Athletics London Anniversary Games

Merlin5 · 22 Jul 2016 at 21:21

Well, Christine Ohuruogu and Jessica Ennis really should hang up their running shoes. They've been rubbish today.

Bolt is on at around 9.50pm

robfosters · 22 Jul 2016 at 21:33

Awesome run from Laura Muir. New British 1500m record.

Merlin5 · 22 Jul 2016 at 21:36

Yep. Even more astonishing was the american girl Kendra Harrison a bit earlier. She didn't qualify for the upcoming Olympics and yet she just broke a 28 year standing world record for the 100m hurdles.

Edit: 9.52pm Bolt on now in the 200m.

robfosters · 22 Jul 2016 at 21:58

He looked like he eased up there. I can see the world record going in Rio. Probably saving it up for then.

Merlin5 · 22 Jul 2016 at 22:00

He looks utterly knackered. He admitted he's not fully in shape though. But he'll be gone after this year as he said it's his last olympics. I just can't imagine world athletics without such a showstopper.

cheesyboy · 22 Jul 2016 at 23:31

Merlin5 said:
Yep. Even more astonishing was the american girl Kendra Harrison a bit earlier. She didn't qualify for the upcoming Olympics and yet she just broke a 28 year standing world record for the 100m hurdles.

That was incredible. Seriously incredible.

There's a reason all the women's power events' records are so old and mostly held by eastern Europeans, so to break one is unbelievable stuff.

semi-pro waster · 23 Jul 2016 at 07:31

Merlin5 said:
Well, Christine Ohuruogu and Jessica Ennis really should hang up their running shoes. They've been rubbish today.

I think you're maybe being a bit unfair on Jessica Ennis-Hill, for a multi-eventer to make the finals of a specialist event with a world class field is still pretty good going. Ok so she ran better in the heats than in the final but it's worth remembering that the lady who won it broke a world record that stood for almost three decades, the rest of the field weren't even close and that includes all the dedicated 100m hurdlers.

robfosters said:
Awesome run from Laura Muir. New British 1500m record.

Indeed, she won it running from the front as well and had a huge gap to second place by the end. I hope she can perform similarly in Rio. I was also impressed with Jake Wightman's time in the mile, knocking almost three seconds off his PB and Katarina Johnson-Thompson for getting a new high jump PB.

marc2003 · 23 Jul 2016 at 07:54

Merlin5 said:
Well, Christine Ohuruogu and Jessica Ennis really should hang up their running shoes. They've been rubbish today.

You utter ****.

Jessica ran the 2nd fastest time she's ever done in her life. The only time she's been quicker was at London 2012.