[Headie]

Team GB has been announced for the European Indoor Championships in Prague, March 6-8. BBC will be covering the championships and I assume Eurosport will too.

GB & Northern Ireland team

MEN

60m: Richard Kilty, Sean Safo-Antwi, Chijindu Ujah

400m: Jarryd Dunn

800m: James Bowness, Guy Learmonth, Mukhtar Mohammed

1500m: Charlie Grice, Chris O'Hare

3000m: Lee Emanuel, Philip Hurst, Tom Lancashire

4x400m: Jamie Bowie, Jarryd Dunn, Rory Evans, Conrad Williams, Rabah Yousif

60m hurdles: Lawrence Clarke, David Omoregie

High jump: Allan Smith

Long jump: Greg Rutherford

WOMEN

60m: Dina Asher-Smith, Rachel Johncock

400m: Seren Bundy-Davies, Laura Maddox, Kirsten McAslan

800m: Jenny Meadows, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke

1500m: Rosie Clarke

3000m: Kate Avery, Emelia Gorecka, Laura Muir

4x400m: Amy Allcock, Seren Bundy-Davies, Laura Maddox, Kelly Massey, Kirsten McAslan, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke

60m hurdles: Lucy Hatton, Serita Solomon

High jump: Isobel Pooley

Long jump: Abigail Irozuru

Pentathlon: Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Morgan Lake

[Headie]

We have some genuine gold medal chances with KJT, Rutherford, Bundy-Davies, Asher-Smith, Muir and Ujah/Kilty.

Good to see the selectors have picked young talents too who just fell short of the qualifying standards, such as Lucy Hatton, David Omoregie and Emilia Gorecka.

[Headie]

lol Rutherford has pulled out of the Euros already to focus on the outdoors. Was to be expected tbh.

[Headie]

Final entries for this weekend's European Indoor Championships in Prague:
http://www.european-athletics.org/mm...te_Neutral.pdf

Also for anyone not sure where to watch this, here are the times and channels it's being aired on:

Thurs:-

Eurosport 2 15:30:18:00 Live & 20:00-22:00 Highlights

Fri

BBC2 08:30-12:00
BBC Red Button 11:55-13:00 and 14:45-18:00
Eurosport 2 8:45-13:15 and 15:00-18:00 Live & 20:00-22:00 Highlights

Sat:-

BBC2 08:30-11:30 and 16:30-19:30
Eurosport 2 09:00-11:00 and 15:30-19:00 & 20:00-22:00 Highlights

Sun:-

BBC2 13:30-17:35
Eurosport 2 19:30-15:15 & 20:00-22:00 Highlights

[Headie]

I have nothing to do so I analysed the final entries and put how high each British athlete is ranked within each event out of the competitors based on the competing entries SB's:

MEN

60m
Chijindu Ujah - 1st
Richard Kilty - 2nd
Sean Safo-Antwi - 6th

400m
Jarryd Dunn - 10th

800m
Guy Learmonth - 5th
James Bowness - 7th
Mukhtar Mohammed - 8th

1500m
Charlie Grice - 6th
Chris O’Hare - 9th

3000m
Lee Emanuel - 2nd
Philip Hurst - 9th
Tom Lancashire - 10th

60m Hurdles
Lawrence Clarke - 3rd
David Omoregie - 15th

High Jump
Allan Smith - 10th

WOMEN

60m
Dina Asher-Smith - 2nd
Rachel Johncock - 10th

400m
Seren Bundy-Davies - 1st
Kirsten McAslan - 3rd
Laura Maddox - 4th

800m
Jenny Meadows - 1st
Shelayna Oskan-Clarke - 10th

1500m
Rosie Clarke - 7th

3000m
Laura Muir - 2nd
Kate Avery - 4th
Emelia Gorecka - 18th

60m Hurdles
Lucy Hatton - 8th
Serita Solomon - 10th

High Jump
Isobel Pooley - 10th

Long Jump
Abigail Irozuru - 5th

Pentathlon
Morgan Lake N/A
Katarina Johnson-Thompson N/A

[Headie]

Abigail Irozuru out of the Euros with a hamstring injury
https://twitter.com/Airozuru/status/572460439906480128

[Headie]

Abigail Irozuru out of the Euros with a hamstring injury
https://twitter.com/Airozuru/status/572460439906480128

[Headie]

Excited for this tomorrow

[Headie]

Brilliant performances from KJT, Lucy Hatton and Serita Solomon!

Gutted that KJT just missed out on the World Record but happy she won gold with ease, I'm so excited for Jessica Ennis-Hill to return and I can't wait for them to duel it out at the World Champs!

Great runs from Hatton and Solomon, 7.90 and 7.93 respectively to claim silver and bronze. Really excited to see how they'll fare in the outdoor season now!

[Headie]

Jessica Ennis-Hill ‏@J_Ennis 3 hrs3 hours ago
@JohnsonThompson Well done Kat!! Amazing performance! Sad to see my record go but couldn't have gone to a more deserving athlete!

KJT ‏@JohnsonThompson 14 mins14 minutes ago
@J_Ennis ahh thanks Jess...I know how you feel @morgan_a_lake ����

Morgan Lake ‏@morgan_a_lake 1 min1 minute ago
@JohnsonThompson ahha sorry �� well done on the senior one though #5000

Can't wait for all 3 to dominate the Heptathlon for many years to come

[Headie]

[Macie Lightfoot]

I know nobody really cares about Americans here but the women's NCAA meet was POPPING

-Jenna Prandini scoring 26 points (10.96w 100/22.21 200/6.80 LJ) to lead Oregon to the women's title
-22.24 getting FOURTH in the 200 with legal wind
-18 y/o Raevyn Rogers running 1:59.71 for the win
-Dior Hall breaking the WJR record in the 100H with a 12.74
-freshman Keturah Orji breaking the AJR record with 14.15 in TJ (not to mention that she landed standing up and had no extension whatsoever)
-freshman Raven Saunders throwing 18.35 to win the SP
-Akela Jones winning the Hep with 6371 in her second heptathlon ever

guys meet was pretty good too, junior Andre De Grasse blew up the field with a 9.75w/19.58w double

Junior and Senior nationals are both next weekend so there should be some interesting stuff there

[Headie]

Welp the UK sucks compared to USA lmao

(Although I still believe Dina Asher Smith will be the fastest female in the world in the future)

[Macie Lightfoot]

eh, much bigger population pool for starters, but even then it's not uncommon for the big NCAA names to come from abroad like Kirani James, Natoya Goule, and Dominique Scott (who I assume will compete for South Africa once she graduates)

I like Dina Asher-Smith! She came across really well in her interview at World Juniors last year and I was thrilled when she beat Kaylin Whitney tbh! Whitney broke the high school records in the 100 and 200 last year as a sophomore and she trains with a professional group that's LOADED with drug cheats so the whole thing is rly suspicious tbh. And then she signed pro and now trains with that group full time

Speaking of Whitney's 100 high school record, it was broken this weekend by a sophomore! Candace Hill ran a wind legal 10.96 which has to be one of the best HS performances ever in any event. Completely mind-blowing. Also this weekend had the girls HS long jump record broken (a 39 year old one!!!) by Kate Hall with a 6.83.

We have US Juniors and US Youth coming up soon and I'm excited to see what Sydney McLaughlin does. Almost beat the NCAA champion last year in 400 hurdles and qualified for the World Junior team but was too young this past weekend at HS Nationals she repeated her hurdle title in 55.8 (just off her PB) and had two 51.x splits on relays. And she's only 15 years old

Hayden I feel bad that I always come in this thread and bombard you with American **** so here's a question I have, whatever happened to Jodie Williams? I remember back in like 2009 or 2010 she had some crazy streak and didn't lose a race for four or five years. Is she still running fast?

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

Hayden I feel bad that I always come in this thread and bombard you with American **** so here's a question I have, whatever happened to Jodie Williams? I remember back in like 2009 or 2010 she had some crazy streak and didn't lose a race for four or five years. Is she still running fast?

Haha it's not a problem at all Better than just me posting in here all the time... I like keeping up with American affairs too!

Jodie won Silver at both the Commonwealth Games and European Championships last year in the 200 (coming second to Okagbare/Schippers), smashing her PB in pretty much every race she ran last year. She dabbled about with doing some 4x400 relays too. She hasn't run at all this season due to injury, idk if she plans to run at the Worlds or not.

She is definitely progressing though, and I can't wait for her and Dina to have a showdown!

I heard about that Candace girl... she is definitely one to watch in the future for sure.

Also Troy please tell me you do not support Gatlin and Gay and all the other irrelevant has-beens that should've been banned for life years ago.

[Headie]

Oh and a bunch of foreign athletes with British citizenship recently switched allegiance to the UK, including Zharnel Hughes (who broke Blake's junior records and almost beat Bolt in New York) and Cindy Ofili (Tiffany Porter's sister).

I'm going to watch the Trials and will be there for the 100m Hurdles final, which will consist of Tiffany Porter, Cindy Ofili, Lucy Hatton, Serita Solomon and Jess Ennis. It's definitely gonna be the event of the champs for me!

[Headie]

This is a useful website for seeing which athletes across the globe have achieved World Champs qualifying standards:
http://toplist.leichtathletik-mehrkampf.de/

[Black Dagger]

Some of our performances in the team champs last weekend

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Hayden

Also Troy please tell me you do not support Gatlin and Gay and all the other irrelevant has-beens that should've been banned for life years ago.

the only thing I support about Tyson Gay is his bubble butt tbh.

But yeah, the drug cheat stuff is why I can't fully get behind Kaylin Whitney (the girl who broke high school records in the 100/200 last year as a sophomore and went pro. Candace Hill broke her 100 record this year.) She's been training with Star Athletics, which is Dennis Mitchell's track club that Damu Cherry and Justin Gatlin are associated with. All three are drug cheats so it naturally makes you suspicious of everyone involved.

Speaking of drug suspicions, there's been a hell of a lot of stuff going on with the Nike Oregon Project, one of the best distance groups in the country. Alberto Salazar (who is controversial enough as it is) is under suspicion mainly for stuff with Galen Rupp. It's also interesting that Mary Cain (the American equivalent of Jessica Judd as I understand) has left NOP and Lauren Fleshman has come out and talked about how Salazar took her to one of his doctors to get her diagnosed with asthma and then told her how she should take her asthma medicine.

Fun fact, my father coached Tiffany Porter's husband in high school!

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

the only thing I support about Tyson Gay is his bubble butt tbh.

But yeah, the drug cheat stuff is why I can't fully get behind Kaylin Whitney (the girl who broke high school records in the 100/200 last year as a sophomore and went pro. Candace Hill broke her 100 record this year.) She's been training with Star Athletics, which is Dennis Mitchell's track club that Damu Cherry and Justin Gatlin are associated with. All three are drug cheats so it naturally makes you suspicious of everyone involved.

Speaking of drug suspicions, there's been a hell of a lot of stuff going on with the Nike Oregon Project, one of the best distance groups in the country. Alberto Salazar (who is controversial enough as it is) is under suspicion mainly for stuff with Galen Rupp. It's also interesting that Mary Cain (the American equivalent of Jessica Judd as I understand) has left NOP and Lauren Fleshman has come out and talked about how Salazar took her to one of his doctors to get her diagnosed with asthma and then told her how she should take her asthma medicine.

Fun fact, my father coached Tiffany Porter's husband in high school!

Yeah the whole Oregon thing sounds messy tbh

Omg Jeff Porter? That's so cool... he seems like a nice guy too, unlike some American athletes (y'all know the ones)

[Macie Lightfoot]

ya I like what I've seen from him. This also makes Tiffany Porter my favorite Brit athlete just bc of the degrees of separation <3

US Nationals aren't being shown because of the NFL draft but they cut to the women's 100 final and it's gonna be Torie Bowie, English Gardner, and Jasmine Todd going to Beijing! They beat out Prandini, Bartoletta, Tarmoh, and Jeter Jeter went down and might've pulled something right at the end of the race but she was already out of it.

[Macie Lightfoot]

and Tyson Gay predictably won the 100. I h8 that he's a drug cheat but he interviews well. It's nice to see a sprinter who isn't completely cocky and is respectful of his competitors, as sad as that is to say.

Trayvon Bromell got second place though! Turns 20 in July and ran 9.96.

[Macie Lightfoot]

New Jersey girls got 1st and 3rd in TJ <3 including 19 year old Keturah Orji. I have no clue who actually goes to Beijing though since not many of our women TJers meet the standard usually. (ETA: Orji got 3rd place but has the best jump in the country, only 0.05 off the qualifying mark!)

Sanya Richards-Ross didn't make the 400 meter final

[Macie Lightfoot]

Francena McCorory doesn't make it in the 400! Died in the last 50 and fell right at the line for fourth place (was already in fourth though so the fall didn't change things.) The team will be Allyson Felix, Natasha Hastings, and Phyllis Francis!

[Headie]

The US trials are brutal. Stowers, Richards Ross and McCorory all out of the team despite topping the world leading times. Nelvis only just made it by 0.01 second...

Christine's chances of defending her title have drastically improved.

The last day of US trials are on Eurosport 2 @ 9pm tonight