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Greg just stole a handful of sand.....is this going to be Bobby Moore all over again ??
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Well done Greg.
I'm sure that big companies all around the world will be looking to sign him up for lucrative endorsements after yet another major championship Gold Medal. Right? I'm personally hoping against hope to see him being given the chance by the Beeb to earn some decent wedge on a "The Great British Celebrity Bake-Off Special" or similar. |
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Think he should just count himself lucky to make any kind of living by jumping into a pit of sand
Rudisha cruises to the 800. Was already spending my tuka winnings  |
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Greg is surely on the BBCs wish list for Strictly just after Justin Gatlin
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Does anyone think Bolt doesn't quite like the BBC, when I've seen his interviews he's looking left and right and giving fairly short answers, maybe he doesn't like the pressure they put on with the whole "bolt needs to win to save his sport" thing.
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Ethopian refuses at the water jump
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He's more than likely just thinking about the 6 blonde models waiting for him back at the hotel...
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What price was 400 winner ?
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2s
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2/1 pp early , bet him 13/8 after semi , may have been a bit of 7/4
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Fantastic race, best 400m race ever probably. Another convicted doper in the frame........
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Took off Eye
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makes a change , case
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U aint wrong mate  |
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BBC commentators creaming themselves over Felxi run.....
2 whole seconds slower than WR   |
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Christine Ohuruogu can now concentrate on her WWE career...
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fredrescue, the women's sprint records up to the 400m are the elephant in Athletics' room.
100m, 200m, 400m all set by obvious dopers. The fact is that Alyson Felix has achieved something amazing this afternoon, and the people in the comms box are entitled to be jumping up and down about it - especially because they are all aware as ex-athletes how utterly bogus the record is. |
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Of the fifteen fastest times ever recorded for the women's 400m, only two were achieved post-1990.
Of the fifteen fastest times ever recorded for the women's 200m, only four were achieved post-1990, one of which was by Marion Jones - who despite her period of imprisonment, never failed a drugs test. The 100m record is the most tainted of them all, Flo-Jo's time is .15 faster than any other woman has run. Flo-Jo is dead, at 38, a fate not uncommon among people who have spent a large period of time pumping themselves full of steroids. |
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Wiki : (Flo-Jo)
In 1988, Joaquim Cruz, the Brazilian gold medalist in the 800-meter run at the 1984 Summer Olympics, claimed that Griffith Joyner's times could only have been the result of using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, that her physique had changed dramatically in 1988 (showing marked gains in muscle mass and definition), and that her performance had improved dramatically over a short period of time.[13] Before the 1988 track and field season, Griffith Joyner's best time in the 100-meter sprint was 10.96 seconds. In 1988, she improved that by 0.47 seconds (or 0.35 sec for the non-wind-aided time). Similarly, her best before 1988 at 200-meters was 21.96 seconds. In 1988, she improved that by 0.62 seconds to 21.34 seconds, another time that has not been approached. Prior to the Olympic games in Seoul, she prematurely cut her European tour short (she had been booed off the track by the spectators).[citation needed] Griffith Joyner attributed the change in her physique to new health programs.[14] Al Joyner replaced Bob Kersee as her coach, and he changed her training program to include more lower body strength training exercises such as squats and lunges.[15] A former teammate of Griffith Joyner named Darrell Robinson admitted that he sold HGH to her in 1988; he also claimed to receive steroids from coach Bob Kersee, and said he saw Carl Lewis inject himself with drugs he believed to be testosterone.[16] Robinson says that Griffith Joyner asked him about both steroids and the price of HGH during a practice session on UCLA's track in early 1988. Robinson, who admits to having sold such substances, says he told Griffith Joyner that HGH was "$2,000 for 10 c.c." A few days later, Robinson says, Griffith Joyner came to him with "twenty $100 bills" and told him, "if you want to make $1 million, you've got to invest some thousands." Robinson says he delivered the HGH to Griffith Joyner soon after that.[17] Griffith Joyner retired from competitive track and field after her Olympic triumph in 1988.[18] She was repeatedly tested during competition, and she did not fail any of these drug tests.[19] Mandatory random out-of-competition drug testing came into effect during the 1989 season.[20] After her death in 1998, Prince Alexandre de Merode, the Chairman of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission, claimed that Joyner was singled out for extra, rigorous drug testing during the 1988 Olympic Games because of rumors of steroid use. De Merode told The New York Times that Manfred Donike, who was at that time considered to be the foremost expert on drugs and sports, failed to discover any banned substances during that testing.[21] De Merode later said: "We performed all possible and imaginable analyses on her. We never found anything. There should not be the slightest suspicion."[22] |
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Flo-Jo's 10.49 should be ignored anyway, as it's pretty certain the wind gauge was faulty and the wind that day in other events was about 4-5 m/s, more than double the allowable.
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^not to mention the wind clearly blowing her hair all over the place after the race, the commentators even said before they set their feet in the blocks that any time wouldn't count because of the wind, can't believe that record hasn't been scrapped
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Should be a WR there by Schippers
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Exactly, criminal how Jones's times are allowed to stand as well as Flo-Jo's.
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Another honky goes in....
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Can the popular Geordie Tiff Porter land the gold for Britain now in the hurdles ?
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What rotten luck for the bonny lass. Edged out of it. Let's hope she gets a fantastic and well-deserved reception in the North-East when she gets back home.
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She reminded me of that other Geordie icon Gazza with the way she staggered and stumbled across the line
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Alarming wasn't it TOOBC? What we needed there was a Lineker type person at the finish line to pull a weird grimacing face, pointing at his own eyes, in the direction of the camera. But sadly none came.
Fingers crossed the Young Geordie Heroine will get over this defeat and not make any tuneless rap records. |
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Makhloufi a great bet for the 1500 tomorrow - cue lots of righteous indignation from Steve Cram.
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I understand Ms Porter has flown back to Newcastle to take her place in the back four for todays tear up against Arsenal
A Geordie till she dies |
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Mo to do the DOUBLE
Unless they TRIP him up |
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Mo TRIUMPHS again
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Christ.....I missed it !
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what a top class prick that Kilty lad is
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Kilty does come across that way, but tbf, he was making this point back in may ..
.http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/may/08/richard-kilty-world-relays-olympic-games-rio-hits-out-british-gb-commitment "Kilty fears that unless the squad commit to racing more together they “could struggle massively” when it really matters at this year’s world championships and next year’s Olympics." |