Olympics Athletics

[Furball]

US casually with a World Record in the mixed 4x400 heat.

 

[Furball]

Shame for Ireland, they were superb at the European Championships.

Perhaps need to look at the scheduling to get more of the top athletes competing.

 

[weeman27bob]

Shame for Ireland, they were superb at the European Championships.

Perhaps need to look at the scheduling to get more of the top athletes competing.

Definitely disappointing to not have more top athletes competing - I guess part of the problem is that you've got to do the 4 x 400m individual gender relays as well. I wonder if you put it even the day after that, and just making it the last thing, you'd get people running it even if they ran they previous day.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Grenadian Lindon Victor is doing well in the decathalon.

 

[Furball]

Good start to the women's 800m from a GB perspective with Jemma Reekie.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Badwin clears 2.17 meters. Oh yeah!

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

2.20 is going to be his nemesis.

 

[weeman27bob]

Good work from Gill there, looked like she was going to be too far back.

Maybe a little lucky the Italian staggered a little, but she'll take it!

 

[Magrat Garlick]

kinda getting my hopes up for Skotheim snaring the first NOR medal after a bunch of 4th and 5th

Also v curious how much Sifan Hassan will actually run

 

[Furball]

Good race from Phoebe Gill.

 

[Furball]

And an excellent run from Hodgkinson to round off a good day in the 800m from a GB perspective.

At the back, the woman from the refugee team (missed her name) runs a 4 second PB.

 

[Furball]

Superb 10k run from Cheptegei. I love the tactics involved in the distance races.

 

[Smudge]

Superb 10k run from Cheptegei. I love the tactics involved in the distance races.

The Yank ran an absolute cracker, tactics-wise.

 

[weeman27bob]

Not a great start to the men's 100m for Team GB then

 

[Ali TT]

Not a great start to the men's 100m for Team GB then

 

[andruid]

It kind of makes sense if you have a big name who gets tripped up. But it's largely just delaying the inevitable. How often does anyone who comes through a repechage win a medal?

I suppose it's less gruesome than some fastest loser knowing to run .1 seconds faster than you in the last heat.

 

[Ali TT]

I suppose it's less gruesome than some fastest loser knowing to run .1 seconds faster than you in the last heat.

Yep, middle distance running is tactics as much as pace so fastest loser never made sense to me as each heat runs differently

 

[Ali TT]

Second Brit wins his heat against Lyles. We should have a great chance in the relay but will probably **** that up as per

 

[weeman27bob]

Second Brit wins his heat against Lyles. We should have a great chance in the relay but will probably **** that up as per

I thought we wouldn't be that bad, but we've been disqualified in the heats in 3 of the last 4 olympics, that's definitely not something to be proud of!

 

[Ali TT]

I thought we wouldn't be that bad, but we've been disqualified in the heats in 3 of the last 4 olympics, that's definitely not something to be proud of!

But if the England team can win penalty shootouts these days, maybe the GB sprinters can finish a race!