Athletics Weekly

From the coverage that I have seen, there has been no spiker in the pit so it looks as though they have used Video Distance Measuring rather than EDM. Presumably a remeasure would therefore be possible if the cailbration of the pitside discs was checked and if the images of the jumps have been retai...

Really happy that Clovis has come out and run so well again. Would be interested in an official UKA explanation as to why he was not selected for the World Youths.

Does anyone have any results from this event in Derby? Was it well attended?

Are you sure that Liam Ramsay has the standard? He recently set a 7147 PB in Helsinki but the standard is 7200.

A very note-worthy performance from the young Frenchman, Kévin Mayer. He is still a junior this year and scored 7,992 with senior implements and over senior hurdles - only 18 points behind his European Champion countryman Romain Barras.

The "take a 4x400m relay team but no individual" scenario is not new. The same happened last year with the the lads at the World Juniors in Moncton. I suppose that you can't make an exception for relay runners who don't qualify in their own right notwithstanding that they're going anyway -...

I have to agree with Mump Boy. My experiences have been nothing but positive and I am looking forward to travelling to Paris and beyond in 2011 with Claridon. They are a tremendously professional outfit from what I have seen so far. Individuals will decide for themselves which travel operator they w...

Greg Rutherford won the long jump in Sardinia this afternoon with a jump of 8.07m.

They did. It was Jack Morris from Stockport Harriers that won that race. The number must have got transposed.

Justin Gatlin made his return to competition tonight in Rakvere, Estonia. He easily won his race in 10"24. He will run again in Tallinn at the end of the week.

It has been good to see the volume and enthusiasm of the press coverage that the team has received in the last week and that some of our medallists have or will appear on various television "magazine" shows now that they are back home. A great reception. However, it pales compared to the r...

France are having a stormer of a champs. If memory serves me right they've been going through the doldrums for a while, particularly on the track. What have they changed, what are they doing that GB should be doing? A stadium full of hundreds of excited French youngsters and the first 5 pages of L'...

Unfortunately, as so often, the damage was done in the first round. Easing up on the line and ceding first place meant that the best seeding he would have for the semi would be 6. That is why the semi with both Djone and Borlee rather than an altogether easier semi where in all probability he woul h...

I'd avoid centresport at all costs.., either go indepentently or at least t&f tours...... Plyo, On what basis would you avoid Centresport "at all costs". I've travelled with them a number of times and have never been anything other than extremely satisfied. I think that they are also ...

No Teddy Tamgho on the triple jump start list for Paris - injury problem?

No Steve Lewis in the vault either - disappointing.

lsabre wrote:Matt Devereux has ensured of the World U20s qualifying standard as he went clear of 5.20m in the pole vault.

My full attention was on the track at the time but I thought that Matt fouled at 5.20 so won with 5.10.

Great performance in the wind but not a qualifier though.

Pedro

I'm not sure that Laura Samuel does have the qualifying standard as I understood that there was no wind gauge at L'boro when she jumped her 13.32m.

I may be wrong. Can anyone confirm?

Come Barcelona, I'm confident that we'll bag a hat full of medals. However, the French have two huge talents who at this stage must go in as firm gold medal favourites in Christophe Lemaitre (over 100m at least) and Teddy Tamgho. Hopefully Chambers and Idowu will upset them but to suggest that they ...

The selection list for the Team Championship lists Steve Rippon as coach to Kate Dennison but Dan Pfaff as coach to Steve Lewis.

Is that a typo or has there been a coaching change?

Unless we get some good performances at the territorials this weekend, the size of the team is going to be reliant on standards achieved at the trials as a number of notable juniors are still short of the qualification standards. On that basis alone I think that it is right that all juniors should c...

Not fair to pillory UKA on this one, I'm afraid. When decisions about reclassifying firearms are made by the Association of Chief Police Officers, they are not put out to consultation. There is a very good reason for these firearms being reclassified as they can be easily converted to a live gun and...

Great weekend for our junior multi eventers at the interational match against France in Bompas. David Guest won the junior men's heptathlon with a new British u20 record of 5,793 - a 300 point improvement on Daniel Gardiner's 5482 record. David also took the notable scalp of the supremely talented K...

Have just got home from a fantastic day of athletics in Birmingham and have made the mistake of watching my recorded footage from the BBC. Sorry if I am about to reiterate what has gone before, but... Respect to Mike Costello - very knowledgable - but the programme did not kick off particularly well...

Bob Tahri has set a new European Indoor Record of 13'11''13 in Metz earlier today.

In Aubiere, Christophe LeMaitre ran 6.55 over 60m and 20.83 over 200m and Teddy Tamgho tripled out to 17.25.

Good form in the run up to Doha.

Doubly impressive given that there weren't any hurdles races at the Birmingham Games today - they're tomorrow.

Heats at 11.35, semis at 13.40 and final at 14.50.

Dwain won the final of the 60m at the Birmingham Games in 6.58 from MLF (6.67) and HAA (6.68).

6.57 for Chambers in his semi final at the Birmingham Games. Joined in the final by Areetey and Lewis Francis.

The breakdown from Fountain was:-

60m H - 8.04
HJ - 1.81
SP - 13.83
LJ - 6.68
800m - 2:23.89