The 20th World Athletics Championships. Tokyo 13th-21st September

[Rita_Poon]

They're wearing special shoes reckons the wife.

Icarus wings aplenty.

 

[Rita_Poon]

GB ladies 4x400 looks finished here.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Johnson-Thompson needs 6 seconds out of the bronze placed runner in the 800m. Big ask.

The specialist lady shot putters - one just hit 20m, the heptathlon were hitting 8m. That's some difference.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Who's Roger Black's daughter running for?

 

[Rita_Poon]

France

 

[Rita_Poon]

Is it just me or are all the Dutch ladies half a foot taller than the rest of the field?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Top 6 in that heat all ran SB.

 

[Rita_Poon]

aus and brazil DQ'd.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Saw that Jamaica fail before it happened, seemed to take off 5m to soon.

 

[Rita_Poon]

so many fails! SA and GB, lolz.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Johnson-Thompson needs 6 seconds out of the bronze placed runner in the 800m. Big ask.

The specialist lady shot putters - one just hit 20m, the heptathlon were hitting 8m. That's some difference.

13m*

 

[Rita_Poon]

less that 10 points in this...

 

[Rita_Poon]

Silver O'Connor, well played that girl.

Shared Bronze. Incredible.

 

[davek]

Laughing at the Kopite trying to make a shared bronze sound like it was a massive success. She's finished. Thiam looks cooked too. Hall and O'Connor are the future of that event.

McPhillips of Ireland left it too late in the 800M. That's a pity, he finished like a train but just misjudged it. One for the future though.

The GB relay teams: it's over for them. The lottery cash they get is off the charts crazy. I'd expect a big inquest there on that underperformance.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Don't think the rain helped any of the relay sides, there was a mess in every race.
Looking at the medal table, considering where china were 16 years ago at the beijing olympics, they've clearly pulled funding because to lead the table to then be nowhere with a population that big? Something aint right.