Athletics Weekly

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic ... 412054.stm

500 days to go and we can't afford to send a team to our home Olympics!

Only in Britain....

It's enabling you to train beyond your physical capabilities, much as EPO does. Whether it's illegal or not... consult the rule books.

TheRealSub10 wrote:You already get the archive back to 2007 if you have the digital subscription...

Yes, but sadly my competitive career tailed off after 2005!

Matthew,

Are there any plans to add to the archive retrospectively? An online archive of AW would be a superb resource.

I can't see athletics being dropped totally, but I can see the format being tinkered with. If you look at cycling with the dropping / inclusion of certain events I can see a time when IOC try to do the same with athletics and drop less glamorous events.

Baddeley also ran a pretty decent time. Cram never won it though...

Not sure I'd trust PM's in a very old, unpatched version of PHPBB ??

Top fella! Maybe UKA will stop funding 3rd rate sprinters now?


No,,, maybe not.....

The admins of AD should be careful.... one of them has also stood for political election so deleting the views of the opposition party would be viewed as corrupting an election.

I'd post that on AD, but alas I'm long since banned for having a brain....

Look at the Athletics page on BBC,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/default.stm

Virtually every article and picture is Chambers!

Why oh why oh why is he working with Conte again?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/7938590.stm

Look, it's very simple. You take the current world record and then you compare your own performance to it. No adjustments for age, knee surgery or any other nonsense... That's a true indicator of how good you are. Age grading is just stuff and nonsense! I tell you what. For £50 I'll post you a sheet...

And consequently get prosecuted for copyright infringement?

Kermit, I don't really understand why you keep trying to compare athletics coaching with fitness trainers. "Athletics" is an entity. By that I mean it's run / managed by UKA / regions / clubs as a single organisation. It's reasonable to expect a comparable level of coaching across all club...

I don't like people who waste the taxes that I pay on pointless, petty nonsense. The courts in this country have enough to deal with, without your pathetic, continued tirade against BMAF.

You don't even live in this country. Shove off you old fart and stop wasting British taxpayers money.

malcolm.fenton wrote:Can you elaborate please...?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/may/08/4

Ovett and Coe were bloody minded about what they were going to achieve. Medals and world records. Todays athletes seem more bothered about doing enough to stay on funding, rather than aiming to be the best.

Dave Moorcroft did not like Charles' comments to Kelly at the end of the 800m, and for this reason was delaying the appointment, even though the others on the selection panel were clear that Charles was the right person. Can someone refresh us about these comments? "You're a wimp and you shoul...

UK Sport must surely insist on major changes to the structure, policies and personnel. As track and field has to succeed in London, UK Sport will probably provide similar and then increased funding if suitable changes take place. I thought it was UK Sport who had implemented the current structure??...

All I will say on the matter is the following:- I have seen 5 different polls from various forums and all have been in favour of Chambers. Even UKA are not sure that the BOA ban is legal in the eyes of the law. It's got nothing to do with whether UKA think the ban is legal. BOA select the team base...

nevetssllim wrote:The reason he gave was that it was his daughter's first birthday. Quite frankly, this excuse does not wash with me. Why couldn't he have taken his family with him?

And who's paying for this family holiday?? If he's got a family and a full time job I suspect he has got his priorities right.

Exactly. I never really warmed to him and it was hard to justify carrying on funding him, when he barely runs for Great Britain outside of Olympic competition (OK, I know he has had his injuries) but I can probably count the number of his international caps this decade on one hand. So outside of th...

Without the benefit of a membership scheme how do you substansiate your numbers?

Malcolm If you wish to receive support from the sport you must first govern the sport in accordance with the wishes of the sport. The introduction of a registration scheme after a democratic vote to reject a registration scheme has completely soured relationships between UKA/EA and ordinary athlete...

What's the score with times being valid as say, Euro / World qualifiers if the race is switched as described?

Big Gut, You're way off the mark with your comments about Sir Eddie Kulukundis. His generosity was far beyond that of the club that he is most associated with. But the sport needs more than one private benefactor. It seems to me that unless the sport can gain independant funding it must take what it...

Malcolm I am not working to bring about the downfall of athletics in this country. It became impossible to persuade the road runners to continue to subsidise track and field athletics after the decision was taken to impose a registration charge. I think we all have a responsibility to ensure that t...

The Data Protection Act is a very complex piece of legislation. However I have followed the flow chart provided by the Information Commissioner in order to establish whether the data held by ARC constitutes personal data as defined by the Act. The data we hold does identify individuals but it does ...

Why do you have to start off by coaching kids to get anywhere? I'd like to be a coach but I'm not in the least bit interested in teaching kids to throw plastic javelins. Mike, Why should anything other than track & field be binned? Far more adults take part in road / cross-country than track &am...