Official 2019 Birmingham DL Discussion Thread

Lol...it looked like Tefera handed the Ugandan a gift. McSweyn though he had it locked up when he passed Tefera.

English came out of nowhere to win the 800m with a sick 30m sprint. Kipketer was completely caught off-guard.

That's the power of a mid-distance runner with 46-mid 400m speed.

Forget the time that Blake just won in, look at the wind reading. Augurs well for the last event.

Good to see Max Burgin in his first DL race, taking a notable scalp (Joseph Deng) when he's returning from injury.

Aussiestatman wrote:

Women’s 200 could be something special with the right conditions. If they could fluke a following breeze just under 2 mps, the talent is there to have four under 22. Not possible? Lightning struck once in Seoul 1988, 4th in 21.99. Could it happen again, in Birmingham?

Here we go, 7 min away

Coevett wrote:

Good to see Max Burgin in his first DL race, taking a notable scalp (Joseph Deng) when he's returning from injury.

......... right ..........

You're surely not being sarcastic?

Shows what potential Max has if you think a 17 year old making his senior debut (and in a DL race) after missing several weeks with injury and taking the scalp of somebody that was supposed to be 'the next Rudisha' is a disappointment...well...

And what the hell is the problem with Kenyan 800m running right now? All of them going backwards including their young stars..hmmm... thank heavens for Rotich (and his manager's pi$$ pot).

Aussiestatman wrote:

Aussiestatman wrote:

Women’s 200 could be something special with the right conditions. If they could fluke a following breeze just under 2 mps, the talent is there to have four under 22. Not possible? Lightning struck once in Seoul 1988, 4th in 21.99. Could it happen again, in Birmingham?

Here we go, 7 min away

Good job we have you on permanent watch, having rivetting conversations with yourself for our benefit. No possibility that the rest of us are equally capable of watching the event on television, streaming it, or using Google to find out the results. Can’t wait for the next thrilling countdown of your top 20 choices of what you are going to have for your dinner, debating the options with yourself. Seriously, Mods ?

Dwayne wrote:

Good job we have you on permanent watch, having rivetting conversations with yourself for our benefit. No possibility that the rest of us are equally capable of watching the event on television, streaming it, or using Google to find out the results. Can’t wait for the next thrilling countdown of your top 20 choices of what you are going to have for your dinner, debating the options with yourself. Seriously, Mods ?

You have nothing better to do than write all that? Seriously, Mods ?

LateRunnerPhil wrote:

German NR and MR in 4:21.11 by Koko. Had to frontrun after 800m as expected. Field was relatively weak, with 6 of the top 7 this year not present.

Does anyone have the 1500 times?

seriously ?? wrote:

Dwayne wrote:

Good job we have you on permanent watch, having rivetting conversations with yourself for our benefit. No possibility that the rest of us are equally capable of watching the event on television, streaming it, or using Google to find out the results. Can’t wait for the next thrilling countdown of your top 20 choices of what you are going to have for your dinner, debating the options with yourself. Seriously, Mods ?

You have nothing better to do than write all that? Seriously, Mods ?

Use the report function instead of crying

MUSAGALA Ronald

3:35.12

McSWEYN Stewart

3:35.21

ENGELS Craig

3:35.51

TEFERA Samuel

3:35.77

TUWEI Cornelius

3:36.26

GOMEZ Jesus

3:36.40

GREGSON Ryan

3:38.15

RAMSDEN Matthew

3:39.53

HOLUSA Jakub

3:40.52

O'HARE Chris

3:41.98

COPELAND Piers

3:43.55

HEYWARD Jake

3:43.72

SEDDON Zak

3:44.44

BERGLUND Kalle

3:45.35

WILLIAMSZ Jordan

3:46.68

BEDRANI Djilali

3:46.90

BARTELSMEYER Amos

3:47.32

3:36.29

3:36.29

Does anyone have a video of 1500m?

Alll wrote:

Does anyone have a video of 1500m?

Coevett wrote:

You're surely not being sarcastic?

Shows what potential Max has if you think a 17 year old making his senior debut (and in a DL race) after missing several weeks with injury and taking the scalp of somebody that was supposed to be 'the next Rudisha' is a disappointment...well...

And what the hell is the problem with Kenyan 800m running right now? All of them going backwards including their young stars..hmmm... thank heavens for Rotich (and his manager's pi$$ pot).

Nobody is sarcastic.

Burgin won (the battle of the last two). Yeah, Kenyan 800m runners are going backwards - despite the fact that the sole Kenyan today finished ahead of the six British contenders. In the 1500m, the Brits got the first four places (of the last eight). The best of these all-time greats still finished six seconds behind the 3rd rate Kenyan Tuwei.

Just out of curiosity wrote:

Does anyone have the 1500 times?

It's in the race analysis:

Coevett wrote:

You're surely not being sarcastic?

Shows what potential Max has if you think a 17 year old making his senior debut (and in a DL race) after missing several weeks with injury and taking the scalp of somebody that was supposed to be 'the next Rudisha' is a disappointment...well...

And what the hell is the problem with Kenyan 800m running right now? All of them going backwards including their young stars..hmmm... thank heavens for Rotich (and his manager's pi$$ pot).

I really wanted Max to do well. Unfortunately he had a bad run today and looked out of his depth from the start. Deng had a terrible race you can't say it's a good scalp to take today.

I worry his coach is pushing him too hard too soon. If he picked up an injury mid season maybe just let the boy rest he is only 17. No point throwing him into a DL