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[edit by Becca: The competition begins at 5:40am Pacific/8:40am Eastern on Wednesday morning]

The startlists may be hidden away somewhere on PVP, but I'm surprised that the volume of posts on the men's competition is so much less than it was on the women's competition. In any event, if you haven't found your own source for the startlists, here's what I've located (from NBC Olympics) and the seasonal bests (from Mirko Jalava's world deep list) of the qualifiers:

MPV Qualifying Round A

SWE FRITZ Jesper 5.63
GER HOLZDEPPE Raphael 5.80
FRA CLAVIER Jerome 5.65
BUL EFREMOV Iliyan 5.20
RUS STARODUBTSEV Dmitry 5.75
GBR LEWIS Steve 5.71
UZB ANDREYEV Leonid 5.65
CZE KUDLICKA Jan 5.70
ARG CHIARAVIGLIO German 5.50
MEX LANARO Giovanni 5.80
UKR MAZURYK Maksym 5.82
SLO ROVAN Jurij 5.55
USA WALKER Brad 6.04
UKR YURCHENKO Denys 5.83
KOR KIM Yoosuk 5.60
RUS PAVLOV Igor 5.75
USA HARTWIG Jeff 5.70
CHN LIU Feiliang 5.50
AUS BURGESS Paul 5.61


MPV Qualifying Round B

USA MILES Derek 5.80
ISR AVERBUKH Alexander 5.55
CZE JANACEK Stepan 5.70
UKR KORCHMID Oleksandr 5.70
FIN LATVALA Mikko 5.63
ITA GIBILISCO Giuseppe 5.55
GER ECKER Danny 5.75
BUL BUHALOV Spas 5.70
FRA MESNIL Romain 5.71
AUS HOOKER Steve 6.00
SWE JENG Alhaji 5.72
BRA da SILVA Fabio 5.61
JPN SAWANO Daichi 5.70
CUB BORGES Lazaro 5.70
GER LOBINGER Tim 5.75
LCA JOHNSON Dominic 5.55
RUS LUKYANENKO Evgeny 6.01
POL CZERWINSKI Przemyslaw 5.70
BEL RANS Kevin 5.60

roger/over wrote:The startlists may be hidden away somewhere on PVP, but I'm surprised that the volume of posts on the men's competition is so much less than it was on the women's competition.

Not enough trash talk from the guys.

I edited the first post to make this the official thread to discuss qualifying.

So I see Gibilisco did not follow through on his threat of pulling out of the Olympics because he wasn't getting enough love from Petrov.

No matter what Jeff does today, he is our hero and our inspiration.

I've linked to this thread from my masters track blog:
http://masterstrack.com/blog/002742.html

Plant high, Jeff, and ride that sucker into the sky!

(And I hope you're feeling better, Roger!)

ken

Good morning... I wish these competitions weren't so early on the west coast...

You could think of 'em as really really late if you want.

IAAF: 19:02
The stadium is still filling up. It's a hazy day in Beijing, and humid; the poor visibility might be humidity (the air is completely saturated, almost dripping on us).



Gross

The Live Scoring is here: http://www.nbcolympics.com/trackandfiel ... index.html

is there going to be live coverage anywhere?

Any websites? Any TV? Anything?

good morning everyone.

- master

IAAF: 20:38
We've said it before, but the stadium is packed.