(Un)Official Athletics Australia/Running Australia chat

Mitch is a legend. So much passion for the sport. He was on the mic all weekend at Ballarat and had so much energy the whole time

No idea why Sinead thought she needed to say anything at all? The original post has almost 16k likes, and she's clearly not going to change anyone's opinion.

This would've been the perfect time to just let Ryan/FTK fall on their own sword.

I just realised Ryan has said this stuff at the same time he's contract wasn't renewed with Puma. Way to ruin any potential interest from new sponsors. I guess he can retire now as a bitter old man yelling at clouds on his podcast that no one listens to.

Is Run The Tan dead as an elite runner race? (I know timing with Ballarat was bad) 4 elites in both mens and womens, just a few years ago you had most of Australia's best lining up. Props to Callum, Ed, and Linden for some strong runs.

Did Ryan Gregson lose his Puma contract over this FTK thing? He was running in Metaspeed's at Ballarat.

Wouldn't be surprised if he lost it for generally poor performance either though. There's many other Australian's who are currently un-sponsored and probably deserve the support more (eg Jaylah).

Wasn't it only deep during covid when there wasn't any other big races going on? $2500 is really good prize money for 10 minutes of work.

He lost his Puma contract before this 100%. Looks like he stopped running in Puma stuff within the last month, probably at the same time as Pat Tiernan. Makes sense given they're both managed by NB.

Now going viral on mainstream media Australia wide.

"Getting ‘chicked’: Sport’s ugly new term sparking fierce debate

An elite Australian runner has apologised after sparking fierce debate over comments he made about male athletes being “chicked” while competing."

Gotta feel a bit sorry for Ryan, as meant it tongue in cheek.

Yeh now it's on mainstream media it will go everywhere. It's already going wild on insta. So many posts on it.

In this case I'd say any publicity is not good publicity !!

Completely blown up. Pretty crazy that after an amazing nationals and ballarat on the weekend, this is the stuff making headlines.

This sport's just a basket case, isn't it?

I really don't think Gregson said it tongue in cheek tho. I think he's from that era of men who think being beaten by a woman is truly shameful - I'm not Australian but I am British/Irish and I know people who have the same opinion as Gregson . Some of the stuff he posts on his instagram story is borderline, especially for an "elite" sponsored athlete.

If you need more that IRP try easy double which Is auz based too rather than giving FTK the listen. It’s been rubbish for ages.

Given someone said here his wife said he doesn’t change nappies when he’s had a small kid I’m inclined to agree with you. What a loser

Run the tan needs to change their date. Everyone is heading out to Ballarat or has major marathons near that time of year.

We're in a bit of a dead patch now before track meets in the US/Europe really start. Anyone got whispers on what Aussies are competing mid-late May? I know these for sure.

The Shanghai Diamond League meet is on the 16th of May. We've got 6 Australian women lining up in the 1500m, including - Jess Hull, Sarah Billings, Claudia Hollingsworth, Linden Hall, Abbey Caldwell, Georgia Griffith. There's also a 3000m Steeple womens, 3000m mens, 800m but no startlists released for those.

The Xiamen Diamond League meet is on the 23rd May and is set to feature a loaded sub-13 5km mens with Almgren, Kwemoi, Aregawi etc. Also a women's 1500m but no names released aside from Jess Hull. You'd expect a bunch of the Aussie women to stay in China after Shanghai and compete in Xiamen too.

Stewy McSweyn, Morgan McDonald and Lauren Ryan are down as entrants for the Sound Running Track Fest in LA on May 23rd. No actual startlists yet, but you'd have to assume it would be a 3 or 5km.

We have a bunch of Aussies competing at the Puma Nitro Lange Laufnacht Karlsruhe in Germany on 30th of May. Jye Edwards in the 1500m, Ben Buckingham in the 3000m Steeplechase, Jaylah Hancock-Cameron in the women's 1500m, Cam Myers in the 800m (!!!).

Cam Myers will be toeing the line at the Stockholm Diamond League on June 7th in an absolutely stacked 1500m

Even if they moved it back 1 single week, they'd be able to get a bunch more pros/elites before they go to Europe.

The Gregson audio has been trending on TikTok recently, including a montage created by the AFLW social media intern. I’m surprised Abbie Chatfield hasn’t chipped in her 2c.

I wonder if any other NSO’s will jump on the pile-on… low-effort slop.

Inside Running Podcast - anyone still listen to this? Podcast seems outdated and tired now, the co-hosts are always injured/miserable, is the end near for this once popular but clearly dying podcast?

Inside Running Podcast - are they close to binning it off? Viewer are dying, hosts always injured and miserable/boring episodes. Run out of decent guests. They appear to have run out of gas

Lol. Righto Joel

They seem to be doing just fine.