world athletic champs thread

oscar pretorius dropped in the relay by the south africans....that is the most stupid decision I can ever remember

Possible to stab someone with his blades in the changeover?

hes allowed to run the first..been dropped..and hes the fastest in the team

Semenya looked very impressive in the mens 800m. Cant see her losing, must have been running slow all year to boost her odds.

good to see betfair now have ekaterina kostetskaya and her sister yekaterina running in the 800 metres......

What an epic javelin final this is

Awesome javelin throwing, reminds me of the old Zelezny/Backley days. Can anyone improve again in the last round? The Russian leader was way behind the throwing line.

What a big stage performer Brown is

What does everyone reckon for the 400m relay? Difficult to see past the big two but third seems pretty open between Belgium, SAF and GB.

owen hargreaves running for the germans,cant see him lasting 400 metres

Hopeless Jamaican anchor, jogged 300 and then walked the last 100

Looks like SA selectors were vindicated.

not sure

slower than semis

Got a silver, would they have done better with pistorius?

how to prevent Semenya in another title? Obviously with his testosteron level he only needs to train hard for 3 weeks to beat all female opposition, what a shame

*win

Sally Pearson's face at the end of that heat!

Genuine disbelief at running 12.36. Hopes she takes that WR filth off the books.

What dodgy record from the commies in the 80's???? Never

Yep, that golden age where men were cheating and women were men.

Any chance of a market for the men's marathon?

Very open race, but I've got a feeling where the money might end up.  Will reveal after I've got on.

commentators calling us home in 4th,we were clearly 5th ,knobs

oh dear Roy,you knob.

GB were 4th

Come on Pearson. Lets go sub 12.3

What a run! What happened to the slow track!

Sweet 12.28

Great run. She looks a bit slimmer around the mid riff this season. Hope she plays on in Diamond League and take the WR.

Porter finished in another lane.

she didnt sound very british

These new "British" athletes like Tiffany Porter, Mabel Gay and Shana Cox bext year is a bit of a joke imo.  She's American ffs

Pearson's time smashed the proper WR.  The performance of the games

yeah that 1000m hurdles record back in the 80's like many of the women's records is quite dubious in its authenticity.

*100m obviously

pearson's technique is sublime

"quite" is a massive understatement

you can scratch every women's top 20 world mark from late 70s to 1990.

big lay of walter dix without bolt,he'll be lucky to get a medal

Personally I think Porter is ok- she has one parent of each. I'm less convinced by 'naturalisation' in adulthood though. If you move somewhere when you're a kid fair enough, but the importation of Kenyans by oil rich middle Eastern states got silly a few years back!

1.05 for bolt to not false start

I like the way the Kenyans try to cover it up by calling themselves Mohammed etc

I think Dix is a certainty for silver. If Lemaitre can't beat Dix over 100m, he can't over 200m. Dix's PB is half a second quicker. The guy from Panama is the danger.

An interesting bit of trivia is that not one womens WR in an established athletics event has been broken since 1990.

The new world marks in the 400mh, womens distance events (held by drug cheating Chinese athletes in the 1990s) pole vault and hammer are post 1990 events and the womens javelin marks have been reset with a new spec javelin

Sally Pearson has got as close as anyone has since 1990 to a pre 1990 track mark

Great stuff there. Awesome from Dix and Lemaitre too.

Those are rocket times. I was expecting a Bolt 19.60 and the rest to trail home in 20+

Paula Radcliffe broke the marathon world record in 2002 & 2003

Nailed_On
26 Aug 11 23:19 Joined: 21 Feb 05 | Topic/replies: 1,622 | Blogger: Nailed_On's blog
Couple of mug accas for me..

Sally Pearson 100m Hurdles.
Allyson Felix 400m
Carmelita Jeter 100m
Kirani James 400m

Pays around 22s.

Same again with Kaliese Spencer 400m hurdles thrown in, pays around 40s.



Felix ffs, still don't know how she didn't get up.

You are right Danno but of the top 50 in the marathon in the all time list only 2 of them were pre 1990.  I'm not an expert on the history of the womens marathon but I don't think it was fully established by 1990, certainly it cant be compared to the 400m or 800m as examples.  It maybe also that the drugs used at that time simply were not effective at extreme distances.

Compare that to the womens shot put where 26 of the top 30 in the all time list are pre 1990 athletes.

bl Nailed On

Clydebank - sorry, wasn't disagreeing with your overall point.  Most of the pre-1990's women's records are laughable.  Then there were the Chinese women of 1993 (Wang Yunxia holds the 10,000m world record and it is 30 seconds better than the next best - Radcliffe incidentally).

Flo-Jo's records for 100m & 200m should also be struck from the book.  I simply can't believe that she came from nowhere, smashed those world records by so much, retired almost straight away, then died in her mid-thirties....and all that being above board.

agree with clydebank..all bloody drug cheats esp the man/woman kratochvilova..that time is unbelievable and i think perec is the only one who got remotely close

Yeah, the whole Eastern Bloc phase is laughable.  Systematic doping, planned an authorised by entire federations.  Apparently quite a few of the athletes weren't actually aware they were doping, they were just told to "take these vitamins".  If you see pics of the likes of Kratochvilova then it's so obvious as she's basically been turned into a man.  Flo Jo was also off her face.

The Chinese group of "Ma's Army" was also ridiculous.  They set stupid records, in championship races, behind closed doors (Chinese champs) all within a few days of each other and then they never ran anywhere close to their times again in global events... fishy?  The IAAF really should abolish most of the women's records and start again as a lot of them are a joke.

what times the 5000m & triple jump please

11am onwards

thanks fallenangel

Does Usain Bolt run in the 4x200m relay for Jamaica?

I am just trying to figure out how many gold medals he will get at the Olympics next year!!

4x200m relay

laying the jamaicans

mmm fully expected Phillips to be 1.2 at the moment so very happy to take the 1.45.

backing lagat

I was a doubter for this one. Happy to be proved wrong. Well done Mo!

Superlative Mo Farah.

5000 Gold after losing by inches in the 10k

Great last lap, thought Lagat had it 150metres to go as he looked like he was cruising around the outside but just seemed to take it too wide and lost too much ground.

Great two minutes for GB, think that has landed Phillips the Gold also

Someone just laid Phillips out to 5.0....!

Surprised Mo has heard of Lagat

Masterful performance from Mo - and after the 10000 absolute balls of steel

Hey Don's how's things? Been a while.

I reckon I've got the solution to the problem of these False Starts in the Athletics. If you put Sir Ivor in charge, things will go like clockwork eh?

My money's on the South African lad in this one

Beaten by a SUPERB Russky

1.55.89 good time.

Christian Taylor

No doubt, if only he wasn't tied up training for next years open already.

All good here Al, just back from a nice holiday, yourself?

How can the man lose

What was Taylor's PB before this comp?

Not too bad thanks Donm maybe a short golfing holiday in Scotland before end of Sept.

Hoping that the GOAT will somehow deliver one more unlikely triumph in New York. I see that the G-COAT was reduced to posing in his underpants for money. Jesus H Christ, what sort of bloke does that? Certainly not Sir Ivor thank the lord. As you say, too busy training at high altitude in Mexico City ready for next year's Open.

Taylor's PB was 17.68 set this season.

Oohh dear Phillips in a spot of bother!

Wow, that's some improvement. Nice time to do it.

Any opinions on he womens relay?

Nice, highly unlikely unfortunately for the GOAT, not looking in great nick is the GCOAT but the draw will probably open up for him like last year where he barely had to lift a racket to walk to the title.  Hopefully 2ndGCOAT (heard about this pod he lives in?) takes care of GCOAT if Murray doesn't

How unlucky is Idowu, always one prick pulling out a crazy jump

Yes, I heard about the ball-bouncer's pitiful living arrangments. Still, just about better him win it than numero uno G-COAT I suppose.

Quite fancy the US in both codes, - might be silly considering the Jamaican strength but bit of value there

Boooommmm!!!

Nice one

at USA

That was shifting

WR for Jamaica in the 4x100 as the USA fall a$$ over t1t before final changeover LOL

did the Brit leg him over ????

hapless GBR team fail to handover baton AGAIN

American screwed it up for himself, Great Britain and Trinidad & Tobago

GB taken out by American 'friendly fire'.

I may have seen it wrong but didn't the 2nd last GB guy just chuck the baton at the final leg runner?

yeah cos it was over

caramba
04 Sep 11 13:05 Joined: 27 Apr 05 | Topic/replies: 8,038 | Blogger: caramba's blog
American screwed it up for himself, Great Britain and Trinidad & Tobago

I think you will find that the Brit had his arms out of his lane. Plus the fact that the idiot went too early.

Some stupid posts on here.  The Brit wiped the American out.  Fooking KLOWBN

Our lot have messed up the 4x100 more than any other country I'd say

do they have a market on here for GB not to complete the race? should be odds-on

Four Lions ran that 4x100 for GBR I'd say.