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At the British trials today World and Olympic 400m gold medalist Christine Ohourogu failed to reach the final. I think this is the end for her after winning medals at nine successive world/Olympic championships.

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1 hour ago, Dragon said:

At the British trials today World and Olympic 400m gold medalist Christine Ohourogu failed to reach the final. I think this is the end for her after winning medals at nine successive world/Olympic championships.

 

Any chance she can still make the relay squad for London?

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Meanwhile despite cold weather & rain 18 years old heptathlete :UKR Alina Shukh has just qualified to London with 6208 pts :thumbup: (with quite strong headwind in 100mH and 200m ... -3.2 and -2.8, she managed to achieve PBs in both events). NU20R - the previous record stood for 33 years.

 

 

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4 hours ago, bestmen said:

13th african athletics championships2017 U20

Final table of medals , Ethiopia won this edition

 

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to fixe the Silver 43 not 44

 

 

Is it usual for Kenya to finish the medal table with ~10 medals in the African Championships or are they having a bad year/their main athletes skipping the event? Just curious.

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13 hours ago, Werloc said:

Is it usual for Kenya to finish the medal table with ~10 medals in the African Championships or are they having a bad year/their main athletes skipping the event? Just curious.

 

Kenya participated with 14 athletes ,Ethiopia 69, South africa 24   but there is no excuse as many Kenyans didn't get the minima

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Major announcement just been made.

A study has revealed female athletes with hyperandrogenism get a huge boost because of their high testosterone levels

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ATH_IAAF_TESTOSTERONE_STUDY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-07-03-16-50-17

Too late for 2017 but, for example, the 800m could be very different in 2018

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