Athletics Weekly

coaches_tenevents wrote:The only real difference between the two is that only one of them has failed to show up for 3 drug tests.

TROLL ALERT

Let him starve everyone

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Flumpy wrote:'The first official Paralympic Games were held in Rome in 1960. Now to light London 2012 Paralympic cauldron, please welcome Britain's very first Paralympic gold medalist, from those games 52 years ago - Margaret Maughan'

That's how it should be done!!!

Hear, hear..I quite agree

No!!!!
One of my fave American athletes. I'll certainly miss her cute dancing.

CVC just told the Beeb he is taking a couple of weeks to reevaluate things - having been advised to by a few friends, including the CEO of UKA He genuinely looked like he would have resigned but I'm not so sure now. Sue Campbell wants him to stay That interview convinced me that he wants to go. I n...

I thought Semenya gave it her all tonight and that on this occasion, she just wasn't the match of Savinova. I don't wish to re-enter an argument of eligibility but we're definitely seeing a different Semenya now than we witnessed back in 2009. Kermit alluded in an earlier post to what she's had/havi...

Packin_Snacks wrote:

devonian wrote: Btw.. the first black man to win a major javelin medal was Guillermo Martinez from Cuba in the 2009 World champs.

Ahh, thanks for that I knew I forgot about someone who did it first.

No probs

Wasn't a dig at you, dig at somebody else who failed to understand what I was saying and thought I agreed with the bizarre orders we've seen over the past couple of days when I was saying it wasn't the main thing. We certainly threw away medals in both men's relays in different ways where we did ha...

Shock in the javelin! Walcott of Trinidan & Tobago wins the GOLD medal! :) (I'm pretty certain this is the first time a black man, let alone someone from the Caribbean, has won a medal in any major javelin comp (outside of the Commonwealth Games, but I'll have to look into that). Amazing achiev...

In 1991 had 3 guys who could run sub 45 for the 400 and a 200 runner who eventually ran sub 20. That's a team you can do something with, the order might make a difference and it did, though even then the masterplan only worked because Akabusi produced a stunning run to beat the individual champion ...

Buss Buss wrote:Bolt doing the Mobot lo

That made me smile... condider 'The Mobot' authenticated!

All things being equal, I'd say we're about to see the first sub 37 second 4x100m relay by Jamaica.

Ok, Make Denise Lewis the boss of GB relay running. After her making one minor statement she has displayed a knowledge that our curent 'gurus' clearly do not possess.

Got it all wrong again ...should have had PSD on first , as we all knew . Will they ever learn ? :( It would appear not. Rule no.2 of 4x4 relay running (after get the baton round!) is never, NEVER put your weakest runner on the first leg. I'm not having a go at the athletes, I really do believe tha...

Perri is the new Laura Turner afte that interview

52.5 for the first leg...never gave us a chance

It's gone after the 1st leg

Very few things in this world are dodgier than the Turks at these games... except Makhloufi!! GRRRRR

In a rational universe that should be the last time Dai Greene is given a relay spot over faster athlete. However ... What concerns me is that he puts himself forward by speaking so publicly about wanting to be on the team. I use to like Dai but I've really gone off him these champs, with his "...

On the plus side I'm very pleased to see someone else other than USA win the title for once.

jjimbojames wrote:

mump boy wrote:45, 44.8, 45.5, 44.1

i saying nothing else

There is nothing else to say. Other than WTF at Williams slamming Levine - "We needed someone who could hold their nerve"

To be fair, Williams was ONE second faster than Levine on the first leg. I think that justifies his statement.

jjimbojames wrote:

devonian wrote:Bringing in Greene was just the shot in the arm we needed...sheesh

Hopefully he will NEVER run on a relay again. He was terrible

Perhaps he was a bit tired?

Bringing in Greene was just the shot in the arm we needed...sheesh

athlete101 wrote:Any predictions on where GB will finish?

The way things are going for GB tonight, I'll be satisfied if they DO finish the race

Yet another DISGUSTING 1500m result

With modern technology, take off boards could easily become a thing of the past negating the fouls in a competition. Just measure (at high level competitions anyway) from the point of take off, wherever that may be, to the landing point.

BTW, Brittany Resse is on fire tonight... every single one of her jumps have been over 7 meters (albeit 3 of the four have been fouls), but the last two fouls were in the 7.25/7.35m region! She's obviously a great athlete but i can't take her seriously, she obviously doesn't take long jumping very ...

In my experience, if something looks rotten and smells rotten then it's proabably rotten. Just wait for the medals to be reassigned sometime over the next 12 months...great shame for what used to be the blue riband event of the games.

Once again the 1500m becomes a non-event. I'm glad the crowd had the awareness to give him the virtual silence his performance deserved once he's crossed the line... SCUM!

Makes me so F ing mad

Oh please...what a farce...why is the 1500m always embarrassed??