CWC1983 Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Anymore watching this? No one in Qatar seems to be. Mens 100m final last night and womans tonight. The stadiums are empty. Coleman won the mens 100m final but only got to participate in the championship due to a technicality. Originally he was banned for missing drug tests. Hassan won the womans 10k with an outstanding last 2 laps. It looked easy. Shame she's trained by Salazar, who was being investigated by US anti drug authorities. The same Salazar who Mo had to distance himself from. There's an uneasiness in the BBC studio regarding the drug issues and choice of hosts that Ive never seen before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 10 hours ago, CWC1983 said: Anymore watching this? No one in Qatar seems to be. Mens 100m final last night and womans tonight. The stadiums are empty. Coleman won the mens 100m final but only got to participate in the championship due to a technicality. Originally he was banned for missing drug tests. Hassan won the womans 10k with an outstanding last 2 laps. It looked easy. Shame she's trained by Salazar, who was being investigated by US anti drug authorities. The same Salazar who Mo had to distance himself from. There's an uneasiness in the BBC studio regarding the drug issues and choice of hosts that Ive never seen before. Yes, I always watch the big athletics events. We were in London two years ago for three nights of fantastic action in front of sell-out crowds. A crass decision to take the championships to Qatar from both a human rights and profile perspective; but like at the very top of football, money is all. Absolutely brilliant last night to see Dina Asher-Smith win her silver medal. She could go one better in 200 if she can cope with the tight schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 11 hours ago, CWC1983 said: Anymore watching this? No one in Qatar seems to be. Mens 100m final last night and womans tonight. The stadiums are empty. Coleman won the mens 100m final but only got to participate in the championship due to a technicality. Originally he was banned for missing drug tests. Hassan won the womans 10k with an outstanding last 2 laps. It looked easy. Shame she's trained by Salazar, who was being investigated by US anti drug authorities. The same Salazar who Mo had to distance himself from. There's an uneasiness in the BBC studio regarding the drug issues and choice of hosts that Ive never seen before. I run for GB Masters at 100m. Coleman is so far up his own that he has been threatening action for defamation. Shut up and take your good fortune. Second place Gatlin, every race he takes part in is dirty, should have been banned for life. for 2 drugs offences. They undermine the sport as does putting it on in Doha. I know it sounds crazy but the next thing will be putting the WC on it that region but even FIFA couldn't be that stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSD Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 If this is going to be the state of the World Cup in a couple of years, I feel so sorry for anyone turning up. Because clearly, no one in the country cares about athletics. Empty soulless stadium. I hope FIFA give countries more ticket allocations because otherwise no games will sell out. Garbage, money rules as per usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Aren't they having to hold some of the events at absurd (local) times because of the heat? Won't help.....neither will the fact that there won't be any home athletes in any finals I'd have thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWC1983 Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 5 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said: Aren't they having to hold some of the events at absurd (local) times because of the heat? Won't help.....neither will the fact that there won't be any home athletes in any finals I'd have thought. Qatar used to 'buy' African athletes to show off as their own. Ethiopians etc. Not sure if they still do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWC1983 Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 So Salazar has eventually been banned for 4 years for Doping violations. He was in charge of the Nike Oregan project. Big business involved in sport and ambitious atheletes. Never going to go smoothly. Paula Radcliffe interview on BBC was interesting. As a Nike representative, friend of Sir Mo and questions regarding her past shes not really an impartial person to interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstand Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Well done to DAS winning the 200 metres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 On 30/09/2019 at 08:09, angieram said: Yes, I always watch the big athletics events. We were in London two years ago for three nights of fantastic action in front of sell-out crowds. A crass decision to take the championships to Qatar from both a human rights and profile perspective; but like at the very top of football, money is all. Absolutely brilliant last night to see Dina Asher-Smith win her silver medal. She could go one better in 200 if she can cope with the tight schedule. I'm obviously better at athletics predictions than I am at @mozza's dcfc predictions league. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstand Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Good luck to KJT go girl get 7000 points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariotofmyown Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Best ever major tournament for British women athletics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 The ladies did better than the chaps, was good to see both our relay teams do well with the men breaking the European record. good championship overall although our middle distance events are in a bit of a lull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtoileSportiveDeDerby Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Kipchoge, Marathon distance 1:59:40.2 WOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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