Elliot Giles pulls from Euro Indoors

If he's not going injured it's a stupid decision. Giles doesn't make major finals and just when he looks good, he ducks the first major opportunity to prove he can race well when it matters. He needs the experience of performing when a medal is on the line.

I hope Jamie Webb goes there and takes his chance. Let's be honest, British distance athletes are not in a position to be dropping everything else to target global medals. There's some that have a chance - Muir, Reekie, Farah, Wightman, maybe Giles - but they're all more like solid top-6 rather than likely medallists. Giles, Scott, Reekie, and even Wightman would do well to get some international medals on their resumes while they can, build their reputations and have something to show the fans to get them interested

fishy? wrote:

After just running a British record and #2 all time, he has dropped from European Indoors to 'focus on tokyo'?

Surely an 800 about 5 months out from Olympics is fine ?lol

As is a European medal??

Something fishy or reading in too much?

Or injured / scared he can't back in up in 'old tech' spikes or will get beat by Jamie Webb in old tech?

Doped to the Giles. Gault and rojo on the case.

What would the sport be without click bait insinuations ontinternet?

Well, talking about "skipping" the Euros, what about Reekie and Muir? Laura, I think would be going for a hat trick of titles. And, of course, there must be the Covid fear factor. Surely, any top athlete would be fearful of catching that because God only knows how it might could come back to bite you. AND, is there any UK restrictions on how often Brits can compete abroad without having to self isolate on their return to the UK.?

AND, finally, surely, in world terms the Euros don't mean much.

Harold Abrahams wrote:

Saruni, Korir, and Amos have literally done nothing for 2 or 3 years. Presumably you're talking about Saruni being back on the basis of one race (a 1:45)?

I think you are right, a 1:41 is really almost nothing.

uztuztuzt wrote:

Harold Abrahams wrote:

Saruni, Korir, and Amos have literally done nothing for 2 or 3 years. Presumably you're talking about Saruni being back on the basis of one race (a 1:45)?

I think you are right, a 1:41 is really almost nothing.

Try to understand what '2 or 3 years' means.

Coevett wrote:

uztuztuzt wrote:

I think you are right, a 1:41 is really almost nothing.

Try to understand what '2 or 3 years' means.

In contrary to you I do actually understand it.

Coevett wrote:

uztuztuzt wrote:

I think you are right, a 1:41 is really almost nothing.

Try to understand what '2 or 3 years' means.

Epic math fail by Coe.

coetarded wrote:

Coevett wrote:

Try to understand what '2 or 3 years' means.

Epic math fail by Coe.

Nothing special, it's normal for him.

uztuztuzt wrote:

Coevett wrote:

Try to understand what '2 or 3 years' means.

In contrary to you I do actually understand it.

+1 Amos is criminally underrated compared to Brazier. I have him as the best 800m runner in the world.

Perhaps he thinks because he beat Coe's indoor time he can run 1:41!

I think he has got ahead of himself and should have run the Europeans. Its in just a few days after all.

uztuztuzt wrote:

Coevett wrote:

Try to understand what '2 or 3 years' means.

In contrary to you I do actually understand it.

Haha, OK, I can admit I got my maths wrong there.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Perhaps he thinks because he beat Coe's indoor time he can run 1:41!

I think he has got ahead of himself and should have run the Europeans. Its in just a few days after all.

Or maybe he just knackered and needs a rest?

Evil's Dadcovate wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Perhaps he thinks because he beat Coe's indoor time he can run 1:41!

I think he has got ahead of himself and should have run the Europeans. Its in just a few days after all.

Or maybe he just knackered and needs a rest?

Winning Euros would do wonders for his confidence and big competition practice.

It's a shame he skipped it.

I don't think Giles has any international Gold medals yet, so he is definitely not too big a name to run in the euro indoors. If he skipped it thinking the competition is beneath him then that is a foolish mistake.

Why do these people even bother getting announced in the teams, just to drop out? If they weren't planning on doing the champs, why leave your name in for consideration and then take someone else's place on the team?

I can only imagine it's for the big Insta post saying they're in; and then the big Insta post saying they're withdrawing to focus on the Olympics - pathetic.

rojo wrote:

I don't think it's fishy. I think it's weak sauce.

I get it. In 5 years, people will only remember how he did at the Olympics, if he makes it.

But this is a joke. People wonder why our sport isn't popular. You've got a guy in supreme form -t the form of his life. He's got a shot to win European gold and isntead he wants to train for a race 5 months from now.

Harold Abrahams wrote:

Also bear in mind the covid risk with Poland in a third wave and 10,000+ new infections today - the reason Karsten Warholm has pulled out too. Elliot Giles doesn't have much to gain. He's probably still on cloud nine and will be training like never before now for Tokyo.

So Jakob should have stayed home too?