Dennis

Hahaha, nothing wrong with being lazy Ah yeah, then maybe not the best idea to go running. Yeah, the knee is an issue for a lot of runners. Maybe swimming or cycling is a better alternative then. I also lightly injured my knee a week before the marathon and they were also the first body part that starts to hurt. It's so insane that there are so many videos on YouTube of people trying to run a marathon without any training. Even if you have the stamina, your knees will hate you forever.

Thanks! Happy to say I finished the race. Not proud of my time, but my respect for these professional runners has grown even more. Even those shoes couldn't have saved my race. One of my favorite signs I noticed that a supporter was holding said: "Keep smiling, the East Africans have most likely already finished and you only have 25km to go. You can do this." That was me one year ago when I picked up running in October 2022. This was a bucket list thing, but I started to really love running. Want to join me for next year's marathon?

Running the Amsterdam marathon myself tomorrow. You might spot me all the way in the back, live on EuroSport.

Yeah, insane range. However, Hassan isn't one of the finalists for European athlete of the year. The finalists are: Women: Bol, Mahuchikh, Perez Men: Duplantis, Ingebritsen, Tentoglou Women's Rising Star: Adeleke, Caune, Topic Men's Rising Star: Furlani, Ingvaldsen, Laros Previous winners: Year Women Men Women Rising Star Men Rising Star 2022 Bol Ingebritsen & Duplantis Tzengko Alekna 2021 Hassan Warholm Bol Zhoya 2020 not awarded 2019 Lasitskene Warholm Mahuchikh Kaul 2018 Asher-Smith Mayer Herman Ingebritsen & Duplantis 2017 Stefanidi Vetter Levchenko Warholm 2016 Beitia Farah Thiam Heß 2015 Schippers Rutherford Zbären Bukowiecki 2014 Schippers Lavillenie Kuchina Gemili 2013 Hejnová Bondarenko Hinriksdóttir Bekrić The fact that Thiam has never become European athlete of the year is quite surprising to me.

Btw, Hassan won the Chicago marathon in the 2nd time ever: 2:13.38, shaving almost two minutes from Paula Radcliffe’s mark of 2:15:25 which stood untouched as the world record from 2003 and 2019. Hassan is now the current European Record holder on the 1.500m, 1 mile, 3.000m, 5.000m (track and road), 10.000m, half marathon, and the marathon.

I'll invite him to the Amsterdam marathon next week, just so I can say I have run a marathon against him

I live in Alkmaar, was born and raised here, and have never seen this much police in and around the city as I saw yesterday. They were really worried about the fans of Legia. It's the story of Legia against the story of the Dutch police now. Police here claims that fans of Legia were aggressive, managed to steal pepperspray and batons from the police, and Legia fans without tickets stormed the stadium and managed to get in. The two players that got arrested allegedly abused personnel of AZ Alkmaar. Polish politicians are now also complaining, contacted the Dutch Prime Minister and even proposed to get the European Parliament involved in this case. Dutch media suggest that it's because of the upcoming elections in Poland as their party, PiS, is known for being critical towards Western Europe in general. Not sure if there's any truth to that.

And we should have had 8 gold medals, not 5. Silver in the men's sculls 1.2 seconds behind the gold, men's eight 1.0 second behind the Brits and the women's quadruple sculls failing to win by 0.6 seconds. They flopped.

3 - 0 in the bronze medal match

FEMKE BOL!

Femke

Tentoglou

Title stays in

Are we now an ice hockey powerhouse?

Bol won the triple last year at the European Championships (400mh, 400m and 4x400m), so she has tried it and was successful. However, here on top of the 400mh, she also has the 4x400m and the 4x400m mixed in her program, so that’s already 7 races in one week. Add another potential 3 races in the 400m flat and she would have to run 10 times, which is possible, but I doubt anyone can maintain a high level for so many races.

Vuleta! So well deserved First world title ever for according to the Dutch Eurosport commentators

Why.

One of the closest Madison races I’ve ever seen. This was intense

Ganna

And there's the Hungarian medal, and it's gold!

5-4 FIRST WORLD TITLE SINCE 1991!

12-12, penalty shoot out now

and qualified from Group B. (2nd in group stage) and (3rd in group stage) missed out.

I don't think she had any intentions of running a WR only 6 weeks after winning the London marathon. The 10k was moved to Saturday to give Hassan the opportunity to compete in both the 10k and the 1.500m in front of her home crowd. She ran 29:37.83, which is the WL time by 22 seconds, but of course not even close to the WR.

I agree. It was exciting until the last seconds. I'm also very impressed by 21-year old Realini. If she can keep this level, she will be a big force to be reckoned with in the upcoming years.