Athletics 2025

[Villa Lew]

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.

[Tayls_7]

Ireland are smashing the final day of the European Indoor Championships. It's great to see.

[maidstonevillain]

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

[charlatan]

Don't think this Grand Slam Track is going to capture the public imagination based on day 1.

[cdbearsfan]

I skimread about it. From what I can gather, it's basically Diamond League but without the field events?

[charlatan]

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.

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, doesn't sound great.

[nigel]

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.

[Brazilian Villain]

Habz runs 3:27.49 in the 1500m in Paris, breaks the meeting and French records.

[Exeter 77]

A really good women's high jump competition tonight.

[Brazilian Villain]

Ciara Mageean reveals she has been diagnosed with cancer.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2025/0704/1521927-ciara-mageean-reveals-cancer-diagnosis/

[maidstonevillain]

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.

[Brazilian Villain]

Finnie the unicorn unveiled as the Glasgow Commonwealth Games mascot. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wprgqnz5wo

The traffic cone is a nice touch.

[Gareth]

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 :-)

[Brazilian Villain]

Good race in the women's 10,000m final, with Chebet just beating Battocletti again.