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[marra]

Pleasantly surprised is equivalent to thrilled for me. Typical British understatement and all that...

[marra]

I'd expect this to have a similar pattern to the recent World Aquatics, more specifically the swimming at that.

The US ran away with the...

[marra]

Completely agree. I was trying to work out why it wasn't a WR and then remembered the indoor marks. And then got annoyed. It's absurd.

[marra]

Or it is a realisation that there's no such thing as a certainty in life, and certainly not in sports.

Anything that any of us do on a forum...

[marra]

Whilst I agree with the general jist of what you're saying - I personally support the principle of taking everyone who is qualified - I'm okay with them...

[marra]

dos Santos has been a cut above Benjamin this season, from what I've seen. My real worry is that he might be overraced by Eugene.

[marra]

You mean this article I presume - https://www.runblogrun.com/2022/06/w...at-eugene.html

You mean the one that says there have been too many...

[marra]

I hope the reason Irozuru, Oladipo and Cook haven't been picked is at least personal choice and a focus on B'ham or Munich (at least in the latter two's...

[marra]

I actually think she *could* get close to 7000 again, if she can get back to even something close to the Doha form. Not because she necessarily would...

[marra]

Top 32 is a UK athletics choice, not a WA one. UK Athletics have said they are only taking people in the top 32, except the 10000m (where it is top 27)...

[marra]

I never claimed my opinions were more valid than anyone's.

However, you keep insisting on talking about the American fans you read and what...

[marra]

For me, that's as it should be. The 3 per country rule allows for multiple strong athletes to be there but a global championship should have global representation....

[marra]

I mean, we all know our field concerns but this is at least explained by seemingly tougher field marks than track.

A lot of the field events...

[marra]

Tread - I thought that as well. Why not wait to see what the final final rankings are, what invites are being offered and only then make the selections....

[marra]

Kenyan team here (as well as the WC team) - https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/2...-champs-common...

[marra]

Yeah, as I said in an earlier post, Oregon is the size of the UK and has only 4 million people in it. The only way they were going to fill this was with...

[marra]

This part of the announcement has been missed by some I think:

"In line with the stated objective, a further group of athletes have...

[marra]

take this with a pinch of salt because I can't see it confirmed anywhere, but the Road to Eugene website has Azu listed as "withdrawn" for the...

[marra]

I mean, I'm a track fan living in the USA. So I know a bit about what I'm talking about here. And every conversation I've read about the attendences have...

[marra]

I mean, what were the attendances at the UK champs. Do we think that is representative of the likely crowds at the CGs next month?

The US...