Athletics Weekly

The following athletes have gained automatic selection for the U20 Champs. No one is going to be selected for more than one age group championship, so the U18 athletes on that list are - I would think - more likely to go to the U18 worlds. And didn't Gorcka secure automatic selection by winning the...

jeremy1 wrote:I was mildly surprised

You're not alone.

boysen wrote:No Brits in w800

Sharp was on the list a few days ago. I wonder what's happened.

On the official site they've got Child running 55.12. Have they got it wrong?

clutch30green wrote:Where are people finding the start lists for the upcoming U20 and U23 British Championships?

On this page under "View Entries".

Presumably she'll be in Rieti, the European Juniors start on the 18th If she wants to be in Rieti in July won't she have to compete at the trials this weekend, though? If the entry lists available online are correct and up to date she won't be. ETA: She's on the list now. It probably just wasn't up...

mump boy wrote:Jess Judd is getting my Euro Cup place

Judd doesn't appear on the entry lists for the England Athletics U23 & U20 Championships & European Trials. Might she be injured?

Lynsey Sharp will be running in Oslo on thursday, but that's too late for the result to affect Euro Cup selection.

jeremy1 wrote:of course he was rubbishing or sneering at the post

I really don't think so.

Is the team being picked/announced tomorrow? Yes. Picked tomorrow and announced Wednesday. The selection policy document also states that "All UKA World Class Performance Plan athletes will be expected to be available for selection." and "Recent form and past Championships / European...

Her 800m success if based on strength not speed, i'm sure she'll improve over 400m but you can't be world class 800m runner if your pb is 56 sec. That pb is from the only 400m race she ran (and won) in 2012. At a National Junior Athletic League Southern Premier Division match held in April in wet a...

around June 2012 you might have said the same thing about our 800m womens depth; Okoro, Sharp, Meadows, Jackson were all talked of in the same way. :( There was strength in depth in 2012 also. Three athletes should have been selected - and no doubt would have been if not for Meadows' injury problems.

eldanielfire wrote:Tweets says 2:00:37, 2nd ever after Charlotte Moore

I've seen those tweets as well, but I think she was already second on the U20 all time list before tonight.

It looks like it may be the fastest time ever in a BMC race, though. Is there any chance videos of tonight's races will show up on the net?

An impressive PB by Hayley McLean.

She was terribly unlucky to not get selected for the WJC last year. I'm happy that doesn't seem to have deterred her.

bevone wrote: I cannt spea for jeremy but he may have been making a point that this was not a senior performance.

Are you suggesting he was being disingenuous?
Surely that cannot be the case. I know of nothing in his posting history which would suggest such a possibility.

who is Kai Jones. He's quite easy to find if you search by name: http://thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=104047 why cannot I see his anme last year on Brit rankings; It's at the top of the U17 age group: http://thepowerof10.info/rankings/rankinglist.aspx?event=SP5K&agegroup=U17...

Another year , new coach, still the same old Marilyn,... LEADING at the bell in 59.4[bit slow for her] Only to some extent. The race was rabbited at least through 400m (I don't know exactly when he stopped) so she won't actually have been front running for the first lap. And given her best times fr...

Nike don't do losers, so any deal with them carries with it at least a degree of belief and expectation of success. That said, to believe this deal is based purely on athletic potential / past success is clearly - some would say sadly - ridiculous. She was the fastest British female 800m runner in ...

jeremy1 wrote: The members of the selection panel or committee or whatever are clearly stated in the EA procedure

They are indeed, but is there anything to suggest that the standards were voted upon by the panel?

What would happen if a guy who had a poor season, which may have been due to illness or injury , who gets beaten in head to head several times, whose Ranking in the Commonwealth aint that hot, whose performances perforce are inconsistent, suddenly does something exceptional, on June 25th (after the...

I thought it would be interesting to compare WC standards v CWG standards (comparison here http://bit.ly/Zo7U6a) and it's madness. Even allowing for Caribbean and African dominance across certain events in the CWG, how can more challenging standards be justified? The standards aren't really more ch...

To be fair, the standards were published as part of the selection policy and it can only be understood as a whole. Seen in that context it seems clear the real standard here is "top 8 potential". If the panel thinks you've got that then they'll consider you. The A and B standards only dete...

sidelined wrote:He could always have used his Head Coach's discretion to select the 1500 guys if he'd wanted to.

Only if he believed they'd be likely to finish in the top 8 in Moscow.
... of course he could always pretend to honestly believe that and no one would be able to prove it wasn't true.

jeremy1 wrote:Right on . What time did HAA do to justify his selection.

A 10.20 100m in Italy last September combined with his second place at the trials guaranteed him automatic selection.

kingmaker wrote:Poster boy AA top eight? my a..e he is top 32 maybe if only 33 turn up...........................

But he's got the standard (by the narrowest of margins) and he finished in the top two at the trials so he's secured himself automatic selection with no top six or top eight panel judgements required.

What about Chris O'Hare, then? He wouldn't be at the back. Apparently Eriksson claims he didn't know before the selection meeting that O'Hare wanted to be considered. You'd think that given the time O'Hare ran they might have asked him themselves. They did ask him. They sent him an email on Sunday....

I understand the top 8 potential being the reason to choose somebody, but why take empty spaces instead of athletes? Does Peter Eriksson honestly think Chambers will finish in the top 8 in Moscow? Because he's got the standard the test becomes "likely top 6 in Göteborg". I'm not sure he i...

I understand the top 8 potential being the reason to choose somebody I've got no problem with that at all, but it seems too strict. The only way for someone to get selected without the "top six with UKA qualifying standard" requirement is if the head coach thinks they've get clear top 8 p...

Yes, Warburton with his DQ at the trials and Grice less than 1/10 second from automatic selection. But for both I think it is possible for reasonable person (or panel) to judge that they're not likely to get in the top six. The problem is having that strict a requirement in the first place, of course.

I've re-read the selection policy and it seems the only way of being selected without having the (excessively difficult) standard is if you've got " clear potential (in the Head Coach’s opinion) to finish in the top eight at the Moscow World Championships ." So he must feel Howarth has cle...

Chuffed as I am to see Howarth going, on what grounds can they justify the exclusion of Warburton and Grice if she is picked?! I can't think of any good reason. Unless they were given the option and declined, but that seems unlikely. Picking Howarth was definitely the right thing to do, but it only...