Athletics Thread

The UK Athletics Championships/Olympic Trials are at the Manchester Regional Arena 29th/30th June.

The 2nd Diamond league meeting of the year tomorrow, in Shanghai, Duplantis broke his own WR in the first last week. It's on the BBC red button and will be on the iPlayer. The first meeting is still available on the iPlayer as well.

On the red button at 12.00.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
The UK Athletics Championships/Olympic Trials are at the Manchester Regional Arena 29th/30th June.

The 2nd Diamond league meeting of the year tomorrow, in Shanghai, Duplantis broke his own WR in the first last week. It's on the BBC red button and will be on the iPlayer. The first meeting is still available on the iPlayer as well.

On the red button at 12.00.
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Great call mate, cheers for flagging it up. Yeah it’s odd the bbc have coverage but hide it away on there.

I’d had an offer to officiate at those arena champs but have said no. Last time I did it there I was stuck on the call room duty and never got chance to see a single event!
 
Darryl Neita the highlight for me; a class apart in the 200m and as they said on coms looked like she was easing off in the last 10m or so. Superb bend but then maintained it on the home straight without any stress.

Interesting to see that false start business in the 100m Hurdles. I didn’t realise that the rules had changed and it seems now if an athlete wants to, they can still run, even if they get a red card.
FWIW, the reaction times were so marginal and the high level of noise in the stadium meant that for me, they should have called it as a faulty start instead.
 
chesterbells said:
Darryl Neita the highlight for me; a class apart in the 200m and as they said on coms looked like she was easing off in the last 10m or so. Superb bend but then maintained it on the home straight without any stress.

Interesting to see that false start business in the 100m Hurdles. I didn’t realise that the rules had changed and it seems now if an athlete wants to, they can still run, even if they get a red card.
FWIW, the reaction times were so marginal and the high level of noise in the stadium meant that for me, they should have called it as a faulty start instead.
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Neita was superb mate, she improved all last season to arguably overtake Dina as Britain's number 1, but I wasn't expecting her to blow a field with that much quality away like she did, on her first race of the season.

Very encouraging for the rest of the Summer.
 
The Diamond league moves on to Doha tomorrow. The main British interest is Daryll Neita W 100m, Jemma Reekie W 800m and Molly Caudery W pole vault. It's on the BBC iPlayer.

Also on BBC2, 5PM-7PM.
 
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Some promising performances over the weekend from some of Britain's biggest names, Asher-Smith, Hughes and Hudson-Smith all winning against decent fields in Jamaica.

Caudery and Neita winning in Doha.

The highlight though has to be 17 year old Phoebe Gill, who ran 1M 57.86S in a women's 800M in Belfast. A remarkable time for such a young girl.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
Some promising performances over the weekend from some of Britain's biggest names, Asher-Smith, Hughes and Hudson-Smith all winning against decent fields in Jamaica.

Caudery and Neita winning in Doha.

The highlight though has to be 17 year old Phoebe Gill, who ran 1M 57.86S in a women's 800M in Belfast. A remarkable time for such a young girl.
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Truly incredible, breakthrough stuff that. Keely H and Jemma Reekie will certainly be taking notice!
Still about 3 seconds slower than Athing Mu pb though ;-)
 
chesterbells said:
Truly incredible, breakthrough stuff that. Keely H and Jemma Reekie will certainly be taking notice!
Still about 3 seconds slower than Athing Mu pb though ;-)
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Have you watched the race? It's on YouTube, she basically ran the last 420m solo, making it even more impressive.

The commentary is gold.

Holy Goodnight, as she goes through the bell, and he sees the time.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
Have you watched the race? It's on YouTube, she basically ran the last 420m solo, making it even more impressive.

The commentary is gold.

Holy Goodnight, as she goes through the bell, and he sees the time.
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Yes, just watched it now! Erin Wallace is a real talent and has been for years, but she was made to look very ordinary there. Amazing.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
The Jamaica meet race's are on YouTube as well if you're interested mate, a channel called Athletics TV has them on, some big names present.
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I’ll search that out, and also because I’m looking for stream to watch some of the Gotzis multi events meeting from Austria this weekend too, fingers crossed. Cheers for the recommendation.
 
chesterbells said:
I’ll search that out, and also because I’m looking for stream to watch some of the Gotzis multi events meeting from Austria this weekend too, fingers crossed. Cheers for the recommendation.
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The night of the PB's is this Saturday, that's always fun. I've no idea who's running but it's now the official UK Championship race and Olympic trials over 10k. It will be on the iPlayer.

An Ethiopian girl won the women's 10k last year, went under 30 minutes, and couldn't catch the Ethiopian team for the World's, she finished 4th in their trials lol.

She'd be a superstar if she was one of ours, can we find her a passport ;)
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
The night of the PB's is this Saturday, that's always fun. I've no idea who's running but it's now the official UK Championship race and Olympic trials over 10k. It will be on the iPlayer.

An Ethiopian girl won the women's 10k last year, went under 30 minutes, and couldn't catch the Ethiopian team for the World's, she finished 4th in their trials lol.

She'd be a superstar if she was one of ours, can we find her a passport ;)
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Reading the race report from Gill’s run on bbc athletics they are saying there is still some doubt she’ll get picked for the GB 800m team - when the qualifying standard is 1:59!
I suppose they might pick her for the European Champs first and see how she goes there, but unless 3 women run faster than her this season, it would be an outrage not to take her to Paris after that.
Hodgkinson, Reekie and Gill as the team??
 
chesterbells said:
Reading the race report from Gill’s run on bbc athletics they are saying there is still some doubt she’ll get picked for the GB 800m team - when the qualifying standard is 1:59!
I suppose they might pick her for the European Champs first and see how she goes there, but unless 3 women run faster than her this season, it would be an outrage not to take her to Paris after that.
Hodgkinson, Reekie and Gill as the team??
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Yes you would think so, I guess she will have to run at the trials and see how she gets on there.

It will never happen with a British athlete, as we don't run in teams like some other countries do but reading about her it seems she is a front runner. Wouldn't it be nice if she would take Morra on and not allow her to dictate the pace as she usually does.

I think that would play right into Keeley's hands but will never happen.
 
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Yes you would think so, I guess she will have to run at the trials and see how she gets on there.

It will never happen with a British athlete, as we don't run in teams like some other countries do but reading about her it seems she is a front runner. Wouldn't it be nice if she would take Morra on and not allow her to dictate the pace as she usually does.

I think that would play right into Keeley's hands but will never happen.
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That would be amazing,
with GB having two cards to play in a final with Moraa and Mu.
Could be a showstopper!
 
For me, this is even better, Marita Koch. Was lucky enough to see her run at Crystal Palace in 83 and got her autograph. She was always one my heroes growing up as an athlete in the 80s.

 
chesterbells said:
For me, this is even better, Marita Koch. Was lucky enough to see her run at Crystal Palace in 83 and got her autograph. She was always one my heroes growing up as an athlete in the 80s.

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Don't you think both of those athlete's were a little bit suspect mate?

The East German's were doped to the eyeballs, and that's putting it kindly.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
Don't you think both of those athlete's were a little bit suspect mate?

The East German's were doped to the eyeballs, and that's putting it kindly.
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I think the 800m runner was 100%, yes.

With Marita, possibly but, and this is only my personal opinion, I did think the Americans that the East German athletes they were up against weren’t squeaky clean either. Yes, it wasn’t state organised but it still was the same effects on athletes. You could actually argue those young East German women were victims in a way too.

The other aspect though, which was nothing to do with doping, is that sports success was so important for the East German state that they put it front and centre in other ways, in terms of investment in their system. They had fabulous coaching, and process that identified talent really young in schools, for all sports, based on born natural characteristics be it wing span/arm length for throwers (or swimmers) or lung capacity etc for other events, then supported and nurtured that talent intensively.

If I’m honest too, as a kid I also suspended my disbelief, just like I do now watching cycling (or football!) because if you didn’t, you wouldn’t really enjoy much sport at all I suppose.

(One or two sportsmen & women I do still find a bit too suspicious to ignore though!)
 
chesterbells said:
I think the 800m runner was 100%, yes.

With Marita, possibly but, and this is only my personal opinion, I did think the Americans that the East German athletes they were up against weren’t squeaky clean either. Yes, it wasn’t state organised but it still was the same effects on athletes. You could actually argue those young East German women were victims in a way too.

The other aspect though, which was nothing to do with doping, is that sports success was so important for the East German state that they put it front and centre in other ways, in terms of investment in their system. They had fabulous coaching, and process that identified talent really young in schools, for all sports, based on born natural characteristics be it wing span/arm length for throwers (or swimmers) or lung capacity etc for other events, then supported and nurtured that talent intensively.

If I’m honest too, as a kid I also suspended my disbelief, just like I do now watching cycling (or football!) because if you didn’t, you wouldn’t really enjoy much sport at all I suppose.

(One or two sportsmen & women I do still find a bit too suspicious to ignore though!)
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Kathy Cook says hi.
 
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