Nice to see Eleanor Patterson back near her best with a clearance of 1.99 to finish just behind Mahuchikh. Hoping she doesn't get derailed by injury again.
Madison Wilson retired a couple of weeks ago after giving birth to her first child last year. Won silver in the 100 backstroke at 2015 Worlds before transitioning to freestyle leading to numerous relay medals and records.
Okay maybe it's not as many as I thought but improvements in the mid teens at a single meet aren't that uncommon in the top pole vaulters. Sam Kendricks did improve by 0.21 in a single meet from 5.60 to 5.81 which is similar to this Chinese guy
I only looked through the top 10 all time.
They've added women's 1500 freestyle and men's 800 freestyle. I guess they can get away with that because it'll be the same athletes as events already on the program but that's gonna be tough to squeeze into the schedule unless they're converting the long distance events to timed finals.
Glasgow will replace the 1500 with a mile for both sexes.
https://www.thetimes.com/sport/athletics/article/commonwealth-games-evokes-memories-of-1954-as-mile-race-replaces-1500m-l56ckvv8b
Gotta say I'd prefer they leave it as is.