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Four through to the women’s final so that is guaranteed bronze. Valnes does not look happy with 12th place.

Is this an airport or railway station they’re all starting from? Mind you, here in Edinburgh if you want brutal grey concrete you have to go to the University Library, I can foresee the Army being sent into the mountains to shovel more snow before next week!

Think the question is whether the Tawk family or the Prevc family have more competitors here.

This meet is on TV, btw. How to follow and watch the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Melbourne | NEWS | World Athletics

We shall have to wait - there’s usually a second tranche of athletes invited when the organisers try to sort out the numbers.

damn, almost a double! Definitely impressed with Stevenson Savart , hope he gets some support & sponsorship because he knows his stuff.

Men 60m Eugene Amo-Dadzie (Steve Fudge, Woodford Green Essex Ladies) Jeremiah Azu (Marco Airale, Cardiff) Reece Prescod (Marco Airale, Enfield & Haringey) 800m Guy Learmonth (Justin Rinaldi, Lasswade) 1500m Neil Gourley (Stephen Haas, Giffnock North) George Mills (Thomas Dreißigacker, Brighton Phoenix) 3000m Jack Rowe (Tim Eglen, Aldershot Farnham and District) James West (Helen Clitheroe, Tonbridge) 60m Hurdles David King (Tim O’Neil, City of Plymouth) 4x400m Relay Joe Brier (Matt Elias, Swansea) Lewis Davey (Trevor Painter, Newham and Essex Beagles) Ben Higgins (Stewart Marshall, Sheffield & Dearne) Samuel Reardon (Nigel Stickings, Blackheath & Bromley) Lee Thompson (John Henson, Sheffield & Dearne)

British - Women 60m Daryll Neita (Marco Airale, Cambridge Harriers) Asha Philip (Amy Deem, Newham and Essex Beagles) 800m Isabelle Boffey (Luke Gunn, Enfield & Haringey) Keely Hodgkinson (Trevor Painter, Leigh) 1500m Ellie Baker (Jon Bigg, Shaftesbury Barnet) Laura Muir (Andy Young, Dundee Hawkhill) Katie Snowden (Stephen Haas, Herne Hill) 3000m Melissa Courtney-Bryant (Rob Denmark, Poole) Hannah Nuttall (Helen Clitheroe, Charnwood) Long Jump Jazmin Sawyers (Aston Moore, City of Stoke) High Jump Morgan Lake (Robbie Grabarz, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow) Pentathlon Holly Mills (Laura Turner-Alleyne, Andover) 4x400m Relay Mary Abichi (Lorna Boothe, Enfield & Haringey) Hannah Kelly (Les Hall, Bolton)Nicole Kendall (Richard Holt, Thames Valley) Carys McAulay (Nick Dakin, Trafford) Hayley McLean (Chris Zah, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Those two guys look like they know their stuff.

I think Team Totallympics is going to finish 9th! Well done everyone, great effort! Fantastic stuff! Well done @brunamoura. And Jacque gets to sit in the Big Chair!

Think Bruna has paced it a lot better than all those teenagers.

Wow Jacque Mourao really smashing it!

Going to be tense, the good runners are coming through now.

@brunamourahome in 16:14, obviously delighted to get over the line. She’s certainly got a lot of them beaten.

Is everyone here 15 years old or is there something wrong with the computer?

Gets a mention on Eurosport! (Well, the town, not the house-hunting)

There we go, No.1 warming up!

I have told this story here before. At the Torino Olympics the very first event on the first day was the Nordic Combined Ski Jumping, which worked on the same principle, lowest number of points jumped first, up to the highest. So the team chose 16-year old Alessandro Pittin in their team, who as a Junior obviously did not have any points at all......and he indeed did have the honour of being the very first competitor in that whole Olympics.

Used to have a window tax. Was very difficult to avoid! We literally still have building with bricked up windows.

Historically, it has always been top 10.

Another indoor meet tomorrow - Madrid. Nuguse, Ealey and Tentoglou among stars as Madrid unveils mouth-watering line-ups | PREVIEWS | World Athletics And then the first big outdoor meet of the year from Melbourne, with a decent international cast. Kerley leads cast keen to kick off Continental Tour Gold in style in Melbourne | PREVIEWS | World Athletics

Greg Foster, one of those great 110m hurdlers who never quite got that big Olympic Gold - silver at LA84, but missed out at the US trials a few times. 3 times World Champion, though. https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2023/02/20/greg-foster-dies-olympics-hurdles-track-and-field-ucla/

This was the funny thing about the FISU Games last month - very little competitor interest in the cool, happening youth events the IOC wants to promote. But huge interest in the boring old white guy events like alpine & biathlon.

Once again a crucial role played by the Swedish fat bloke on the hill.

JTB a beaten man.