Athletics Weekly

Sovietvest, fully agree with your observation re Okoro and sponsorship. She is a media athlete! Hope she'll have a good season.

It's a pity that Apple hardly need more exposure.
This is why we should hope for a great German resurgence in athletics. Getting sponsorship will be an easy task like it is for biathlon for instance where German (and Russian) firms seem to queue...

It's also possible a generational thing, the vast majority of the busts now are from athletes long held in suspicion from a early 90's to mid 2000's era. I believe that a lot of the current crop of Russian T&F athletes appear not to be doping your Anna Chicherova's, Natalya Antyukh's, Ivan Ukho...

I objectify Bjorn Otto and Renaud Lavillenie all the time but it's not the reason to tune into the Eurosport/BBC coverage or to join these boards. Re KJT and others it's more likely that their physical appeal will lead to more straight women following either athletics or gossip columns as they repre...

She is a world record holder and a world champion on the road (marathon) and a European champion and former (for now) european record holder on the track (10000). Her best form and injury free periods were not in an olympic year but that doesn't take away her achievements as well as her longevity an...

eldanielfire wrote:Idnbloke, whom else do you expect o do well?

J Judd, J Sawyers, A Gemili to name a few.

So what was Flo Jo on??? We all know how successful the Eastern Bloc were with their state sponsored doping programmes but the US, with their authorities turning a blind eye, were every bit as bad. If Marita, Marlies, Heike, Barbel, Silke etc were such druggies with a whole team of experts behind t...

I hope she stays injury and similar issues clear . I watched the world junior champs last year and she's not the only young athlete we can look forward to.

Plenty of other communist countries picked em young. but few had the depth of doping program. This is where the better doctors issue come into play. They will devise an individual program for an athlete, with knowledge of pharmacodynamics, biomechanics and sports physiology to improve performance w...

idnbloke I think I see where you are coming from in this debate , but a little more clarification would help. If most, or all, top athletes were on PEDS in the 80's why were the Eastern Bloc so much better at it than everyone else? If the Brits were all on the stuff, as you hint, why were they so i...

Ok I might upset some romantic individuals here but : 1)I believe that in the 1980s the athletes were competing on even terms unless they came from a country that didn't have a proper athletics program or they were too dreadfully poor to have access to any PEDs - many posters here are fretting over ...

I presume the IAAF will start testing samples from 2006 this year. Will there be an annual reallocation of medals? I'm annoyed by the fact hat whole championships are getting invalidated. Should we start recording events and watching them later after re-tests are done on RUS/TUR/BLR athletes and so...

What really worries me is that there's no retesting chart with the names and results of those retested. If the IAAF singles out Russia and Belarus athletes and not retesting USA, Jamaica, Kenya, Ethiopia, UK ones then it's a joke. When the IAAF do publish the yearly doping tests numbers it beggars b...

[quote="mpjmcevoy"] the top four in the TT phase go through to seeded semis (or 8 into quarters if you prefer) - where it is simply winner takes all - two winners to gold race off, two losers to bronze race off. Think that would actually be quite new and entertaining for the indoor crowd. ...

The European Team champs fiasco was rather unfortunate I agree, but it would add interest to middle/log distance events that have so many stale races. The time trial if paced over 45 0r 60 seconds will not be treated as a scratch. Also the top three pre race favourites based on SB would run 4th, 8th...

So take 12 athletes in a 3000 m race. After 200 m they commence seven eliminate laps. At 600, 1000 and 1400 we lose the last two; At 1800, 2200 and 2600 we lose the last one over the line and in the final lap the remaining three battle it out for the podium. Time trial : 1500 or 3000 m : intervals o...

Does anyone else remember the coverage of 2012 DL with JE & CJ when they'd ramble on and then 'introduce the athletes' in the lanes before we only just transferred to the commentary. I'm not someone who gets stressed but that showed me what a horrible thing stress is !!!! I loved the enthusiasm ...

jjimbojames wrote:
Clare Balding would also be great - I though she was excellent in any sport she led

She was the surprise package.

There's the question of how we view different goals. There's fans ( myself included) who wish too see large competitive teams at major events, good European Team event, depth in most events at domestic meets and trials and the medalists will rise to the top. The other one is aiming for precious meta...

One think I still struggle to fathom is the 2004 Olympics affair with refusing to give a sample/ tampering! They knew they were favourites and therefore as medalists they would have known they'd be tested! It wasn't an out of competition ambush control !

Lukewarm Olympics . It started well on the first Friday and Saturday ( not just due to our success ) but overall downhill since. Rudisha is not enough . The Bolt/Blake circus detracts from the sport. If there's no interest in who makes it through the heats or who just missed out on a final it's not ...

Oh lest I forget. I don't want to hear so much about USA and Jamaica but more about Bleasdale, Pavey, Child, Pozzi, Hazel, Awde, Tomlinson even if they ain't won a medal. I'd also think youngsters might get spurred on to do field events if they were shown . It took four women to jump 2 metres before...

Despite the fact there were multiple channels i feel like i have seen less athletics than any championships in history :x I never thought I'd say this but looking forward to the channel 4 coverage from Moscow. They were more respectful to the casual viewers and the fans last year than BBC just now....

iain wrote:Damn I wanted Beitia to medal

Me too. Was gutted when Barrett learned 2.00.

I am happy for every single medal.
Overall I am underwhelmed to not see more competitive athletes like Jo and Julia in the 5 and 10.
Not been a good games medals excluded.

9/10 for Radio 5 Live . 7/10 for BBC1 coverage. 8/10 for Red Button athletics channels. Did you notice that the dedicated athletics channel didn't Stream the competition TV feed while the chatting on BBC was on and they had a stadium view only instead... Oh and the commentators also switched off. I...

I don't know how we don't have three 400 m runners that can run under 51 in an open 400 after so many promises over the years. Lee struck some fom last season but not this one. Nicola might need to retire unless she knows she can get in good shape for next year. Languishing behind third string Europ...

On a scale fom 1-10!

She needs a tactics coach . Oh and she should watch Zarudneva, Rudisha , Holmes and others run races. But Even if you're not the absolute super best in the wold you can stil run your race and sometimes you treat parts of it as a time trial rather than bunching up hoping for the best.

So excited for the final tomorrow (hope it's not a let-down like much of this evening - the 1500m was appalling)[/quote]

They'll be stupid to run slow. I just hope Niyonsaba doesn't trip herself or others as she really really is inexperienced and I cheer for her and keep laughing when I see her race.