Athletics Weekly

In Poland: A World Champs A standard for Lisa: :D 1 10 53 DOBRISKEY Lisa 83-12-23 GREAT BRITAIN 4:04.81 SB 2 9 52 GEGA Luiza 88-11-05 ALBANIA 4:05.11 PB 3 11 54 PLIŚ Renata 85-02-05 POLAND 4:07.35 http://www.forsport.info/ Not only that but a win as well. So happy that Lisa and Hannah are fit and h...

SteveK26 wrote:I'm starting to develop a nagging suspicion that Jess Eniss-Hill's whole season is in jeopardy..

Not much evidence for that yet and if it is, well at least its not 2012!

I wonder if Aregawi can maintain this form in the womens 1500m? She looks invincible at the moment in both slow and fast races, yet its still 2 months to the world champs, she races an awful lot and she has had a full indoor season on top of that.

@Ursus

As he was down for the 10k until yesterday. He must almost be at the fitness to do himself justice over 10k. I reckon his test sessions this week favoired his chances over 5k rather than 10 sohey went with the 5. having said that my money is on Rupp.

Apparantly he has a stomach complaint. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/31/athletics-prefontaine-farah-idUSL3N0EC0H420130531 Might explain his slow time in London last weekend. The stomach complaint was apparently a month ago, so maybe it has just disrupted his training rather than being an o...

Mr Me How many hard races can a distance athlete sustain in a season? He'll want a race or two to get in shape for Moscow, but not necessarily really tough ones. I understand that Moscow is the priority, but one competitive spring target would of been nice, its not like its Olympic year anymore. Wh...

It's not Mo's fault that the organisers failed to give him stiffer competition, is it? What's the difference between what Mo has done and what Rutherford did on Saturday? #raiseawarenessofthesport I don't think Mo was after competition in this race just a fun run in his home town. Its the British 1...

Farah wins the 10K road race in 29.13, somewhat slower than expected even with a negative wind maybe; did he just trot round and is he saving it till Eugene either 5 or 10K when he will have some tougher competition. Wooton won the race in 32.37 with Twell and Pidgeon a minute behind in 2nd and 3rd...

What's happened to Greg R's sponsorship deal with Nike? Perhaps he rated his gold more than they did. Wonder who is agent is. I'm really disappointed in the way Rutherford's gold medal seems to have received very little attention from the British media after the Olympics. It seemed to have been all...

I have not heard a word about Gemili. Is he injured or what. Last year on June 2nd he was already in sub 10.11 territory. he has been out training in the states. The impression I get is he had an injury at the start of the year which has put him behind a little but now he is approaching a good leve...

Mr. Me Nothing on the horizon in mens 1500. But Osagie's rate of improvement last year puts him in a good place. I look forward to the progression of Chris o'hare and Ross Murray especially Murray who came from nowhere last year on what seemed like unstructured/ part time training, hes moved to Ore...

48.9 for Rhys Williams. Jack Green DNF - getting just a little worried about him now :cry: I always thought it silly to withdraw funding from a newly crowned European Champion - this proves it. :roll: It seemed all the funding decisions were based on the olympics and nothing else. Indoors meant not...

We always go into the champs with a chance of the medal in the womens 1500m and with laura weightman in fine form and lisa dobriskey coming off a solid bowt of winter training for the first time in a long time, there will be a chance there. Will we every get a medal in the mens 1500m/ 800m again? Ca...

This was indeed the case from the horses mouth on Twitter. Greg replied to the same query that Nicola Sanders asked and he responded by saying that most of his sponsers walked away post games and this was the reason he work his MK club kit. Quite surprising considering!! Surely he means walked away...

This ''tactical'' debate thing seems to be a ''damned if you do , damned if you don't'' scenario. Only if you keep getting it so wrong over and over again. And it is quite obvious many Uk athletes get it tactically very wrong when championships come around. Name names, two that often crop up are li...

It would be such a relieve to see one or two of our middle distance runners male or female run with conviction and without fear. Like Crammy did. Keeping my fingers crossed for the women just mentioned, and hope that they believe that the best and only way to run is not at the back of the pack , tr...

The startlists are up on the website, with British interest focused on the long jump which features Chris Tomlinson, Greg Rutherford and JJJ. Grabarz goes again in the high jump, Conrad Williams in the 400m and Helen Clitheroe the 5000m.

Startlists are now up on the diamond league website. More British entries than I expected: TBO, Osagie and Rimmer (racing Rudisha), Jack Green, Procter, Grabarz. Not a bad meet.

So I beleive Lisa will soon be upgraded to 9th, top 8 is helpful for future selelction isn't it? I'm sure she'll get there.

I doubt Mr. Brownlie will seriously target track and field. Why would he, as the worlds best triathlete by a country mile? He will never be able to devote the time needed to take on the worlds best. If he runs in Glasgow it will be for a bit of fun. I think he will dabble in track and field as its ...

sidelined wrote:How sad for Joe Thomas and Matt McLaughlin to fly all the way to America...for nothing.

Did anyone see what happened to Rooney? Did he fall over twice?

He fell on the bend, didn't look like his fault but shame he didn't get up just in order to give the other two some running to do.

I fail to see why Mo's appearance has upset so many of you. He (presumeably) enjoyed himself, the public were pleased to see him, and he got in his Sunday endurance run. Whats the problem? That he earned a few bob ? What we should be embarrassed about is the lack of GB contenders (male and female) ...

Did Mo Farah actually get to the 20K mark, how far back when he stopped from the main bunch at the time and what was the official 20K time. I heard 58.30 for the latter ; any official knowledge on that one. He wasn't really racing anyone or pushing himself, didn't look tired, looked a bit embarasse...

Did Mo pull out before halfway as apparently a lot of people annoyed who were at the 13 mile mark to watch him but never saw him? (Some disgruntled people on tube just told me). If true he could have at least kept his end of the deal Yes he did it was a very strange finish, just crept through the r...

It was a poor showing by the europeans today but there weren't really any strong performers entered. Don't know where the Russians were? In terms of GB performance in the womens race, I'm afraid thats it now Paula and Mara have almost retired/ retired. I'm not expecting any world class women form te...

Steph Twell {injuries aside} has not progressed to become the star everybody expected. They cant seem to decide whether shes a 1500m 5000m or x-country runner. w'ell have to see what happens Gorecka over coming years Its worth remembering that Twell is only 23, and has had a very harsh injury that ...

Helen Clitheroe has dropped out of the London Marathon because she's missed training with a cold and feels she wouldn't be able to do herself justice. What a pity. She's now aiming for an autumn marathon. A real shame, but this is the problem with marathon runners who are approaching 40, small thin...

This is just lawyers games again. An innocent man should have the right to compete so they are trying to act as if it's business as usual. Guilty of not thoroughly disgraceful behaviour, but we've come to expect nothing less in this case. Anyone in the world who is facing a murder trial, even if th...

I was amazed at some attitudes on tv this morning when this was discussed. Saying he should be able to go to the worlds this year because hes innocent until proven guilty. I'm sorry but he shot his girlfriend in the head, there is no question of whether he did it, just a question of whether he meant...

Paula Radcliffe does not deserve the word "great", as a track athlete , for sure, imo; these days that worded is banded about easily.. Lacked a finish on the track. Her greatest races were in City Marathons plus her Helsinki WC. A fine xcountry runner, true. The "great" athletes...