2023 World Athletics Championships, Budapest

Yes. She had a real relaxed/casual looking run, yet knew exactly what she needed to do, and did it

Final medal table:

China only got 2 Bronzes given the size of their population! If Ciara & Rashida had got bronze we would have been equal with them.

Surprised about Germany! France would have had another medal in the Decathlon if Mayer had been fit.

A great champs for Ireland. I’ll miss it too. Going to Budapest in less than 2 weeks for a wkd. Can’t wait!

Great world championships I thought. The stadium was spectacular and Budapest looks like such a beautiful city, can't wait to go there sometime.

The last race was incredible, I genuinely made a massive shriek when Bol ended up snatching the win for Netherlands.

Shows you what a good sport athletics is as a TV event as well , they really should promote it better as a sport, as someone who watches pretty much every sport and is a casual fan of almost all of them you'd barely know Athletics was on apart from the world championships and Olympics , feels like World Athletics should be doing a much better job promoting it as a spectator sport.

Yes, they're hopping mad he asked direct questions of her. Cathal makes the point that they only seem to want fanboys with smartphones in the mixed zone telling all the athletes how wonderful they are....nobody doing actual sports journalism or raising difficult topics.

VM showed about 75% of the jumps Eurosport showed and did not use a split screen while 2 events were on. They were often a minute or 2 behind also.

Women's High Jump Final (allathletics.tv) it's all here anyways.

They really need to set a standard Friday/Saturday time slot for the Diamond League and have it every week across the summer. I've watched the diamond league religiously for years and even at that, still miss meets because the whole schedule is random and all over the place.

I'm always wary of Coe talking about compressing schedules because he's been trying to cut events since he took over World Athletics. Its always the 10,000, 5,000, 200, PV, TJ and 400h he's after. The irony of it been that the PV and 400h have produced some of the biggest stars in the last couple of years and the 5000m has become one of the most competitive and exciting events since he tried to a axe it from the diamond league. I always feel like he wants to get the 5000 and 10000 off the track and onto the road which I don't think will work and will end undercutting the existing fanbase as I don't see a standalone road running championship working, I feel it will isolate it even further from the sport much in the same way that World XC is a dying entity beyond hardcore athletics fans.

I mean the Rugby World Cup and World Cup are 6 weeks long, the athletics schedule in the Olympics is 9 days and they all attract huge and prolonged attention. I don't believe the schedule itself is at fault, its just how its marketed. They need something like a drive to survive type athletics series, something behind the scenes that creates drama, rivalries, shows the highs and lows of athletes going through the diamond league or building up to Worlds/Olympics that showcases the athletes.

Don't forget the Zurich DL is on Thursday. 😆

And another DL meet on Saturday in China

Just caught that exchange between Tobi Amusan and Cathal Dennehy.

Disgraceful behavior from her, calling him a white mother f***er. Can only imagine the outcry if the situation were reversed.

The only positive outcome is that she is a marked woman and there is minimal trust in the credibility of her performances.

PJ Vazel posted on twitter analysis of the relay leg splits from yesterday, and Sharlene Mawdsley ran 49.60!

Phenomenal. If Mawdsley keeps improving at this rate, she could become genuinely world class too. I think she’s still only 24 or 25, so plenty of time for future growth.

With all the talk in the national media about Mageean and Adeleke and rightly so, Mawdesley was absolutely phenomenon all week. I seen a post early of all her splits (can't seem to find it now) I think 51.7 was her slowest.

Totally agree about relay splits, but her relay splits were consistent and even progressive, considering the amount of 400m she ran. She is certainly making great progress and it would be great to see her get the QT for Paris

See this is the problem with semantical arguments, that I started, on what is world class.

I think Mawdsley’s ceiling is a world or Olympic semi final. That is world class.

It’s just that that is where she’s at now and while she might improve her times (almost certainly will), she is unlikely to ever reach a global final.

And I come across as negative for suggesting that, even though I think reaching a world or Olympic semi final at 400m is incredible

I hope she goes on to race incredible times