Hertsscot Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 Some great successes at the British trials this weekend, particularly impressed with Steph Twell, Chris O'Hare, Josh Kerr and Zoey Clark. Scotland even got a 1-2-3 in the mens 1500 metres.
vanderark14 Posted August 5, 2017 Posted August 5, 2017 2 minutes ago, Toepoke said: 35 year old Gatlin beats Bolt. BBC in tears. The whole crowd were raging, funny as feck
phart Posted August 5, 2017 Posted August 5, 2017 Love it. I see Mo "both my former coaches are in trouble with the polis for doping offences but i'm clean" Farah won as well.
Eisegerwind Posted August 5, 2017 Posted August 5, 2017 Different age, different event, same elegance. Everyone else is digging he's just running.
phart Posted August 5, 2017 Posted August 5, 2017 21 minutes ago, Eisegerwind said: Yeah, but still a thing of beauty. Yeah that one and the Johnson 19.32 in 1996 both blew me away at the time. my favourite of all time though.
fringo Posted August 6, 2017 Posted August 6, 2017 9 hours ago, Eisegerwind said: Different age, different event, same elegance. Everyone else is digging he's just running. Juantorena spreads his legs and shows his class.
Guest allyc Posted August 6, 2017 Posted August 6, 2017 Whilst bolt is a athletics legend i dont agree with all the pantomine booing for justin gatlin.if you think about it his story to come back after he served his drug ban and put right what he did wrong is inspiring in itself...
RenfrewBlue Posted August 6, 2017 Posted August 6, 2017 2 hours ago, allyc said: Whilst bolt is a athletics legend i dont agree with all the pantomine booing for justin gatlin.if you think about it his story to come back after he served his drug ban and put right what he did wrong is inspiring in itself... No. He's a twice banned drugs cheat. I'd have booed the fecker myself if I'd have been there.
Guest allyc Posted August 6, 2017 Posted August 6, 2017 But he isnt the only one...he has attended multiple championships since his ban and never recieved this kind of childish reaction.He has ran and won clean....he has been made a scape goat for happy clappers who only watch athletics once a year.
Denny's Yard Posted August 6, 2017 Posted August 6, 2017 Anyone that boos Gatlin and cheers Bolt is a idiot. Bolt is the Lance Armstrong of athletics.
Hertsscot Posted August 6, 2017 Author Posted August 6, 2017 27 minutes ago, Denny's Yard said: Anyone that boos Gatlin and cheers Bolt is a idiot. Bolt is the Lance Armstrong of athletics. Why?
Denny's Yard Posted August 6, 2017 Posted August 6, 2017 10 minutes ago, Hertsscot said: Why? Why does he dope or why would only an idiot boo Gatlin and cheer Bolt?
Hertsscot Posted August 6, 2017 Author Posted August 6, 2017 All of them actually. Why do you think were people were idiotic to boo Gatlin and idiotic to cheer Bolt? And is there any evidence that Bolt dopes?
scot scotland scottish Posted August 6, 2017 Posted August 6, 2017 Coverage of the women's pole vault is hilarious - it's been nigh on wall to wall coverage for the last hour focusing primarily on the Brit. Now that she's out, and without even a medal at that, pole vault competition is basically sacked by BBC!
Denny's Yard Posted August 6, 2017 Posted August 6, 2017 Well, if you look at the fastest 100m guys Bolt is I think 0.26 quicker than the next fastest performance by a non-suspect athlete (Donovan Bailley, not aware that he is suspicious). That is huge. Like the equivalent of someone running 1.59.xx in the marathon. Also, he comes from, and trains in, a country that has been notoriously lax at out of competition testing. He also has a slightly susepct progression curve. And finally (without wanting to turn this into more of a conspiracy theory than it already is) he is a massive draw for the IAAF $$$$ so it really is possible that he is protected. Given that, I think it is crazy to boo one guy that has been caught doping and cheer another as a superhero when he is almost certainly (or at least was, maybe not anymore) doping. But people cheered Lance Armstrong right up to the end.
Hertsscot Posted August 6, 2017 Author Posted August 6, 2017 Great performance from Callum Hawkins in the marathon today.
Hertsscot Posted August 7, 2017 Author Posted August 7, 2017 Unlucky for Muir tonight beaten for a medal by the narrowest of margins.
Toepoke Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 30 minutes ago, Hertsscot said: Unlucky for Muir tonight beaten for a medal by the narrowest of margins. It really was, she thought she was bagging a silver but Simpson and Semenya got clear runs either side of her. Can she make amends in the 5000m?...
Hertsscot Posted August 8, 2017 Author Posted August 8, 2017 More controversy in the men's 400m final tonight with Botswanan athlete not allowed to compete because of the health risk he posed to other athletes. Never a dull moment!
Parklife Posted August 9, 2017 Posted August 9, 2017 On 8/6/2017 at 8:59 PM, Denny's Yard said: Well, if you look at the fastest 100m guys Bolt is I think 0.26 quicker than the next fastest performance by a non-suspect athlete (Donovan Bailley, not aware that he is suspicious). That is huge. Like the equivalent of someone running 1.59.xx in the marathon. Also, he comes from, and trains in, a country that has been notoriously lax at out of competition testing. He also has a slightly susepct progression curve. And finally (without wanting to turn this into more of a conspiracy theory than it already is) he is a massive draw for the IAAF $$$$ so it really is possible that he is protected. Given that, I think it is crazy to boo one guy that has been caught doping and cheer another as a superhero when he is almost certainly (or at least was, maybe not anymore) doping. But people cheered Lance Armstrong right up to the end. They were also loudly cheering for Yohan Blake in the lane next to Gatlin, who himself has served a drugs ban
Hertsscot Posted August 9, 2017 Author Posted August 9, 2017 18 hours ago, Hertsscot said: More controversy in the men's 400m final tonight with Botswanan athlete not allowed to compete because of the health risk he posed to other athletes. Never a dull moment! And now Makwala is running by himself in a specially arranged 200m. IAAF making SFA look professional!
Orraloon Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 20 hours ago, Hertsscot said: And now Makwala is running by himself in a specially arranged 200m. IAAF making SFA look professional! Did he win?
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