The Official Athletics Thread

[El Guapo]

I tuned in earlier and all I could think was that the course looks fucking shit and the yanks ruin everything. The artificial hill is something out of a crazy golf course.

Coverage is pure shit. Wide drone shots, can't have a lead car because of the obstacles and the fixed positions are back behind the crowds. The 2k loop is stretching things too much too.

 

[El Guapo]

16th for Fay right behind Gressier is great

 

[Carmona]

16th for Fay right behind Gressier is great

He nearly fooking had him. Great effort and rest sprint. What was he 4th or 5th European?

 

[Carmona]

Last finisher, 106th place, let's hear it for Gaylord Silly.

Wtf?!

 

[El Guapo]

He nearly fooking had him. Great effort and rest sprint. What was he 4th or 5th European?

Depends on whether you count Yanks as European but 3rd or 5th depending. He beat some serious operators

 

[BlackpoolTerrier]

F***s sake, I thought it was tomorrow. Watching the men’s race ATM on YT and even though it’s a pirate back-to-front screenscrape copy, you can see that the coverage was p***poor. Wide angles, crappy drone shots, no cameras on the course covering the straights etc. Some running out of Fay alright
No question, it’s a brutally tough race

 

[Cork4life90]

Brilliant running by Fay and a bit of a missed opportunity to be honest for the other irish senior men’s team members. Ok they wouldn’t have gotten a team medal but could they have ran the Yanks close in the team comp. It’s still a world champs that would be on your CV for ever more at the end of the day.

Great running by Allen and Everard also - ahead of some big European and US names.

 

[Carmona]

Depends on whether you count Yanks as European but 3rd or 5th depending. He beat some serious operators

Is this a kinda reverse Greenland, Guapo? Donnie T will be on your case, m8

 

[Carmona]

Still not official official but looks like Jack O Leary big pb in 27.42 and Gidey NR in 27.38 or so.

 

[BlackpoolTerrier]

12th for Gidey in 27:38 - small PB
18th for O'Leary in 27:41 - huge PB
39th for Dalton in 28:03 - big PB
100th for Michael Murphy in 29:00

Great running from them all but with 100 lads under the 29 mins, I never know what to make of this race