Athletics Weekly

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...

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.

I wonder if Marion Jones is available?

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

Pardon

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...

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...

Dwayne Chambers, Mo Farah and Kelly Sotherton are my picks for gold.
I reckon possibly 9 medals in all.

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...

There are start lists for Gateshead here.

http://www.ukathletics.net/uka-major-ev ... art-lists/