It's such a pity this champs is buried so deep in the calender, in the public consciousness and in the athletes priorities.
real sense that the margin for error for the Irish and in particular Rashidat Adeleke have been tightened even further. Just because individuals and teams seem to be responding.
The Spanish women's 4x400m looked sensational and there seems to be an endless supply of sub 50 clockers all of a sudden (jaeger and whittaker spring to mind). She does keep referring to her training load so we'll trust in flo but Ellie Beer is more Becker than Adeleke and it didn't look like that. New coaching set up seems to be suiting Mawdesley
From an Irish perspective it's generally positive, Everyone ran to form really. The men didn't fuck up (Raftery is only 24 went 45.88 in the men's and 45.89 out of the blocks in the mixed), Kelly, Greene and O'Donnell were all undercooked coming into this.
Conor Kelly is only 17 so has plenty of meat on the bone from his 46mids same with Aaron Keane he went 46 high today but is only 23. Rachel McCann is 23 and hopefully can turn 53s into 51s like Becker did. And she has the relay money to help her. Doggett is 18 and hopefully will still improve he's a world u20 finalist.
The vibes were good. The interviews seemed positive and there were good pictures of them fuck acting about together so morale seemed pretty good.
Its a shame the mixed and the men took such a bad beating. Hard to dress that one up short term.
Chinese crowds were legitimately good, USA are a pity you'd think national pride would carry a touch further.
Major fuck up/bad luck by Jamaica in the men's Kishane never even got to touch a baton
Sherika Jackson has plenty to think about too.
Brits have some good women too.
