Well done Zharnel Hughes and Dina Asha-Smith

I thought the girl who finished 4th in the hammer yesterday and broke the British record twice was overlooked. Well done her as well.

She was awesome Anubis, especially considering we have no tradition in that event. Has been a great week of Athletics.

I have no feeling of support towards the Plastic Brits at all, regardless of people's counter arguments and the overseas athletes situation and predicament, I can't support of cheer an athlete who is only competing for Britain because they couldn't compete for their own country or because they weren't good enough to get on to their National team, which is the case for the Americans, I can only support Brits who were born and raised in Britain, moved to Britain from a  young age and came from the British Athletics system, the British  Athletics team are quite cynical in poaching foreign stars to bolster the medal count and make them look good, of course technically they have the right, but that doesn't make it morally right, doesn't encourage young Brits here knowing they could be ousted by non Brits, doesn't make it fair on the current Brits who have missed out and doesn't mean British Athletics has to pick them, they've taken the easy and immoral shortcut route to success. Who have these overseas athletes put in to our system to deserve automatic funding, medical expenses and sponsorship? nothing. New national records are becoming meaningless.

Good luck to them in their pursuit of their Olympic dream but I'd rather support home grown talent not competitors who are representing their second choice country, or simply their country of convenience.

Where do you stand on Hughes SH? He's from a British Overseas Territory, which the IAAF and IOC do not recognise as a sovereign nation. Who can he compete for if not Great Britain?

He's who I was referring to when I said predicament, he could have ran for Jamaica as his mother is from there, but knowing at that point, he wouldn't have made their team but would have easily jumped the queue on the British team including the relay's, he choose us. If I were him, I would have done exactly the same thing given it's the most logical step, but I would never have selected him if I were running BA based on the reasons above, it's completely unfair on real British athletes, of which is not one,  it's a very bad case of sods law though I would fight to have Anguilla recognised as an Olympic nation, the same way FIFA recognises Anguilla as an independent sports nation who can theoretically qualify for the biggest stage in football. His reasons for choosing Britain over Jamaica were laughable, he likes the colour of our kit better.

We've gone so far down the flag of convenience road now it's all a bit academic for me. You could make the same argument about scores of cricketers who have played for England, but the fact is that once they have a British passport, they can compete for Great Britain.

To be fair I do take your point, and it's all anathema to the Olympic ideal anyway, which was not about nationalities at all, that was one of its founding principles.

The genie is out of the bottle, and that's that.

s_h...articulating my sentiments to a tee
the longjumper girl who finished 2nd..was yelling 'go on baby'
when yer man phil started interviewing her and she opened her mouth..thought to masel'..she ain't f*cking british with that yank accent albeit she seemed a lovely,unassuming,v talented girl
and i'm pretty au fait now with googling things but i'm f*cked if i'm yet to find Mogadishu listed in any UK postcode listing

I TOO SUPPORTED THE BRITISH ATHLETE AROUND THE BEND BOMBING DOWN THE STRAIGHT IN THE 200M THINKING PHUCK ME HE'S FAST, HE CAN'T BE BRITISH, AND I WAS RIGHT! GAVE AN INTERVIEW IN A JAMAICAN ACCENT FFS! FEEL LIKE I WAS CONNED, THEN AGAIN, LINFORD AND JACKSON AND JOHN BARNES ARE JAMAICAN SO WHAT DOES IT MATTER, IN FACT WE SHOULD TAKE CREDIT FOR BOLT, TRAINS ON GOD'S LAND HIMSELF IN ENGLAND AT BRUNEL UNI.

Athletics is getting as bad as the premiership football for mercenary attitudes,sport ??????? Next,we will have them standing on the docks at Dover letting them in based on physique.