Athletics Weekly

Thanks for posting, it's good that you're willing to reply. I don't understand why an affiliation fee can be charged just because other sports are more expensive to partake in. If I play football with friends we have to hire a court. If I run with friends we don't pay anything because there is no ne...

When I lived around there, I didn't think that any of them were that tough. The Southerns at Parliament Hill was probably the worst due to a combination of it's length, and the underfoot conditions late on when you're tired.

Congratulations!!! The DUMBEST post yet. Well I might agree with some that you say but "The standards will drop as the years move forward" probably contradicts what your trying to say. This is a rankings list, this is all. And we're supposed to be thinking that this is an initiative?!? "Who cares if...

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Apparently Lewis-Francis wanted to go and work with Trevor Graham back in 2004 but Max Jones wouldn't allow it, and threatened to stop his lottery funding. Dave Collins when presented with a different situation with Harry AA....

I read that the times are invalid due to the pacemaker starting a little ahead of the start line. If you visit www.gbrathletics.co.uk and scroll down to the latest results you find:
Jun 10 Watford - BMC Grand Prix times in 800 race A discounted due to irregular pace making

I'm not a fan of Jon's input because in general I feel very differently to him on most issues. However I'm not really too fussed with the fact that he posts. My biggest probelm is that this forum is impossible to have a differing of opinions within. If anyone disagrees with Jon (and vehemently as th...

Unfortunately there seemed to be a delay from my local shop. Though I don't subscribe, I popped into Waterstones (Amsterdam) on Saturday and purchased AW. When I got home I took it out only to realise that it was last weeks issue. I'm not sure who's to blame for this, but as I work during the week S...

Paula was my favourite athlete during the late 90's, she would appear at most of the British events and she would put in huge efforts in races and seemed to be slowly inching her way to the top. In terms of which British female athlete has had the best ever performance I think that Radcliffe would d...

Excellent post. Does anyone know when Moorcroft's contract is up for renewal?

New poential members may have been scared away by the politics, but the feeling that the editorial content was biased has also led to some people feeling uneasy about posting messages. I have only replied once before to a message in which I criticised the editorial approach on the modernisation issu...

Not sure what can be read into this. The relatively low uptake of membership indicates that if track athletics were to cease few people would miss it? I'm sure this isn't entirely the case, though it would be hard to see how it would impact the majority.

Pegleg seems to have no idea of what they are talking about. I assume that you're a track runner/field eventer and have never been to a fell race. Whilst I agree that fell racing is definately a minority sport, as a runner I have more in common with them than any thrower and so would prefer to read ...