The Official Athletics Thread

[El Guapo]

LOL, on top of the 100 and 200 he's now gone out and nailed 46.19 for the 400

Also point of order for the PROC style guide.

They fucked up his name when they translated it from Arabic Alphabet into English.

It's actually Guot Guot and is pronounced Gwat Gwat.

Carry on.

 

[El Guapo]

National Indoors weekend

All the indoor champs are happening this weekend. Ireland, UK, US, France and the Netherlands.

A weekend of looking shitty streams on youtube with a single camera and some quality regional accented commentary.

I went about getting a ticket for the Irish champs this week and they were sold out for the Sunday.

it'll depend on race declarations (most of the household names are listed in 2 events) but the mens 3000m looks tasty,

Andrew Coscoran (Star of the Sea AC), Darragh McElhinney (Bantry AC), Calum Morgan (CNDR Track), Cormac Dalton (Mullingar Harriers), Sean Tobin (Clonmel AC), Finley Daley (Sligo AC) and James Gormley (Carmen Runners).

i expect all of them to run it as they have to secure selection. Coscoran has a 1500m entry too along with Cathal Doyle. Griggs is injured.

Mawdesley will be favourite for the 400m but bedind her are Phil Healy, Lauren Cadden, Kelly McGrory and Rachel McCann..No sogn of Sophie Becker. Loads on the line there.

English and McCann in the 800m is also very relevant.

In the US the big boys aren't declaring choosing to run GST in favour of a trip to China.

Can Shelby "Darth Vader" Houlihan do it?(yes she can I'd say)

Can anyone stop Josh Hoey in the 800m? No way

Can Hobbs Kessler win a title or will remain bridemaid. I don't know but I hope so.

Brits is probably the best one. Its certainly the deepest with the fewest clear cut favourites.

It'll be on Beeb red button.

Will Whiteman toe the line?..Will Mr Elbows George Mills be done for GBH?
Will Laura Muir not make a selection for the first time in forever.

Stay tuned folks

 

[Carmona]

Guapo, a contact of mine tells me that English, Coscoran, Mawdsely and possibly Healy are all out......

 

[El Guapo]

Guapo, a contact of mine tells me that English, Coscoran, Mawdsely and possibly Healy are all out......

Aaagh.

That's a pity

 

[El Guapo]

Irish Nationals never short of brilliant racing.

Check out the mens 3000m later on. A cracker

 

[Carmona]

And Mawdsely did show up, right?

 

[El Guapo]

And Mawdsely did show up, right?

Yeah she won handily enough but i didn’t watch it.

Israel only 3rd in the 60m which was the biggest surprise, Big breakthrough for Bori

 

[El Guapo]

if anyone has teenage Daughters this may be of interest to a few of them

Teenage Girls Intro To Athletics Programmes 2025 | Cork Sports Partnership

NEW Intro To Athletics For Teenage Girls Programmes 2025!

www.corksports.ie

 

[El Guapo]

Madrid indoor tonight. last stop on the indoor tour.

Kiss me arse effort really as all eyes on Appeldorn or Nanjing or the summer now.

Doyler gets a crack at the Swiss Lad Sam Philstrom again. He was 3rd and about 2 seconds behind him 2 weeks ago in Karlsruhe, Narrowing that gap would be brilliant.

Inside track from 19:00 I think

US Half Marathon champs on too which should be competitive at least with Kincaid and Joe Klecker stepping up from the track

 

[omar]

Duplantis breaks world pole vault record for 11th time

Sweden's Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 metres to shatter the world pole vault record for a staggering 11th time at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France on Friday.

www.rte.ie

Enough is enough...take away his pole and give him a real challenge