Is Athletics Australia Corrupt and is Nic Bideau the leader?

Seeing Jude Thomas listed in the Paris DL 5k with a 13:28pr says it all about NB's influence.

And Stewy coming back from injury and months of non-competitive running (except Launnie 10) straight into an Oslo DL 5k WR attempt. DFL.

Jude Thomas has a pacer icon next to his name.

Do better!

That doesn't really explain McSweyn getting a spot or 2 though.

Good pay day for Nic in that case, and race opportunity for Jude to run a fast 5K goes missing.

JTW continuing his pseudo elite runner journey with a 67:57 HM at Gold Coast yesterday. Will he make the start line of Sydney marathon?

What happened to Brett in GC yesterday?

Can we officially call him a runfluencer now?

All of the FTK guys are borderline influencers now. Greggo, Brett, JTW all looking well of the pace

I wonder who he influences? Where is Matt Ramsden?

Ramsden is in Font Romeu.

Wow - legit thought he retired

mcsweyn had a lot of credibility built up, and that last race might just be about the end of his credit line. ollie hoare is getting there too.

You should contact the AIU. I'm sure they'd love to hear about Nic's double-dealing.

I agree. Sadly both have had good careers but appear time/wear and tear may be catching up. What now for them? The roads maybe?

Stewie has always looked a good 10k runner, but he rarely touches them. Maybe he tries 5/10k track for a year and then gets to the road for a half. He'd do well on the Aussie domestic scene if he wanted to. He probably needs new training stimulus, and he won't get that with MTC.

Ollie I don't know. Looking how he competes again Grant in the mile/1500 there's no way he'd compete over 5k. And Ollie is a guy who wants to be at the front end of races.

Agreed - if you look at pictures from workouts, you've got 800-1500m guys, 1500-5000m guys, 5000-10,000m guys and marathoners all running together doing the same 8x1k session. Surely that workout can't be ideal for at least one of those event groups

Strange to see him shoot off the front like that for the first few k's and then disappear and DNF.

I went back and listened to FTK after Brett ran 2:08 in Fukuoka - just wanted something easy listening during a workout and I forgot Brett had run 2:07 the year before.

Holy hell Joel was immensely annoying even at this point.

"Let's go through your race at Fukuoka and I'll try not to interupt with dumb questions" (he's somewhat self aware I guess)... interupts 20 seconds in to mention "one of my athletes raced on the weekend". Non-stop interuptions for the rest of Brett's recap.