Guess I was too harsh on Blake... he just pulled up and crumpled to the track. No excuses needed to bail on the Commonwealth Games now.
Guess I was too harsh on Blake... he just pulled up and crumpled to the track. No excuses needed to bail on the Commonwealth Games now.
LOL nice tactic by Blake.
Fake the injury, have a fallback excuse.
Time to let up on the drug testing. this sport is getting SLOW & BORING fast
unless he faked it... he never even grabbed for his hammy, just staggered a bit and went down. Carefully.
so true, he is an absolute disgrace. Can we please just sort this sport out and throw these drugs cheating basturds out.
look at how empty the stadium is, no one cares! Sometimes I think the best thing for the sport is to lose its professional status.
RANT OVER
Women's 1500m races are the most exciting to watch this year. I'm looking forward to more of the same for the next few years. Would love to see Genzebe Dibaba compete with the others, occasionally.
Hassan does it again, I missed it, but from the looks of the times it seems it came down to the wire. Obiri seems to have bottomed out from her earlier form.
Now we'll see if Hassan can have staying power. If so we might have Euro-bought/Ethio-defector rivalry between Holland and Sweden.
Just saying the obvious wrote:
Women's 1500m races are the most exciting to watch this year. I'm looking forward to more of the same for the next few years. Would love to see Genzebe Dibaba compete with the others, occasionally.
I agree. There is so much going on in that event now. It's a shame Genze's handlers are ill advising her. She should be running these 1500's. This is the marquee track event outside of the 100m. Doesn't make any sense for her to avoid it when she broke the indoor WR earlier this year
rojo wrote:
Go Choge Go!!!
6 seconds up at 1k.
I hope h nfast336
The great Augustine Choge, greatest all-around runner of all time. Will run sub 27.
But I don't think he'll nfast336, that's a long shot.
called it wrote:
Time to let up on the drug testing. this sport is getting SLOW & BORING fast
if this truly is why the races were a bit slow, then yeah, maybe the lack of drugs will kill support from the majority of fans that don't run much and just want to see fast times.
i don't know what the conditions were like, but regarding the 13:10-13:30 performances in the 5000 it's not necessarily indicative of runners who dope and are not being able to dope on the DL circuit. they are actually RACING, not just trying to run a fast time. i think the running community in general has forgotten that racing comes first, and times are a very distant second.
i'd really like to see a devil-takes-the-hindmost 5000 Meter with no clocks/timers/watches visible to the competitors.
The Stache wrote:
Nice run by SRR and McCrory. McCrory really powered home! Is that the year's first sub-50?
No. US champs as well.
called it wrote:
Time to let up on the drug testing. this sport is getting SLOW & BORING fast
sub3fifty wrote:
if this truly is why the races were a bit slow, then yeah, maybe the lack of drugs will create a majority of drugged up fans like me that don't run much and just want to see slow tactical races.
Steve on a cell in Brooklyn wrote:
The Stache wrote:Nice run by SRR and McCrory. McCrory really powered home! Is that the year's first sub-50?
No. US champs as well.
Yeah, 49.48 for McCrory at US Championships in Sactown. Sanya Richards-Ross also went sub 50 for 2nd place at that meet... 49.66
Nobody cares about the commonwealth games, if I were Blake I wouldn't even run if perfectly healthy
Loot wrote:
Hassan does it again, I missed it, but from the looks of the times it seems it came down to the wire. Obiri seems to have bottomed out from her earlier form.
Now we'll see if Hassan can have staying power. If so we might have Euro-bought/Ethio-defector rivalry between Holland and Sweden.
I got the feeling Hassan will try to avoid Aregawi and get a title at the Euro championships. So that might have to wait a while. She has good coaching and a real plan for the coming years, I believe she has some staying power.
I live in Glasgow too and picked up tickets seated at the 1500m start line for £10 each on Monday. Have no idea what you're complaining about.
That doesn't make sense. Aregawi is running Euros. It's a battle of ringers.
As for Hassan, she has a lot of speed. Just looked at the race and she got a gap on Abeba before the final lap and then held her off on the kick. Great race. It could have gone either way.
Loot wrote:
That doesn't make sense. Aregawi is running Euros. It's a battle of ringers.
As for Hassan, she has a lot of speed. Just looked at the race and she got a gap on Abeba before the final lap and then held her off on the kick. Great race. It could have gone either way.
Aregawi is clearly not in top shape. She could only manage a 61 s last lap. She has run 58 in similar races.
Amos got worked in the 400. Last in 46.34 but his compatratiot won it.
rojo wrote:
Amos got worked in the 400. Last in 46.34 but his compatratiot won it.
Now now rojo. Be nice.
Yesterday you were raving about Hasay when she got last in a shorter distance than she normally runs
Steeple about to go off. If anyone's watching, please update us, thx
400 recap:
Men’s 400
The recent red-hot running of Botswana’s Isaac Makwala continued as he won the men’s 400 as expected in 44.71. The 27-year old Makwala had a 45.25 pb coming into the year but in his last three races had run 45.22 (4th in Rome) and a national record of 44.83 (2nd in Ostrava). In a small meet in in Switzerland last week he took it to another level running 44.01 and 19.96 for 200 on the same day.
There were two other stories of note. Mawkala’s compatriot, 2012 Olympic silver medallist Nijel Amos, dropped down to 400 and struggled in an inside lane as he was last in 46.34, well off hs pb of 45.56.
The Brits, meanwhile, were thrilled by the big breakthrough that 19-year old Matthew Hudson-Smith put up to get third in 44.97, the second fastest time on the year by a European. Hudson-Smith had a pb of just 45.80 coming in and had been gutted when he false started at the champs Trials.
“I have no idea (what I was just did). I’m in shock. Literally that’s crazy,” said Hudson-Smith to the BBC after the meet. “The whole aim was to go Zurich.”
Hudson-Smith now seems likely to get the third individual spot for Europeans, which means that former NCAA champ Michael Bingham (2009 Wake Forest) will be the odd man out.