World Athletics Championships 2011 (pg4)

[JOHN DOE]

london grand prix on bbc2 now

[King Poetic]

these jamaican's>>>>>

[Captain Planet]

chambers should be here

[King Poetic]

I wonder if Mo Farah (sp?) is fasting today?...

[King Poetic]

Mohammed Farah is a beast!

[Lenny]

christine ohuruogu came last in her race today, terrible run

[Aquaman]

Asafa Powell, the fastest man over 100 metres in the world this year, has pulled out of the event at the world championships because of a groin injury. Powell's withdrawal means that the four top-ranked 100m sprinters in the world will be missing from the competition. Tyson Gay is out with a hip injury, while the Jamaican Steve Mullings and the USA's Mike Rodgers have both been provisionally suspended after failing drugs tests.

The 100m final on Sunday was set to be the centrepiece of these Championships with Powell expected to push Usain Bolt, who was all but unbeatable at Berlin in 2009, for the gold. By his own admission Bolt is "not in tip-top shape", and his fastest time this year, 9.88, places him only joint-sixth fastest in the world. Powell had run a full tenth of a second quicker. But now the only man left standing who has been faster than Bolt is Richard Thompson of Trinidad & Tobago, who won silver behind the Jamaican at the Beijing Olympics.

Powell had spoken of this as being the competition where he could "go lower than 9.7", but doubts began to surface about his fitness when he withdrew from the Diamond League meeting at Crystal Palace two weeks before the start of the world championships. He has been suffering with a groin strain ever since he ran at Budapest on 30 July, but he had tried to keep his likely withdrawal a secret. The news broke accidentally when he pulled out of Jamaica's pre-championships team press conference. His replacement in the 100m, Michael Frater, let slip that he "had not been expecting to run the 100m here but unfortunately Asafa couldn't make it".

Bolt suffered with an achilles tendon injury towards the end of 2010, and his scoliosis, a curvature of the spine he has suffered with since birth, troubled him over the winter. He says he is not "in 9.5 shape," but is still determined to win a second world title. "A lot of people have said that I'm a legend but I don't look at it like that at the moment. But in two years – I'm working on it. This world championships is going to be the first step to becoming a legend so it's very important. A lot of people have won championships, a lot of people have broken records, but few people have repeated that year in year out, especially in the sprints."

Powell's agent explained that the athlete had "received all sorts of treatments over the past two weeks in the hope of being prepared to run the 100m here in Daegu but today [Thursday] Asafa made the final decision not to run. He feels he would not be at 100% and may have trouble coming back after each round". He may still run in the relay, but that will be small consolation to a man who told the Guardian recently: "I've been starving myself for nine years. I'm ready to win."

pity was looking forward to seeing this bitch azz nigga crumble again

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weeee back, looking fwd to seeing gatlin back, dix, bolt

[Guest Portuguese]

Bolt to break the record again

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Can the Bejing Olympics thread be bumped please?

[Aquaman]

Bolt to break the record again

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Can the Bejing Olympics thread be bumped please?

No / No

[Guest Portuguese]

Why not? Incase you said at the time that Bolt was over rated not even better than Mark Lewis Francis?

[Aquaman]

[Mic Man]

He's not gonna break any records this yr for 2 reasons:

Lack of fitness & lack of competition

[His-RightPalm]

argh Usain will be on after Ive left

peak

[Colin Turnover]

Ortis presenting athletics... Are they taking the piss? Pain!

I hate Brendan Foster and most of the commentators on the beeb but all is forgiven, bring them back!

Maurice Greene is doing my head in on Eurosport aswell.

Who saw kiplagat drop in the marathon this morning lol

[Colin Turnover]

Ohurougu SMH.

[SailorMoon]

Ortis is out of his depth and there's too many ad breaks. Ohurougu disqualified in the heats! She needs to fix up

[SailorMoon]

Another false start

Lol Kim Collins still sprinting

[Guest Portuguese]

What happened to him after he won in 2005

[Colin Turnover]

Thompson and Bledman got poor starts in their heats. Hmmm maybe just blowing out the cobwebs.

My man Collins!

HAA running like its a final LOL

[Colin Turnover]

What happened to him after he won in 2005

Nothing. He's just stayed at that same level really. Was a 'poor' year in terms of times when he won that final.

[Guest Portuguese]

Man like Gatlin

[Guest Portuguese]

What happened to him after he won in 2005

Nothing. He's just stayed at that same level really. Was a 'poor' year in terms of times when he won that final.

Who was in that race?

Greene

Chambers

Everyone ran over ten seconds yeah?

[Colin Turnover]

Hmmmmmmmm

Not sure how much Gatlin was putting in.

Lemaitre ran that pretty hard. Might have nothing left for the final if he makes it.