Birmingham CWG -Day 3 (Thursday August 4th)

[ozjohn]

I appreciate the difficulties of organizing a full athletics programme into six days but tonights schedule does look very low powered for the first evening when it's not clashing with the swimming.

[Chafford1]

Agree with you but I'm enjoying the dedicated athletics feed, in particular the parathletics women's discus competition.

[Occasional Hope]

Nwachukwu has been incredible.

[Chafford1]

Yes, remarkable.

[drobbie]

yep, saturday and sunday are packed, they could have moved one or two things from there to tonight

[Chafford1]

Good long jump competition developing.

[MR_ME]

Womens 800m semis were originally supposed to be tonight and have left a bit of a gap in the schedule.

[Christy93]

This all feels very dull after last night

[Chafford1]

Well deserved applause for Nwachukwu who won the women's para discus competition.

[Christy93]

Star of the night by far - Really enjoyed watching her. Crowd agree too - Lots of appreciation.

[marra]

The lack of "star" events tonight means that the field event finals are getting more attention than they might otherwise, which is no bad thing in my opinion.

[RunUnlimited]

I'd even go so far as to say that the scheduling was done this way for precisely that reason, to allow the field events to have some spotlight on them for a change.

[Ursus]

Quite liking Stef Reid’s commentary.

[Grassmarket]

Just messed up the explanation of the tie though! He only needed 7.96 to win, not 8.09.

[Ursus]

I can jinx anything! But her delivery is very good.

[Occasional Hope]

If you're bored you can always switch over to Cali.

(I'm trying to watch both at once...)

[Grassmarket]

Squeezing Cali into my breakfast session at the mo.

[Grassmarket]

This guy Frayne looks like he’s arrived for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Perhaps he thought he’d blend into Birmingham.

[ozjohn]

All these Aussie guys grew taches during lockdown so I've been told.

[trickstat]

Were the Aussies rules so strict that they couldn't get razors?

[Occasional Hope]

Frayne's always been a bit of a moustache man. This is actually les spivvy than the last time I saw him.

[DerbyCountyinNZ]

Nick Percy up to 2nd in discus with 63.53.

[DerbyCountyinNZ]

Overtaken by Okoye with 64.97. Doubters?

[Ursus]

Plenty. He is / was capable of so much more than that. With that talent / physical gifts it will be a travesty that this will be his first international medal. He’s now 30 and had thrown 68m at 20.

[RunUnlimited]

That was a very fun men's long jump final, showing that you don't have to be jumping 8.50m+ to have an enthralling contest.

[DerbyCountyinNZ]

As an aside for Discus followers, Connor Bell, who threw 64.19 at 19, broke his ankle dirt-biking last November. Hoping he can make top-8 today.

[Christy93]

Excellent DT developing. Denny leads on 66.72, Okoye 64.97 and Rose on 64.58

[ozjohn]

Yes very good quality for a CG field final. Loving it.

[Occasional Hope]

Brilliant comeback from Pozzi to take a surprise bronze. The season looks to have finally caught up with Zeller.

Excellent win from Broadbell.

[SprintRelayFan]

I don't know, I don't know that zeller did anything wrong particularly, its just that's the best race i've seen pozzi do in a while

[Chafford1]

13.08 = Colin Jackson's Games Record.

[Occasional Hope]

Yes, on rewatch Zeller was fourth which is perfectly decent. Pozzi won a medal there rather than Zeller losing one.