Athletics 2024 Discussion Thread

[phelps 7,664]

9 hours ago, dullard said:

Shocking scenes. Hope Keely can deal with the pressure of being favourite in Paris and claim her first gold.

 

8 hours ago, Braulio said:

 

Now that she finally understood Mary Moora's tactic/stategy, Keely is the overwhelming favourite for the Olympic gold

 

8 hours ago, Epic Failure said:

Not sure that Keely is necessarily clear favourite, considering you have the reigning world champ in there with her. But there's a medal up for grabs that probably wasn't expected to be now. Which will make for an interesting race in itself.

take notice...here I tell you...

 

 Prudence Sekgodiso

 

ain't gonna happen...but if it happens 

[bestmen 2,808]

Only silver in 110m , disappointing 

[Epic Failure 355]

9 hours ago, phelps said:

 

 

take notice...here I tell you...

 

 Prudence Sekgodiso

 

ain't gonna happen...but if it happens 

Sekgodiso is definitely in the medal hunt, especially now.

 

But there's just more unknowns about her right now than Moraa or Hodgkinson to make her anything more than a strong contender for bronze, at least for me. Doesn't mean she can't win obviously, but it would still be a relatively big shock, even with her PB earlier this year.

[Monzanator 4,478]

You all know it will come down to the kick in the last 200 meters anyway. Nobody will break up the pack in the first lap with sheer pace.

[Grassmarket 3,379]

Time to start posting about National Championships/Olympic Selections - lots this weekend, including a couple starting tomorrow, some more on Friday and much more on Saturday/Sunday.  Can we post as many non-geo-blocked links as we know about?

 

 is Saturday / Sunday but the bad news for the non-Brit point of view is that coverage from outside the UK is probably going to be difficult to see since it's all on BBC online service.

 

BBC Sport - UK Athletics Championships, 2024, Day One

 

 

[Kerkun 25]

 morning sessions (Thursday-Saturday) should be (mostly) unrestricted on KP Sport channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@KPSPORTPL/streams, evening sessions (Thursday and Friday) will be geo-blocked on TVP Sport website and probably their YouTube channel.

Edited June 26 by Kerkun

[Josh 10,450]

82.60m for  Ethan Katzberg in men’s hammer throw at the Canadian Olympic Trials 

 

Second farthest throw this year behind his 84.18m in Nairobi. 

[bestmen 2,808]

 

 

20 athletes did place 5 , not bad without runners of 800 1500,triple jumps , relay....etc ,

 

2024's Total Medals

COUNTRY	G	S	B	T
	7	5	8	20
	5	7	7	19
	5	6	4	15
	5	4	1	10
	3	4	3	10
	3	1	1	5
	3	0	1	4
	2	3	1	6
	2	1	0	3
	2	0	3	5
	1	2	3	6
	1	1	2	4
	1	1	2	4
	1	1	1	3
	1	1	0	2
	1	0	1	2
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	0	3	3	6
	0	2	1	3
	0	2	0	2
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1

Edited June 27 by bestmen

[bestmen 2,808]

atleast they defeated morocco 

[Grassmarket 3,379]

 Championships / Trials start tomorrow evening, on FTA.