World Athletics Championships

[SpiritofBurnden]

The poles seem to have really broke into the athletics medals.

They've been good for a while.

They really should be hosting a World Championships.

 

[King Kareoke]

He’s starting to get close to Richie Benaud as my favourite ever

Now that's a compliment you wouldn't mind been given

 

[The Red Telephone]

Johnson is a quality presenter - really knows what he is talking about


Given they ran a couple of seconds faster than they have previously I think they were just not quite good enough - although that Jodie Williams should consider running 400

Johnson is to Athletics punditry what the great Richie Benaud was to cricket.
Class changeover by GB there.

 

[BIG BAZ]

WTF we do there

 

[SpiritofBurnden]

Another plodder on the first leg.

 

[BIG BAZ]

He fucked off too early there

 

[SpiritofBurnden]

What a shambles.

 

[mcq10]

Cram playing the IAAF lessons to be learned card


Johnson straight out and calling it a mistake bringing the championships to Doha

 

[BIG BAZ]

GB women bumped up to bronze in the 4x400...Jamaica disqualified

 

[MagicRat]

Excellent summary from MJ

Women given bronze for 4x400, Jamaica DQd

 

[King Kareoke]

Really pleased BBC have the next couple of Worlds though because that means we will get more of Michael Johnson

 

[mcq10]

Really pleased BBC have the next couple of Worlds though because that means we will get more of Michael Johnson

Steve cream really annoyed me in his summary. He could learn a lot from Johnson.

 

[Arkle]

GB women bumped up to bronze in the 4x400...Jamaica disqualified

Any idea why? I noticed that going into leg 3, their athlete was positioned wrongly at the change over.

 

[PTR]

Ah, that makes more sense. Missed a bit tonight, and saw we'd dropped the baton, but somehow been bumped to Bronze

And now I see it was the womens' who got the bronze.

He could learn a lot from Johnson.

Johnson doesn't give a fuck, which gives him a lot of freedom to say what he wants. He's given a very specific box to sit in that most pundits don't get.
But he is excellent to listen to.

 

[King Kareoke]

Any idea why? I noticed that going into leg 3, their athlete was positioned wrongly at the change over.

Overturned on appeal - Jamaica kept the bronze

 

[Arkle]

Overturned on appeal - Jamaica kept the bronze

Bugger!

 

[Teejay]

Overturned on appeal - Jamaica kept the bronze

Its worse than feckin VAR!

 

[The Red Telephone]

Really pleased BBC have the next couple of Worlds though because that means we will get more of Michael Johnson

And hopefully less of Radcliffe and Cram with their vested interests.

 

[Ashley In!!]

And hopefully less of Radcliffe and Cram with their vested interests.

They are both OK when they stick to the stuff they should. It's been an appalling week for the pair of them though, their credibility is shot to pieces.

 

[Arkle]

They are both OK when they stick to the stuff they should. It's been an appalling week for the pair of them though, their credibility is shot to pieces.

Cram's fine as a commentator (although I prefer Cotter and think Mike Costello is better than either) but isn't so good when he turns to punditry. Radcliffe's not much good at either. She makes Brendan F seem interesting.