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Black Dagger 23-09-2016 12:07 AM

:clap1:

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 13-10-2016 05:47 PM

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

Headie 29-10-2016 11:08 AM

Jazmin Sawyers has auditioned for The Voice UK :flutter:

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

Headie 05-02-2017 08:18 PM

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

Headie 03-03-2017 06:48 AM

Euro Indoors start today at 8.15 on BBC

James 01-05-2017 07:34 PM

Old world records could go - proposal.

Quote:

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 30-06-2017 11:58 AM

Trials for London 2017 are on this weekend

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

Headie 01-07-2017 01:58 PM

On BBC Red Button now

Chrissy Ohuruogu failed to make the final </3

Headie 02-07-2017 02:33 PM

Perched for this 200m final

Headie 02-07-2017 03:47 PM

Dina and Zharnel are dating? :o

Headie 02-07-2017 03:54 PM

Nethaneel snatches it :clap1:

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

Macie Lightfoot 06-07-2017 06:06 PM

Lusanne Diamond League is on right now x

Macie Lightfoot 06-07-2017 06:08 PM

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

Headie 06-07-2017 06:49 PM

Screaming they crowned the wrong winner


Macie Lightfoot 06-07-2017 06:53 PM

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


Headie 06-07-2017 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot (Post 9430139)
oh speaking of hilarity did we ever discuss that time earlier this year in Oslo when Blessing's wig was SNATCHED during long jump?


Yes lmao that was iconic :joker:

Headie 09-07-2017 02:23 PM

Stowers just did an Okagbare in the hurdles :joker:

Calderyon 09-07-2017 02:26 PM

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 11-07-2017 01:18 PM

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

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

http://www.athleticsweekly.com/wp-co...r-1250x750.jpg

Headie 11-07-2017 01:25 PM

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 16-07-2017 06:18 PM

okay but where is Theo from Love Island

Headie 22-07-2017 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot (Post 9458382)
okay but where is Theo from Love Island

:joker:

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 23-07-2017 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hayden (Post 8837036)
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 :rolleyes:"



"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 25-07-2017 01:40 PM

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 25-07-2017 03:26 PM

Finns did great on the Youth European Championships. :clap1:

I didn´t watch, but good for them.


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