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Mo Farah has failed to qualify for the Olympics, despite UK Athletics bending the rules and putting on a special 10,000m race for the sole purpose of giving Mo a final chance of running a qualifying time.

 

That's probably going to end his career.

 

The British Championships is in crisis after the BBC refused to pay to cover the event, and no other broadcaster was found to step in.

For the first time in decades, it's not being televised on terrestrial TV.

Only on their YouTube channel.

Viewing figures have fallen from 1.4million to 20,000.

 

 

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51 minutes ago, hughesie27 said:

Interest in this thread echoing the interest in the sport too.

 

:lol: 

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1 hour ago, hughesie27 said:

Interest in this thread echoing the interest in the sport too.

:spoton:

 

That's why only a few thousand bods watched it on youtube 

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Andrew Butchart, one of the Scottish athletes selected for Tokyo has put his place in doubt after saying on a podcast he had faked a negative Covid test to allow him to get back into the UK. 

:facepalm:

 

At least if he's scrubbed from the Olympic team he'll be in with a good shout at this year's Gerald Ratner awards for self sabotage.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun/29/andrew-butchart-faking-covid-test-investigated-uk-athletics-team-gb-tokyo

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11 minutes ago, fancy a brew said:

Andrew Butchart, one of the Scottish athletes selected for Tokyo has put his place in doubt after saying on a podcast he had faked a negative Covid test to allow him to get back into the UK. 

:facepalm:

 

At least if he's scrubbed from the Olympic team he'll be in with a good shout at this year's Gerald Ratner awards for self sabotage.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun/29/andrew-butchart-faking-covid-test-investigated-uk-athletics-team-gb-tokyo

 

A runner faking a test?

 

Hard to believe.

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I appreciate why people do 5k, 10k & marathons and understand why they are included in championships and Olympics etc.

 

BUT

 

Feck me! Its not really a spectators sport is it? Watching folk jog for 2+ hours! 
 

Shite!

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7 hours ago, Pans Jambo said:

I appreciate why people do 5k, 10k & marathons and understand why they are included in championships and Olympics etc.

 

BUT

 

Feck me! Its not really a spectators sport is it? Watching folk jog for 2+ hours! 
 

Shite!

F1, Football, NFL etc... All boring to someone and a passion for others.

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The middle and long distance track events usually have field competitions running at the same time.

Always amusing to watch long jumpers having to wait for the long distance guys to run past before legging it across the track for their run-up.

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Mr Brightside

Lots of Scottish athletes making the male and females team for the Olympics.

Possible medal opportunities in female 800m be male 1500m.

 

 I do enjoy watching track and field when it’s on tv. I think when it’s a greater distance than 5k it’s easy to lose focus on the race.

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2 hours ago, Cade said:

The middle and long distance track events usually have field competitions running at the same time.

Always amusing to watch long jumpers having to wait for the long distance guys to run past before legging it across the track for their run-up.

 

The long jump/triple jump pit is nearly always located at the side of the running track, mainly due to the lengh of the run-up area, it's the high jumpers and javelin throwers who often have to wait until the runners pass by.

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1 hour ago, Jambo-Jimbo said:

 

The long jump/triple jump pit is nearly always located at the side of the running track, mainly due to the lengh of the run-up area, it's the high jumpers and javelin throwers who often have to wait until the runners pass by.

 

And sometimes runners can wander across it without remembering their green cross code.

 

tenor.gif

 

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On 29/06/2021 at 21:09, fancy a brew said:

Andrew Butchart, one of the Scottish athletes selected for Tokyo has put his place in doubt after saying on a podcast he had faked a negative Covid test to allow him to get back into the UK. 

:facepalm:

 

At least if he's scrubbed from the Olympic team he'll be in with a good shout at this year's Gerald Ratner awards for self sabotage.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun/29/andrew-butchart-faking-covid-test-investigated-uk-athletics-team-gb-tokyo

 

Cleared for the Olympics. Ticking off only.

 

 

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On 30/06/2021 at 10:10, Beni said:

 

And sometimes runners can wander across it without remembering their green cross code.

 

tenor.gif

 

There was one years ago when an Eastern European javelin thrower chucked it miles off course towards a group of runners warming up for a race. The guy was going radge trying to alert them while they were all too busy concentrating to hear him screaming. Missed them all thankfully.

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17 minutes ago, CostaJambo said:

There was one years ago when an Eastern European javelin thrower chucked it miles off course towards a group of runners warming up for a race. The guy was going radge trying to alert them while they were all too busy concentrating to hear him screaming. Missed them all thankfully.

not the same one you are talking about but this is one where the judge gets skewered (was ok)

 

 

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