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[Ladyloz]

The US athletics team apparently cancelled their training camp in Japan a few weeks ago due to COVID. Not sure that was a good call by USATF

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No chance. This year the BBC only have access to a maximum of 2 channels at any one time - basically what's on the main channel and 1 other Red Button/i-player...

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In terms of the grants given to track & field athletes from the National Lottery, the maximum amount is £28,000 per year at podium level and £16,000...

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I am sure a number of athletes struggled for motivation last spring when the Games were postponed, there was a lot of uncertainty generally and of course...

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The cut off for athletics entries was something like 6th/7th July so yes it is sadly unless the Irish named her as a reserve and someone drops out through...

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It's surprising that Adeleke wasn't picked for the Irish mixed 4x4 squad

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He probably didn't help himself by finishing 6th at trials. And then pulling out of the 400 hurdles final.

I think he would have been better...

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I think coming from a small country like Ireland, the pressure is perhaps greater than a bigger country like Britain.

When Gina won gold...

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There is a glimmer of hope on the 400 men's horizon. Good to see....

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Other than the Times, I'm not sure many other newspapers etc. ran with the Dustin story. I suspect that other journos did a bit of digging and found...

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@cartherhatch They all want Olympic medals; Kilty isn't alone in that. But ultimately no emotion when it comes to selection. The best team this year...

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Kilty over Gemili? Seriously????

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That relay line up is probably the ideal one on paper. However, Prescod has never run a relay for GB and I don't like the idea of him running the first...

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In fairness sub 10 in Gateshead is shifting it. Bromell isn't a lock by any means but he's still probably the favourite for gold....

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I think Morris lost her Poles when she flew to Europe. They were sent to Manchester this morning and the meet organisers arranged for them to be collected...

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Sensible to have called up Joe Brier

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Stew-coach, what's YTP and JTP?

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I'm fairly relaxed about top 6 or 8.

Definitely prefer doing 24 events. And like the idea of picking the more open events

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Looking at the full list of GB entries, it seems the majority are not on Futures Funding so many will not have had access to tracks for Months at a time...

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I do wonder how much the age group teams practice? I suspect they don't practice that much and the nature of the age groups with personnel constantly...