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The British heptathlete Holly Mills will turn down a place in the Worlds if she qualifies to focus on the Commonwealth and Europeans.

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Yes behind Jackson, Jarrett, Pozzi and Sharman. Overtakes the likes of former European Champ Andy Turner and '87 World medallist Jon Ridgeon.
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Thanks. Right era wrong guy....

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While it is a thing in the UK, those athletes who are at universities who are already at international level tend to either not compete in it or very...

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Didn't Billy Mullins make the 1980 US Olympic Team that wasn't?...

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I agree it is far from perfect and can distort things with smaller countries. For example, the English county I live in has a population that is only...

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They just add weight!...

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The UK has only 6 from a population of 67m which is 11.167m per decathlete.

Meanwhile, Estonia has a population of 1.3m and, if you include...

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I've seen it happen more than once in a single competition at low-level club meets in the UK, where some guys are struggling to get over (I won't say...

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I find that athletes in their first race or 2 of the season have a tendency to fade in the last quarter of the race and this is what happened here. That...

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Winds similar but drier and much warmer in Doha....

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In the UK, we would tend to use "multi-eventer" for a specific athlete. The competitions themselves are grouped as "combined events"....

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I think that the only sequence of four consecutive Olympics taking place on 4 different continents would be from 1988 to 2000 (Asia-Europe-North America-Oceania)....

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Marie-Jose Perec?

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I think it was 5.78? He famously made a gesture towards the Russian spectators who had jeered and whistled him. I think this went down well with many...

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I would say that once she was allowed to run in the 2nd heat you really can't DQ her. One compromise would be to advance a runner from that 2nd heat who...

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I make it that athlete F was born in 1895 and athlete P in 1939.

Athlete P competed at 3 Olympics and won a set of medals with a gold medal...

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If $100m is 100 million dollars then surely 100m is just 100 million! ...

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For me the main problem with wind readings in the 200 is that it only measures the wind in the straight and the angle of the wind can make a major difference....

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Of those ahead of Scantling, Damian Warner is the only one not to have held the World Record....