[Black Dagger]

Now she just needs somebody to look at her psychology side and we're sorted. She's a waste of ****ing time after her shotput and needs to sort her head out.

[Headie]

Now that Jess has retired, I wonder if her coach Toni Minichello will take on Kat?

[Headie]

Jazmin Sawyers has auditioned for The Voice UK

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...-of-the-voice/

[Headie]

British Indoor Championships/European Trials are coming up this weekend on BBC Online.

[Headie]

Euro Indoors start today at 8.15 on BBC

[James]

Old world records could go - proposal.

European Athletics proposes rewriting athletics world records after doping scandal

39 minutes ago

European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen ordered the review in January

Most of athletics' world records could be rewritten under a "revolutionary" new proposal from European Athletics.

It set up a taskforce to examine the credibility of records in January following the sport's doping scandal.

British world record holders like Paula Radcliffe and Jonathan Edwards could lose their titles under the criteria.

Svein Arne Hansen, the European Athletics president, said world records "are meaningless if people don't really believe them".

European Athletics' ruling council has now ratified the proposals put forward by the taskforce and wants the sport's world governing body, the IAAF, to adopt the changes it sets out.

If the proposals are accepted by the IAAF, world records would only be recognised if:

. It was achieved at a competition on a list of approved international events where the highest standards of officiating and technical equipment can be guaranteed;

. The athlete had been subject to an agreed number of doping control tests in the months leading up to it;

. The doping control sample taken after the record was stored and available for re-testing for 10 years.

The council also recommended that a performance should be wiped from record books if the athlete had committed a "doping or integrity violation, even if it does not directly impact the record performance".

The proposals are a response to last year's McLaren report, which uncovered widespread doping in sport - and athletics in particular. Russian athletes are currently banned from international competition unless they can satisfy strict criteria to show they are clean.

More than 100 Olympic athletes who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Games have been sanctioned for doping after the International Olympic Committee embarked on a programme of retesting old samples.

"There are records in which people in the sport, the media and the public do not have complete confidence," added taskforce chair Pierce O'Callaghan.
'A step in the right direction'


The IAAF has stored blood and urine samples only since 2005 and current records that do not meet the new criteria would remain on an "all-time list", but not be officially recognised as records.

This would include Edwards' triple jump record of 18.29m - set in 1995 - and Colin Jackson's 1994 indoor 60m hurdles world record of 6.30secs, as well as Radcliffe's marathon mark of 2 hours 17 minutes and 18 seconds.

Radcliffe has previously criticised plans to wipe records from the books and last month told BBC Sport she favoured making doping a criminal offence instead, to deter cheats.

However, IAAF president Sebastian Coe said the changes were "a step in the right direction".

"There will be athletes, current record holders, who will feel that the history we are recalibrating will take something away from them, but if organised and structured properly we have a good chance of winning back credibility in this area," he said.

European Athletics president Hansen said he would encourage the IAAF to adopt the proposal at its August council meeting.

"What we are proposing is revolutionary and not just because most world and European records will have to be replaced," Hansen added.

"We want to raise the standards for recognition to a point where everyone can be confident that everything is fair and above board".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39774233

[Headie]

Trials for London 2017 are on this weekend

Saturday from 3pm on BBC Red Button
Sunday from 1pm on BBC2

[Headie]

On BBC Red Button now

Chrissy Ohuruogu failed to make the final </3

[Headie]

Perched for this 200m final

[Headie]

Dina and Zharnel are dating?

[Headie]

Nethaneel snatches it

Doubt Gemili will even be picked for the team, looks injured. Zharnel should get the 3rd spot.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Lusanne Diamond League is on right now x

[Macie Lightfoot]

Ashley Spencer just own in 53.90 and she couldn't even make the damn US Team for London.

[Headie]

Screaming they crowned the wrong winner

Youtube video

[Macie Lightfoot]

oh speaking of hilarity did we ever discuss that time earlier this year in Oslo when Blessing's wig was SNATCHED during long jump?

Youtube video

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

oh speaking of hilarity did we ever discuss that time earlier this year in Oslo when Blessing's wig was SNATCHED during long jump?

Youtube video

Yes lmao that was iconic

[Headie]

Stowers just did an Okagbare in the hurdles

[Calderyon]

Have to lean on Pitkämäki again to bring at least something from the Worlds it seems. Although it seems some of our long jumpers have had some promising results as of late.

[Headie]

If Shawn Barber wasn't already the hunkiest world champion around, I just found out that he's gay

https://www.thestar.com/sports/amate...-big-deal.html

[Headie]

GB Team announced for London 2017:

http://www.britishathletics.org.uk/n...don-2017-team/

(more selections to come on 24th July when the IAAF invites athletes to participate)

Zharnel Hughes selected over Adam Gemili will probably make headlines but it's the right decision - Gemili has just not been in form at all this year.

[Macie Lightfoot]

okay but where is Theo from Love Island

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

okay but where is Theo from Love Island

He has literally had one run out at the World Relays and that's it, I was dying when they all said he was an Olympic and World champion

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Hayden

I'm screaming @ Blessing Okgabare being so passive aggressive to Nigerian reporters.

"The possibility of you getting the double is possible isn't it?"
"...I already won it. You just missed it "

Youtube video

"Some Nigerians are worried about your time..."
"Nigeria should worry about their government, not helping me and not my time"

<333

I still think about this every day

[Headie]

Greg Rutherford is OUT due to injury

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/40716476

He would've flopped anyway, the Africans/Americans are taking over the event now.

[Calderyon]

Finns did great on the Youth European Championships.

I didn´t watch, but good for them.