Athletics - Men's 20KM Race Walk - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games

[pabanil]

Jefferson Perez was so disappointed.

[Ragezane]

is there any NZers



[spamkingalpha]

Where are the walkers?

[MyHiago123]

Nem acreditei que Jeferson Perez perdeu :s

[weetabicks1]

The "who can best imitate an old woman" event.

[lolcanozor]

Why do their heads bob back and forth too?

[racewalkingrules]

@flame123652 thats like asking, "why doesnt a shot putter take up pole vaulting?" running and race walking are different sports entirely. they want to be race walkers because they are good at it. theres much more stamina/technique involved.

[flame123652]

@racewalkingrules u have to admit tho, if the east africans ever got into this, this sport would be over right? Unfortunately the muscle groups are slightly different but everything else remains pretty damn close to running

[racewalkingrules]

@flame123652 there are africans that do this sport, but not many. its a choice, and clearly they prefer to be runners.

if you knew anything about this sport you'd realise that it is completely different to running. there are rules of technique you have to stick to or you get disqualified, there is nothing like that in running, its simply, "run as fast as you can".

walking is like running, with the stamina element but requires much more discipline.

[r3db4ck]

Offence taken

[Kilmarnocky]

A decent lead over Perez.? 14 secs over 1 hr 20 mins. A silly, uninformed remark.

[CallumCR]

So true

[UglyChannel]

¡Jefferson Pérez!.

[xedvux]

Davai Borchin!

[supperwy]

too brevity !