posted Aug 26, 2007

Yeah, Bailey was a great sprinter, of course the media will always talk their nationalistic crap. It's a pity Bailey had so many problems with injuries as he would have gone fasterand he was a bloody good bloke aswell.

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posted Aug 26, 2007

Cardover,

You can say FACT all you want but until Powell does it when it counts he will be another Leroy Burrell. The WR is one thing, but people remember the Champions. How many more times is Powell going to fail to impress? IMO he will never win a World or Olympic gold.

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posted Aug 26, 2007

Why do you think in 2000 he did a sub 10sec run when he was a junior 7 years on he has dissapointed time and time again indivually not making finals in world championships remember what in commenwealth games i think he is finished

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posted Aug 26, 2007

4. I don't understand the stick MLF gets. He's our 3rd best runner, so he runs. He out performed Pickering but that seems to have gone un-noticed.

its irrelevant that he out performed pickering. pickering is only 20, at his first senior champs and was sent sent essentially to gain experience. MLF has been around a while, and has/had the talent to be up there with gay and powell and he has wasted it time and again. look at the british trials, MLF was lucky to be selected anyway. as for brendan foster making "snide remarks"... he is merely calling as he sees it, and rightly so. I'm not sure i agree that he is finished, however, but it is going to be very difficult for him to make a mark on the world stage now. putting in the hard yards and losing sonme weight would be a start though.

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posted Aug 26, 2007

I'm a Jamaican and here in his homeland we all feel it for Asafa. But I will be impartial.

What Asafa did this morning was the epitome of 'choking' in sports.

Not only did he choke, but he did so on one of the biggest stages, at the final of the world championships.

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posted Aug 26, 2007

IMO MLF and Andrew Lemoncello dont deserve one cent of funding, they both perfomed pitifully today, well MLF tried but was once again found out to be a bottler, Lemoncello didn't even try.That was probably the worse performance by any british athlete in any championships ever. These guys ought to be paid on a performance basis after the events,taking into consideration age and experience. There will be a few more disappointments tomorrow too.Thank god for Kelly Southerton and Jessiaca Ennis today.

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posted Aug 26, 2007

can someone tell me how much lottery money MLF has had over the years?

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posted Aug 26, 2007

First, Lemoncello was coming from illness and wasn 't physically strong enough to cope with the race, even more so under the given conditions. He has had an excellent season so far.
Mark Lewis-Francis may have not done anything spectacular so far, but I think this has to be his best season since 2002 in terms of results and consistency. He has taken a few solid steps forward this season but he will have to make the transition to a top sprinter next season, as the longer it takes the more frustration is going to heap on him.

As concerns the second day of the championships, Britain very much carried on from where they were left off yesterday to move up a gear into their first medal through Kelly Sotherton and two more top 8 positions.
I am really pleased that most British athletes have risen to the occasion, producing PBs or SBs and making good progress on the big stage. It is the attitude required to move forward and restore the sport to its old glamour.
Kelly Sotherton and Jessica Ennis were magnificent today, while I was very pleased with the promise showed by Nicola Sanders and Christine Ohuruogu.
Tomorrow, hopefully, it 's going to be Phillips Idowu 's day...

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posted Aug 26, 2007

It's not just the lottery "life style" money it's all the add on maintenance cost for support/coach payment/medical/warm weather training abroad. Someone else wrote somewhere it amounted to around £500.000.

But don't be too hard on MFL. He was one of the 4x100 gold winning team in Athens and he was only 1/100th off making the final here. Undoubtedly he's been a comfortable, underperforming passenger with UKA for most of the time but hey, they got have some athletes to look after.

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posted Aug 27, 2007

sarah

fancy a cuddle

im still in mourning for ray jones

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