Athletics Weekly

I hope the athletics isn't decimated too much by withdrawals because I've always enjoyed the Commonwealths enormously. Ironically it remains the only major Champs I've never been to.I hope to put that right in the future but it wont be next year. At least the swimming promises to be very competitiv...

Can someone please explain how,in the Olympics Soccer competition England Ireland,Scotland and Wales can have their own individual teams,yet in all the rest of the sports ie Athletics,Sailing,cycling,swimming,etc the competitors are all representing the UK. Just wait until the Commonwealth games com...

Interested wrote:Got to go with Adlington....Dame Rebecca Adlington, two golds!

English sportspersons are given national awards like giving out shopper-dockets.....remember the 2003 ashes??

Borzov, Wells etc are white. That's obvious. What I want to know, and have defined, is when do you turn black? Is it when there's even a slight darkening of the skin? Is the offspring of one black and one white parent black or white? What about the offspring of the above and one white parent? (i.e....

What is the point in all this guesswork? It's ridiculous!! There are several months until Beijing. You don't know what physical condition any of the athletes are currently in or what condition they are going to be in. You don't know who will be on form or who will be ill or who will be slightly inj...

I am new to this forum,I dont understand what all this "banned" item is all about,...please explain.