800 metres semis and 1500 final on same night ?

very strange,are athletes not doubling up anymore??

Just awful. Brainless scheduling. I give up.

Not possible to do the 400/800 double either as per Juantorena.

this is about the 800/1500 double

not 400/800

sure we always used to have the 1500 towards the end of the games,now Tuesday??
certainly aint right to have both the 800 and 1500 so close to each other

yes 800m used to be Day 2-Day 4

1500m used to be Day 6-9

seemed to work ok

it did,what are they playing at?

Muppets

4 years to plan everything, yet the biggest event of all the blue riband , as it was 1500 m , same day as 800m, youd though that the brains the olympics lord coe would have noticed.  no commence sense in the world any more.ps  ALUN, what was the link for the old great sporting themes you posted few years back, do you remember?

Obviously threw the Algerian people who entered their man in the 800 and the 1500 . He had a medical certificate yesterday to say he was not fit to run in the 800 , next day he wins the 1500 by a long way .

And the fav was carrying a leg .  Surprised someone did not know , dont think that fact was common knowledge  , but dont think there were many histrionics in the betting .

Shows that the only way to bet is on what you see , but liquidity in running not that good .

athletes who can operate at a world class level at both 800 & 1500m seem to be a dying breed....

strange programming indeed

and yet they rig the scheduling of the swimming so that an individual swimmer can do the heats and final for as many as 8 events within 7 days

Inverdale couldn't wait to get stuck into Lord Snooty............about the music!

Yes GT, odd that this forum is the only place i've seen this bizarre scheduling discussed

Moscow 1980

800m Final : Sat Jul 26
1500m Final: Fri Aug 1

at least they had the sense to keep the 10 & 5k a week apart!

now that's a race i'm looking forward to - could be a classic and to be honest i'd love lagat to win but he's best days probably behind him

Elisjohn : sorry mate, I don't have the details for that link to hand. That was an absolute belter if I recall correctly.

nothing to do with locog i'd imagine. surely the IAAF draw up the schedule

The schedule for the 800/1500 altered, irretrievably for the worse, in 2004

Love to see Coe explain it

I mean,he looks pretty smug about the whole Olympic thing,so would be great for someone to ask him why this has happened with the 2 events he ran in.
To be honest i would not mind at all if someone managed to wipe the smile off his smarmy boat race.