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all of the standard track and field events come from real activities... the spint.. the jumps and the throws.. where does the walk come from? shopping? "Racewalking developed as one of the original track and field events of the first meeting of the English Amateur Athletics Association in 1880...
by denzil59
Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:57 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: Jo Jackson 20k Walk National Record
Replies: 19
Views: 2447

Javelin Sam wrote:Walking is not a sport it's a timetable filler..


I guess every event is a timetable filler, in that case, especially if it's not your event.
by denzil59
Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:26 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: Jo Jackson 20k Walk National Record
Replies: 19
Views: 2447

I wonder if Marion Jones is available?
by denzil59
Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:54 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: Chambers green light for Berlin GP
Replies: 47
Views: 5659

Javelin Sam wrote:WALK.....lol don't even get me started :lol: :lol: :lol:


Pardon :!: :?:
by denzil59
Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:51 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: Jo Jackson 20k Walk National Record
Replies: 19
Views: 2447

From today's Independent: Phillips Idowu, who has been suffering from a leg injury and more recently sickness, will not defend his triple jump title, leaving just three of the individual medallists surviving from that occasion. They are Pickering, second over 60m, Martyn Bernard, third in the high j...
by denzil59
Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:52 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: Who's Going to Turin?
Replies: 19
Views: 3028

Surprised to see Chris Tomlinson included - I guess his silver in last year's World Indoors must have swayed it for him this time. Similarly, Jade Johnson jumped 6m81 in the European Cup last summer, so who knows . . . ? Carl Myerscough was over 20 metres last summer on several occasions, so perhaps...
by denzil59
Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:26 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: Who's Going to Turin?
Replies: 19
Views: 3028

Dwayne Chambers, Mo Farah and Kelly Sotherton are my picks for gold.
I reckon possibly 9 medals in all.
by denzil59
Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:36 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: Who's Going to Turin?
Replies: 19
Views: 3028

Who's Going to Turin?

Here's my team for Turin: Men 60m Chambers, Williamson, Pickering 400m Buck, Leavey, Bingham 1500m Speaight, Warburton, Davies 3000m Farah, McCormick 60mH Turner, Scott HJ Oni, Bernard PV Lewis, Cutts LJ Rutherford TJ Idowu Women 60m Ania 400m Fraser 800m Okoro, Meadows, Griffiths 1500m Scott, Engla...
by denzil59
Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:38 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: Who's Going to Turin?
Replies: 19
Views: 3028

There are start lists for Gateshead here.

http://www.ukathletics.net/uka-major-ev ... art-lists/
by denzil59
Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:11 pm
 
Forum: Current events
Topic: WOMENS LONG JUMP
Replies: 18
Views: 1936

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