World's team announced

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https://www.fastrunning.com/events-and-races/events-news/ireland-names-team-for-world-indoors-championships/12680

No men (pending McMullen's Wild Card invitation)

Bigger team than last edition but still leaves alot to be desired

How they Rank


Phil Healy #13 in World this year though 9 of the girls are US so 7 of those won't be in Birmingham.

Amy Foster joint 57th in world this year while Ciara Neville is through by right of her time last year but would rank just inside top 100 this year based off her season performances

Mageean's time from Boston was good enough to get here 26th this year on the World Ranking's though with change in coaching and look at a more strength based approach I reckon she is probably in better shape to handle rounds than that time may indicate

Chivito550

Unless Mageean or Healy make the final, then Irish interest will be over after the Friday.

average_runner

How come the low entry?

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average_runner wrote: »

How come the low entry?

2016 - 1 athlete
2014 - 5 athletes

Gregan was the only athlete with standard who didn't run (didn't run indoors this year)

average_runner

Testosterscone wrote: »

2016 - 1 athlete
2014 - 5 athletes

Gregan was the only athlete with standard who didn't run (didn't run indoors this year)

Ah fair enough. Is English injured?

fishy21

Strange how gregan didn’t run indoors as he is very strong indoors. Not sure what’s Marks English’s story but he’s not at the standard judging by the weekend.

Hopefully McMullen gets in. I’ve been saying it for years that he will hit the magical 8m. He is getting very close now.
Sure Healy is the best chance at making the final. Even at that she would probably need another PB.

Testosterscone

Ben Reynolds (60mH) has been added due to IAAF invite.

average_runner

Take it, only the bbc and eurosport are covering this?

Chivito550

Hope AAI are flying them out today or early tomorrow. I foresee carnage. Supposed to be flying out Thursday myself. Fairly worried flight will be cancelled. Ferry is an option but being stranded in Hollyhead could be a possibility.

pconn062

Chivito550 wrote: »

Hope AAI are flying them out today or early tomorrow. I foresee carnage. Supposed to be flying out Thursday myself. Fairly worried flight will be cancelled. Ferry is an option but being stranded in Hollyhead could be a possibility.

Flying out Saturday morning for Saturday and Sunday sessions, hopefully we get out. Friday looks like it could go one of two ways, v. heavy snow or rain. Thursday ain't looking good but it's hard to know for sure.

average_runner

Chivito550 wrote: »

Hope AAI are flying them out today or early tomorrow. I foresee carnage. Supposed to be flying out Thursday myself. Fairly worried flight will be cancelled. Ferry is an option but being stranded in Hollyhead could be a possibility.

Thursday you should be ok, its Friday I be more concern with!!!

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Previews

OOnegative

Dibaba for the first leg of the 1,500/3,000 double tonight or can Laura Muir secure a win? Plenty more who’ll have a say to.

Chivito550

OOnegative wrote: »

Dibaba for the first leg of the 1,500/3,000 double tonight or can Laura Muir secure a win? Plenty more who’ll have a say to.

Muir only got in late last night. Think she got a taxi from Scotland through multiple blizzards. Not ideal preparation.

My flight was cancelled. Rebooked onto 6:40am Saturday morning. Hopefully I can salvage some of it.

OOnegative

Chivito550 wrote: »

Muir only got in late last night. Think she got a taxi from Scotland through multiple blizzards. Not ideal preparation.

My flight was cancelled. Rebooked onto 6:40am Saturday morning. Hopefully I can salvage some of it.

Not ideal is right, sorry to hear about the cancellation of your flight.

average_runner

Chivito550 wrote: »

Muir only got in late last night. Think she got a taxi from Scotland through multiple blizzards. Not ideal preparation.

My flight was cancelled. Rebooked onto 6:40am Saturday morning. Hopefully I can salvage some of it.

Far from ideal prep, but also not very professional from her. She knew the weather from last Sunday. Could of easily made alternative options

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average_runner wrote: »

Far from ideal prep, but also not very professional from her. She knew the weather from last Sunday. Could of easily made alternative options

She also is a full time student and has responsibilites. She will be fine not sn athlete to make excuses and gets on with it

average_runner

Yes i know she is a full time athlete. Just saying not ideal prep.

BE interesting to see how he runs. She has still to mature as a top runner

Chivito550

average_runner wrote: »

Far from ideal prep, but also not very professional from her. She knew the weather from last Sunday. Could of easily made alternative options

She has commitments away from athletics. Those commitments are the reason she is not doing the Commonwealth Games this year.

You hardly expect her to dart away from her studies/lectures/assignments a few weeks before her finals for any longer than the length of the championships do you?

average_runner

Chivito550 wrote: »

She has commitments away from athletics. Those commitments are the reason she is not doing the Commonwealth Games this year.

You hardly expect her to dart away from her studies/lectures/assignments a few weeks before her finals for any longer than the length of the championships do you?

I know she pull out of the commonwealth games.

Not saying to go weeks early but could of flew in Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. So miss two days only instead of one.

Caprica

Two high jumps and the Women’s 3k titles decided tonight. Both the high jumps were a bit disappointing. The top 2 men ( Lysenko and Barshim) and winning lady (Lasitskene) performed very well but the rest struggled. Lysenko cleared 2.36m on his 3rd attempt, you could hear a pin drop before the jump. Not sure if the surface was a problem, very one seemed slow and struggled with their run up.

The 3k was won, for the 3rd time in a row, by Genzebe Dibaba followed by Hassan and Muir. Slow opening first K but it picked up from there. I thought Dibaba was going to be caught but she held on, I think Hassan gave herself to much to do, spent a little to long doddling at the back of the field. All 3 are doing the 1500. Glad for Muir.

Recorded live broadcast on BBC and then FF through all the hot air and waffle, it’s hard work watching their coverage.

Pherekydes

Muir had to request two days off to run in Birmingham. She's in her final year of her degree, so one can hardly quibble about her not being professional. Well done to her on winning a medal.

Chivito550

average_runner wrote: »

I know she pull out of the commonwealth games.

Not saying to go weeks early but could of flew in Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. So miss two days only instead of one.

https://twitter.com/benbloomsport/status/969340304854790144?s=21

pconn062

Woke up to a vehicle that won't start as 3ft snow drifts that have blocked us in meaning getting cars out is impossible. Not looking good for getting over tomorrow.

Chivito550

My flight cancelled for the second time. It’s game over now. Utterly sickened. Hard to watch it on tv when I should be there.

pconn062

Chivito550 wrote: »

My flight cancelled for the second time. It’s game over now. Utterly sickened. Hard to watch it on tv when I should be there.

Same, all flights cancelled. Tickets and hotel wasted, sickener.

Chivito550

pconn062 wrote: »

Same, all flights cancelled. Tickets and hotel wasted, sickener.

It sucks. Thankfully I had the media pass so it’s only 140 euro for accommodation lost. But you can’t put a price on the experience. That’s the biggest loss.

Chivito550

It has to be said, that was absolutely dreadful from Mageean yesterday. She’s obviously not in shape yet, and said herself her focus was Comm Games and she was only doing Birmingham because it was so close to where she was training. World Championships aren’t the place to have a bit of a fitness test, and a virtual training session. I guess it gives her another opportunity to get a 1500m race in before Gold Coast. I can’t think of any other reason why she’d have bothered running.

pconn062

Chivito550 wrote: »

It has to be said, that was absolutely dreadful from Mageean yesterday. She’s obviously not in shape yet, and said herself her focus was Comm Games and she was only doing Birmingham because it was so close to where she was training. World Championships aren’t the place to have a bit of a fitness test, and a virtual training session. I guess it gives her another opportunity to get a 1500m race in before Gold Coast. I can’t think of any other reason why she’d have bothered running.

Pretty poor alright, looked to be in a different class to her competitors, and not in a good way. Can't do much for your confidence when you're trailing off the back in a World 1500m heat. Hopefully it will pick up for her but it's been a lean 18 months since she set her 1500m PB in August 2016.

Chivito550

pconn062 wrote: »

Pretty poor alright, looked to be in a different class to her competitors, and not in a good way. Can't do much for your confidence when you're trailing off the back in a World 1500m heat. Hopefully it will pick up for her but it's been a lean 18 months since she set her 1500m PB in August 2016.

She didn't seem to take the World Indoors seriously. It was just a bit of preparation for the Comm Games. Fair enough that is her goal (albeit Comm Games is pretty poor standard in comparison to the World Indoors), but if she was just looking to trot around like that, there are NIA meets, or other similar type things in the UK. This is the World Championships!

raiders11

Chivito550 wrote: »

It has to be said, that was absolutely dreadful from Mageean yesterday. She’s obviously not in shape yet, and said herself her focus was Comm Games and she was only doing Birmingham because it was so close to where she was training. World Championships aren’t the place to have a bit of a fitness test, and a virtual training session. I guess it gives her another opportunity to get a 1500m race in before Gold Coast. I can’t think of any other reason why she’d have bothered running.

Comm games are next month, wouldn't be too hopeful of too much of an improvement by then.

RayCun

Unbelievable amateurism from the Jamaican women's relay team

Caprica

As soon as I seen the Jamaican girl shoving/switching with the Ukrainian, I knew they were going to be DQ’ed. The poor official was trying to help her out but she wasn’t have it. She cost her team a medal. Gabby was very happy as it gave Team GB a medal, who were then DQ’ed but reinstated on appeal.

Very exciting Men’s 4*4, fantastic running by the Pole to close down the American who died a death in the homestretch, great to see a WR. Was expecting a DQ but surprisingly the result stood. I think the field events were the highlight for me, so many exciting events.

Both high jumps, long jumps, triple jumps and pole vault. Very impressed with the Cuban in the long jump, for a young guy he had nerves of steel. The Men’s 1500 and 3000 were extremely poor, they were crawling starting off with big burn ups. The most exciting race for me was the Men’s 400, delighted for the Spaniard to win in a great time only for the top 2 to again be disqualified. You just couldn’t trust any result.

Ahore was came across very well on the BBC and told how there was no Ivory Coast flag so she took an Irish one and put it back to front, done the trick. With the weather I watched a lot of more of the Champs that planned. The quality was patchy overall and the constant disqualifications were a nuisance. The 800 fields were very small, only 10 Men and 15 Women.

unichick

Enjoyed the championship despite all the many dq's. Pity they didn't get to show all the polevault. Loved all the field events. Track less so with all the dq's.

Was aghast at Hassan's behaviour at the medal ceremony with Dibaba & Muir. She was like a moody teenager with hands in the pocket & a puss on the face. Hates Dibaba obviously.

Where was Phil Jones the usual BBC guy who interviews athletes afterwards? Much missed.

Pity no Irish in any finals. Hopefully in the future! Roll on Europeans in August.

Chivito550

unichick wrote: »

Enjoyed the championship despite all the many dq's. Pity they didn't get to show all the polevault. Loved all the field events. Track less so with all the dq's.

Was aghast at Hassan's behaviour at the medal ceremony with Dibaba & Muir. She was like a moody teenager with hands in the pocket & a puss on the face. Hates Dibaba obviously.

Where was Phil Jones the usual BBC guy who interviews athletes afterwards? Much missed.

Pity no Irish in any finals. Hopefully in the future! Roll on Europeans in August.

Phil Jones retired after last season. A big loss. The new guy is not a patch on him.

Tough shoes to fill, so I guess give him time.

He was asking dumb questions though. "Were you happy with your performance today?" to athletes who had clearly underperformed.

unichick

Chivito550 wrote: »

Phil Jones retired after last season. A big loss. The new guy is not a patch on him.

Tough shoes to fill, so I guess give him time.

He was asking dumb questions though. "Were you happy with your performance today?" to athletes who had clearly underperformed.

Didn't know that. What a shame. He's much missed. The athletes seemed to be interviewed by some lady straight after their races and not BBC. Not sure what channel that was. Roll on Berlin. Hopefully a better showing for the Irish at it.

Chivito550

unichick wrote: »

Didn't know that. What a shame. He's much missed. The athletes seemed to be interviewed by some lady straight after their races and not BBC. Not sure what channel that was. Roll on Berlin. Hopefully a better showing for the Irish at it.

'Hope' being the key word there. Three absolutely miserable championships for us since Rio. It's hard to be too hopeful.