Interesting they’ve put in a repechage for some (shorter?) athletics track events this time around. I’m pretty sure this is new for the Olympics and can’t remember it for the world champs.
Added - it is new, but not wholly successful. In one race 8 runners failed to turn up and in another someone was deliberately last.
Yeah new for this Olympics and covers 200m to 1500m and then all hurdles I think. There was a weird situation in one of the hurdles where the commentators were saying one of the runners just sat up early on to just get a clean finish in the knowledge they'd get the repechage or something.
Interesting they’ve put in a repechage for some (shorter?) athletics track events this time around. I’m pretty sure this is new for the Olympics and can’t remember it for the world champs.
Added - it is new, but not wholly successful. In one race 8 runners failed to turn up and in another someone was deliberately last.