Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: Villa Lew on February 14, 2025, 09:46:21 AM
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Tough on Keely Hodgkinson, due to a hamstring injury, she has been forced to pull out of tomorrow's event named in her honour, the 'Keely Klassic' at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham, where she was bidding to break the world indoor 800m record.
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Ireland are smashing the final day of the European Indoor Championships. It's great to see.
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First gold in World indoors. Azu in the 60m.
Georgia Bell and Amber Anning looked good in the heats for the 1500m and 400m. Having said that Bell looked good in the heats in the Europeans last week, before fading in the Final
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Don't think this Grand Slam Track is going to capture the public imagination based on day 1.
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I skimread about it. From what I can gather, it's basically Diamond League but without the field events?
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and all of the athletes running in two events over three nights with just eight races per night. so lots of empty time (best recorded and watched back afterwards so you can cut out all the filler which replaces field events in the broadcast). some athletes are supposed to be "racers" committed to taking part in each of the four meetings and others are "challengers" who aren't. but so what? just 24 races to watch (x 4 meetings) with fields are more us-centric than usual and in the longer distance events smaller than usual.
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Yeah, doesn't sound great.
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This explains a bit more
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6258753/2025/04/07/grand-slam-track-debut-review-michael-johnson/
It might be one that takes a few events to catch on, but I’m pretty sure it will take off.
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Habz runs 3:27.49 in the 1500m in Paris, breaks the meeting and French records.
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A really good women's high jump competition tonight.
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Ciara Mageean reveals she has been diagnosed with cancer.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2025/0704/1521927-ciara-mageean-reveals-cancer-diagnosis/
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Yeah, doesn't sound great.
Saw an article today, actually to do with Seb Coe, but apparently the athletes haven't been paid yet (except for appearance money). So not looking good. Shame, I thought the format was good.
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Finnie the unicorn unveiled as the Glasgow Commonwealth Games mascot. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wprgqnz5wo
The traffic cone is a nice touch.
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World Athketics Champs in Japan started this am - switched it on and the 35k ‘walk’ was on - tough watch when they try and call it walking :-)
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Good race in the women's 10,000m final, with Chebet just beating Battocletti again.
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Brilliant run by Melissa Jefferson-Wooden.
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Oblique Seville brings back 100m gold for Jamaica for the first time since Bolt retired.
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Brilliant run by Melissa Jefferson-Wooden.
It was superb, left the rest for dead.
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It's a shame the authorities still allow those bent records that Flo Jo "won" to stand or there would have been some brilliant battles for the World Record in the last fifteen years.
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Very tough on Molly Caudery, one of the favourites for gold in the pole vault, unfortunately she had to withdraw from the event due to rolling her ankle in the warm up.
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She seems like the summer sport version of Elise Christie.
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That steeplechase was epic. Two seconds between the top eight.
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What a run from Kambundji from Switzerland.
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Just assumed it was going to be between America and Jamaica. Nice to have some surprise winners.
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Wow, Duplantis clears 6.30m.
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I think whenever I've seen him jump he's broken a world record.
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The bloke's absolutely brilliant.
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The men's 1500m semi-finals were a bit chaotic.
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Brutal steeplechase.
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I think whenever I've seen him jump he's broken a world record.
14 times so far.
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Silver for Wightman, Kerr got injured halfway through.
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Great effort from Wightman, but that was a brilliant finish by the Portuguese guy Nader.
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Colin Jackson explaining that one of the athletes "literally just popped up inside her". Surely that's against the rules?
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I think whenever I've seen him jump he's broken a world record.
14 times so far.
I wonder how this happens? How can he be THAT far ahead of everyone? I don't think I've ever heard of anyone breaking a world record 14 times in any discipline.
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Because he raises the bar by a tiny amount each time then stops competing once he has broken the record. There is a cash prize every time he does it so he would be foolish to add fifty centimetres to the record in one go.
Sergey Bubka broke the pole vault record thirty-five times, for the same reason.
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Yep, it's a money thing that makes it a bit silly.
Specific to pole vault it's pretty unique in being an event where equipment plays a vital role but that degree of minute control is possible.
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Happy Femke Bol won, she seems nice and I like her voice.
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Great triple jump final. Gold medal changed hands twice in the final few jumps.
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Silver for GB in the 200, Amy Hunt.
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Silver for GB in the 200, Amy Hunt.
Pleased for her, she seems nice.
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Happy Femke Bol won, she seems nice and I like her voice.
Everybody loves Femke, including the other athletes. As an aside, I don't think I've seen a championships with as much camaraderie between the athletes.
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Yep, it's a money thing that makes it a bit silly.
Specific to pole vault it's pretty unique in being an event where equipment plays a vital role but that degree of minute control is possible.
I just find it amazing that none of the other competitors get anywhere near him even though they have access (I assume) to pretty much the same level of equipment. I guess these generational talents pop up every now and then.
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Yep, it's a money thing that makes it a bit silly.
Specific to pole vault it's pretty unique in being an event where equipment plays a vital role but that degree of minute control is possible.
I just find it amazing that none of the other competitors get anywhere near him even though they have access (I assume) to pretty much the same level of equipment. I guess these generational talents pop up every now and then.
Oh yeah he's an exceptional talent, his record is 22cm better than anyone else currently competing has ever managed. He's a generation ahead of the competition in a similar way to Jonathan Edwards or Mike Powell and I wouldn't be surprised if his record, wherever it settles, lasts as long.
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Yep, it's a money thing that makes it a bit silly.
Specific to pole vault it's pretty unique in being an event where equipment plays a vital role but that degree of minute control is possible.
I just find it amazing that none of the other competitors get anywhere near him even though they have access (I assume) to pretty much the same level of equipment. I guess these generational talents pop up every now and then.
Oh yeah he's an exceptional talent, his record is 22cm better than anyone else currently competing has ever managed. He's a generation ahead of the competition in a similar way to Jonathan Edwards or Mike Powell and I wouldn't be surprised if his record, wherever it settles, lasts as long.
Watching the triple jumpers yesterday, it was crazy to see just how far everyone still is away from Edwards's record. He was before my time, did he go 18+ often or was that out of the blue?
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My friend’s daughter - Hannah Nuttall, is in the 5000m final later.
I met her mum, Aly Wyeth on a Southampton City exchange to Linz in Austria. I was running in Southampton B team at the time and we were really short of athletes. She said she’d done a bit of running and agreed to come along to a meeting with me one weekend. She turned out to be ‘quite good’ - later going on to Olympic finals and a commonwealth bronze!
Through running she met her husband Gary Nuttall (who later left her for Liz McColgan).
It’s a weird thing to think that if I hadn’t met Aly on that trip, she might never have realised how good she was at running, might never have met Gary, and lovely Hannah (& she is lovely as you may see) might not exist!
Looking forward to seeing how she does.
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Yep, it's a money thing that makes it a bit silly.
Specific to pole vault it's pretty unique in being an event where equipment plays a vital role but that degree of minute control is possible.
I just find it amazing that none of the other competitors get anywhere near him even though they have access (I assume) to pretty much the same level of equipment. I guess these generational talents pop up every now and then.
Oh yeah he's an exceptional talent, his record is 22cm better than anyone else currently competing has ever managed. He's a generation ahead of the competition in a similar way to Jonathan Edwards or Mike Powell and I wouldn't be surprised if his record, wherever it settles, lasts as long.
Watching the triple jumpers yesterday, it was crazy to see just how far everyone still is away from Edwards's record. He was before my time, did he go 18+ often or was that out of the blue?
He went over 18m twice in that World final when he set the world record and a couple of months earlier had jumped a wind-assisted 18.43m.
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Joint bronze KJT.
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That was fabulous watching her realise that she’d got it!
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Brilliant silver for Kate O'Connor, who's trained by her Dad. Can't argue with 5 PBs in 7 events in a World Championships. Nice that KJT and Brooks share the bronze.
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A very high quality 800m final, McPhillips and Burgin would have medalled in most 800 races with their times. Both young runners with bright futures ahead of them. The European 800m in Brum should be good next year, with Attaoui there as well.
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Nice of the BBC to mention Georgia Hunter Bell. C'mon Georgia!
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A so-so silver and shameful bronze for GB
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Gutted for Keely and Georgia
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Was worried about the Kenyans before the race. Silver and bronze not to be sniffed at I suppose, but looking like GB will finish with no golds for first time since 2003.
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I bet there's been no mention of our League Cup wins. These ****** pickle my spleen.
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Can't warm to Keely at all. Good silver for Georgia, pleased for her.
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Gold for USA in the 5000m, strong run by Hocker.
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Doesn't feel like the sort of thing they should be winning. Bore off, America.
The British bloke might finish around half-time in the Villa game.
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Doesn't feel like the sort of thing they should be winning. Bore off, America.
The British bloke might finish around half-time in the Villa game.
Son of Danny Mills….its wrong but I can’t bring myself to support :-)
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Didn't know that. I see Roger Black's daughter is in, representing France.
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And Morgan Lake rubbish in the high jump. Maybe the women's 4x100 the only remaining chance of a gold but would probably need America to fuck it up.
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Brilliant Botswana.
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Great stuff by Botswana. Looked like South Africa got silver at first glance, but the photo showed otherwise.
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South Africa did get silver. USA getting Man U style officiating.
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The women's 4x400 was a lot less competitive.
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Brilliant Botswana.
This sounds like a sequence from ‘Horrible Histories.’
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That completes a fairly rubbish games for Britain.
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USA and Jamaica 1 & 2 as expected. Well done to ze Germans.
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Doesn't feel like the sort of thing they should be winning. Bore off, America.
The British bloke might finish around half-time in the Villa game.
Son of Danny Mills….its wrong but I can’t bring myself to support :-)
It was a gutsy run, but there was clearly something wrong, today. The commentators sounded more and more mystified as Our Man Mills stayed resolutely at the back of the field for longer and longer, until even they realised it wasn’t a tactical move to unnerve Ingebrigtsen.
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Femke Bol switching up to 800m from next year. https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cvgj2w488jdo
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Femke Bol switching up to 800m from next year. https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cvgj2w488jdo
It will be interesting whether she has the speed endurance for 800m.
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She must be pretty confident that she can compete. I doubt she'd give up on guaranteed medals otherwise.
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It's just occurred to we could have a decent view a Keely Hodgkinson/Femke Bol face off - the European Championships are at the Alexander Stadium next year
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It's just occurred to we could have a decent view a Keely Hodgkinson/Femke Bol face off - the European Championships are at the Alexander Stadium next year
I know who I'll be rooting for. :)