Athletics Weekly

Try the Olympic Ticket website, there were tickets for tonight's session for sale about 15 minutes ago, alas although I managed to reserve one, it had gone before I could purchase. Tomorrow's surplace should appear sometime today or early tomorrow. You pick up your ticket at the park...in long queu ...

Assuming the last date for entries can not be stretched..ie it's an Olympic requirement, could a paced race be put on for Sharp on Sunday somewhere. I realise that she is tired etc, but I am sure she would like to have a last gasp (literally) try to get the A standard.

Think Rooney is capable of 44.5sec, but he has yet to produce his best form in a final..the male and female sprinters at present are very average, Gemeli and Williams may change things though. Perhaps we should no put any in the 100m or 200m and just use them in the replays, this may concentrate the...

Good reason...the Opening Ceremony promises to be a total embarrassment though

See http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/HOF/Members/Members.aspx Some strange choices. Why Dan O'Brian but not Daley Thompson who achieved more. Wang Junxia? One Olympic gold, World records in races where the depth of performance was rather suspicious. The others are all fairly obvious choices..another 5 to co...

Brilliant...if only Daley was still around at his best, what a contest it would have been. The photos are superb, thanks for the link.

Went to the trails yesterday (close to the Pole Vault)..then watched the BBC output on my return home. The coverage gave a skewed view of the event, only showing snippets of the field action. 1. In the men's 400m there was a brisk headwind in the backstraight, the stands sheltered the home straight ...