Athletics Weekly

The officials may well have learned from Steve Hooker's antics and insisted on them vaulting on despite a Swede being the likely one to miss out! Holly over 4.56 anyway and in to the final.

but there are 9 in the men's HJ final with no one attempting auto qualifying of 2.31?????

mump boy wrote: eldanielfire wrote: It's great she has the world lead, but the way she flunked the 4.90m suggested she chocked on the pressure a bit, in my opinion not for the first time in the past year. Did you watch them? There were poor vault attempts not near misses. It wasn't an issue of her n...

Holly Bleasdale season opener in Orleans France. Wins comp with 4.62. Great start Holly

She made a flippant remark about Isi being disrespectful to other competitors IIRC which has nothing to do with whether she 'mentally fell apart' or not. Once again as the athlete with the least experience i can't blame her if she did and if so she was in good company, Feofanova, Murer, Pyrek didn'...

sidelined wrote:Thanks to Andy Byers for his post. I wish Katie all the best.

It seems to me that the real question is this: why wasn't UKA prepared to fund Julien Raffalli?

Do we know for certain that they aren't?????

She made a flippant remark about Isi being disrespectful to other competitors IIRC which has nothing to do with whether she 'mentally fell apart' or not. Once again as the athlete with the least experience i can't blame her if she did and if so she was in good company, Feofanova, Murer, Pyrek didn'...

Could it be as simple as that in technical events having a full time athlete with a part time coach means the athlete isn't able to take proper advantage of being ful time as they can only really do their technical work around their coach's full time job. I really don't see the need for there to be...

CJ needs to retire!!!!

Why on earth should Bleasdale 'crawl away to a deep hole' when she had just gained a top 6 placing at her first Olympics, incidentally a target she set herself which she has spoken about many times recently????

damienc wrote:Holly. Ouch! Her form is worrying, she mentioned in Manchester that she was still in heavy training but she should surely be clearing decent heights by now!?

Don't suppose it helped her that her coach was unavailable to travel with her

I didn't get tickets in the first round so was eligible to apply this time round. What a shock to find, when trying to get tickets for Women's pole vault final, that there were tickets to be had- but only at £450 a pop!!!!! my finances just don't stretch sadly!!!!

How long are the pole vault competitions going to take??? In the women's there are 26 athletes with PBs ranging from 2m to 4.20m!!!! What a joke!!!!!

I think Andrew Osagie is happier with his bronze than Holly Bleasdale is with hers. However, it is Britain's first ever Senior PV medal at world level, male or female. On twitter it also says this: At 20y and 130d, @HollyBleasdale becomes the youngest ever pole vault medallist, male or female, at t...

Katie Byers has cleared 4.52 at a meeting in Nevers, in France (according to her coach on Twitter). That is outstanding if you think that she's 18 and Holly's best at 19 was 4.35... Issy's best U20 mark was 4.40. The Olympic A standard is 4.50. Actually Holly's best at 19 was her 4.70 NR in Mannhei...

and still only off 14 strides!!!!!!

Three GB athletes have been nominated and currently HOLLY BLEASDALE is in the lead!!!! :D (one of only 2 field eventers nominated and new record achieved on 12 strides rather than 16 - they failed to mention that!!!) Emma Pallant in second and Emelia Gorecka 4th. Let's get behind these great athlete...

Absolutely amazing!!! It was off 12 strides rather than the usual 16!!!! What can she do in the summer???? The mind boggles

Bleasdale. :( :cry: :cry: She'll bounce back in no time! She has real strength of character and will use this disappoinment to her advantage as she has done with bad times in the past :D It happens to the best of them. Isinbayeva NHed in her first major senior champs at the Sydney Olympics. She was...

nevetssllim wrote:Bleasdale.

She'll bounce back in no time! She has real strength of character and will use this disappoinment to her advantage as she has done with bad times in the past

Re: Coverage on UKA website "An all-star cast of British and international athletes is set to head to the Aviva London Grand Prix." What a pity they "forgot" to mention any of the field athletes!!! Doesn't bode well for the coverage the field will get - probably far less than the...

Nominees:
Holly Bleasdale
Mo Farah
Dai Greene
Tiffany Porter
Jodie Williams

Here's the link:

http://www.european-athletics.org/gener ... uly-6.html

Superb interview with Holly

http://www.leichtathletik.tv/v/holly-bleadsdale-i-m-so-happy-right-now

Holly Bleasdale now ranked joint 2nd in Senior Women's Pole Vault despite being first year Under 23!!!!

Sorry John F missed that whilst texting everyone I know!!!!!

Forget that again - 4.70m now!!!!

Forget that - 4.65m - NEW NATIONAL RECORD at 19 years old!!!!!!!

Fantastic day in the Pole Vault. Bleasdale just equalled national Record of 4,60m first time!!!!

Earlier, training partner Katie Byres won the U20 competition with a massive new PB of 4.20m.

Well done girls and coach Julien Raffalli!!!

What on earth is a spambot?????

Elsewhere: - Ms Bleasedale: what dead weight she carries round her middle (in great contrast to the POL & GER athletes who were 1 & 2) . Just a few stat comparisons: Anna Rogowska (1st) first international 2002 (4m20) @ age 21 PB @ 19yrs = 3m60 Silke Spiegelberg (2nd) first international 20...

jambob wrote:Holly competed for her club at the Northern League in Blackpool on 7th May. She then went out to Formia training for a week.

She also got 2 new PBs in Shot and Javelin!!! Her opener is indeed Ostrava Golden Spike on Tuesday.