2022 European Athletics Championships, Munich

yerwanthere123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119495519#Comment_119495519

Haha Warholm was grand, nice and easy. Some pretty one sided races tonight.

walshb

Irish commentator hadn’t a clue on that 200 race! Only saw Dina until the last 20 metres!

fryup

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119495524#Comment_119495524

very handsome man too it must be said (and i'm not gay)

Hamachi

Great night’s action.

Ciara Mageean phenomenal. Nothing else to say.

Mark English looked good. Fingers crossed for him in the final.

Looking forward to the 4x400m relay tomorrow.

Sarah Lavin must be starting her campaign soon. She’s another one with prospects in the 100m hurdles.

dastardly00

Fantastic performance from Ciara Mageen, I'm delighted for her. She looked so happy after the race

horsebox1977

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119494144#Comment_119494144

😎

Some result.

yerwanthere123

Tough going for Shanahan out there, but very happy to see Hodgkinson finally get her first outdoor gold.

yerwanthere123

Any chance we had got lost in the second leg there unfortunately, 6th place overall.

Another win for Femke Bol and the Netherlands, a 400m triple!

rovers_runner

Healy is stone useless, full time athlete...

Strazdas

Rather disappointing that we ran slower than yesterday (though even a new NR by a second or so would still have seen us outside the medals) - Adeleke looked to be the only one that ran a really fast leg.

Cosmo Kramer

That was a bit of a mess unfortunately. Becker was off the pace on the first leg and that left them in poor positions for the handovers. By the time Adeleke ran it was already over. Might have gone a bit better if Adeleke had gone first, but unfortunately once the other teams strengthened they were well off the pace, so it wouldn't have made a huge amount of difference.

Wonder if in future we might be better resting someone in the semis (not Adeleke obviously) and trusting the squad to get us into a final. Then send out our best team a bit fresher for the final.

Dodge

Mawdsley seem to be impeded at her change over. May have beaten yesterdays time.

The top 4 all incredible times though. No catching them

yerwanthere123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499148#Comment_119499148

Harsh and uncalled for.

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499154#Comment_119499154

I don’t think it’s fair to say it was a mess. They had no fresh legs to bring in unlike all the other teams. I’ll be interested to see the split times but I don’t think it was Becker’s leg that done the damage, Phil Healy was visibly shattered for the last 40 metres of her leg.

There was no one beating Femke either, you’d have to just stand back and admire her.

secman

You need at least 5 evenly matched strong 400m runners and 1 outstanding athlete to medal. All of the medalists were able to strengthen their 4 if required. We don't have that strength in depth yet. But we have the starting point having made a Final.

Denny61

Its embarrassing for irish athletics .don't know why we pump money in to athletes who are only ever going to finish last or a few places close to it ..i have to laugh at our sports commentators or journalists saying we have exciting news. Such an athlete or swimmer has smashed the irish record and then in nxt breath..finished second last m.lol lol.our national records are Been broken by school children in the top countries...its laughable.unless we have exciting young athletes coming close to top 3.a waste of money and viewing ..we are always the same we irish.ah shur we gave it our best .let's celebrate lol..tg for the rugby

Girly Gal

Becker was fine in the first leg, but, Healy lost a lot of ground towards the end (definitely needs to be replaced going forward), Adeleke was outstanding again, Mawdsley needs to improve too. 5th was the most we'd have got, 6th still a good result, but, could have been better.

paul71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119495519#Comment_119495519

Bol is an incredible Athlete, we have 10 years ahead of us watched her and Sydney McLaughin bounce off each other. I cannot think of another duo so far ahead of the rest at such an early age. Although there does seem to be another American Bitton Wilson, who I had not heard of before this year putting up serious times.

rovers_runner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499168#Comment_119499168

She was bullied out handy there, no fight in her at all.

yerwanthere123

Thrilled for Luiza Gega, been around a long time and finally gets her gold!

Murph_D

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499148#Comment_119499148

Not as useless as some other people, armchair athletes who won't get out of their cars to run an amateur race in the Phoenix Park. Dope.

Murph_D

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499172#Comment_119499172

They/we did have fresh legs to bring in. Opted not to.

rovers_runner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499265#Comment_119499265

Thought you were ignoring me, don't worry I was running long before you and I will still be long after you are gone.

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499277#Comment_119499277

Maybe so but no one that was an improvement on what was there. Adeleke should only be running the final, there needs to be a few more capable of getting us to the final first.

Murph_D

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499317#Comment_119499317

Yes what you mention about Adeleke is what Sonia O'Sullivan (or was it Devla or Rob) said on the telly as well, interestingly. We'll never know how good the athletes who didn't get to run might have been. Probably not good enough to make any difference to the result - but the result was pretty much as expected, surely? No one was expecting a medal.

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499194#Comment_119499194

Yes, I thought Becker was fine on the first leg and Rhasidat was superb on the third one - both Healy (in particular) and Maudsley tired in their last 50 though.

It's a pity we don't have a fifth top class runner over this distance and we could freshen it up between semi and final.

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499189#Comment_119499189

Yea, every country should definitely only send athletes that are guaranteed to win, everyone else should stay at home.

So basically whatever team has Femke Bol should be the only team to run the race, everyone else should stay at home.

Should lead to great excitement and great viewing 🙄🙄

Hamachi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499176#Comment_119499176

Exactly. We just don’t have that strength in depth yet. Poland were able to bring in two world class 400m runners. The Netherlands had Femke Bol in their back pocket. We just don’t have that right now, unfortunately.

There’s no denying that Phil Healy had a poor championship, but you know what, it happens to us all. We’re human; we underperform sometimes. Even those of us in cushy office jobs.

We have a solid foundation to build upon. We need four or five women who are capable of running 51:xx legs. We’re not far off that right now. That would be enough to get us into the final of any major championships. We can then draft in Rhasidat Adeleke for the final to massively bolster the team.

However, to truly challenge for the medals, we need a second stellar woman, not quite on Adeleke’s level, but not far off, to be competitive. Essentially, we would have needed a Joanne Cuddihy-like runner in the squad, to get near the medals. It’s doable, but we need to have the right talent identification in place.

Last point on this very long winded post. Congrats to all four ladies who gave it a good go tonight. Let’s not forget that the combined population of this island is 7 million vs. 83 million, 67 million, 40 million in Germany, Britain, and Poland respectively. The Netherlands is fortunate to have a once in a generation talent in Femke Bol.

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499440#Comment_119499440

Even an Irish record tonight would have left us well off the medals. It's definitely far from ideal that we had to run the same four athletes twice - the whole point of having six athletes in the relay squad is that you use all of them.

greyday

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119499189#Comment_119499189

Pity you really.