Athletics Thread

Kipchoge is actually getting quicker, unbelievable

Is it on TV anywhere?

It’s over, new world record,
59:50 for the first half but then he blew up :grinning: and took over 61 minutes for the remainder

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@Bandage measured the course again

Interesting piece

Saw an article there recently saying all the Kenyans are drugged up to their eyeballs. Is there a suspicion now this has always been going on and it wasn’t just them running to the shops and an Irish Christian brothers getting them to do laps in the heat?

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Fascinating documentary on TG4 about Pat O Callaghan and Bob Tisdall who both won gold for Ireland in the 1932 Olympics in LA for hammer and 400m hurdles respectively. They both accomplished the feat on the same day. Archive footage quality is a lot better than you would expect for 1932.

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Nearly sure it was within an hour of each other

Saw that before. O’Callaghan won his gold, then helped Tisdall fix his spikes before the latter won his gold an hour later. O’Callaghan could well have won three Olympics on a row but didn’t want to compete in Berlin in front of the Nazis

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It was the other way around. O’Callaghan’s spikes were too long for the cindered turning circle and he and Tisdall filed them down between throws and he won with his 6th and last one.

Ireland didn’t go to German Olympics in protest at Britain’s arranging for the IOC to limit us to a 26 county selection under the name of the Freestate of Ireland. O’Callaghan went out before the games at invitation of German Government to coach German throwers and have his technique filmed for study. A German did win gold and his winning effort was significantly short of one of O’Callaghan’s average throws.

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That then led to the nearly 60 year split in Irish athletics between 32 county NACA and other athletics bodies and athletes from NACA could not compete internationally. GAA ban extended to athletes who didn’t run for NACA clubs

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…and the related outworkings in Cycling that were only resolved relatively recently. These were more prolonged, colourful (bombing Santry Stadium the night before Coppi raced there, Joe Christle’s travelling shows, gate-crashing the road racce at Munich 72 etc.) and it’s a wonder they were finally settled.

We’re an interesting people.

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Anyone know what the documentary is called?

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Will you put a few of us up?!

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Be safer than staying out by the stadium!

How well connected is the stadium to trainlines?

@Mac

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They’ll probably run a shuttle bus which they did for the commonwealth and that worked well

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I think they built a team stop but unsure.