About this episode

The episode discusses doping in South African schoolboy rugby, the end of the track season, and racing in extreme heat at the Vuelta.

Become a Supporter and the Applied show lands in your feed every week , plus Discourse, where two of this week's arguments are already running. Doping in South African schoolboy rugby, the end of the track season, and racing in 44 degree heat at the Vuelta. In the news this week: (00:02:07) The track and field season is winding down, and the Diamond League final felt a little flat . The Ultimate Championships are next, and in a season where they follow the Diamond League, we wonder what purpose the Diamond League final actually serves? (00:10:05) Is the 800m a sprint or an endurance event? Some discussion popped up on Instagram, so we revist the 800m event, get into energy system contribution, why the 1983 world record has survived, and explore why every improvement has come in the first lap, all as part of making the case for the 800m as a sprint-endurance hybrid (00:22:49) Jakob Ingebrigtsen calls the Brussels field cowards and losers after Cole Hocker's training partner is put in as a pacemaker. Should a final have pacemakers at all? (00:31:08) Rumesh Pathirage wins the javelin, and we wonder why the event has the widest geographic spread in athletics (00:36:12) Doping in…

People in this episode

Hosts: Professor Ross Tucker, Mike Finch

Topics covered

• doping in school sports
• track and field season
• 800m event discussion
• toxic culture in sports
• extreme weather in racing

Keywords

• doping
• school sports
• 800m
• Diamond League
• Vuelta
• toxic culture
• athletics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Diamond League, South African schoolboy rugby

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