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Season already underway in the US - US Champs last weekend on YT. https://youtube.com/@USSpeedskating?si=7l1AvH0BazvV_8tc

We have the inaugural World Road Running* Championships from Riga this weekend. 3 distances involved: 5000 metres (whatever those are) The Proper Mile Half Marathon. Broadcast details in your country here https://worldathletics.org/news/news/how-follow-watch-world-road-running-championships-riga-23 British team\ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/66863750 * Incorporating the World Shoe-Making Championship

Good for him, he has at least one thing to be proud of! And he didn’t false start, which we have seen a lone runner do before.

Doping Control not getting much cooperation from athletes. ONLY ONE participant in the final of the men’s 100 metres; a steeplechase athlete who kept running after crossing the finish line to evade dope testing; several winners skipping the medal ceremony as they were worried about being asked to give samples. The final day of the Delhi State Athletics Championship (September 23-26), at the warm-up track of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in the national capital, turned into a cat-and-mouse game between athletes and doping control officers on Tuesday. https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/dope-testers-show-up-at-delhi-state-athletics-meet-most-athletes-bolt-only-1-in-100-metre-final-8957732/#ln2p6zh0agp1yc5tz

2024 World Cross Country Championships will be in Belgrade, Sunday 30th March. https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/2024-cross-country-championships-serbia

A world class sprinter will always improve all the other sprinters in the national squad, because all the slightly-above-average sprinters know that they’ve suddenly got a chance of a good medal if they work at their event. Kim Gevaert is the classic example.

Just tell them it's like a mantra for horses, they'll understand.

Yeah, but MPs are elected on the basis that they are supposed to be smart!

There is still some kind of economic embargo, but very easily broken. Sports embargo for teams still exists although I guess any individual athlete just represents sometimes attempts to negotiate but always vetoed by the Eurovision voting double act.

Yeah, it is like the Latin American sides in baseball: they export huge numbers of pros to the big leagues.

Also, the season is not quite over - two more Super League races to go, which most of the big names will be doing. Not your classic triathlon, but definitely relevant for relay legs.

Yeah, Jess had her baby, mentioned in commentary. Taylor-Brown has missed 2/3rd of the season so will need to show form early next year. Fiona Duffy the same, also long injury this year.

Pretty confident that Lehair will get the nod for .

It’s unusual, have never heard Waugh pronounced that way before. Might be a geordie thing.

Beaugrand closing in on third, but it won’t be enough with a 24 sec gap to Potter.

Potter has gapped Beaugrand, heading for the Championship.

Looks like the Women’s Final is going to come down to a straight 10k foot race - all the Championship contenders in the lead cycling group going into the final lap.

Sure, like cycling we always had some good individuals, but never a full multi-discipline team

If anyone had said in the year 2000 that Britain would be one of the World’s best nations in gymnastics, cycling & canoe slalom, they’d have been taken away in a straitjacket.

Double Gold for in what is now officially the World’s Greatest Sporting Discipline!

Just need to get Wushu into the Olympics now!

2:11 would have been the Men's World Record at any date prior to 1967!

Wow, Wilde has just basically blown the world title because he dropped his swim cap & didn’t take three seconds to go back & pick it up!

Wilde on a heroic charge to win the title but has been killed by a stupid equipment penalty.