Athletics Weekly

This year has been a very low key affair compared to what was going on this time last year. Athletes seem to be making later starts. Only if you ignore all multi eventers, that is. See the separate thread on here for details of the fifth All-time performance by a British male athlete (Ashley Bryant...

Yes but a shame he ended up just 15 points short of the 8000pts barrier which I also think is the world championship B standard. Also noted he was over 70m in the javelin for the first time :) It's hard to nitpick over 15 points, as significant as it might have been, when he has produced new PB's b...

Fantastic new PB points total for Ashley Bryant in Italy. Puts him fifth on the All-time decathlon list.

http://www.iaaf.org/results/iaaf-world- ... res/points

jjimbojames wrote:She is much more developed than they were at that age - a lot will depend on her transition to the seniors

+1

As the Outdoor season starts, Joe Hutchinson posts a new PB in winning his conference championships and goes onto the UK All Time list at senior level.

http://www.thepowerof10.info/rankings/r ... &year=2013

mump boy wrote:
And accurate

Never. Outside your own mind that is ...

Not sure she would fancy training in Wigan, though! Care to elaborate? Nothing against Wigan, I've been there many times and probably will this Sunday, but given a choice between California (and a totally fresh start) and Wigan I think most would opt for sunnier climes! I wish her well. Many thanks...

mump boy wrote:

AllanW wrote:

Geoff wrote:Not sure she would fancy training in Wigan, though!

Care to elaborate?

Why does it need elaborating ? Who would ?

Mind your own business. Your contribution is unsavoury and unwelcome.

Geoff wrote:Not sure she would fancy training in Wigan, though!

Care to elaborate?

Priceless. Screencapped for posterity. Thank you.

It has been an interesting season indoors for the male multi-eventers. The UK championships were won by Michael Holden (5457 points) who was energised by his improved High Jump to 2.01m. He told me he was thrilled with that new PB after starting to work with Fuzz Ahmad. He was pushed by Martin Brock...

I think generally a 4 year rolling average best recognised method to demonstrate progression. That's possible certainly. As part of a bank of indicators against which to assess things. But 'progression' isn't really the issue, is it? We can all see that '25' in 2012 is higher than '21' in 2008 (eve...

djlovesyou wrote:How many British top 20 athletes would it take for you to praise UKA?

Not picking a fight at all, just making a point by holding up the mirror.

'How few British top 20 athletes would it take for you to consider even questioning whether UKA have been a success?'

This is not a debate any longer. Its turned into an academic war of semantics, fought between people determined to score points off each other. Steve makes a good point, one that a few of the readers here probably agree with. This thread stopped being of use in getting toward some greater understan...

hank posted some interesting data on another thread that could be of interest her as well. Thanks hank.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/datablo ... sfeed=true

Does this change anyones judgement or add to their certainty?

Great data to add to the other thread. Thanks hank.

A potential sponsor may well choose to adjudge the level of success/return that happened during Aviva's tenancy. That may be a value judgement but nevertheless be the ultimate decider on how much is put on the table. That's a very good point; a number of interested parties will be making the assess...

I thought you'd already made all the contributions you intended to make to this issue, BG? Have you because apart from attacking dj and making stuff up about other posters I haven't seen you post anything that let alone add a single point of value about the debate. The only 'attack' on djloves was t...

fangio wrote:Oh dear Allan etc

More and bigger yawn. Got anything of interest to add to this discussion?

It's alright apologising Good. Let's move on then. Oh. The rest of it said you didn't want to produce any information or support any of the points you've made so far because either you accept they are irrelevant or you can't be bothered to do so. Fine. Your choice. You're happy with your judgement ...

It's simple AllanW I very much doubt it ... Yorkshire-best says the figrues are not good. No he doesn't; he said they are not a good enough return on the investment and for the alternatives foregone. I already agreed with the clear point you made earlier with regard to the bald numbers being higher...

Change of timescale, I had ten minutes over lunch. Let’s get the puerile personal bitterness out of the way first, shall we? You are not here to debate reasonably uyou are clearly a vindictive liar like Frank Plunkett and others. I don’t know who these people are and you plainly don’t understand wha...

BigGut wrote:You can't convince a man who has already closed his mind

Not that I have a closed mind but at least you could try. Don't assert things, show that they are true. I'll get back to it this evening.

fangio wrote:So that's a no then, you will demand that anyoen disagreeing with yorkshire -best puts up evidecne but no that he evidecne his point. OK, we know where we stand.

It's this kind of willful dishonesty that loses you credit, my friend. Look this up;

'Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.'

Allan, Will you join the call for yorkshire-best to stop posting up soundbites without justifications, you seem to want anyone not posting up criticism to have to do that, so instead of supportign him and his soundbites as you normally do, how about a nice even handed request for his "unassail...

Allan, Do you have the figures for the total real term spend on the sport for each of the countries. Not yet, do you? I notice you have failed to supply any actual information at all yet in these discussions but feel it necessary to say as quickly and fully as possible what is wrong with anything t...

It takes a particularly skewed view of the world to take a 17% uplift in points and say things are not improving. This may surprise you but I couldn't agree with this point more. There is plainly some improvement in performance between Beijing, Daegu and London. The question is not 'Was there an im...

An 18% increase is surely positive, but it would be better to also place it context with the amount of money that was spent in each respective Olympic cycle. Does anyone have those figures? Unless anyone has better information I'd point you to the UKA website on the link below where the financial s...

I couldn't care less. Sometimes you don't need to say anything you just need to underline what others have said. My dismissive post was indicative of my disdain for the political trolls that infect every athletics forum. I'm sure you feel better now for having got that off your chest then. You do k...

You say compare it to Beijing, Yes I did; your point? Care to suggest other comparisons to start with? I'm willing to listen. well its an 18% increase in 4 years. Given that there is also a higher level of competition than previously then to have a points increase is a splendid achievement. So your...