The 2022 Athletics Thread

[ilovepaydays]

It’s another year in track & field!

Meanwhile, we have this updated news about the Alberto Salazar sexual assault allegations.

Here’s a snapshot on Twitter, in case you’re getting blocked by The NY Times paywall.

Ugh - why are coaches allowed to give their athletes massages? They have sports medicine professionals and licensed massage therapists for a reason.

 

[ilovepaydays]

WORLD RECORD ALERT!!!

Jakob Ingebrigtsen , Men’s Indoor 1500m - 3:30.60!!!!!!

 

[allezfred]

Doping news:

Blessing Okagbare gets 10 year suspension.

Sprinter Okagbare banned for 10 years - BBC Sport

Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare is given a 10-year ban for "multiple breaches of anti-doping rules".

www.bbc.com

CJ Ujah doping ban causes GB to lose Tokyo 2020 4x100 silver.

GB lose medal over Ujah doping violation - BBC Sport

Great Britain are stripped of the silver medal won in the 4x100 metre relay at the Tokyo Olympics because of CJ Ujah's doping violation.

www.bbc.com

 

[allezfred]

Following up on the Okagbare ban, her training environment sounds toxic too.

The medal factory tainted by doping, abuse and ‘drama’

A blanket of light cloud hangs over the brilliant blue track that is home to the most prominent sprint group in world athletics, but a thunderbolt is about to s

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[ilovepaydays]

WORLD RECORD!!!

Mondo Duplantis , Men’s indoor pole vault - 6.19m!!!

 

[Sylvia]

WORLD RECORD!!!

Mondo Duplantis , Men’s indoor pole vault - 6.19m!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500966244232704001

 

[ilovepaydays]

WORLD RECORD ALERT!!!

Yulimar Rojas , women’s indoor triple jump - 15.74m!!!!!

They are going to need to build a longer sand pit for her for outdoors. It wouldn’t surprised me at all if she jumps 16 meters!!!

 

[ilovepaydays]

Well, that didn’t take long!

WORLD RECORD ALERT!!!

Mondo Duplantis , men’s indoor pole vault - 6.20m!!!!

 

[allezfred]

This

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540720005855076353

 

[ilovepaydays]

WORLD RECORD ALERT!!!

Sydney McLaughlin , women’s 400m hurdles - 51.41!!!!

Good gawd. Assuming she wins the 400m hurdles world title next month, I bet she then goes for the flat 400m word record.

 

[Vagabond]

Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child

The Olympic star says the name Mohamed Farah was given to him by a stranger who flew him to the UK.

www.bbc.com

Shocking and saddening.

It would be terrible if he were stripped of his citizenship.

 

[millyskate]

He won't be stripped of his citizenship but it's a very sad story.

 

[allezfred]

Just when you thought Mo Farah’s story couldn’t get more incredible.

 

[allezfred]

The 2022 World Championships in Athletics will start later this week in Eugene, Oregon, USA!!!

Official World Athletics WCH 22 website

TV viewing schedule (USA) - I believe that Peacock will be streaming everything (including opening rounds) live.

Event schedule - I think results will be posted here as well.

Who else is getting excited? Which events and athletes are you the most looking forward to watch?

I live on the East Coast so I’m glad that I will have plenty of time to work out and have dinner before watching it each night (~8:00-11:30pm EST).

Goodbye sleep for me.

 

[Asli]

Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child

The Olympic star says the name Mohamed Farah was given to him by a stranger who flew him to the UK.

www.bbc.com

Shocking and saddening.

It would be terrible if he were stripped of his citizenship.

Basically he was brought to the UK as a slave!

It's somewhat baffling how charges weren't brought at the time against the people who trafficked him and used a ten-year-old as an unpaid domestic servant. Maybe his teacher and social services didn't want to risk Mo Farah being sent out of the country though.

What an incredible person he must be to turn his life around like this!

 

[Finnice]

Goodbye sleep for me.

Same here.

 

[allezfred]

Seems like lots of athletes are having visa issues. Not a good look for the organisers.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1547310932447023105

 

[Asli]

The documentary called "The Real Mo Farah" is now on BBC iplayer. I'm absolutely gobsmacked! He has had to live with this big secret and so many questions on his mind. He has an identical twin - someone who looks exactly like Sir Mo lives in Somaliland.

It's a relief to see that after his rotten start to life, his path crossed many good people.

He always comes across as a very warm and humane person and never more so than when telling the story of his life.

 

[allezfred]

Free Willy?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1554781811879907331

 

[allezfred]

This is disturbing.

Toni Minichiello banned for life by UK Athletics over sexually inappropriate conduct

Toni Minichiello, the coach who guided Jessica Ennis-Hill to gold at the London 2012 Olympics, has been banned for life from training athletes

www.theguardian.com

 

[millyskate]

This is disturbing.

Toni Minichiello banned for life by UK Athletics over sexually inappropriate conduct

Toni Minichiello, the coach who guided Jessica Ennis-Hill to gold at the London 2012 Olympics, has been banned for life from training athletes

www.theguardian.com

Indeed, disturbing read. These allegations are fairly recent, it begs belief that some men still feel free to behave in that way.

 

[ilovepaydays]

HOLY $&@!?%#! Look at what happened at the Berlin Marathon this morning!

WORLD RECORD ALERT!!!

Eliud Kipchoge , men’s marathon - 2:01:09!!!



Good gawd. It’s like Kipchoge is a marathon computer and every race is an upgrade.