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Bev Kinch

what happened? The T&F season came to an end. The same thing happens every year to every T&F forum - action grinds to a halt, so does discussion. It has nothing to do with the absence of 'he who shall not be named'. If anything, this place has been much better since he left. The new look of...

Kermit wrote:...And if I am right Podium athletes would get full funding.

Sorry, you're not right - Radcliffe is currently on the podium list, but doesn't get any financial support from UKA. How many times do you need to be told this?!

Paula Radcliffe shouldn't be on the list, she hasn't competed for the country for over 2 years - don't care if she's got the world record or is pregnant, besides she has enough sponsors so don't need lotto money. For the millionth time, Radcliffe doesn't receive any money. She is means-tested out o...

Here are our funded athletes: http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/athleteslookup.aspx It's quite an eye-opener. Definitely needs a shuffle. This is how I'd sort them: Podium Martyn Bernard Michael Bingham Tasha Danvers James Dasaolu Hatti Dean Lisa Dobriskey Jessica Ennis Mo Farah David Greene So...

But there's a difference between running 1:58 off a slow pace and winning (a la Savinova) and being dragged around to 1:58 off a quick pace, finishing more than a second behind the winner (a la Simpson).

Don't write Jemma off People have been saying that for the past four seasons now, but once again she disappoints at a major champs. I think she is good, but slightly over-rated. She simply isn't the kind of runner who will succeed in a championship race - she doesn't have that fluid, fast final 100...

For the hard of understanding Regis is an example of the effect of altitude in giving you a performance way better than anything else you have amanged so far that season. Regis had run 20.17 in Lausanne just a few weeks before Sestriere, so his 19.87 (which translates to roughly as good as his Laus...

I really don't think what Regs achieved AFTER his 19.87 has any relevance to Turner, as we don't know what she will achieve AFTER her 11.11. I'd be willing to bet any money that, unless her next competition is at Loughborough, her next race will translate to high-11.3 basic. But sure, let's wait an...

I wonder whether there has been some mix-up in the women's 400m results earlier on. Nicola Sanders beat Vicky Barr by 0.53 secs in Birmingham last Sunday so wonder really how she could find herself down the other way round by some 0.38 secs... Maybe Sanders eased up a bit in this race? Or maybe Bar...

Fangio, First, read up on how much wind and altitude affects the sprints. These may be of some use: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jmureika/track/wind/index.html http://myweb.lmu.edu/jmureika/track/wind/200idx.html Regis' 19.87 with 1.8ms of wind and at 2035m of altitude translates to 20.15 "basic"....

fangio wrote:So Patriot you think that Regis' UK record is farcical too?

Do you mean his 19.87A which isn't actually ratified as a UK record?

I think Mump boy is basically saying that he pretty much agrees with everything you said.

Add 0.24 onto the hand times to get a rough idea of what they are worth. Also factor in the strong winds. Before we get carried away with Sharman's time, he defeated Gregory Sedoc by 0.2. Sedoc's SB is 13.63. Matthias Buhler, who was in third and 0.3 behind Sharman, has a SB of 13.55 with most of hi...

Don't know, however, whether Tasha 's interest could be reignited if she slashes some chunk off that 56.44 on her next outing, which should be close... Not going to Barcelona I don't think the 'Danvers out of Euros' story is accurate. I think the BBC got their stories mixed up from last year. This ...

lsabre wrote:Finally, you could have done without the 'hyperbole' nonsense...

Au contraire...

New meeting, new thread, no hyperbole, and a link to results: http://88.131.109.176/folksam/sollentuna/Result.php Brit highlights: 100m - Leevan Yearwood 10.47 (0.6ms) 1500m - Colin McCourt 3:37.19 PB - Mark Draper 3:41.03 PB - James Brewer 3:46.24 110mH - Lawrence Clarke 13.71 PB 400mH - Rick Yates...

lsabre wrote:Joice Maduaka, by the way, won the 200m in 23.33 secs at the Tofalia meeting in Patra, Greece, earlier on having placed second in the shorter dash in 11.53 secs. There are no wind-readings come out yet but by the look of it both times must have been within legal limits.

Results link?

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Nathan Douglas was third with 16.40m (4.2m/sec) in the triple jump behind Cuba's duo of Alexis Copello (17.15, 1.5) and Arnie Girat (16.97, 0.6) in Bilbao, Spain. Don't know whether he jumps off a shorter run-up at the moment. Full results here: http://www.rfea.es/competi/result2010/airelibre/al_bi...

Why do Russian Women always have sun burned thighs? See Antyuck and the Steeple chaser. Do they use some kind of strange cream or something, it's so unique to russian female track athletes. It's not sunburn - they simply slap their legs a lot before their events to get the blood circulating around ...

EnglandAthletic: Well, well, Chris Scott actually just threw 59.90 to beat that champ record - the biggest throw by an U23 for a decade!! From Twitter re chris scott - brett morse is an u23 so the decade thing isn't quite right but a good chuck - didnt know he had it in him well done mate. I think ...

lsabre, as I've said on other threads, I am a great admirer of your passion for the sport and all you do for this forum. But when you make comments like the one above, that's when you start to lose my sympathy. This is a forum for discussing - by all means, attack and challenge other peoples' views....

Just a (hopefully) final word from me on this - to clarify, I'm not complaining about someone posting a result I'm not interested in. All I am trying to do is give a bit of constructive advice in how to make this place a better forum for everyone so that peoples' feathers don't get ruffled as often ...

lsabre wrote:I was replying to Flumpy, Paul, so don't worry about that...

But Flumpy was also taking about James' time (as opposed to James himself).

I urge you to re-read a recent post by Rex68 (Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:13 pm in the '2010 British Outdoor Season' thread). It's a great shame that this thread was closed so soon afterwards and that his post didn't get the consideration it deserves. Rex made some very constructive points and suggestions w...

If I mention an athlete of not so impressive or notable a performance, Rex68, there is a reason why I'm doing it. First of all, as I've said many a time, my intention is to also show a certain strength in depth in every event. Eg, those under 1:50 over the men's 800m or over 2.20m in the high jump....

Personally, I don't understand one thing. There are many threads around the forum for anyone to look into what one is interested in. So why certain individuals are so bent on attacking this particular thread (and me by extension) when they have the option of simply going and reading/posting somewhe...

- Since winning the Commonwealth title in 2006, Nick Willis has been featured around three times now. He's a decent athlete, but not so fascinating that he deserves three features! What did the second and third features tell us that the first one didn't? How about a feature with the enigmatic Rashi...

Congrats to the main winners - all fully deserving of their awards. But just to correct an error that keeps cropping up in the BAWA stories - Lawrence Clarke did not break Colin Jackson's UK junior record. Jackson's 13.44 was set with the senior height hurdles, while Clarke's 13.37 was over the juni...