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Maybe the judge heard his case then banged him up under the mental health act...

Anthony, I jest

lsabre wrote:Women's 400mh
1.Perri Shakes-Drayton 55.34 (PB, Berlin A standard)
2.Eilidh Child 55.36 (PB, Berlin A standard)

I bet that was an awesome race to watch!

MarkC wrote:Not sure if official or not, but chec Gary Mitchell Photography

http://gary822.fotopic.net/

Cheers. I see pictures on there of Adele Lassu have started getting quite a few hits after this weekend

Does anyone know who the official photographer was for the South of England Championships this weekend? Think i saw Mark Shearman there(but may have been mistaken as would have thought he was in Portugal). i've emailled the SEAA to find out.... Mark Shearman doesn't have his photos available to pur...

Does anyone know who the official photographer was for the South of England Championships this weekend?

Patriot wrote:Who cares how they're written, Mark? The guy provides fantastic updates and I, for one, am very grateful! Ta, I - keep up the good work.

Ok calm down sweetheart, no need to get your knickers in a twist, I was merely asking

I just wondered, seems like it must be a lot more effort than just typing as you would speak

lsabre, is there any reason why most of your posts are written like journalist reports?

Benn, I think you will find that such an increase is most certainly expedient. Afterall, how else will England Athletics be able to pay for all the useless, over-paid, administrative non-jobs that they employ?

One has to always look at performances in proportion and not compared to what the likes of Usain Bolt are doing at the moment. Bolt runs off a 19.30 secs PB over 200m, meaning he could be feeling totally at ease going through 200m in low to mid 21 secs. Given his powerful build, a time of 48.78 sec...

I like the fun run mentality. When I stop training seriously I'm going to run a couple of the big marathons with my mum, just plod round taking in the atmosphere and enjoying it, just so I can say that I've done it. Fair enough not everyone is an elite athlete but you have to take your hat off to an...

It's just plain bullshit that's what. After 6 years have people still not got anything better to bum on about? Give the guy a break. I'm happy that he dicked on everyone at the euros purely for that reason. And I'm gonna buy the book, I'm sure it'll be a good read

If he isn't being uniquely persecuted then why aren't the likes of Carl Myerscough being treated like an absolute ****?

I still feel the Uni format is worth considering. I can’t see why ‘cities’ would invest taxpayers money in this, but can see why Uni’s would invest for marketing purposes - as they do in netball. The millions spent by uni’s in recent years on facility upgrades, scholarships and paying coaches shows...

What about people that never went to university though? Or people that go to universities that aren't one of the 8 franchises?

Craic is the Irish equivalent of crack isn't it? As in "I'm racing this weekend, should be a good craic (crack)" not the class A drug...

GB team for European Indoor Championships, 6-8 March, Turin: Men:60m: Dwain Chambers, Craig Pickering, Simeon Williamson 400m: Richard Buck, Nick Leavey 1500m: Neil Speaight, Chris Warburton 3000m: Mark Draper, Mo Farah, Nick McCormick 60m hurdles: Allan Scott, Andy Turner High Jump: Martyn Bernard,...

I think you should get Chuck Norris to sort this little disagreement out (when he has finished with his maths test first though of course...)

Well it was a toss up between Gladiators or a UFC style cage battle to the death and I felt Gladiators catered for a more extensive target audience.

On a more serious note I have to say I agree with you both; where all the honeys at?

Yeah fair point but the idea of this 20Twenty style competition isn't to inspire young athletes it's to promote the sport to a wider audience and people like Ohuruogu running mickey mouse events isn't going to do that. I love watching my sport on TV but I couldn't care less about how Ohuruogu runs t...

If you think Ohuruogu will ever be anywhere near as good as Ovett was then you are clearly on crack mate

Well they always have it for the football, rugby and tennis, I don't know if they do it for athletics though

lsabre you'd be pretty good at that live text stuff that they have on the BBC website lol

I'm sorry but comparing Christine Ohuruogu to the great Steve Ovett is athletics blasphemy. When Ovett moved away from his natural distances he still kicked arse. I know Ohuruogu has said she isn't focusing on an indoor season this winter but she got dicked on at the Irish Indoors

I'm afraid I can't, the only responses I can come up with are unsuitable ones, so how about some old skool advice...

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all

Sounds very similar to the Indoor City Challenge and if it is then it will be a load of old cobblers! (To put it nicely) I'd include that in the list of potentially good ideas that have not quite been what they could have been. Rather than assume that history will repeat itself though, why not imag...

Gentlemen can I ask a favour of you? Pay day is coming round soon and I am looking to invest in a handbag. As it seems to be an area of expertise among quite a few of you maybe you can help...?

All in favour of Anthony Treacher and Javelin Sam settling their differences in a winner takes all Gladiatoresque jousting battle and ending this once and for all say aye...

Sounds very similar to the Indoor City Challenge and if it is then it will be a load of old cobblers! (To put it nicely)

Is this the age grading that they have stuck on athleticsdata recently?