2023 World Athletics Championships, Budapest

kirk. · 24-08-2023 6:44pm

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He's in Mcsweyn

walshb · 24-08-2023 7:00pm

Wtf was that? Out of order

Larbre34 · 24-08-2023 7:01pm

Oh f*** me, the buggies crashed hard. Some of the mens sprinters are shook and banged heads.

WTF does be going on...

walshb · 24-08-2023 7:06pm

Why are some a these women carrying about 5 lbs a head hair that has to be affecting their speed/times?

Larbre34 · 24-08-2023 7:22pm

The replacement of the foul line on the long jump threshold, with plastic instead of plasticine is proving lethal.

walshb · 24-08-2023 7:55pm

Lyle’s form is stunning

walshb · 24-08-2023 8:11pm

English faded badly last 100. That was a fast semi.

SuspectZero · 24-08-2023 8:12pm

Always going to be tough for English there, would've taken a big PR there. Wanyonyi and Arop look in really good shape, could be a heck of a final

walshb · 24-08-2023 8:26pm

Savage close 100 H final. WR holder nowhere!!

yerwanthere123 · 24-08-2023 8:29pm

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Probably had to come off whatever she was on, knows she's being watched now.

gmisk · 24-08-2023 8:33pm

This 400m mens final looks pretty open, Hudson Smith looks very nervous to me...BBC hyping him up big time.

gmisk · 24-08-2023 8:39pm

Hudson-Smith caught yikes...maybe went a bit quick, still a silver medal.

walshb · 24-08-2023 8:39pm

Hudson faded badly but great hang on for silver

walshb · 24-08-2023 8:43pm

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Went too hard 100-200

yerwanthere123 · 24-08-2023 8:46pm

Looking forward to the women's 400m hurdles now. Should be pretty straight forward for Bol, I wonder could she dip under 51.

Scared that Adekoya could pull off some kind of a shock here. Probably not enough to trouble Bol, but maybe get on the podium.

patob · 24-08-2023 8:48pm

I'd like see Femke Bol do it in the 400 hurdles, bit unlucky in the mixed 400.

gmisk · 24-08-2023 8:50pm

So Adekoya..who is in that 400m hurdles woman's final...yikes.

https://apnews.com/article/050ac74d03d84306828b55545fd1a48a

She also isn't from Bahrain...but money talks...and they have history on doping.

Will defo be cheering on Bol.

Dr. Bre · 24-08-2023 8:51pm

Brilliant Bol

gmisk · 24-08-2023 8:52pm

Bol blew them away lovely stuff.

gmisk · 24-08-2023 8:53pm

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She makes it look effortless

yerwanthere123 · 24-08-2023 8:54pm

Delighted, well done Bol 😎

patob · 24-08-2023 9:02pm

Nice congrats for Femke from a lot of different athletes, sounds like a popular character from what I hear.

tinpib · 24-08-2023 9:03pm

Just chiming in to agree that the Virgin coverage is great, just the short interviews with Irish athletes is all you need.

You don't need endless scutter being talked in studio like RTE can do for the Olympics, just stick on the world feed and let us watch the world's best athletes compete. I like the Eurosport lads that are on there, they have been covering athletics for decades and Rob Walker has been grand too.

Ceepo · 24-08-2023 9:18pm

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Totally agree with you. It's great to watch the events as they're happening. I could never really understand why RTE couldn't at the very least show the action even if they wanted to talk over it, while it may not have been ideal it would have been better that listening to 10 minutes of spheel between the races they do actually show..

Delighted for Bol after her fall in the relay.

kirk. · 24-08-2023 9:19pm

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Thought was him , he's not usually great with the hyperbole

4Ad · 24-08-2023 9:23pm

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She seem's like just a lovely person.

Delighted for her, and a Joy to watch...

hawkwing · 24-08-2023 10:16pm

Looking forward to the women's high jump. Mahuchikh will be under the greatest pressure possibly any athlete ever was with the current troubles and carrying the weight of it, Gerashchenko and Levchenko slightly less so--both medal contenders. You can see it for the past 12 months how emotional she is competing. She doesn't always do her very best on the biggest stage and Olyslagers on current form will be very hard to beat, Patterson can't be ruled out either but i don't see her winning. The ever improving young Topic could take a medal. They have to get through the qualifying tomorrow first which can often test the nerves, expect a very emotional finale on Sunday night, hopefully they give it good coverage, i think they will...

patob · 24-08-2023 11:25pm

The Virgin media coverage is excellent with very knowledgeable commentary on the world feed, but video quality is terrible on Saorview. I prefer to watch in glorious HD on BBC satellite, though the Brit cheerleading can be a bit ott.

unichick · 24-08-2023 11:27pm

Agree re Virgin Media coverage. It’s great. Will Dalton is getting great interviews & I’m loving the neutral aspect.

I’m going to Budapest next month for a weekend. Looks a beautiful city. Would love to be over there now. Atmosphere seems great in the stadium.

Jack Daw · 24-08-2023 11:40pm

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Yeah.Can never understand it, surely it has to slow them down even by a few hundredths of second and in a sprint that can be a big difference.Surely they could wear a swimming cap or the type of running suit Cathy Freeman used to wear in order to reduce the wind resistance.

2023 World Athletics Championships, Budapest

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