Athletics Weekly

Ha ha Ashton, irony I presume?! Mennea acknowledged steroid use years ago.

This thread is an absolute disgrace to sport, the internet, and human-beings. Yes, to think that there are some people foul enough to speculate about past athletes actually makes me feel better about myself, but nonetheless I am still filled with disgust to read the utter nonsense dribbling out of ...

Yes, and while I know its tougher running on your own, wasn't her split 'only' 57.6? It wasn't even that fast! I really like Okoro but hated the EI mess up a few years ago and she also said that she didn't care what people thought, she loved front running and would do it her way. She is neitherv fas...

Am completely with oleg - I find the 400m times very surprising indeed. Clarke and Child I expect to do well....

Becky L was great, I am sorry to hear she has retired.

One thing though - extraordinary to see how fortunes have changed in justa few years - our female athlete of the year in 2006 (Becky) only won a bronze at the Euros!

I like Twell but I don't see it happening this year. I see on Twitter she is thinking of doing the 5k in London (if Twitter can be believed ) - just shows how weak that QT is. 15:15/15:25 is stupidly easy for any distance runner of worth to do and its a shame that it may encourage people to qualify ...

Not C Jackson, pleeeeease!
And hopefully plenty of action rather than ridiculous replays (never even in full), flash excerpts, boring analysis and hip hop ludicrous music.....

Great, thanks guys

Anyone know if this is being televised? Thanks, peeps.....

Some great points above, guys. I too wonder about Jodie W - she hasn't looked great this year at all, and she was disappointing in Istanbul. I also found Tiff Porter disappointing - when she ran 7.93 earlier this year I expected she would knock a tenth from that and were it a higher calibre entry fi...

No disrespect to Sophie (big kudos to her and I hope she has an amazing future), but this is a very weak national record. It has only increased by less than a metre and a half in several years, and that record itself has not a finalist level performance. Several women are sailing over 72m now, let a...

We really are looking at a devalued Euro Champs this year. It might be good for the sport itself by having them every two years, but most Euro champs this year will have little of the status enjoyed by previous edition winners......

Looming at Sotherton's PBs, I do think she threw away a fantastic chance in Beijing. If she had ever got it together, she could have scored 6700+. Of course she never has brought it all together - but that was her real chance of glory, IMHO.

Lancashire is injured. Richard Kilty has been venting his fury on Twitter, saying 6 or 7 athletes ranked behind him over 200m are funded and he is not. Although I feel sorry for him, he has the curse of a La Chaux des Fonds performance......20.53 there, and his next best time (with a wind recording)...

Cool Geoff, cheers m8

Christian Malcolm says in today's AW he has raced Carl Lewis. When would that have happened? I thought that Lewis probably retired before Malcolm's international career begun?

Sanders should not have been on the team - she is in on past form and we fell waaaaaaaaay back on her leg. I think I'd have run Meadows or eve Child - they wouldn't have got us up to Russia but they would have run better than NS.

OB - have looked everywhere for the footage and it seems that none exists! Checked 1984 ATFS annual as well and there is no info on the splits, alas. I do think that 28 is pretty normal to do the first 200 though, tbh - the real damage is done in the second 200. Yes, hopefully Jenny will fix his for...

Good on him!

Mump and Flump interview v good as well

Oldboy that is nowhere near world record pace?! I think Kratochvilova did 56.3/57.0. I am sorry for Jenny - she didn't run badly at all, but she lacked that bit of speed at the end to hold Vessey off? Irrespective, everyone is racing for silver behind Caster, and Savinova looks pretty good too. Mump...

I remember the days when both channels screened the meets - if only, these days!

Agree with Oleg. Overweight. And overrated.

Superb interview - Freeman tells it like it is!

Noble sentiments from the posters above - but why don't you the people who have lost their homes and businesses and worse, the families of the people who were murdered that you don't feel comfortable with those terms? I don't give a damn where someone comes from, so it's nothing to do with class at ...

Sorry, I stand by my view - useless. We all go to the track etc, so what - if she is being billed as a 'talented sportsman' with marks like that then we are in real trouble. Pikey chav - when I see the footage of her whacking the police car like that it makes my blood boil, particularly beside those...

She is a useless athlete and a worse person.
But I have great respect for her mother.

Horrible chav. Olympics ambassador? She should have been vetted.You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

The nearest she should get to 2012 is cleaning filthy portaloos in Olympic park.

Hmmm

I like the inclusion of Porter, I am just concerned that Abi lacks the basic speed needed for anchor?

I'm in guys, will get thinking as well

She came 14th at the last WC and has improved by over 150 points since then she could very well come top 10. how many other UK athletes can say they came top 14 ?? (the equivalent of Semi final) loads won't get past first round very strange person to use as an example :? Welcome Eddie, but I echo M...