Athletics Weekly

Same here, just getting audio

No two ways about it - it's on BBC3 itself, indeed. And boy oh boy are we in for a treat.

I had it set to record off Freeview 301 (red button channel) a few days ago, double checked this morning and it's still scheduled, with nothing on BBC3. The EPG lists Lausanne for BBC3 on Thursday.

Woohoo, Patton is in! Nice of the US to give everyone a chance, just a shame they didn't get drawn next to Jamaica or T&T.

As Arnie said in Total Recall: "What happened to number 5?"

Just read on the Guardian live blog that RSA have won an appeal and are in, despite not finishing.

I'm getting killed by injuries. My own stupid fault for picking Liu, Idowu, (Lashawn) Merritt to win. Not to mention Kiprop (if he counts), Foster-Hylton, Dobrynska and whoever else. And now Lemaitre has lane 2, even the template's going to lose a point there

I love Clarke's Jackson lean. He gained 2 places from that

I thought she got a valid 67-something on the 1st round? Either way, great job. She's in 5th at the moment, with another qualifying group to come.

I'm surprised the template didn't score 6 for the 1500.

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jjimbojames wrote:

Packin_Snacks wrote:

Tuckin wrote:Inexplicably awful run by Ellington.

Penny for the thoughts of Talbot...

Take note CVC... Ellington feels that he took Talbot's place.

And yet he didn't - there was a spare space for Talbot to take

I wonder if that was a deliberate dig at CVC?

Amazing run from Weir. Could be looking at a Jamaican 1-2-3? Spearmon coming up now, let's see what he can do.

This is going to be even more depressing on Thursday if the likes of Claye, Coppello and Donato are performing like today and it ends up taking barely 17m to medal.

I wonder if anyone else would rather watch the 5K than watch Phil Jones trying to make people cry.

For long shots, it's worth looking for events that are prone to upsets - hurdles, relays, very technical field events. These are the events where you DON'T want to bet on the obvious winner at crap odds. For a slightly silly patriotic bet, Okoye is 12/1 at bet365. For the men's 4x1 you can get T&...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

Yes, Grabarz had no failures. Ukhov had 1 at 2.26, Williams and Kynard had 1 at 2.29.
http://www.iaaf.org/mini/oly12/Results/ ... _HJ_hash_q

Blimey, that's a nice comeback after day 1, I thought I was in trouble after picking the only two Kenyans who didn't medal in the marathon. And damn that bloody template!

She was toying with them in that 800
Now, on to the hurdles - I hope.

Bayer only just scraped through in 11th with 7.92!

Phew... just got back from the stadium. That was my one Olympic ticket and it didn't disappoint. I couldn't believe what happened in the hurdles, I was bracing myself for another missing hurdle fiasco... Fountain 12.70 and like 4 or 5 sub 13s! I thought Jess' time had to be too good to be true. If a...

Cheers, fixed him and race walk bloke. Myerscough would have been a bit of a long shot

Lemaitre isn't running the 100.

1 Blake
2 Bolt
3-6 Blanket: Gatlin, Gay, Powell, Bledman

The other 2 finalists are probably Ryan Bailey and Burns or Thompson. But I'd like to think with a favourable semi final draw and all the planets aligned, Adam Gemili might sneak in

Hope I didn't pick anyone who didn't even make their national squad :) A quick look reveals Koech, Mateelong and Soboleva. The Kenyans are sending Kipruto, Kemboi and Mutai in the steeplechase... some have suggested Koech could replace either Mutai or Kemboi, but this doesn't seem very likely. The ...

25% thoughtful analysis 25% blind patriotism 50% IAAF top lists :) M 100: Blake Bolt Gatlin M 200: Bolt Blake Lemaitre M 400: Merritt James K.Borlee M 800: Rudisha Kaki Kszczot M 1500: Kiprop Kiplagat Chepseba M 5000: Gebremeskel Farah Lagat M 10000: Farah K.Bekele Rupp M Marathon: Kipsang Abshero M...

do you want me to tell you what the short-term forecast is? Do you really want to know what the augur Corbyn foresees for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games? Brace yourselves. “We’re very confident that there will be a lot of rain – a deluge, really – during the entire Olympic period, and we...

You could still get Greg at 20/1 for a good couple of weeks after his DL win left him with the TWO world leading jumps. Some of the bookies seem to be a bit slow to respond to these things, but maybe they're paying a bit more attention now.

Culson's still making it look easy.
Pretty big PB 48.60 for Jack Green there

It's up on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdPAmjEHp0