Birmingham CWG Day 5 - (Saturday August 5th)

[marilyn1]

why do the mens 4 x 100 team always talk such bollocks

Mmm. We agree !!

[Occasional Hope]

Well done to Amber Simpson for her pb (which is still only the 7th best by a British woman this year but puts her in bronze medal position here). What a shame England didn't select Lotty Payne to give her a chance here.

[RunUnlimited]

Payne would absolutely have been in with a medal shout on her current form. That she's not here is a travesty.

[ozjohn]

Rogers seems to be mimicking Nick Millers pattern this morning.

[RunUnlimited]

Cam Rodgers having a bit of a 'mare, two fouls on her opening attempts.

[alfie]

But nailed that one ! 74.08 will take some catching.

[Occasional Hope]

Great finish by Van Der Walt there.

[Christy93]

What odds could you have got an a van der Walt medal 50m out?! She finishes like a train. Wouldn't mind seeing her run a few 800s over the winter. Russell the class of the field and showed it.

[marra]

van der Walt left too much in the tank there. Had she started that surge 5m further back she could well have taken gold.

Rogers has sewn the hammer up there when she finally got a legal one in.

[RunUnlimited]

Remember seeing Van Der Walt winning the World U20 gold in Tampere 2018, and thinking she was a talent. Definitely a sub 54 in her future

[Ursus]

Cam Rodgers having a bit of a 'mare, two fouls on her opening attempts.

She was just teasing. That’s the gold sorted.

[Christy93]

How do you run this if you're Hodgkinson? Let them go slow and Moraa will have them all, go hard and see the best of Laura Muir. Goule looked great in qualifying too, deceptively fast in a sprint.

[RunUnlimited]

Hodgkinson needs to work on her 400m speed. Now.

[Occasional Hope]

What a bizarre way to run an 800.

Silver disappointment for Keely.

[Ursus]

What was that from Moraa??

Hodgkinson must be getting a bit fed up of silver.

[ozjohn]

Has anyone seen a more bizarre way to run an 800m than Moraa?

[Christy93]

Moraa tactically brilliant imo - Hard 200, let the others kick on off an already fast pace, then pick them off. A fine run from Keely but I don't think we have seen the best of her this summer.

[Runner88]

I’m not sure we’ll be seeing much of Moraa in the 800m in the years to come.

[Christy93]

Why not...?

[alfie]

Shocks keep coming. Did not see Keely losing that but she had no answer to Moraa in the finish. Where did she get that second wind from ?