Other 15th IAAF Athletics World Championships 22–30 August 2015

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So Saturday the World Championships in Beijing start. Great thing is its in our time zone so no stupid 3am-5am sessions. Will be interesting how much the doping issue is discussed by the commentators.

Live coverage every night on Eurosports Australia channel 511 HD or daily highlights package on SBS2 at 5.30pm EST/5,00 CST/3.30pm. Got this email from AA about 10 days ago.

https://sitedesq.imgstg.com/clubconsolepopups/dsp_email_viewer.cfm?EmailTemplateID=58867&OrgID=887

As the countdown to Beijing 2015 continues, the Athletics Australia Selectors are readying to confirm the green and gold squad for the event, with the qualification period to close only hours before the complete Australian Flame team is confirmed and announced on Monday 10 August.
Stay tuned to athletics.com.au next week for updates!

In a coup for athletics fans, the event will also enjoy unrivalled coverage on both SBS 2 and Eurosport Australia. Delivering the very best athletics has to offer to homes across the nation, the broadcast partnership between the IAAF and SBS Television will see a one-hour highlights package in prime-time on SBS 2 each night of the championships, while Eurosport Australia will feature every session live and in full.

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This page has some basic broadcast times by Eurosports and when the Oz athletes will be on
http://www.athletics.com.au/broadcast

This is Eurosports athletics page - looks like the times are GMT
http://au.eurosport.com/athletics/

IAAF world champs website
http://www.iaafbeijing2015.com/en/

Official website
http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships

Download the 2015 IAAF Statistics Handbook at
http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/Beijing-2015-Statistics-Handbook/index.htm

wiki website
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_World_Championships_in_Athletics
 
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The Oz team
http://www.athletics.com.au/News/beijing-2015-123
Boosting the team to an impressive 45 athletes, the IAAF Roll-Down process has seen national record holderRyan Gregson (Vic, 1500m), Australian 1500m champion Heidi See (NSW, 1500m) and Glasgow 2014 starterJames Nipperess (NSW, 3000m steeplechase) selected in their maiden event, while Jeff Riseley (Vic, 1500m) and Anneliese Rubie (NSW, 400m) will take to the track for a second time having already been selected to compete in the men’s 800m and women’s 4x400m relay respectively. Three athletes will also compete in exhibition masters events, bringing the Australian contingent to 48 athletes.

“The selection philosophy in 2015 was to accept all invitations extended to athletes in Australia via the IAAF Roll-Down Process and I congratulate those added to the team, or to new events, today. The experience earned through the opportunity to compete will prove invaluable as we approach the Rio 2016 Olympic Games,” Dion Russell, the Athletics Australia Chairman of Selectors, said.
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IAAF World ChampionshipsBeijing (CHN)22-30 August 2015

MEN (17)
800m: Jeff Riseley (Vic), Joshua Ralph (NSW)
1500m: Ryan Gregson (NSW), Jeff Riseley (Vic)
5000m: Collis Birmingham (Vic), Brett Robinson (Vic)
110m hurdles: Nicholas Hough (NSW)
3000m steeplechase: James Nipperess (NSW)
Long jump: Fabrice Lapierre (NSW)
High jump: Joel Baden (Vic), Brandon Starc (NSW)
Discus throw: Benn Harradine (Qld), Julian Wruck (Qld)
Javelin: Hamish Peacock (Tas)
20km walk: Chris Erickson (Vic), Dane Bird-Smith (Qld), Jared Tallent (Vic)
50km walk: Chris Erickson (Vic), Jared Tallent (Vic)
Masters 800m: Allan Cook (Vic)

WOMEN (31)
100m: Melissa Breen (ACT)
200m: Ella Nelson (NSW)
400m: Anneliese Rubie (NSW)
1500m:Melissa Duncan (Vic), Heidi See (NSW)
5000m: Emily Brichacek (ACT), Madeline Heiner (NSW), Eloise Wellings (NSW)
100m hurdles: Michelle Jenneke (NSW)
400m hurdles: Lauren Wells (ACT)
3000m steeplechase: Madeline Heiner (NSW), Genevieve LaCaze (Vic), Victoria Mitchell (NSW)
High jump: Eleanor Patterson (Vic)
Pole vault: Alana Boyd (Qld), Nina Kennedy (WA)
Long jump: Brooke Stratton (Vic)
Discus throw: Dani Samuels (NSW)
Javelin: Kim Mickle (WA), Kathryn Mitchell (Vic), Kelsey-Lee Roberts (ACT)
Marathon: Julia Degan (NSW), Sinead Diver (Vic), Sarah Klein (Vic)
20km walk: Kelly Ruddick (Vic) Beki Smith (NSW), Rachel Tallent (Vic)
4x400m relay: Jess Gulli (Vic), Morgan Mitchell (Vic), Lyndsay Pekin (WA), Anneliese Rubie (NSW), Lauren Wells (ACT)
Masters 400m: Julie Forster (NSW), Gianna Mogentale (NSW)
http://www.athletics.com.au/News/beijing-2015-123
 

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Beavis07 said:
I'm guessing Samuels and Mickle are our only realistic medal chances?
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They are our best chances but others are close to a minor medal
Jared Tallent in the walks will be a chance especially the 50km walk - Im not a fan of the walks but he is part of the team
Ben Harradine will make the final of the discuss but probably has to find an extra metre to win bronze.
Woman's high jump, nobody seems to be able to crack 2.00m apart from the Russian girl, so as Eleanor Patterson has jumped a 1.96+1.95+1.94 this year she might get a minor medal.

3 or 4 medals is pretty standard for the last 3 or 4 world champs.
 
Laughable finish to the men's marathon. The runners didn't even know where the finish line was, no doubt partly because the finishing route wasn't even the same as what was in the official guide. Parkruns are better organised than that.
 
Speaking of cheats, how long are they going to put up with running in the walks? They just had a slo mo of the winner coming down the home straight and he's cheating on every single step. And that's when he's slowed down knowing the race is won!

If they're going to persist with this event, surely it can't be that hard to use technology. Times will almost certainly be a lot slower, but the whole thing is a bit of a joke at the moment.
 
Eurosports coverage is great and being in China means our timezone means lots of dead time so good time to take an ad.

The men's 400m will be the event of the meet I think. When you get blokes running sub 44 in the first round - no quarter finals in sprints events these days just heats, 3 semi finals and final - you know its going to be a competitive final. 23 blokes have broken 45 this year with one Kerron Clemenons running the 400 sticks as well and qualifying for them instead of the 400m flat.

The first heat was 44.43 producing 3 PB and one of them was a National record. The second one first two were given a time of 43.93 and it continued on for 5 of the 6 heats having more than one runner break 45 with the 5th heat looking poorly seeded with the 3 auto qualifyers running 45.25, 45.26 and 45.53.

23 blokes had broken 45 seconds this year and 19 competed this morning, 2 couldnt come because there were already 3 others from the country who had qualified and 2 didnt make it to the start line. 18 runners broke 45 and 2 of those as mentioned above broke 44. There were 10 personal bests of which those resulted in 5 of those 10 being national record and 1 of those 5 was also a continental record, the 43.93 run by the Saudi Mashari running a national record. There were also a further 6 season bests. Of the 18 who broke 45 second barrier 15 had already done so this year, 2 Matthews of Jamaica and Bonevacia of Netherlands broke 45 for the first time and Rooney of Great Britain had already broken 45 but not in 2015, set a PB.

Two people who ran faster than 45.24, (a 45.16 and 45.17) the time by winner of the poorly seeded heat 5 winner Brit Rabah Yousif, didnt make the semis. I'm not sure if all these guys have taken too much out of their efforts, but if they improve we will have a crack of times in the 3 semis on Monday night and then final on Wednesday. I'm tipping it now Chris Brown of Bahamas to get his third 4ths to go with his 5th at world champs, his two 4ths at Olympic games and his other 4ths in relays
 

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Chinese bloke break 10 seconds for the second time. Bingtian SU was the first Asian to break 10 seconds in May this year. He is the 3rd person of non African hertitage to break 10, -
1st was Patrick Johnson of Oz mixed Irish+Aborginal heritage in 2003
2nd was.Christophe Lemaitre - French of white Euro heritage in 2010
 
pepsi said:
Gees how did he still win that after almost tripping up?
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Because it was his first step and had time to recover and the bloke is bloody fast.

Gatlin runs 9.77 - he will probably go faster in the final. As Tim Hutchings of Eurosport said did that stumble cost Bolt 2 metres and could he have made it up anyway?
 
pepsi said:
Even if Bolt doesn't stumble in the final, can't see him beating Gatlin. Funny reading the tweets on the event at the moment. So much hate out there for Gatlin.
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That's because he's not a one time cheat but a two time cheat - well two time caught cheat. He should have got a lifeban but got 8 years the second time and it was reduced to 4 on appeal and arguing assistance and the first one was wrong. Plus he was coached by Trevor Graham who dobbed himself in sending the vial of THG - the Clear that his athletes used to USADA. And as the wiki page below states plenty of Graham's athletes have tested positive.

The bold bit is complete bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Gatlin
In 2001, Gatlin was banned from international competition for two years after testing positive for amphetamines. Gatlin appealed on the grounds that the positive test had been due to medication that he had been taking since his childhood, when he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. The appeal resulted in an early reinstatement by the IAAF.[6]

On July 29, 2006 Justin Gatlin told the media that he had been informed by the USADA that he had given a positive doping test in April the same year. He claimed his innocence in the matter: "I cannot account for these results, because I have never knowingly used any banned substance or authorized anyone to administer such a substance to me."[7] It is believed that the substance that Gatlin tested positive for was "testosterone or its precursor."[8] The failed test was revealed after a relay race on April 22, 2006 in Lawrence, Kansas. The "B" sample was confirmed as positive in July.

Gatlin was coached by Trevor Graham. Among athletes Graham has coached, eight have tested positive or received bans for performance enhancing drugs.[9] After Gatlin's failed test, Graham stated in an interview that Gatlin had been sabotaged.[10] He blamed massage therapist Christopher Whetstine for rubbing a creme with testosterone onto Gatlin's buttocks without his knowledge. The therapist denied the claim, saying: "Trevor Graham is not speaking on behalf of Justin Gatlin and the story about me is not true."[11]

On August 22, 2006, Gatlin accepted an eight-year ban from track and field, avoiding a lifetime ban in exchange for his cooperation with the doping authorities, and because of the "exceptional circumstances" surrounding his first positive drug test. Gatlin appealed against the ban; an arbitration panel reduced it to four years at a hearing in December 2007.[12][13] His 9.77 s performance, set in May 2006, was annulled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Gatlin
 
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