20 th European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, Spain

[vatroslav_cro]

The football excitement is behind us, but now we are going towards to the one of this years's biggest sport event in our continent, the 20th European championship in athletics, which will be held 26 th of July - 1 st of August in Barcelona. This event will be held in Montjuic Olympic Stadium, the same place where the Summer olympic games 1992 took place. This year' s edition will include the biggest number of athletes in European championships ever participated (1.626 in total, 891 men and 735 women). In the last EC in Göteborg (Sweden) four years ago, 1.288 athletes participated. All 50 European Athletics Member Federations will be represented at the championships featuring at least one athlete.

This is the link when you can check the timetable and schedule of all disciplines:

http://www.bcn2010.org/paginasFront/Not ... e4JE-u1fQw


And here is the mascot of the chapionship :

Now I would like to hear your opinion about this. I am pretty sure that at least some of you watch and follow the athletics, in my opinion it is one of the nicest sport disciplines, called "the Queen of the sports".... Of course, you are free to leave your comments any time, before the event, during the event....who are your best athletes, your favourites in this championships, expectations etc etc. I am taking the obligation to update the each day' s results when the championships begin, but of course, if I forget, anyone of you can do it. I expect that!

In the end, I would like to introduce the croatian team for Barcelona:

Women:
Blanka Vlaši? (high jump)
Ana Šimi? (high jump)
Sandra Perkovi? (discus throw)
Vera Begi? (discus throw)
Nikolina Horvat (400 m hurdles)

Men:
Dario Horvat (100m run)
Jurica Grabuši? (110m hurdles)
Nedžad Mulabegovi? (shot put)
Martin Mari? (discus throw)
Roland Varga (discus throw)
Marin Premeru (discus throw)
Andras Haklits (hammer throw)

Waiting for your comments and good luck to all!

 

[Jukica]

Go Blanka and other Croatian participants

 

[martin]

i really hope norway can take more than just gold with andreas probaly we can take a top 3 in men 100m and 200m with Jaysuma Saidy Ndure 50km walk with nymark and 110m hurdles Christina Vukicevic i don,t think norway have more chance but good luck to all from norway

 

[vatroslav_cro]

i really hope norway can take more than just gold with andreas probaly we can take a top 3 in men 100m and 200m with Jaysuma Saidy Ndure 50km walk with nymark and 110m hurdles Christina Vukicevic i don,t think norway have more chance but good luck to all from norway

Yeah, Andreas Thordkildsen is your best athlete (javelin throw) I appreciate him as well as Tero Pitkämäki from Finland....but I think your athletics is going to improve...so good luck from me! Btw, today evening is the opening ceremony , the competition (disciplines) start from tomorrow !

 

[ithanspain]

I'm already waiting for the Opening Ceremony at "La Font Màgica" (Magic Fontain). In front of National Museum of Art of Catalonia and Maria Cristina Avenue, with the the venecians towers that seems to be the campanile of Saint Marcus.

Opening Ceremony at 22:00 (CET)

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Ithan, do you maybe know if there will be a webstream for watching the opening ceremony?

Because it won't be broadcasted here :shock:

 

[ithanspain]

Ithan, do you maybe know if there will be a webstream for watching the opening ceremony?

Because it won't be broadcasted here :shock:

I think you could watch it from RTVE web page, also all the "proofes" (I don't know how it's said in english)

http://www.rtve.es/ Spanish

Probably at 22:00 CET will appear a link at the main page to watch it by stream.


Or you can watch it by TV3 (catalan television) here:

http://www.tv3.cat/directes Catalan

These link it's an stream of the TV live all day long.

 

[ParadiseES]

ithan

proofes???? tell me the word in Spanish, maybe I know the name

 

[ithanspain]

ithan

proofes???? tell me the word in Spanish, maybe I know the name

Pruebas... Que daran en directo todas las pruebas.

 

[ParadiseES]

You can say the (qualifying) heats and the events or races

* Proof es prueba, pero prueba de delito, para acusar a alguien, demostración y tal

 

[ithanspain]

You can say the (qualifying) heats and the events or races

* Proof es prueba, pero prueba de delito, para acusar a alguien, demostración y tal

Ok, es lo primero que me salió en el Google Traductor. No sabía como se decía y "pá" allí que me fuí.

PD: Ok, Gracias. Lo escribo aquí para no llenar esto de OFFTOPIC.

 

[ParadiseES]

You can say the (qualifying) heats and the events or races

* Proof es prueba, pero prueba de delito, para acusar a alguien, demostración y tal

Ok, es lo primero que me salió en el Google Traductor. No sabía como se decía y "pá" allí que me fuí.

Use wordreference.
That's what I usually check when I have doubts about a word, and there you can find the different words in different contexts

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Well Ithan, thank you so much indeed! I ll try that streams.

But guys, stick to the topic please, ok?
And yes. If you want, you can help me to update each day's results, when the competitions start (if I forget) Maybe I won't be able to watch all the competitions, but I ll try to watch as much as possible, because I really the like athletics

 

[Sim]

32 Belgian competetors

I'm hoping for medal for the brother Borlée at 400m
at maybe also 4x400m relay men

and who knows a clash between Vlasic and Hellebaut but that I doubt
vlasic is much better atm

 

[Isabella]

I don't follow athletics, but go Blanka

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Ithan!

I cannot see a stupid webstream about the opening ceremony! I tried the link you sent me but nothing there! Fuck! :twisted:

 

[ithanspain]

Ithan!

I cannot see a stupid webstream about the opening ceremony! I tried the link you sent me but nothing there! *F...! :twisted:

You didn't miss anything important it was awful. :?

 

[vatroslav_cro]

!

I cannot see a stupid webstream about the opening ceremony! I tried the link you sent me but nothing there! *F...!

You didn't miss anything important it was awful.

Ah ok... but still...FUCK! :twisted:
lol

How was that? Tell me some details.

 

[ithanspain]

!

I cannot see a stupid webstream about the opening ceremony! I tried the link you sent me but nothing there! *F...!

You didn't miss anything important it was awful.

Ah ok... but still...*F...! :twisted:
lol

How was that? Tell me some details.

Bad music, repetitive without voice (well only some female screams :? )
Magic Fountain was good doing the task for what is design...but with the whole performance was poor.
Also dancer moving above the fountain restrained by cables.

Then the athlets, a very little number of them passing in front of the fountain one after the other cause there isn't enought space. Some delegations haven't send athlets and the flag was waved by volunteers, like Lichenstein.

Then the appeared on a ring above the fountain. Where the organisation made a big mistake. They put the flag of England insted of Great Britain. :evil:

Then the speeches with jeer to the President of Generalitat of Catalonia... :x

In brief I think it was a bad ceremony, if you compared with the perfectly organized ceremony of Olympic Games in 1992.

Let's hope the important part of the Championships that are the races, would be well organized.


PD: Well when has passed some hours, and think about it, an as many people have said, it's an European championship not Olympic Games, probably it was not that bad... :?

When I found the video, I'll put it here.

 

[Jukica]

I hope HRT'll broadcast tomorrow (I mean today - 27th), I didn't see that they did today :/
I'm interested for high jump mostly (go Blanka -hr), so I'll watch on that day for sure I'll watch other days too if HRT'll broadcast