Athletics Weekly

The new NGB can fill the clubs up with good coaches that the old NGB scared away, that would be the ideal start to get athletics working again. The clubs were conveinently blamed for all the short comings in athletics but we now know 21st centuary UKA are ten times worse.

NO MEDALS FROM THE PLASTIC BRITS = waste of money and lost places for our athletes and another failiure of CVCs.

Must agree with steve on this, just wait until she pops 15m out in the shot

Well there will be 80,000 spectators at the stadium which is double of that of all other sports, that answers it for me.

Let us put things into perspective instead of trying to be armchair psycholgists :wink: (and bad ones at that!) Phillips is doing what Phillips wants to, and he like every other athlete has the right to follow thier own paths, as most in the past have done, and done so highly successfully. The probl...

CVC is a green grocer what more do you expect

So if you really do dislike whats going on in Startford and the fact that 7 young hopefuls who may or not make it future lit the torch, may I humbly suggest you turn off your TV till the 13th of August. That makes no sense at all. Why would my thinking the last 20 minutes of the Opening Ceremony wh...

There are a lot of jealous people out there Africans included, wondering how Mo got so good, so quickly, after moving to America' and their bitternnes cannot be kept in, so it spills out in malicious rumour.

I thought they would have had this covered steve with hologram fans..

I never thought of it in that way steve, Triple jump could now be the most watched event at the Olympics, maybe P.I wanted to get everyone to watch him take gold

Kingmaker you are really creepy.

http://www.pinpoint1.f2s.com/assets/images/piersmorgan1.JPG Jeremy prepares his online celebration of dropped batons, DQ's and more than the usual number of Brits caught easing up in the heats. Thats sick, if you knew bennyg oops sorry jeremy1 as well s I do you would not make such gestures.

No kingmaker you get a bleedin grip, mind you you have already had one haven't you, so nothing detrimental coming from you then :wink: Our opinions are just as valid as yours, and we care not a jot who you say you are, you have had your brag now, we are simply expressing an opinion which is our righ...

jeremy, not with you on this one at all.

The Olympic motto is faster, higher, stronger. Would Sir Steve like to tell us which of his 5 greater than Daley Olympians did all 3 of those?. His argument is plain idiotic. Yes he won 5 medals at 5 games but that simply isn't possible in many events where the requirements of the event and the fer...

I don't think his performance (which some say the 4min mile was beaten to by another runner) is anywhere near the level of performance by Daley who broke wmore difficult world records than Bannister.

Indeed S.V and before UKA and lottery funding existed we still had quality Olympic gold medalists .

Time will tell, Goldie was all set to wait for the olympics a short rest at this stage of her Olympic Programme would make little difference, it could actually benefit her overall, of course there is plenty of other things she could be working on with out exposing her arm to any undue stresses and s...

Thats what I was thinking S.V He ran the 100m in around 10.2 so with intensive hurdling coaching he might have been another Jackson/Jarret?

I agree soviet vest, Daley could have been an outstanding longjumper/sprinter and possibly a great 110hurdler to maybe even a top pole vaulter as he had the speed and strength in short like many multi eventers (Ennis 100h, Cluft L.J) they could have been champions in individual events. I especially ...

Dead right steve, she is good enough to rest it until the day of the competition, because another early low arm will b*gger her elbow up and cost her a medal opportunity.

8) :D Steve I had hoped that when the lottery came into effect it would have taken over the good works people like Eddie Kulikundis (excuse the spelling) did with their wealth. I do not believe the lottery funder wants accountability in the totalitarian we control all with an iron fist system, I thi...

As long as it doesn't rain I am not that bothered about the effect the wind may have.

There was a great article in the Mail yesterday on Daley Thompson and the German giant who pushed Thompson to so much Glory, so for me I would love to see these two giants of athletics get the honour.

This is why I intensely dislike the overbearing contracts for cash UKA hand out to their priveledged few. WE are not soldiers or UKA robots and freedom to coach and perform and to obtain medical, nutritional expertise free's one from the many down sides of submitting your self to an over bearing aut...

I had a bet on Goldie as well I hope P.I is really ok and not just looking to get into the olympics then pulling out.

Some stretch of the imagination required here, imagine the stress of having some one you have beaten previously taking your place because you were trying it on in the blocks

Hear hear, one woulde xpect someone on a million pound contract to be able to resolve any dispute with any athlete, CVC has been found wanting.

This is real bad news for Goldie, i had her down for a bronze medal at least, lets hope a cortisone injection gets her safely through the games.