Athletics Weekly

48.9 for Rhys Williams. Jack Green DNF - getting just a little worried about him now

Child takes 400mH in 56.35, slightly slower than her time last year but this was her first hurdles of the season

Interestingly, there has often been plenty of discussion about athletes changing events. Athletes who should move up a distance , or down a distance, or switch to hurdling , or try their hand at 'chasing etc etc. So why is Green a taboo subject for such conjecture? Bearing in mind that conjecture i...

Ashton wrote:Why TBO?
Is it some sort of doping reference? Been trying to work it out

The Big O - no doping reference, more her intimidating stature compared to some, and the way people (should) fear her chasing them down the home straight!

iain wrote:Is that TBO's fastest opener?

She ran 50.93 in the same race last year - so yes, as she used to open her 400s later in the season - and even then, not as fast

It is good to see that the four young throwers who have gone to the US for university have all thrown PB's already and sitting high up on thier ranking lists. In the case of our tWO javelin throwers - i thiNK THESE are theit fiirst PB's for over a year. It shows we have got talent in this country W...

52.03 400H for Jacob Paul today

pedro1970 wrote:5460pts for Morgan Lake today.

100H 15.10 -4.0 HJ 1.84 SP 14.16 200m 25.49 LJ 5.89 JT 35.57 800m 2:38

Some solid improvements made but I wonder if she just jogged the 800m to complete, as she's worth a lot more than that

SteveK26 wrote:She holds all the age-group records for heptathlon that she has reached so far.
Will she go on to be as good as Ennis and K J-T ?

She is much more developed than they were at that age - a lot will depend on her transition to the seniors

Just watched the race and TBO and PSD both made tactical errors that cost them time - but both looked very good

EC did a lot of her running late - if she can learn to pace lead off just a bit better, we have 3 very good legs

Fastest split was for Nigeria's Regina George - 49.5 I'm not sure these are our A teams TBH. The men's 4x1 certainly isn't, neither the 4x4 (who didn't finish anyway). While it is true that we ran pretty much our first choice W4x4, I think Jamaica did too. JAM's quartet was right up there. I think ...

http://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/schedule.aspx?s=UvW Teams are now up. Interesting neither Felix nor SRR will run the 4x400m. To be fair, it's what I would do - use this as an opportunity to see others who aren't already locks for the team, like UKA are doing with Margaret Adeoye. Oh wait... :ro...

As I posted above there was a 44.07 time run by some girls on the 20th, not sure who ran. I'm not sure there is as much choice as you imply, as don't there have to be three international teams running to get a WC qualifier? Also aren't the Anniversary Games in time to qualify as well? (not that I'm...

From AW article: Following the team announcement on Wednesday, UKA advised AW that they would have liked to have entered a women’s 4x100m team, but that Penn Relays did not invite Great Britain to enter one. But they invited CAN who ran 44.64 last year There have been plenty of relay meets on over ...

These Russian cases just keep a coming... http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/russian-hammer-thrower-banned-for-doping-113042300445_1.html My concern is they're throwing a lot of random (11th at the Russian Champs!) athletes under the bus - a cynical man would say that they're doing ...

jeremy1 wrote: Our short and 400m hurdlers are staying put here fortunately under a great coach.

If you're talking about Malcolm's group, they're currently out in America, too - so clearly the great coach sees the benefits of exploiting opportunities such as warm weather.

Flumpy wrote:Does anyone know what time Kelly S ran.

She said on twitter that she walked/jogged from 16 miles.

4.28 according to her twitter - not bad if she jogged 10 miles!!

Sebastian Rogers has rocketed to the top of the British 400mh rankings with a solid 50.55secs opener, just 0.05 off his PB, should bode well fpr the season ahead. I was there for the race - he was miles ahead the whole way round and looked very strong; I'm sure he can drop a chunk off of that time ...

The only criticism I've ever heard levelled at Mick was by an England Athletics employee who said that "he never coaches black athletes". Which of course is ridiculous You say that, but I can't actually think of any black athletes that he has. In all honesty, it's likely to be because of ...

Is there any point to composite teams such as the Carib select team or the GB girls running with the US or Jam girls? Doesn't really help anyone or nation? I think the composite teams are normally training groups putting a team together as they are all in the area, with the name not meaning much. T...

jeremy1 wrote:Yes, but who is going to teach the guys to get the baton round without the DQ stuff??

Haven't they drafted in members of Athens 4x100m team?

Whilst I personally tend to push my distance athletes towards XC, it isn't the be all and end all - if it doesn't work for some, then so be it Irony here is that our athletes are hammered by some posters for falling behind world standards and that they should do what the best athletes are doing - ye...

I agree with your take, Geoff

To answer your question - I would hope that a retrospective life ban is put in place - we will surely find out very soon, as a few of those getting caught will be second timers, no doubt

I think you've been had! Not seen anything about this, and the timing would be atrocious, given how cheats are starting to be caught for it!

Granted history is not on his side, but let's give him a chance to give NFL a go before writing him off completely. I hope he comes back to the sport through choice, rather than failure - as I'm sure he one day will. He's a good lad who's finding his way and changing his mind as he does so - some of...

eldanielfire wrote:WHat was the issue between him and Clyde Hart by the way?

Money.

iain wrote:I can't find this article?

Here you go http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/others ... paign=1490

They weren't juniors last year, though, as they were too old for that age group.

A better point would be that she didn't have the best score of the 'new generation'

All of these negative responses are the very reason she wants get out of this country I for one am happy to see an athlete making an effort to better themselves. For better or worse she's not sitting around here in the freezing cold, moaning about her situation, she's doing something about it. This...

I honestly believe that Maz holding onto dreams of a relay spot have held her back over 800m and hope this is the kick she needs to sort her endurance