For the last week or so, we’ve focused exclusively on the IAAF World Champs in Osaka. But over the past few days, two very sad events in soccer have also made headlines. First, the tragic death of a Spanish International footballer, Antonio Puerta, aged just 22 (see news article here). This was followed only days […]
Archives for August 2007
IAAF World Champs report – Men’s 1500m
OK, so having said that I would be off-line until Friday, I managed (fortuitously) to catch one lone race out of today’s action from Osaka. While standing at a bus station waiting for an eternally non-arriving bus, Ladbrokes, which happened to be directly behind the stop, was broadcasting the racing. And in my 10 minutes […]
IAAF World Champs – a brief break from the action
Just a quick post to let you know that I’ll be travelling for the next 3 days, so unfortunately (for me, that is), I probably won’t be watching any of the racing from Osaka. At least not live, anyway…So until Friday, we unfortunately won’t be bringing any analysis of the races, which is a shame. […]
IAAF World Champs – Day 3 insights and analysis
In another post, we looked extensively at the Men’s 10000m final, because it was such a good race, from a spectator point of view, but also because it was so intruiging for physiological reasons. Here, we look at the rest of Day 3’s action… [headline h=”2″]Women’s 3000m Steeplechase[/headline] As predicted, the Russians dominated the 3000m […]
IAAF World Champs – The Men’s 10000m Final
We admit bias on this one, because our focus on The Science of Sport does tend to drift towards the endurance activities, but this one couldn’t have escaped our attention – today, the 3rd day of the IAAF World Champs, brought a great 10 000m race, a race that was so good, and interesting, that […]