Women’s 800m semi final 1 see Marilyn Okoro run 57.98 for the first 400m – why? She came home in 62.68 for 2:00. 65. The second semi was a much more sensible affair with a split time of 1:02.25 by… Continue Reading →
It’s my first UK Trials since 2003. It’s suprsingly good to be back at the Alexandar Stadium in Birmingham where I spent many a day in the 80’s. I missed the opening evening and instead listened to the last few… Continue Reading →
When you get friends who aren’t athletics fans bemused at watching the “Devil takes the hindmost” on TV and asking you what on earth that was all about what are you supposed to say to them? Any football fan would have been… Continue Reading →
Why are these the 3 dirtiest words in the NFL: Dr James Andrews? Shouldn’t it be performance enhancing drugs? The NFL is dominated by big men; the Washington Redskins Hogs line of the early 80’s averaged 270 to 280 pounds,… Continue Reading →
18:15 CET And we have a new World Leading mark – 8522 points. But it the mark does not belong to Hardee but to Schrader who sped round the 1500m in 4:22.26 (796/8522) to win by 6 points. Hardee struggled… Continue Reading →
16:00 CET OK, so we go to Kasyanov’s particular weak point, although it was still a PB – 4.50 (760/6914) – which drops him down to third. Schrader also added 10cm to his PB with 5.00 (910/6927) which was 10cm… Continue Reading →
15:00 CET Lilli Schwwarzkopf “wins” the JT with a nice 52.86 (916/), just a couple of meters down on her best. In third was the leader Dobrynska with 47.03 (803/) compared to a best of 48.60. A couple of meters… Continue Reading →
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