Athletics 2024 (Mod note #869)

What a showman!

He is like the James Brown of high jumping

Poor girl is in bits

EDIT: They seem to have removed the interview

I rechecked it & Greg said the winner could come from lanes 3 to 8. Possibly not 9. So he discounted the poor guy before he even started. I love his predictions as they’re usually wrong.

It's to be expected, but the Italians had a massive home-court advantage in the stadium this week. The morning sessions have been so quiet that they actually roped in a couple of busloads of schoolkids as a an organized Italian cheering squad today. We were sitting in front the of Tamberi show this evening, which was great craic, but you kind of felt for the decathlon guys and the javelin women (and the non-Italian high jumpers). Triple jump only got a few look-ins. Tamberi's the kind of guy who is great for the sport, but if you're going to shut down everything else so he can have his show-time, then at least run the other events at a different time and give the other athletes the respect they deserve.

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the best place for uninterrupted coverage tonight ? I had to screen share the rte player off my phone, as the app on my NVidia shield did not show live tv for some reason, only boxsets and replays !!

A medal in this relay is absolutely not a foregone conclusion.

Poles, Dutch, yes and yes. Dutch are favourites. But France and Germany, pending selection, are all within an asses roar of one another.

Mawdsley will shake it up with another 49 split but thats a tough ask after her week already.

And don't sleep on Andrew Coscoran in the 1500m! Depends what Jakob wants to do, but we'll likely have a dust up in the last 300m and then he just needs to be lucky in between 200 and 90 to go and hope for little traffic. Its a lot of hope but its 1500 championship racing. Anything, bar 1st place, can happen

Why is last nights evening session not on the player now? Wanted to watch the Mens Decathalon finale. Watched a bit on the Eurovision channel but no commentary. RTE are coming to my town tonight so ye'll see me on tv during the race. I have a feeling it might be silver but hopefully they'll get gold. The Bol factor is hard to ignore.

4 towns (clubs) represented so be interesting to see who the spotlight falls on.

Newport me thinks?

Imagine that. Dying from a few days of accumulated lactic build up and then you die an absolute death up the home straight. Yikes.

Or Portaferry for a Mageean homecoming?

The Dutch have changed their running order, with Klaver leading off. Didn't fancy facing Adeleke on the second leg?

Klaver #### the bed, so to speak in the mixed relay final. She ruined the Dutch chance of gold. She went out too strong and had no energy left for the last 200m. They would have won had she not done so.

Ireland are really up against it tonight. Hopefully the changeovers go cleanly as well.

Wow.

Queen Healy is back

Bol always looks different to everyone else. Like she’s not full out

You knew the gold medal was gone going into the last changeover as Bol was ahead, and she's just so good. Fair play to Mawdsley, great performance to live with Bol on the last leg. Silver medal, nice one. Mawdsley was the fastest of the 4 Irish girls, and ran a faster split than Bol.

Does the girl who ran in the semi (Cadden?) get a medal now as well?

Klaver ran a great lead-off, it must be said. Set the Dutch up superbly. Adeleke had the second fastest leg, after the French anchor. I thought Kaczmarek was going to sweep past in the home straight, but she ran out of steam.

A great silver. The Dutch are the world champions after all.

Exciting men's 400m relay final race as well.

Ah, no need for that.

Brilliant from all 4

and the other team members