Athletics at London 2012

[Raghav_12]

I believe expoits of athletes like Bolt, Blake and rest of Jamaican dashers, Kenyan runners and many others deserve a thread of it's own. To begin with all contenders of 100m dash - Bolt, Blake, Gay, Powell, Gatlin won their respective heats and moved to Semi Finals.

[The Dark Horse]

Well done Irfan in 20 metres walk. Finished 10th with national record

[Raghav_12]

Well done Irfan in 20 metres walk. Finished 10th with national record

20 meters walk??? That would be interesting.

[Cricketics]

Man it's not easy to finish such race. One guy even went down. I think the Russian. Well done to all and especially to our Indian who did well and maintained his speed.

[indiefan]

None of the news channel seem to be aware of this performance in 20 km walk!

[Manny_Pacquiao]

god damn, jamaica are ridiculously good at the short distances...nobody will even come close. they are all jacked as ***

[Raghav_12]

100m Women heats going on. I always wonder why nobody came ever close to WR of 10.49, set up way back in 1988. For most of the races in recent times, winners record 10.7 -10.8.

[Manny_Pacquiao]

i just cant take the track seriously. cant help but think that they are all doped up to their eyeballs.

[Yoda-esque]

100m Women heats going on. I always wonder why nobody came ever close to WR of 10.49' date=' set up way back in 1988. For most of the races in recent times, winners record 10.7 -10.8.[/quote'] Theres speculation she was roided for that one

[Manny_Pacquiao]

wow, great britain are now importing runners from the united states. how pathetic.

[surajmal]

wow' date=' great britain are now importing runners from the united states. how pathetic.[/quote'] India should start importing long distance runners from Kenya/Ethiopia in exchange for citizenship.

[Manny_Pacquiao]

India should start importing long distance runners from Kenya/Ethiopia in exchange for citizenship.

the arabs have already started doing that. they give them islamic names and everything, haha

[Raghav_12]

Theres speculation she was roided for that one

These speculations seem to be true if you look at the sequence of events. She stopped running suddenly after Seoul 88 though she was at her absolute peak at that time. Her retiremnet is linked with introduction of much stricter drug testing in athletics following Ben Johnson episose at Seoul. But surprisingly she was never caught. She died at pretty young age, 38, rather mysteriously without having much of the history related to medical problems. People relate her death with the sustained overdose of drugs which they believe she did for a long period of time in 80's.

[Raghav_12]

10000 m men Finals is coming up.. Ethopian Bekele would be hot favourite..

[Raghav_12]

A white man wins Men Long Jump Gold :omg: That too a Brit :omg::omg: But gold medal performance (8.39) was way off from WR of 8.95, which is also a freakish athletic feat. Very realey athletes come anyway near that distance. Previous WR of 8.90 had lasted quite some time, close to 30 years, IMHO.

[Raghav_12]

100 m Women.. Final coming up..wow..

[Raghav_12]

10.75 it was. Jamaican defended her Olympic title from Beijing.

[cowboysfan]

Allowing people with prosthetic limbs to participate in regular olympics is a joke,the technology is going is surpass human muscle any day now,its simply not fair to regular athletes.

[Raghav_12]

10000 m men Finals is coming up.. Ethopian Bekele would be hot favourite..

Farah Mohammed from Britain wins it :((

[daryl1985]

Best ever night for British athletics. The end to the 10,000m was amazing.