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Athletics on TV

  • 03-07-2010 8:14pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    Live Diamond league from Hayward Field on ATM on BBC red button

    Kaki missing out on his WR attempt in the 1k but still a great 5k to come including 2 white athletes with sub 13 PBs in the last 12 months


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    Diamond league action on BBC red button from now till 9 for anyone interested


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,983 ✭✭✭TheRoadRunner


    anyone know if the nationals are on the box on Sunday?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    anyone know if the nationals are on the box on Sunday?

    most likely a highlight show monday night as usual if i can get out thou may bring the camcorder and get what races i can (working evenings both days so bwill only get early races)


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Any highlights on any of the TV channels tonight?


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    100 m mens on youtube atm


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  • Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭maryishairy


    Diamond League from Paris featuring Mr. Usain Bolt on BBC3 Friday 16th July. Coverage starts at 7pm.


  • Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    Diamond League from Paris featuring Mr. Usain Bolt on BBC3 Friday 16th July. Coverage starts at 7pm.

    Also Usain Bolt documentary on immediately after on BBC3


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    At what time is Bolt Doc on?


  • Registered Users Posts: 286 ✭✭wgtomblin


    YFlyer wrote: »
    At what time is Bolt Doc on?

    9PM, on BBC3.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    wgtomblin wrote: »
    9PM, on BBC3.

    Cheers. Don't know if I have BBC3 on the regular Sky package


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Cheers. Don't know if I have BBC3 on the regular Sky package

    Its in Other channels in services


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    ecoli wrote: »
    Its in Other channels in services

    Excellent thank you. Just in time for the last lap of the women 1500m


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Some time there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Some time there.

    At about 90% effort I'd say


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    W.B. Yeats wrote: »
    At about 90% effort I'd say

    Still suffering from his achilles is hoping to be fully fit in about 2-3 weeks according to his doctors


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Pity he is not competing in the commonwealth games


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,727 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    I have never seen BBC commentators do all bar ourright call a competitor a drug cheat than that russian who won the womens 1500m prior to the mens 100m. They are right mind, but it's rare to here them be so succinct about it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Love Colin Jacksons' shirt. Saw him in Patrick Street in Limerick a number of years back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    Inquitus wrote: »
    I have never seen BBC commentators do all bar ourright call a competitor a drug cheat than that russian who won the womens 1500m prior to the mens 100m. They are right mind, but it's rare to here them be so succinct about it.

    I think it was because they were trying to compare to Chambers as he has not been in exile in terms of top quality race meets since his return from his ban. I think her 3 month ban was the difference in terms of the race organisers decision mind you


  • Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    Inquitus wrote: »
    I have never seen BBC commentators do all bar ourright call a competitor a drug cheat than that russian who won the womens 1500m prior to the mens 100m. They are right mind, but it's rare to here them be so succinct about it.

    To be honest though they were dead right to highlight that lady's history as was Dobrisky
    What a performance, to come back from a suspension and run the fastest time of the year


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    ecoli wrote: »
    I think it was because they were trying to compare to Chambers as he has not been in exile in terms of top quality race meets since his return from his ban. I think her 3 month ban was the difference in terms of the race organisers decision mind you

    What? Three months is not much of a ban


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Bolt is the ticket.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    The Jamaican accent comes out when he is been interviewed in Jamaica


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    YFlyer wrote: »
    What? Three months is not much of a ban

    This was the sanction given from the Russian athletic Federation and approved by the IAAF. there reason for giving the lighter sentence was said to be because she treated herself with an over the counter cough medicine. This appears to be common length ban for what appears to be genuine mistakes as opposed to intentional attempts at performance enhancing (not my opinion before people attack me just an observation on what Athletic Federations have deemed as genuine mistakes) and there are a few examples of such light sentences


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    YFlyer wrote: »
    What? Three months is not much of a ban

    For pseudoephedrine? It's commonly found in over-the-counter cold medicines. You want to ban her for life for this, no doubt. 3 months is OTT. DQ from the current competition and a public warning is loads.

    The BBC commentators didn't just imply she was a drug cheat; they implied all Russian 1500m women are.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    For pseudoephedrine? It's commonly found in over-the-counter cold medicines. You want to ban her for life for this, no doubt. 3 months is OTT. DQ from the current competition and a public warning is loads.

    The BBC commentators didn't just imply she was a drug cheat; they implied all Russian 1500m women are.

    No not at all. Just didn't know the details


  • Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭IrishTrackFan1


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    For pseudoephedrine? It's commonly found in over-the-counter cold medicines. You want to ban her for life for this, no doubt. 3 months is OTT. DQ from the current competition and a public warning is loads.

    The BBC commentators didn't just imply she was a drug cheat; they implied all Russian 1500m women are.

    Isn't it a masking agent that can hide other substances in tests? Therefore it should be treated the same as those underlying substances since its intake prevents detection of those drugs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    Pherekydes wrote: »

    The BBC commentators didn't just imply she was a drug cheat; they implied all Russian 1500m women are.


    FOr the record reported by Reuters about Alminova and her suspension:

    "Seven other top Russian female athletes, including twice world 1,500 metres champion Tatyana Tomashova and world indoor 1,500 metres champion Yelena Soboleva, were handed two-year doping bans for manipulating their drug samples in 2008".

    It wouldn't be unreasonable to think that the female Russian middle distance runners have more than a whiff of suspicion about them


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Isn't it a masking agent that can hide other substances in tests? Therefore it should be treated the same as those underlying substances since its intake prevents detection of those drugs.

    Is it? Have you a link? Best to tell WADA. They haven't got it down as a masking agent.
    W.B. Yeats wrote: »
    It wouldn't be unreasonable to think that the female Russian middle distance runners have more than a whiff of suspicion about them

    You want to be suspicious of athletes simply on the basis of their nationality? And this is reasonable to you?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Is it? Have you a link? Best to tell WADA. They haven't got it down as a masking agent.



    You want to be suspicious of athletes simply on the basis of their nationality? And this is reasonable to you?

    No I want to be suspicious of female middle distance athletes from a country with a very recent history of doping, entirely reasonable to me. This is entirely different from being suspicious of athletes merely because of their nationality.


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