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world athletics championship
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:58 pm
by psychoscoredthelot
did i see somewhere that season ticket holders got discounted tickets or was that just for the para version ??
mate at work wants to take advantage of it but i cant find it anywhere - although im sure i got emailed it by someone.
sorry if its the wrong forum too
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:03 pm
by Corney Beal
Para version, yes. There is some sort of discount available.
Didn't see any mention of anything for the main games, so doubt it.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:14 pm
by psychoscoredthelot
Corney Beal wrote:Para version, yes. There is some sort of discount available.
Didn't see any mention of anything for the main games, so doubt it.
cheers mate
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:25 pm
by view from the shires
I don't know why Usain Bolt has entered the sprint races - he is 31 in August so his legs must have gone.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:01 pm
by White Goodman
What does everyone think of rubbing out all the World Records pre 2005 (I think it was).
Seems like a ****ing stupid idea to me, given that loads of records set since then will be tainted.
They're just pissed off that nobody can run within 2 seconds of Marita Koch's 400m record.
That's basically in there until the end of human civilisation with the amount of gear she was having pumped into her.
Nobody could cheat like the GDR women. Absolutely brutal.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:29 pm
by DasNutNock
White Goodman wrote:Nobody could cheat like the GDR women. Absolutely brutal.
The USA might have something to say about that.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 6:06 pm
by warp
White Goodman wrote:Seems like a ****ing stupid idea to me
and that's you being kind.
koch was an appropriate name though!
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:54 pm
by White Goodman
warp wrote:
koch was an appropriate name though!
Yes I'd imagine her bean had grown to epic proportions
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 4:01 pm
by mushy
White Goodman wrote:What does everyone think of rubbing out all the World Records pre 2005 (I think it was).
Seems like a ****ing stupid idea to me, given that loads of records set since then will be tainted.
They're just pissed off that nobody can run within 2 seconds of Marita Koch's 400m record.
That's basically in there until the end of human civilisation with the amount of gear she was having pumped into her.
Nobody could cheat like the GDR women. Absolutely brutal.
Does it mean that ALL world records achieved before 2005 are to be wiped out including those subsequently beaten, or only those still in existence?
In other words even old Lord Coes old records would be struck off.
if not it would be only those still standing, which seems slightly daft in a way.
Poor old Jonathan Edwards, his would be gone, he was a freak of nature and am pretty sure he never took drugs, although to be fair who actually knows?
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 4:13 pm
by warp
i think it's just a way (the cheaper one) to give the impression that it's a clean sport now, while it actually isn't.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 5:01 pm
by White Goodman
warp wrote:i think it's just a way (the cheaper one) to give the impression that it's a clean sport now, while it actually isn't.
Correct.
To answer Mushy's question I think they propose to refer to previous world records as "world bests" or something equally stupid.
Radcliffe's would go , Mike Powell's long jump would go.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:40 pm
by White Goodman
I see Gatlin is "shocked" at this news.
The man who won the WC 100m at 35 running as fast as he ran when he was cheating and about 10 years younger.
I'm warming to Gatlin , just because he is the most shameless **** in the world.
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Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:41 pm
by Johnny Byrne's Boots
If Gatlin really is shocked he's the only one.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:43 pm
by DasNutNock
I, for one, believe Justin is clean. The fact that he's been banned twice previously, set unprecedented times in his mid-30s and his coach is Dennis Mitchell (banned in 1998 for doping violations) is all just coincidental.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 2:01 pm
by Tenbury
He must hate the sport of athletics as he's clearly on a one-man mission to destroy it.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:15 pm
by White Goodman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/42722906" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
More classic comedy from the Russians.
Nice to see they are learning their lesson
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 8:07 am
by White Goodman
I see 37 year old Justin Gatlin ran 9.87 at the weekend
What's the ****ing point of watching this any longer.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:41 am
by Johnny Byrne's Boots
Presumably, as World Athletics are letting him run again, all the effects of years of drugs must have completely worn off.
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:36 am
by White Goodman
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49067302" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Good for Horton. Sun is about as brazen and bad as it gets
Re: world athletics championship
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:18 pm
by Johnny Byrne's Boots
Uzbek freestyle wrestler Artur Taymazov has become the 60th athlete and eighth gold medallist disqualified from London 2012 after a doping sample re-test.
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"The IOC has been storing samples from the Olympic Games since Athens 2004 and has re-analysed them systematically," the governing body said after one of Taymazov's samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for oral steroid turinabol.
"The fight against doping is a top priority for the IOC, which has established a zero-tolerance policy to combat cheating and to make anyone responsible for using or providing doping products accountable."
:lol: