Be careful with your wishes that you could come true, says an Asian saying. In more detail-more precisely at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo-Lukas Weißhaidinger explained the wisdom of this sentence on Sunday.
The Innviertler, who had wanted rain for the discus finale, got this. The ultimately ninth -placed person could no longer increase his 62.26 meters that had already scored with the first throw, also because he slipped and fell in the third attempt at the rainy wet. “The left elbow twirts a little, but is okay,” said the 33-year-old all-clear.
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His competitors also had to deal with the conditions. The performance of Daniel Stahl all the more impressive: The Swede hurled the two-kilo disc in the last attempt to 70.47 and thus to the title. “Daniel does it very well, he is fed up with his mass in the ring,” said Weißhaidinger.
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