Athletics Weekly

Listen, fangio, you are, as usual, talking nonsense; the British record without an acknowledged cheat, DC, is 37.77 in 1993 and you have no evidence whatsoever that Christie was a cheat at the time of the 1993 performance at Stuttgart Of the top ten performances,All-time, in the Sprint Relay 4x100, ...

You went to Kenya and checked his birth certificate and tell us ,all, please how old is he. Fraudulent, you say. is he perhaps 17 or 18 or even 19 . Of course you have no evidence ,just AW Forum bull s hit. If he was 20 or 21 still a remarkable performance. Did someone say Britcentric... you mean Br...

So how many of our athletes at Senior level have beaten 1.44.08 and 7.40.1 in the last 14 years /I did not realise you checked his birth date.

"The world has changed." Now I understand. I did not realise it. :shock: :shock: So has the pro set up in the UK and money thrown at Track and Field for the benfit of our athletes to improve greatly; The yanks have an even more couch potato society than us, and taxpayers don't lash out cas...

Rubbish rant; you deliberately did not accentuate that since 1997 in general when UKA took over and when the money poured in to a fully bureaucratic set up this century you might well have expected some records. I should think so!!! lets have a look at our records since UKA took over in 1997 men 5K/...

Fantastic 3000m today Kenyan called Mitonik wins 3K in 7.40.10, new championships best, with Mwitya second in 7.40.60

The Kenyans are just a production line. These guys are 17.!!!!!!

what happened to the 10.13 guy of May or was it early June, Mr HAA...10.23 with a +1.0 wind. MLF... just a guy who talks the talk... at 10.38... probably going to hear some stuff about injuries. A 35 year old Veteran is the only Brit to qual for the final and he false starts, I read. What does that ...

A wonderful example of the love of world wide track is demonstrated here; one of the most amazing performances ever, the 1.44.08 by the young African Masai winner of the 800m in a fabulous standard race gets coverage here of 6/7 words from Paul. The guy's previous best is thought to be 1.46.08. Thir...

Never watched one second of the BBC coverage which I knew would be crap and would ape the idiot coverage ,style and comments that is typical of the American coverage. Quite happy to see the online results and of course, your delightful, charming comments about the babbling twerps employed to talk en...

Firstly, I will be watching all the athletes in the OG next year and will be there as well. Always delighted to see a Brit win a medal or do well or a PB, so your silly post, Steve, is risible. You guys really believe you invented support for British athletes :lol: :lol: :lol: If you want,Sidelined,...

All you fans ever post is when a good Brit performance is achieved when you go into mild hysteria; if you fans would tell us about or at least mention the great Brit 400 m,800 m ,1500m and Steeple athletes and great womens stuff in the 400,800,1500,5000 and 10,000 as well as the hoopla stuff I would...

do you include Hitchon's record as world class;

Apparently Gatlin and Chambers met in the dressing rooms to swap stories as to who was the bigger rogue.!

I cannot waste my time posting to idiots like you 6 national records ; I am expiring with joy.Not!!! Except Farah and I am awaiting his Medals on Daegu and London???

Shara Proctor,Ofili Porter; our New Brits!!!!

Oh so Big gut tells us that all that happened in the eighties/early ninties is not immeasurably greater than a few Brit records and good performances; he and his ilk starting the hysteria. Coe,Ovett, Foster, Christie,Regis,Black, Thomas,Akabussi,Jackson,Jarrett,,Backley,Edwards,Cram,Elliott,Moorcrof...

Ben Helfgott, known personally to me , was no plastic anything; he did not grow up in another society, and was one of the "boys" which you may or may not be familiar with ; to compare Ben who gave much to the Brits who took him in and gave him his opportunity, coached him and looked after ...

no flash... just live in the real athletics world here not as presented by the BBC and UKA mob. The other day I read somat from UKA Endurance Director( hollow laugh) Stewart saying that our distance runners are not worse than in the seventies and eighties because in the seventies/eighties we had nob...

chaz have you noted the list of our middle and long distance athletes,men and women, who have achieved an A this outdoor year or even a B for that matter...depressing to say the least...7 weeks to go to Daegu. A very short list........ one male 800m runner,Rimmer, has an A and, surprise, he has been...

injured in warm up and not taking risks in what I call the athletes pre WC paranoid phase...7 weeks to go.

And Baddeley was 15th; things are looking up.

I would love to know why he is obsessed with going to the back straight away; perhaps he knows what we know ; he aint anything special as a 1500m athlete.

and the women field eventers are a mere 3, Holly B,. Sophie Hitchon and a Long Jumper. A grand total of 6 athletes in 16 events.!! Not many..!

The list of entrants for the Euro Under 23s is up on the EAA site; depressing to see in the "mens" section only 3 Brits, a high jumper,Smith, and our two discus entrants. One of the lowest from the major countries.

LOCOG have no interest whatsoever in anybodys frustrations or empty spaces at early sessions of athletics or other sports, since the ideals for Locog was 500 million pounds from the sale of tickets; they never talked before the April 2011 sale date about selling over 3 rounds, or 1 million tickets n...

Many thanks scoot ; was getting nowt till your stream site came good. Lille brings back great memories of Jonathan jumping 18.43 with a 2.3 m tail wind in front of us in the Euro Cup.

The Beebs website for DLs being shown says "BBC Red Button or BBC website"; that, I assume, means that the Red button on BBC1 or BBC2, top right corner; as opposed to Channel 301 on Freeview. Is this correct for the brilliant meet on Friday?

Athough the wind factors are acknowledged as sometimes complex, I cannot, with the greatest possible generosity to Richard Kilty, accept the idea that he just ran a better race by 0.63 secs in the space of a week, even if theSwiss reading somehow represented a much greater wind benefit. We look forw...

just a load of waffle to me and maybe others. "arbitary,spurious,prejudice" my eye.... against a bunch of athletes waving passports in the air and telling us what...that they are entitled to compete here. Not if UKA had said that dual nationality athletes would be allowed to compete for a ...

Of course, I understand that in certain cases there are complex inter-national issues for various athletes, but my point is that the British athletes of whom we have been talking are being no more than opportunist, and have little or no true family or personal connections, having been brought up in ...

Richard Kilty....U23s..... Bedford 26 June... wind +0.7..................... 21.16

Richard Kilty......La Chaux de fonds 3rd July.......wind+ 0.7......20.53

Welcome to the real world..