posted Jul 20, 2009

erm because they are human and the human body isn't injury proof. sometimes it just breaks down!

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posted Jul 20, 2009

Of that list only three (Sotherton, Danvers and Ohurogu) are at a level where anyone outside the UK cares about them being injured. I'm sure that is we went down far enough we could find dozens, maybe hundreds but what would be the point?

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posted Jul 20, 2009

It's the same every year...we've always got loads more injured athletes than anyone else. It drives me mad all the time.

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posted Jul 20, 2009

That's not always true Sparkle. Sounds like most people are exaggerating the injury situation (esp. compared to other countries..) and jumping the bandwagon to have a good moan and blame a scapegoat.

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posted Jul 20, 2009

Er, mission statement UKA 1998 " to dramatically reduce the number of injured athletes"!!! They provided the "finest" medical support team and what have we got? A bigger bunch of injured athletes than ever before. 'Course it's not UKA's fault so many of our best athletes are injured it's more likely they overtrained (nothing again to with UKA's paid coaches to look after our "elite"!) No, the likely explanation is that the athletes know that if they perform badly they can be dropped from funding whereas if they're "injured" they can carry on be funded for longer. But of course that can't be the case can it?

When Berlin is over no doubt UKA will be saying lesson have been learnt and that they're weell on the path for success in London..........clinging to their jobs!

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posted Jul 21, 2009

The comments made by flying hurdler for one are entirely incorrect, do not fit the facts and more to the point show the person to be in denial.
The number of our unfit, half fit, elite athletes are and have been for many years much too high, but since UKA came to run this country's Track and Field it is immeasurably worse, now more than ever, whether certain people on Forums in GB can accept or not.

The percentage is greater than other countries with pretensions to excellence especially in Track, which is and has always been the British ''speciality.''

Have a look at this years ATFS Athletics 2009 and look at the Brit athletes featured ; a ridiculous number are crocked or have had a bad series of injuries or are recovering but not firing on all cylinders, and some athletes will go half fit to Berlin, underperform and blame it on their state of fitness caused by injuries during the last spring/ winter period.

Next have a close look at the British Track and Field Team for Beijing 2008 and compare their health this year with last year; an absurd number of them are either half fit, out of action or not on the radar (Jade Johnson where are you) or not talked about or we know they spent a long time injured etc. etc.

The examination of American Track stars shows that apart from a few world class people( Clay, Fountain come to mind immediately who got injured at their Trials)

They have in that country a tough competitive Trials where just about all the top Yanks were present, NOT the feeble nonsense in GB( Never mind dear athlete, you do not have to run the Trials, but you can run abroad two days later.. our 1500m woman star !!!!) but anyway Lolo is back in town and Fountain is fit again and winning,but won't represent USA. Their percentage of injured, ill athletes at the top is far leass than ours.
Who are the myriad Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Polish elite athletes injured in droves like our lot. THEY DON@T EXIST FANS IN DREADFUL NUMBERS.
Some of us remember the glorious 80s and 90s when we had 400m runners and hurdlers and middle distance and long distance athletes who were at the very top of the world an ddid NOT spend their lifes bleating about Funding cos they did not have any.

Have a chat with the likes of Peter Elliott.

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posted Jul 21, 2009

"Who are the myriad Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Polish elite athletes injured in droves like our lot. THEY DON@T EXIST FANS IN DREADFUL NUMBERS."

Yes they do. You just don't know who the Spanish or Russian version of James Dasaolu or Michael Bingham is. Simple as that. These are not high profile athletes in our own country, let along anyone elses. Why would we hear about injuries to their foreign counterparts?

Complete fallacy that being injured is somehow an exclusively British thing and shows a degree of ignorance about the wider athletics world.


"Some of us remember the glorious 80s and 90s"

Things weren't that good. Lets be honest.

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posted Jul 21, 2009

Dear me sportbennyg, I doubt as mentioned you know all the athletes abroad and know for certain we have more injured athletes than them. Very ignorant.

Just because the media like build up athletes, knock them down, mention every little injury and whatnot doesn't mean that it doesn't happen elsewhere.

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posted Jul 21, 2009

What happens abroad has nothing to do with the standards here. You can only compare our past with our present.

Standards and achievements (overall) have dropped since UKA took over in 1998

We have more athletes on podium funding injured than at anytime in the last 10 years.

What has that got to do with the rest of Europe?

But it has everything to do with the massive failure of UKA to stem it despite having £millions of taxpayers and sponsors money and a medical support team second to none (apparently!)

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posted Jul 22, 2009

What a pile of ignorant fans. My last post for sure.

For the record there are no Spanish or Russian 400m runners of note, to compare Dasaolu or Bingham with.

If you don't know that then you dont follow athletics stats and info around the world of athletics, all of which are available on the net. Dj you silly person your feeble point attacks my ref to several other countries and you then mention Dasaolu and Bingham, lord knows why when it does not impinge on my central point about the acknowledged large percentage of injured and semi fit Brits, many of whom were OLympians last year.

Dj your real ignorance is that you dare to compare todays British athletes, as a generality, with the 80s and 90s.
Like we got 9 Gold Medals and had some of the worlds best, both in Split 1990 and 8 Goldies in Budapest in the Europeans in the 90s.

Do you remember our wonderful middle distance dominance in the 80s.?? Our athletics have never been poorer since a period in the early seventies, but even then we had some great highly regarded 5/10K world class runners.

If you have the patience and are able to read may I suggest that you all read the 2009 Edition of British Athletics and turn up the All-Time lists and then tell me that the 80s and 90s, which form 80 to 90 % of the top performances, were not that great. Utter nonsense and thats the mildest I camn manage.

James M how can you bear to belong to and post on this 606.? Bye Bye.!!!

Where did I say that being injured is exclusively British. Are you able to read properly young man.

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