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Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: Louzie0 on August 16, 2022, 08:19:37 PM
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Have I missed the thread on this?
It was great seeing the GB gold for the mixed diving and I’m enjoying the athletics, climbing and BMX from Munich and swimming from Rome.
Our man for the fast 50m is through to the final again, although they’re talking about him in the studio as if he’s 93. :)
So are various runners, ( through to finals) although it must be quite a mountain to climb for some, just after the World’s and The Commonwealth Games. Eilish McColgan has guts to spare in this dept! Great silver!
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I'm enjoying the championships.
Some interesting 100m finals to look forward to later.
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Yes, the women’s 100 looks very interesting!
Victoria U is through to her final, as well
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The Men’s 100 was very exciting, I loved the reaction of Azu when he found he’d got the bronze. Thought that Hughes didn’t get the start he needed for gold, but silver’s not bad at this level !
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Cracking finish to the women's 100!
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Wow, what a finish for the women’s 100! Neita came through right at the end, but it was so close!
Such a shame for DAS to get cramp in both legs, though, especially as she swerved the Commonwealth games for these.
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Anybody watching today?
We got another gold and silver in the diving and Mathew Hudson Smith held on to his title as 400 m supremo!
Very pleased for Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix getting the gold for her solo dive today.
Victoria O was just pipped to bronze in the women’s 400 and could need to find a bit more speed in the first half of her race, because she gets a stunning turn of speed from about 200 m.
Just saw Andy Pozzi wrap up 6th in the hurdles. He started well, then hit a hurdle and then the guys in the middle shot through! How they separated the photo finish I just don’t know.
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1/1000th of a second separated gold and silver in the men's hurdles final...close!
It was easy for Hudson-Smith in the end.
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It seems impossible to separate them, looking at the image, but they have the technology!
Really enjoyed Joe Fraser’s individual Championship gold tonight and Jasmin Sawyers’ bronze - I was very impressed with Elish McColgan, as well; she must be made of girders, as they used to say about Irn Bru.
Good to see Dina Asher Smith doing her thing and Charlie Hooper, both through to the finals tomorrow and I know I’ve forgotten somebody!
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It seems impossible to separate them, looking at the image, but they have the technology!
Really enjoyed Joe Fraser’s individual Championship gold tonight and Jasmin Sawyers’ bronze - I was very impressed with Elish McColgan, as well; she must be made of girders, as they used to say about Irn Bru.
Good to see Dina Asher Smith doing her thing and Charlie Hooper, both through to the finals tomorrow and I know I’ve forgotten somebody!
Jazmin Sawyers' bronze was my stand out result tonight.
I agree about McColgan. She's certainly come of age in the last 4-5 weeks.
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Who’s been the standout Irish athlete(s) so far?
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The crowds for the gymnastics aren’t great are they? Can’t help but feel Birmingham would have made a better job of it somehow.
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Class from Laura Muir as she comfortably wins the 1500m.
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A great effort from Ireland's Ciara Mageean for silver in that race.
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Another gold for GB Zharmel Hughes and also silver Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake in 200m
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Great evening so far, and Lawrence Okoye’s just got the first ever GB discus medal!
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The crowds for the gymnastics aren’t great are they? Can’t help but feel Birmingham would have made a better job of it somehow.
I’ve thought so as well, although sometimes there’s another stand absolutely packed just out of shot; not sure who’s supposed to be in the empty seats, but it’s unfortunate when they’re right at the finish line.
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Okoye's discus bronze and Hughes 200m gold were good watches. Muir did the business again.
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Superb gymnastics team medal today.
Unbelievable that Joe Fraser had his appendix out 5/6 weeks ago, given his achievements since then.
I hadn’t heard before now, but it seems that the pot plants given out at the medal ceremonies all have a specific destination to be planted out around the Games grounds, which is such a lovely and practically green idea. Well done, Munich.
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Okoye's discus bronze and Hughes 200m gold were good watches. Muir did the business again.
Muir is a superstar
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Hodgkinson! What a run for Keely, and what a win!
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Well done Keely, delighted for her after missing out in the World Championships and at Birmingham.
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Gold for the lads in the 400 relay!
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Bronze for the women in the 400 relay!
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Enjoyed the gymnastics today. Charlie Dobson looks a talent. Hudson-Smith a great captain and very supportive of that 400m squad.
Easy for Keeley in the end
Albanian lady very emotional for Albania's gold in the 3000m steeplechase.
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I wasn't expecting a medal in the women's steeplechase. Lizzie Bird just about summoned the energy to get a fantastic bronze. Really looking forward to the last day tomorrow with lots of medal chances in the gymnastics and athletics.
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I wasn't expecting a medal in the women's steeplechase. Lizzie Bird just about summoned the energy to get a fantastic bronze. Really looking forward to the last day tomorrow with lots of medal chances in the gymnastics and athletics.
Some brilliant results this afternoon in men’s individual gymnastics and we have 2 champions; Joe Fraser got the parallel bars and Jake Jarman subbed in for a pal and got the vaulting gold! Giarnni Regini Moran and Courtney Tulloch got bronzes and James Hall came fourth ( oooh, so close) in the high bar.
Just saw Jake Wightman get his silver for the 800, there’s a lot to cheer!
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Haso, running for Ireland as an asylum seeker and being able to show how talented he is, is a great example of a positive official response to someone who needed help and got it.
I was going to say, the Irish Moh Farah, except he’s not lived in Ireland for as long as MF lived in England before breaking through in sport.
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The men win the 4x100 relay. On to the women.
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Can't ever remember seeing us drop the baton in a final, anyway well done the Germans.
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It’s fairly basic in a relay, getting the baton around.
For all the women’s comments afterwards, I felt the comments about being experienced and appearing unconcerned, ‘We’re a team’, were not helpful. ‘Sorry we screwed up today,’ would have been more honest, because as a professional athletics outfit, they did. Or 2 of them did.
From Germany’s POV, they won their home games, so that was a great outcome for them and I’m very pleased!
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The men win the 4x100 relay. On to the women.
Superb race and teamwork, great result!
Germany ‘s men had a similar issue (with the GB women’s team) with dropping their baton, so it all evens out in the end.
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Only managed to see the athletics today. An enjoyable championships.
After 3 championships on the bounce the guys deserve their rest now.
Jenny Meadows was great as a pundit in the studio.
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Can't ever remember seeing us drop the baton in a final, anyway well done the Germans.
I'm assuming you are being sarcastic or just have a really short memory.
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It seemed strange to be discussing Athletics without Michael Johnson, but I agree with Abbeyfealeavfc about Jenny Meadows as a pundit and I liked Beth Tweddle and Nile with Jeanette Kwakye
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The pundits for any sport other than football (or rugby union a lot of the time) seem so much more insightful and knowledgeable particularly for athletics and gymnastics.
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The pundits for any sport other than football (or rugby union a lot of the time) seem so much more insightful and knowledgeable particularly for athletics and gymnastics.
I agree with you, but also wonder if that is because my own knowledge base is so low for other sports that I am easily impressed.
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It’s fairly basic in a relay, getting the baton around.
For all the women’s comments afterwards, I felt the comments about being experienced and appearing unconcerned, ‘We’re a team’, were not helpful. ‘Sorry we screwed up today,’ would have been more honest, because as a professional athletics outfit, they did. Or 2 of them did.
From Germany’s POV, they won their home games, so that was a great outcome for them and I’m very pleased!
I’m sure you know the baton changes in the 100m relays rely on split second timing. At that level the receiver starts at a sprint, if they set off even a twentieth of a second early (that’s roughly half a metre at their level) the passer is always struggling. There are other factors, too.
Yes, it probably shouldn’t happen at that level, but it does frequently.
They knew they screwed up and would have been hurting.
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Well, yes, that’s my point, really!
It’s unfortunate that they had to be interviewed straight afterwards, as I don’t think it did them any favours, given the circumstances and how they must have felt at the time.
I don’t know if you’d agree that commentators/pundits banging on about how often the GB relay teams practice the handover technique (the clear implication being that they practice much more than other teams do, so are much better at it) is a bit of a hostage to fortune when there’s a disaster on the day.
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If there’s one thing that’s really really really getting on my tits about Athletics coverage is firstly every single athlete being interviewed in the mix zone straight after the race. Almost as pointless as Football Manager post match interviews. And secondly no one pundit or commentator ever criticising people who don’t perform or fuck it up. All we hear is what a tough year they’ve had with multiple excuses for why they’ve just no heighted, dropped the baton, run out of the lane, got the tactics wrong etc etc etc. It’s really annoying.
Anyway enough of my miserablism, very enjoyable meet and I really like the European Games feel to it as well.