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They need hi-viz clothes what with all the blizzards they get in Mexico. Well, volcanic eruptions anyway.

Completely disagree, team athletics are great! Two of the best events on the calendar are the European Team Champs and the NCAA finals: makes for extremely exciting viewing because every single performance counts. Often the hero that wins the competition is the unknown hammer thrower who throws a 65m PB to get 7th rather than the predicted 12th place and not the superstar gold medallist sprinter who gets a predicted win. Most exciting athletics event I have seen this year was the four-way battle to avoid relegation in the First Division European Team Champs.

That will be Geo-blocked in some countries. It’s also on the BBC Website if you can get to that. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live-guide/athletics

I enjoyed watching it, but overall the standard is like First Round Heats in a major Championships. But good practice for athletes before they go to training camps.

Egyptians start mixed team laser run with huge lead. just as well, Egyptian woman is a good shot, but not a fast runner, poor third shot from Egyptian man, but German pursuer even worse. decent shot from Egyptian, another mess from the German, loses his medal chance. BLR up from 8th to a Bronze.

Easy race for Belaud in the end, easily the fastest runner. Another killer sprint from Joe Choong for silver.

Should have said yesterday, but I loved the Rubik Cube fence in the jumping. Didn’t see if there was a fence commemorating the other great Hungarian inventor Laszlo Biro...

He was one of the key guys in the era when Biathlon was transformed from this weird obscure military sport into one of the world’s most exciting and popular professional sports.

You’re busted!

There was a parallel slalom World Cup in Rotterdam a few years back.

Going from one venue to the next, like the Olympic Torch Relay. Obviously nobody wants to do the Shanghai-Oslo leg.

Christian Coleman missed three random tests, got off on some very complicated technicality, so not as completely clear as Gatlin.

It is.

English word for that is a mullet - no idea why, it is a kind of fish.

Do you remember when the athletes used to get huge bars of chocolate wrapped in gold as a prize?

.004, don’t often see this kind of tantrum these days.

Cheriuyot is wearing the wrong colour of kit, the Nike Gods will be angry.

Love the Brussels Diamond League The Smurfs Drummers of Burundi Every single stadium announcement must be made twice.

Oh well, my memories are more dramatic than the boring old real world. i should be writing for films.

Men tomorrow, mixed relay Monday.

But I think she was leading before the jumping round.

She also had a horrible meltdown in London 2012 when she was a big favourite for Gold.

Horses hate French people, they know they get eaten there.

Pretty easy for Silkina after excellent fencing and jumping, very exciting for other medals.

For once the graphics work... this is a horse-race track they are using.