Tonight’s final , Euros 800 19:40 (13:40 U.S.East), Wightman v Benny Robert, 10,000, 20:00 (14:00), Gressier v Crippa v

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Le relais français ....

Big drama in the 4 by 100 m relay for the women as great Britain and France mess up the handover and don’t even finish the race! it’s crazy how often the best teams in terms of running speed mess up this event. It seems that they pay lip service to the obvious importance of technical prowess when dealing with relay baton handovers. They seem to take it for granted.

Lansiquot left yesterday.

I don’t have the exact statistics but I saw that Germany ended up at the top of the medals table for this European Athletics track and field championships.

At the same time but in Rome, Italy, the European swimming championships took place and top of the medals table was Italy.

Don't think she went early, don't think Phillips faded. The handover looked perfect apart from the 'getting the baton from one runner to the other' bit.

Lance Brauman & Claremont say you're welcome.

Germany was pipped by UKI by one, 60-59:

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Looked like Lansiquot was well out of the zone by the time of exchange. Same for France.

Everybody understands what to do and has had sufficient practice. Just a matter of holding your nerve under pressure. Not everybody can do it.

A seventh gold would have given GB the team title, no?

That was a fun meet. Watched it on YT here in the States and don't think the viewing figure ever exceeded 5K, which is rather sad.

Polish men with the bronze and women with the silver in relays. Both NR's.

I love polish running culture!

Zerei is age-cheating the opposite way so he can run in the world masters championships!

Is it just me, or does most every athlete seem way too preoccupied with their visage on the big screens/TV's? Is this a generation thing? Since Bolt's playing it up?

Not going to begrudge them... just seems odd to this old head.

For those who didn't get it: That was a joke, Zerei is of course 36 years and a nice and humble representative man for Norway!🙂

I don't think she was; there was no mention of 'running out of space' in the BBC studio. Richard Kilty's observation was that Phillips made an error in 'stopping' before the baton was firmly in Lansiquot's hand, and that if she'd continued running she could have had another attempt at handing over.

Media presence is how you get contracts with brands and get paid nowadays. Companies have long figured out that personalities sell better than great numbers on the board.

Very doubtful because in the world masters championships there's basically no money. Besides, Zerei comes from a rich country, Norway, in fact one of the richest in the world if not the richest, so I would be very surprised if he needed money, beyond his immediate needs and those of his family.

Yep, finished 7/6 to Germany. A GB silver would have sufficed as long as Germany didn't take the gold.

If you watch the race again in real time (not the replays, which give a shot from the front) there's a side view -- there's no way Philip is going to catch Lansiquot. Neither does Philip slow down. Lansiquot effed it.