I thought this topic would be trending here after the circus in Ghana. Can tournaments like that be abandoned half way? Because this is just too chaotic.
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Mondo with 2 fails at 6.00 
In Stockholm of all places...
Edit: and a final fail at 6:05.
In Stockholm of all places...
Edit: and a final fail at 6:05.
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A rare eventMondo with 2 fails at 6.00
In Stockholm of all places...
Edit: and a final fail at 6:05.
And now Hodgkinson misses out in the 800m.
I wouldn’t say that’s as big a miss. A NR and 7th AT. Werro just a beast and jumped up two levels with a two second PB.
Werro showed in Torun that she’d get out hard and try and compromise Keely but today she looked supreme. She was fantastic at the last one too
She's apparently focusing on 400m in training at the moment.
I thought that was a really poor comment from Hutchins.
She turned up today expecting to run a PB, NR and win the race.
She was beaten by the better 800m racer on the day - I think Hutchins talking about her 400m training is doing Werro and Keely a disservice
Problem is British Athletics is severely underfunded after the lottery cuts and the model clearly does not work for the great majority of good athletes that are left on their own... seeing the real jewels like Hodgkinson losing just adds to the pressure. Also today, Amy Hunt training in Italy since a couple years while being funded by a Padua consortium now runs sub-11s 100m, which clearly shows the pool of talents is there but the system is failing them.
Wow, he took five hundredths off the 110m world record.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c982e7zr7deo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c982e7zr7deo
Almost looks as if the hurdles are too low, such was the ease that he sped over the top of them. This might be a game-changer in the profile of sprint hurdlers. At 6ft 4' he's the tallest world-record holder the 110m hurdles has seen. With Parchment (6ft 5') winning in the Toyko Olympics, it feels like there's now been a shift away from the compact sprinters (like Jackson and Johnson) who were able to accelerate more nimbly between the hurdles. Either way it's a huge margin to break a sprint record.
Josh Kerr takes half a second off the mile world record at the London Diamond League. Previous record had stood for 27 years.
One of the greatest athletics performances I’ve ever seen.
The declaration at the season start was ballsy and huge - the documentation of the journey has been brilliant and he’s executed.
Absolutely mental
I wonder how close he can get to the 1500m world record on this form. His 1500m time today was 3:27.51 which would be a new national record and the seventh fastest run of all time, but still a second and half off Hicham El Guerrouj's WR.
I think sub 3.26 is within Kerr's reach. Although the mile record wasn't quite as strong as the 1500m record, the volume of athletes jostling under 3.30, the advances in shoe tech, and bicarb loading - all of these suggest it's on borrowed time.
Given he tends to peak narrowly, interesting to see if he identifies an opportunity to go for it before the end of the season. He should try and capitalise while the iron is hot and he's in the form to do so. One of the August meets potentially - Zurich, Lausanne, Silesia or Rieti.
Yes, have to feel he could have gone quite considerably quicker if he didn’t have an extra 100m to run (and also with the lights set to that target). Would surely have been well into the 26s and close to the record. Feels it might be worth a go at it if he can find the right conditions.
Sucks to see the commonwealth games behind a paywall
Absolute joke given they're taking place in the UK, all we get is a daily 1-hour highlight show on channel 5.
Surely the Commonwealth Games are on borrowed time now? There doesn’t seem to be any real enthusiasm for them anywhere.
It’s sad because I remember them still being kind of a big deal when we had the Manchester games in 2002, albeit as a consolation prize for missing out on the Olympics. Those games had a pretty significant legacy with the Manchester velodrome, and City got a big stadium that they didn’t deserve on the cheap.
Why have the games faded to pretty much nothing in the 24 years since then? Is it because other, more serious sporting events have expanded, leaving little room for something like the Commonwealth Games?
It’s sad because I remember them still being kind of a big deal when we had the Manchester games in 2002, albeit as a consolation prize for missing out on the Olympics. Those games had a pretty significant legacy with the Manchester velodrome, and City got a big stadium that they didn’t deserve on the cheap.
Why have the games faded to pretty much nothing in the 24 years since then? Is it because other, more serious sporting events have expanded, leaving little room for something like the Commonwealth Games?
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This one's a bit odd after Victoria have pretty much paid for Glasgow to host it after they pulled out. I think it's the first one with no public money, and it's got around half the normal sports with the late hosting.
Putting it behind a paywall could be the death knell though - there's virtually no interest and viewership is low.
Putting it behind a paywall could be the death knell though - there's virtually no interest and viewership is low.
Dominant from Hunter-Bell in the 800m final.
Very good. Thought Odira would enjoy the slow pace but it turns out it was judged perfectly. I didn’t think she’d have that good a kick off a slow pace
For me there are two reasons. Firstly because it costs so much to host a multi-sport event such as the Commonwealth Games, fewer cities and countries are able to afford it. The key thing is the capital costs for constructing venues have surged in recent years. It was already hugely expensive, now it is prohibitively so. Especially when they need public subsidy and it is harder to justify taking funding away from cash-strapped public services. Secondly, as you say it's the reduced importance of the games as a concept, versus the Olympics or World Championships, reflecting wider long-terms trends of globalisation.
I hope not! A close friend stands a good chance of making the next games if she can get her passport sorted.
5.000m in Birmingham coming up for the European championships. Gressier, Ingebrigtsen, Kimeli all participating, could be a cracker.
That was incredible
Ingebrigtsen on six weeks of proper training 
That is friggin unbelievable man, what an athlete. There are no words!
Daguinos beats Gressier for France, also quite a significant result for him.
That is friggin unbelievable man, what an athlete. There are no words!Daguinos beats Gressier for France, also quite a significant result for him.
Phenomenal finish. Wow.
BTW why so few people in the stands? Embarrassing...
BTW why so few people in the stands? Embarrassing...
I noticed that too. It’s especially poor when there are two strong GB medal hopes this evening. £26 for a ticket on the upper tier on the back straight doesn’t seem excessive either.
Jakob, my man!!
Amy Hunt !!
Brilliant run from Amy Hunt in the 100m
Amy Hunt wins the 100m gold. Typical strong finish from her. First championship gold for Hunt.
Great win for Amy Hnut.
Glave and Azu get a GB 1-2 in the 100m. Marcell Jacobs pulled up halfway through. Best days seem to be behind him. GB dominating the sprints in Birmingham.
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Mark English, 800m runner representing Ireland.
Well i never.
Well i never.
Just seen that Werro lass trip over her own feet, finish last, then go through to the final. Wtf
Seems a bit odd that she was able to appeal and succeed despite tripping over herself?
Werro wasn’t very Wario
That's what I am struggling with too, if someone else had clipped her fair enough, but her sabotaging herself seems like it should be "you fecked up, you're out".
Otherwise just trip yourself over at any point in the race and goto the final.