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But so many no throws!  Always feel like telling them to cut the crap & just shuffle to get a distance in, but they are shot putters so I am too scared to say anything.

Doom beats Faust in the 400m Showdown of the Mad Scientists. 

Here’s the obligatory “Where to watch?” Post.
 
Here in Britain it’s the BBC, which means luxuriant amounts of aimless yakking, not very much shot put qualification.
 
https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-championships/glasgow24/where-to-watch?countryCode=GB
 
 
Alternatively, the World Feed, if you have your full-blown VPN.
 
https://worldathletics.org/videos

Geez, the “wait till the race is finished” rule has been around for, what, 30 years now?
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-13136413/NC-State-Owen-Lloyd-swimmer-ACC-championship-title-stripped.html

6 months to the Paralympics.  
 
Paris 2024: All you need to know for Paralympic Games - BBC Sport
 
 

Don't know, but I'm guessing leftists are throwing fits because they lost the election so heavily.

Don't know, but I'm guessing leftists are throwing fits because they lost the election so heavily.

“Looks like I’ve picked a bad week to quit drinking:
 

British team a bit skinny for a Home Games, but everyone has their own priorities.
 
 
Women
Georgia Bell (1500m)
Isabelle Boffey (800m)
Molly Caudery (pole vault)
Morgan Lake (high jump)
Laura Muir (3,000m)
Laviai Nielsen (400m)
Jemma Reekie (800m)
Cindy Sember (60m hurdles)
Revee Walcott-Nolan (1500m)
4x400m: Hannah Brier, Hannah Kelly, Jessie Knight, Laviai Nielsen, Lina Nielsen and Ama Pipi 
 
Men
Jeremiah Azu (60m)
Callum Elson, (1500m)
Adam Fogg (1500m)
Josh Kerr (3,000m)
David King (60m hurdles)
Tade Ojora (60m hurdles)
 

Great moments in  athletics - winner of the 800m in Madrid throws his bouquet into the crowd - and everyone starts fighting over it, destroying it.  

Great moments in  athletics - winner of the 800m in Madrid throws his bouquet into the crowd - and everyone starts fighting over it, destroying it.  

well, here in Italy (right now, you know...) also women's Alpine Skiing has way better TV ratings than men's
 
Swimming also had the same attitude for years thanks to Federica Pellegrini (only Massimiliano Rosolino somehow had and still has a comparable degree of popularity...even Paltrinieri doesn't stand a chance to draw the same attention those 2 had in their prime)

Two big meets tomorrow - unfortunately Berlin seems to be restricted to German & Polish TV only.
 
Madrid is the Gold Tour Final - preview here.
 
https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/meeting-indoor-tour-final-madrid-2024-charlton

“Looks like I’ve picked a bad week to quit drinking:
 

“Looks like I’ve picked a bad week to quit drinking:
 

“Looks like I’ve picked a bad week to quit drinking:
 

The problem is that globally you are creating two different sports. The high-tech 20% will compete to one set of rules, the low-tech poor 80% will compete to another.  What good does that do?

The problem is that globally you are creating two different sports. The high-tech 20% will compete to one set of rules, the low-tech poor 80% will compete to another.  What good does that do?

The problem is that globally you are creating two different sports. The high-tech 20% will compete to one set of rules, the low-tech poor 80% will compete to another.  What good does that do?

The problem is that globally you are creating two different sports. The high-tech 20% will compete to one set of rules, the low-tech poor 80% will compete to another.  What good does that do?

Just caught up with those two races. Absolute classics in front of big crowds.  First American male win in a distance race since Bill Koch in the early 1980s.

All live on Eurovisionsport, before anyone asks.
 
eurovisionsport.com/explore/federation?id=LandingPage-IBU

British team a bit skinny for a Home Games, but everyone has their own priorities.
 
 
Women
Georgia Bell (1500m)
Isabelle Boffey (800m)
Molly Caudery (pole vault)
Morgan Lake (high jump)
Laura Muir (3,000m)
Laviai Nielsen (400m)
Jemma Reekie (800m)
Cindy Sember (60m hurdles)
Revee Walcott-Nolan (1500m)
4x400m: Hannah Brier, Hannah Kelly, Jessie Knight, Laviai Nielsen, Lina Nielsen and Ama Pipi 
 
Men
Jeremiah Azu (60m)
Callum Elson, (1500m)
Adam Fogg (1500m)
Josh Kerr (3,000m)
David King (60m hurdles)
Tade Ojora (60m hurdles)
 

Still finalizing acceptances, I think. 

For the first time since 2017, Norway completes a world championship without any medals in women's events.