel handig als ze eerst de finale halen

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 20:44 schreef wattel het volgende:
De Britse atleten vonden het ook mooi, ze beginnen met het aanmoedigen van hun eigen Dina Asher maar dat slaat al snel om in gekte omdat Schippers won en een toptijd liep.
(misschien vonden ze het ook wel leuk dat Jamaica klop kreeg)

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HarryAA100m twitterde op vrijdag 28-08-2015 om 15:11:43 Scenes here at the team hotel from that women's 200m final!!! #Wow @britiathletics 😯😯 http://t.co/bOvisftwkT reageer retweet

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Dafne Schippers takes 200m world gold but Dina Asher-Smith misses medal

Shortly after Dafne Schippers had summoned a performance of raging intensity and sheer bloody-mindedness to reel in the Jamaican hope Elaine Thompson, she was so dizzy she had to see a doctor. The rest of us knew how she felt. This was the greatest women’s 200m final in history.

Until the last few desperate strides, when Thompson stumbled just as Schippers went supersonic, it appeared certain that Thompson would be adding another sprint medal to Jamaica’s ledger. But Schippers, the 23-year-old Dutchwoman – who only decided to permanently ditch the heptathlon for the 100m and 200m two months ago – had other ideas.

The simultaneous dip for the line had the crowd gasping. But it was the times of the medallists that sent jaws crashing to the floor. Schippers 21.63. Thompson 21.66. Veronica Campbell-Brown 21.97. For the first time since 1988, three women had run under 22 seconds in the same race. And within breathing distance was Britain’s 19-year-old Dina Asher-Smith, who produced the performance of her embryonic career to run 22.07 in fifth to snatch Kathy Cook’s British record, which had been gathering dust for 31 years. It also made her the fastest teenager in history.

The athletics record books put what we had witnessed into further context. Schippers’ time was the third fastest 200m in history, slower only than the notorious American sprinters Florence Griffiths-Joyner and Marion Jones – one of whom died early and the other whose reputation was shattered when she was outed as a drug-taking fraud. No wonder the first question to Schippers afterwards was whether she considered herself the clean 200m record holder.

Schippers, understandably, did not want to head down that particular alley. But when she was asked whether she could be trusted, she looked the questioner in the eye and replied: “I know I am clean and I know I work very hard for it.” We have heard such promises before. But the Dutch journalists who have followed Schippers and her coach, Bart Bennema, since she was a hugely gifted junior insisted they were trustworthy. As Mark van Driel, a writer for De Volksrant, told the Guardian: “I have known Dafne since she was 16 and I believe her, because I asked all the difficult questions many times and her answers are always convincing. And Bart is always open and answers every question fully.”

Bennema’s response when asked whether it was understandable that some might be suspicious of his athlete given her placing on the all-time list was encouraging. “She doesn’t have the best predecessors,” he said, shrugging his shoulders. “Simple as that. She can’t help it.”

By now a scrum had gathered around him, and the questions kept coming until reporters’ minds had run dry. By then we had her life story, chapter and verse on her training, and heard that the acne Schippers suffers from – sometimes a hint of chemical assistance – runs in her family. “If you walk down the street in Holland I can point out 10 girls her age with that skin,” insisted Bennema. “Sometimes you have bad skin. I understand that it’s one of the things you have when you are doping, but sometimes you just have bad skin. It’s unfair. It’s in her family.”

Van Driel confirmed that he had seen Schippers’ mother and sister, and that it was a family trait.

Inevitably Schippers’ success as a white runner also came up. “I understand the question because she’s white but it’s not a factor for me,” said Bennema. “She just has the right genes. It’s the way it is. There was a Chinese in the final – Asians can run fast too.”

Bennema also reminded his audience that he had coached Schippers since she was 16, and that she had won medals at major championships at the heptathlon or sprints in every year since 2010. “She was stubborn like she is now,” he said, smiling.

There was no hint that Asher-Smith – who begins the second year of her studies at King’s College, London, in three weeks’ time – was disappointed after missing out on the podium by a tenth of a second. “I’ve run three personal bests three days in a row and ended with a British record,” she said smiling. “I gave it my all.”

Like the rest of us, though, she was awed by what she saw unfolding in front of her. “I was thinking ‘I know I’m really trying my best but they’re already gone so what on earth is the time going to be?’ When I crossed the line I was just open mouthed because 21.6 one and two is absolutely amazing. I’m flabbergasted. But they deserve it. I’ve got loads of work to do.”

Asher-Smith will celebrate her personal best with a slice of carrot cake when she gets home on Monday – but before then she wants a 4x100m relay medal to accompany the bronze she earned as a callow 17-year-old in Moscow two years ago.

Once again, however, Schippers will be lying in waiting and itching for a third medal in Beijing. In her home town of Utrecht, a great achievement is often rewarded by the participant having a street named after them. All of those who watched her staggering display of willpower and horsepower will hope it is never torn down.

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Schippers, understandably, did not want to head down that particular alley. But when she was asked whether she could be trusted, she looked the questioner in the eye and replied: “I know I am clean and I know I work very hard for it.” We have heard such promises before. But the Dutch journalists who have followed Schippers and her coach, Bart Bennema, since she was a hugely gifted junior insisted they were trustworthy. As Mark van Driel, a writer for De Volksrant, told the Guardian: “I have known Dafne since she was 16 and I believe her, because I asked all the difficult questions many times and her answers are always convincing. And Bart is always open and answers every question fully.”

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 21:39 schreef marcodej het volgende:
This was the greatest women’s 200m final in history.

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 22:18 schreef Marcoss het volgende:
Wat een extreme focus op die acne joh, dat zegt toch allemaal niet zoveel? Tuurlijk kan dat door doping komen, maar je hebt genoeg vrouwen (of mannen) die daar last van hebben, die gebruiken dus ook allemaal doping?

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 22:26 schreef heywoodu het volgende:

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Die vent met z'n "I have suspicions", klinkt als "kijk mij een gedurfde mening hebben". Is het een soort Thijs Zonneveld?

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 22:23 schreef TheArt het volgende:

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Ja, aldus de kortzichtige redenatie van een flink aantal mensen.

Maar wel handig, zo weet ik precies wanneer mijn vriendin doping neemt en wanneer niet.

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Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 22:51 schreef heywoodu het volgende:

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Volgens mij reageert hij kritisch zat, net als nagenoeg iedereen die ook in het `gewone` atletiektopic regelmatig post. Hier gaat het toch met name om het "omg ze heeft acne = doping"-gedoe, wat ik zelf ook wel wat overdreven vind