Christine Ohuruogu makes the team

[bennyg]

So a further six make the British team

Christine Ohuruogu,Rebecca Lyne,Mark Lewis Francis, Tim Benjamin, Laura Turner and Jeanette Kwakye.

Well now, the BBC will be pleased witha team of 55 athletes. Much easier for the usual nationalistic stuff that all TV requires.

The UKA have scraped the bottom of the barrel in a number of cases to make the team larger, and if our Performance Director, Collins, says that it was always envisaged that sloppy standards would be OK he is a gross perpetrator of terminological inexactitudes. We all remember his so called hard line about A standards and doing it this year. Cowardly fellow.!!!

[Matt]

Delighted for Turner - well deserved. She still ran a PB despite adverse conditions in London. I think she can run low 11.2s in Osaka.

[Jon]

Re: Christine Ohuruogu makes the team

So a further six make the British team

Christine Ohuruogu, Rebecca Lyne, Mark Lewis Francis, Tim Benjamin, Laura Turner and Jeanette Kwakye.

Lewis-Francis, Benjamin, Turner and Kwakye were already on the team (relays). The new additions are Ohuruogu, Lyne, David Greene (400H), Tom Parsons (HJ), Dwayne Grant (4x1), Christian Malcolm (4x1), Richard Buck (4x4) and Anyika Onuora (4x1).

I agree with Matt re: Turner, btw. She's a good championship performer too.

[bennyg]

I forgot that Tom Parsons is added to the Brit team in the high jump.

David Greene at 400 m hurdles is added only as a travelling reserve? Officially six new names.

[peach]

Yeah, I'm glad they've gone with Turner over the 100 and Kwayke over the 200...

I notice Lee McConnell is on the BBC site over the 400m flat- I'm not sure I can see the point of that. If she is a "development" athlete at anything it's the 400m hurdles, where she has the standard for last year, and I know she said she didn't want to go and run in Osaka as she wasn't in the right form, but does that mean she should bother with her "old" event ? Hmmm...

Good to see they've gone with Christine in the flat 400. I think she needs that. Any word on when she is going to run- I heard it was this week...

[Andrea_T]

I notice Lee McConnell is on the BBC site over the 400m flat- I'm not sure I can see the point of that. If she is a "development" athlete at anything it's the 400m hurdles, where she has the standard for last year, and I know she said she didn't want to go and run in Osaka as she wasn't in the right form, but does that mean she should bother with her "old" event ? Hmmm...

Well, Lee's been in good form over 200m, is a former world finalist in the flat (and SF at the last worlds) and ran that great relay leg at the world indoors earlier this year. I think she should stop messing around with the 400mh and go back to the flat 400m anyway.

[Matt]

Seconded. Maybe her inclusion in the team is a gentle nudge from the selectors to Lee to stop this flirtation with the barriers and concentrate on making a world final again.

[peach]

I actually think she should move up to the 800m...I've always thought she looked like an 800m runner- she is much more of a "strength" than "speed" 400m runner...