No 2019 Athletics thread?

[Ray de Galles]

Silver for the GB&NI men too, looks like a poor changeover cost them a shot at Gold.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Silver for the GB&NI men too, looks like a poor changeover cost them a shot at Gold.

Great effort. European record despite Hughes pulling a hamstring. The US were class though.

[Ray de Galles]

The US running was class, some of their handovers were as shoddy as ever. They were beatable.

[ursus arctos]

They never practice a fraction as much as their primary rivals

[Nocturnal Submission]

The US running was class, some of their handovers were as shoddy as ever. They were beatable.

Well, they might be beatable if they screw up all of their handovers. They made a mess of a couple tonight and still won with some ease.

[Ray de Galles]

That's at least partly because GB&NI had one bad handover of their own. They beat the USA in the last Worlds in 2017, after all.

[Nocturnal Submission]

They did but this is a very good US quartet. And a very good UK one, TBF.

[Ray de Galles]

Cheruiyot goes off like a shot from the start in the Men's 1500m Final and leads by a distance right to the line. Much like the Women's Final, a completely dominant performance.

[Ray de Galles]

Neil Black is to leave his position as performance director of UK Athletics.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Sky News are reporting from the 1:59 marathon attempt in Vienna. One of the pace setters is sporting a fine moustache and looks like he has been transported in time from Roger Bannister's first sub 4.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

It's live on the BBC red button. Effectively, every 5km a new group of runners swaps in and completely surrounds Kipchoge, which must be great for slipstreaming and pacemaking but doesn't make for great TV. You can't see him!

[Sporting]

It won't be officially recognised due to the pacemakers and the nature of the track.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

It won't be officially recognised due to the pacemakers and the nature of the track.

There are numerous other reasons why it won't be sanctioned - it's not in open competition, he is getting personal assistance (drinks and gels are getting handed to him from a bike) and the lead car is pacing the pace setters. Interesting experiment though.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Never in doubt, twenty seconds to spare.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

That was quite something. Although it got my back up that the commentator kept referencing Edmund bloody Hillary when everyone knows Tenzing Norgay was first up that mountain. In fact had gone up, set up the camera equipment and made a brew before shouting down that he was ready.

[Satchmo Distel]

Report:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...-hour-marathon

I have mixed feelings about the amount of assistance he was given, and agree it shouldn't be an official world record. It's like someone running a 100m in 9 secs with a strong wind behind him.

He seems to be the GOAT at the distance, though, based on his legal times.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Funfact - only 5 of the 51.5 million 5k runs in the history of Parkrun have been run at a pace faster than Kipchoge achieved today.

[Satchmo Distel]

[Satchmo Distel]

The consistency of these split times is freakish. They are all in the range of 14:10 to 14:14 up to 40km.

28:20 to 28:30 would have beaten the 10,000m world record up to 1960. He ran four of them in a row.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000...ssion#Pre-IAAF

[Hot Pepsi]

I couldn’t run to the end of the block
at that pace.

[San Bernardhinault]

Yeah. I was asking my cycling group - some of whom were very serious runners before damaging themeselves by running too much - how many of them could have done a 5k at that pace in their prime, and I think it was low single digits. And these are people who were one time Olympic triallists or state record holders. The ones who were "just" track coaches couldn't ever have done it.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Speaking of cycling, the Eurosport commentator kept referring to this marathon record when Frakkin’ Ineos riders were at the front of the Giro Di Lombardia. I know marginal gains played a part but were the frakkers directly involved?