In truth, the games show that Team GB should, arguably, do better OR they rank as good but usurped by other nations who are simply harder working, more talented and stronger willed in the heat of battle (See Cali U20 WC for further evidence). England have Scotland to thank for a fair few medal hopes/successes: Hodgkinson, Muir among them.🇬🇧
In truth, the games show that Team GB should, arguably, do better OR they rank as good but usurped by other nations who are simply harder working, more talented and stronger willed in the heat of battle (See Cali U20 WC for further evidence). England have Scotland to thank for a fair few medal hopes/successes: Hodgkinson, Muir among them.🇬🇧
What are you jibbering about?
You gave two examples of athletes that England need to give thanks to Scotland for. Only one of them is Scottish.
Can anyone tell me/us which ranked Kenyan athletes were contesting this 10k? 🤔 I assumed, with 4 laps to go and those 2 Kenyans loping along with the also ran McColgan of Eugene & othrr major races, that they were far from Kenya's finest. With a home crowd, it may rank as exciting...but amazing?! CONTEXT.
Cheptai was 4th at the Kenyan trials this year and finished 6th in the Olympics last year. Kiprotich was selected for the 10000 in Eugene but DNS.
Obama is half Kenyan and half Irish. So he is not black. He is mixed. He self-identifies with the black community. All this is fine and dandy, but in Africa, you are not black unless you are black, if you are mixed, you are referred to as mixed and there is nothing wrong with that.
I do agree that people tend to cheer for or support people who are similar to them. It is natural.
Black people for sure refer to black cultural things like art, music, and sports and they refer mostly to black people — totally understandable. But to call out a white person for cheering for a white person and calling it bias in a negative way is jealousy.
Jealousy comes from weakness or an inferiority complex.
If you are going to call out bias negatively, then start recognizing the millions of white people who cheer for and support mixed and black people.
Most black people in America have a matrial % of Euro ancestry.
From those centuries of slavery and masters raping the slaves.
The kids born from those rapes were enslaved and considered black.
Why is Scotland still in this English commonwealth? I thought they wanted freedom.
I bet Ireland (except north) is not in these games. Most of Ireland is free.
Scotland should consider joining America as the 51st state. That would really piss off the English, and also that Hawaii-isn't-a-state poster.
Why on earth would Scotland want to join a third world country like the US??? I mean, just imagine choosing lower life expectancy, no organised healthcare system, no basic employment rights enshrined in law, no abortion for rape or incest, constant racial tensions, no proper housing for millions, lack of basic education for many...maybe come back and ask again when you get your average life expectancy above 80...ps the answers' still going to be "no".
Why is Scotland still in this English commonwealth? I thought they wanted freedom.
I bet Ireland (except north) is not in these games. Most of Ireland is free.
Scotland should consider joining America as the 51st state. That would really piss off the English, and also that Hawaii-isn't-a-state poster.
Why on earth would Scotland want to join a third world country like the US??? I mean, just imagine choosing lower life expectancy, no organised healthcare system, no basic employment rights enshrined in law, no abortion for rape or incest, constant racial tensions, no proper housing for millions, lack of basic education for many...maybe come back and ask again when you get your average life expectancy above 80...ps the answers' still going to be "no".
Why not rebuild Hadrians Wall, but get the Scots to pay for it? They get to keep Northumberland as a bonus.
Props to Kiprotich for the bronze while limping pretty bad.
Yep, I didn't think she'd make it. Last time we saw her before the finish line she was ~1000m out and it looked as though she was about to be passed by a lapped (Ugandan?) runner. There appeared to be no way she was hanging on for a medal.
More generally, the cameras and shot selection at the stadium have been absolutely superb. Tried to skim through the 400m heats yesterday but it took me hours because I just wanted to see the footage regardless of who was running. The cameras on the bends were a thing of beauty, then there were the slow-mo and head-on shots with seemingly multiple lanes covered.
The Oregon production was definitely sub Diamond League standard, but compared to the CWG it was embarrassingly bad.
The IAAF should give the BBC the contract for all championships for the rest of time.
More generally, the cameras and shot selection at the stadium have been absolutely superb.
Good point- the shot of Eilish turning that last bend was indeed superb, you could really soak in the atmosphere and the sheer effort.
The only thing I preferred about the WC coverage is that they kept the complete start list of each event displayed on the screen as they introduced each individual athlete (by making their name bigger). Makes it so much faster to work out who is in which heat and whether or not I want to watch it or skip it.
That was brilliant to watch and listen to the commentator. That's racing. In one of her interviews she stated "she felt wobbly halfway" and thought she was going too soon. She didn't back off and the end results for her is epic.
The truth is that unconscious bias is a concept that's almost impossible to prove in any given situation. Identifying it involves Person A saying or doing something and Person B creating an explanation as to why A said or did what s/he did. This requires B to attribute a reason to A. Inevitably it becomes reasonable to consider that B's explanation is to some extent a product of B's unconscious biases. You might want to attribute what I'm writing here to unconscious biases on my part, but in this situation I am very conscious of my biases about this topic.
And to piggy back off of this, anything that can't be proven is only a theory, not a fact. Therefore unconscious bias is a theory and until proven as fact shouldn't really weigh much on anyone's mind.
To the point on bias, I do have a bias towards Eilish as I'm a Brit. When it comes to athletes from other countries, again, it's about the stories. I was really rooting for Gidey at World's because she's a great story - wonderful talent as a junior at XC, great time-trialler, but always getting run down by Hassan. That story of the constant number two finally getting to the top is a great one. I think Jake Wightman's story resonated with people across athletics for the same sort of reasons - he's a guy who's always been around the top, but never managed to get it together when it mattered, plus, by all accounts, he's a genuinely nice guy. Seeing someone like that blow past the guy who seems to have been grown in a lab to be the perfect runner was exciting. But that defeat for Jakob probably made him more sympathetic and gave him a good story for his comeback in the 5000 - I bet a lot more neutrals were willing him on in that 5k because of his earlier defeat, everyone loves a comeback. I'm also firmly on Team Barega after his blowout in Eugene, I'm looking for his redemption in Budapest next year.
I'm not saying there aren't people with racial biases, for example, Paul Chelimo gets so little respect for what he has achieved in a US singlet (two Olympic and one World's medal, plus a DL victory is a great career for a US distance runner). But I really do believe that we connect with athletes primarily based on how much we know of their story in the sport.
BBC decided to help promote the Commonwealth Games by going around today and geo-blocking all their own posts of just short clips from probably the most exciting finish in several years?
I don't mean bootleg copies and not even the full event, I mean their own posts with 1 minute clips. How does that logic work?
This is the only format left that still plays from the official account so it's not bootleg
By superb, the time must be well under 29:30, so what was it then.
It's novice runners-fans like you that don't understand the concept of RACING and or COMPETITION. You run races to win, you don't go into a race thinking if I run this time I'm gonna win. It doesn't work like that. Championship racing is about executing a strategy that gives YOU the best chance to win. Who's in the race? Sit and kick? Take it out hard? Surge in the middle? Weather conditions? All of these factors come into play. Championship racing is NOT a time trial or a world record attempt purely focused on time. They're specific races for "Time" and setting PB's. If a championship race produces a WR and or fast time, great! That's a bonus.
So sit back and enjoy the purity of the sport, the first person across line is the WINNER!