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9 hours ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

Well, there is an expansion planned. Hoppefully, it will go according to plans 

 

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That would be some iconic stadium right here, albeit still small for a world championship (30K)

The stadium looks cool.   And I did hear about it. But I really don't think this city is capable of hosting such event.  But marathon will be gorgeous.   It's just a beautiful city and area of the country 

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Libor Charfreitag the only Slovak European athletics champion (since the independence) officially ended his career today. He won also bronze at world championships in Osaka 2007, but the highlight of his career was the continental gold in Barcelona 2010 and this unforgettable medal ceremony when they started to play the Lightnings over the Tatras for the first ever time at a major outdoor athletics event at same time real lightnings and huge storm started around the Olympic stadium in Barcelona

 

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Some sad news.

 

Hurricane Irma has claimed the life of Xavier Samuels, the coach of Kyron McMaster.

http://www.sportsmax.tv/?q=articles/2017/09/07/irma-claims-life-veteran-bvi-track-coach-dag-samuels

 

Jamaican triple jumper Jordan Scott (21 years old, 6th at last year's world juniors) was killed in a 'motor vehicle accident' :( 

 Michael Campbell (ran the heats in the 4x100 at last month's world champs) got away with minor injuries.

http://www.sportsmax.tv/?q=articles/2017/09/10/jamaican-athlete-killed-accident-world-champs-relay-participant-also-injured

 

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After Charfreitag a couple of weeks ago, another relatively world widely well known Slovak athlete announced today her retirement.

The middle distance runner, 4 times Olympian Lucia Hrivnák-Klocová, bronze medalist in 800m European championships in Barcelona 2010 and 5th from the London 2012 Olympics womens 1500m announced during todays press conference that due to persistent health problems (she missed the whole 2017 season) and the fact that she is pregnant for the second time she decided to definitively close her sport career and focus on her private life

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Sur 11/09/2017 at 22:35 , heywoodu a déclaré:

Some sad news.

 

Hurricane Irma has claimed the life of Xavier Samuels, the coach of Kyron McMaster.

http://www.sportsmax.tv/?q=articles/2017/09/07/irma-claims-life-veteran-bvi-track-coach-dag-samuels

 

Jamaican triple jumper Jordan Scott (21 years old, 6th at last year's world juniors) was killed in a 'motor vehicle accident' :( 

 Michael Campbell (ran the heats in the 4x100 at last month's world champs) got away with minor injuries.

http://www.sportsmax.tv/?q=articles/2017/09/10/jamaican-athlete-killed-accident-world-champs-relay-participant-also-injured

 

 

In the old forum, we had a thread called "sports and tragedy"  (something like that), maybe it'll be better to revive it ?

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