2018 European Championships Glasgow/Berlin (2-12 August)

[allezfred]

Anyone know if Tim Duckworth is Jack and Vera's long lost son?

 

[allezfred]

And bam - Ireland has a finallist in the 200m!

 

[allezfred]

Lonah Chemtai Salpeter from Israel wins the 10000m. Originally from Kenya she came to Israel in 2008 as the nanny of the Kenyan ambassador.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonah_Chemtai

 

[SHARPIE]

Lonah Chemtai Salpeter from Israel wins the 10000m. Originally from Kenya she came to Israel in 2008 as the nanny of the Kenyan ambassador.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonah_Chemtai

I wondered what her background was! Thanks!

 

[allezfred]

PML that the Germans have Heike Drechslerraking the sand pit. That's just showing off.

 

[text_skate]

PML that the Germans have Heike Drechsler raking the sand pit. That's just showing off.

Please, don't butcher her name . If you want to know more about showing off , here is an article (in German, google translate should do): https://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/l...chsler-ist-jetzt-kampfrichterin/22888642.html
btw she's not the only one, we have showing off
Arthur Abele won

 

[allezfred]

Please, don't butcher her name .

I have no idea what you mean.

 

[allezfred]

Bronze for Barr!

 

[text_skate]

I have no idea what you mean.

oops, my eyesight

 

[ilovepaydays]

Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1500m!

Also, Thomas Rohler is living his best life. Apparently.

 

[allezfred]

21.89 for Dina Asher-Smith to win the 200m.

 

[allezfred]

The Ingebritsens go 1-2 in the 5000m with Jakob adding another gold. Might have gone 1-2-3 if Filip had been able to race.

 

[allezfred]

Are Russian Wendy circles a real thing or is the BBC gymnastics commentator making it up?

 

[allezfred]

Gold for Ireland!

 

[SHARPIE]

Gold for Ireland!

In what?

 

[allezfred]

In what?

Pommel horse. Freaking gymnastics. Who would have thought?

 

[Lorac]

Pommel horse. Freaking gymnastics. Who would have thought?

Well deserved - he was awesome!!

 

[Erin]

Pommel horse. Freaking gymnastics. Who would have thought?

Believe it or not, this gold isn’t that big of a surprise ever since Rhys beat Olympic champ Max Whitlock at the Commonwealth Games in April (competing for Northern Ireland there). I am impressed that he has done so well given that he has been through all kinds of drama with his training in the last few months - his coach was made redundant so he had to find a new place to train and at one point was literally training in his backyard. Apparently it didn’t affect him.

Rhys is one of the favourites for Worlds now, which I don’t think Ireland has ever even had any medal in gymnastics. It would be pretty great if he could pull it off and he is still really young so he has many years ahead of him if it doesn’t happen this year.

 

[SHARPIE]

Laura Muir

Ireland were : of bronze.

 

[allezfred]

Laura Muir

Ireland were : of bronze.

Even worse they were doing an interview with her live and they had to stop and start because she kept going off to puke. 🤮

 

[Finnice]

Armand Duplantis SWE winning the pole vault 605. He is 18.

 

[SHARPIE]

Asher- Smith with a hat trick!

 

[allezfred]

Loving the camaraderie between the British 4x100 girls!

 

[Lorac]

And the 4 x 100m men for GB also win gold - not a bad championships for team GB!!