Athletics Weekly

The fuentes case has opened http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21250239 Altho the case is about blood doping in cycling- speculation is rife , fuelled by WADA ,that other sports are implicated .Football and tennis - spanish success sports have been mentioned .At one time spanish athletes were eq...

From what mike says and the other evidence from the stadium it appears athletics as a sport was, sacrificed to short term goals of success in london, -so we need a five year plan to take us thru to rio and worlds here in 2017 butthat must be integrated into a ten year plan for the sport overall.We n...

Whilst i find most post race interviews cringeworthy it does at least give you some insight into the mental attitude of athletes and too a degree what sort of character the athlete is.I am no sports psychologist but dear old lisa , lovable lisa is just so highly strung and appears not at all strong ...

Guess i must be getting old , but found the rock music in the stadium very intrusive - i know its par for the course at diamond league and most of the other sports this olympics but was glad inverdale raised it with coe tonight who as usual took the party line - got to attract youngsters etc .Would ...

I can see lisa on the podium if she gets her head and tactics right - hannah and laura will do well to get to the final - but so much better than watching baddeley.

I am not sure what goes on in andys head -he doesnt appear to be in the sport to compete let alone to win -i guess he really needs help with his psychology - a move to longer distances might help but with his mindset probably not much would change.