Off Topic BBC coverage world athletics.

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Great run by the women's 4x400m relay team to take silver.

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Great run by the women's 4x400m relay team to take silver.

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And by the men's team for Bronze. Six medals, in the 6 to 8 target range, and about 6 fourth places, all by young and improving athletes. Not bad in the end, very enjoyable tournament, despite my mithering about cheats, and as always we put on a very good, well organised show. Hated that ****ing hedgehog though.
 
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And by the men's team for Bronze. Six medals, in the 6 to 8 target range, and about 6 fourth places, all by young and improving athletes. Not bad in the end, very enjoyable tournament, despite my mithering about cheats, and as always we put on a very good, well organised show. Hated that ****ing hedgehog though.

What have you got against Hero?
 
And by the men's team for Bronze. Six medals, in the 6 to 8 target range, and about 6 fourth places, all by young and improving athletes. Not bad in the end, very enjoyable tournament, despite my mithering about cheats, and as always we put on a very good, well organised show. Hated that ****ing hedgehog though.

The hedgehog was embarrassing. Here's an interesting article on drugs cheats by Oliver Holt ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-4785414/Why-athletics-lost-drugs-battle.html
 
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Now you've made me feel dirty, agreeing with an article in the Daily Mail.

Why didn't Bolt just answer 'yes, the sport is cleaner and I'm older and injured, that's why the times are slower'?

Please accept my apologies.
 
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Seems Bolt was out on the piss all night a few days before the relay. Explains a lot!
Not sure this year's Bolt would have closed that gap anyway.
 
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Okay I'm back.....but bearing in mind I have been driving the IAAF around all day I am xonked.
I have driven Brendan Foster around this week and to say the man is an awesome legend is to belittle him..He is awesome....I absolutely adore the man..... never have I met such an honest and straightforward guy.

I drove Dwight Phillips ( look him up) he too is awesome....No for an American he is amazing.

I drove the Jamaican team around...and nothing that happened to any Jamacian athlete, man or woman, was a surprise...I wish I put money on it!!

This month has been more awesome than even the Olympics.
I am so privileged...

Did I also say I drove around Les Ferdinand cousin too
Apparently he too is lovely!!
 
Okay I'm back.....but bearing in mind I have been driving the IAAF around all day I am xonked.
I have driven Brendan Foster around this week and to say the man is an awesome legend is to belittle him..He is awesome....I absolutely adore the man..... never have I met such an honest and straightforward guy.

I drove Dwight Phillips ( look him up) he too is awesome....No for an American he is amazing.

I drove the Jamaican team around...and nothing that happened to any Jamacian athlete, man or woman, was a surprise...I wish I put money on it!!

This month has been more awesome than even the Olympics.
I am so privileged...

Did I also say I drove around Les Ferdinand cousin too
Apparently he too is lovely!!
You were part of a great show Beth, thank you!
 
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Okay I'm back.....but bearing in mind I have been driving the IAAF around all day I am xonked.
I have driven Brendan Foster around this week and to say the man is an awesome legend is to belittle him..He is awesome....I absolutely adore the man..... never have I met such an honest and straightforward guy.

I drove Dwight Phillips ( look him up) he too is awesome....No for an American he is amazing.

I drove the Jamaican team around...and nothing that happened to any Jamacian athlete, man or woman, was a surprise...I wish I put money on it!!

This month has been more awesome than even the Olympics.
I am so privileged...

Did I also say I drove around Les Ferdinand cousin too
Apparently he too is lovely!!

What kind of motor did you get to do all that in Beth?
 
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Okay I'm back.....but bearing in mind I have been driving the IAAF around all day I am xonked.
I have driven Brendan Foster around this week and to say the man is an awesome legend is to belittle him..He is awesome....I absolutely adore the man..... never have I met such an honest and straightforward guy.

I drove Dwight Phillips ( look him up) he too is awesome....No for an American he is amazing.

I drove the Jamaican team around...and nothing that happened to any Jamacian athlete, man or woman, was a surprise...I wish I put money on it!!

This month has been more awesome than even the Olympics.
I am so privileged...

Did I also say I drove around Les Ferdinand cousin too
Apparently he too is lovely!!

Not Sean Dwight Phillips? :)
 
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What kind of motor did you get to do all that in Beth?
Toyota was the sponsor so they were all Toyotas, all cars were brand new hybrids. We had 7 and 8 seater diesel Proace vans but I didn't drive them ...I claimed to be too short.
So I drove either an Auris, CHR or Rav4. ...We had more trouble with CHR with reliability..and the space in the back and the small "styled" windows made it an unpleasant ride for the back passengers. RAV4 was a nice car, easy drive, high up....My favourite was the Auris estate.....lovely car, wonderful on petrol, very economical in town driving...as it is always generating its own electrical power. Smooth, quiet, spacious...the sensors make parking a doodle (we were staging in a cramped car park ( it was not all glamour!!! ) so on a daily basis I had to back into small areas in front of bored, critical other drivers and controllers. It was a test of nerve...but in the Auris as said it was a doodle.

So much so...for the week my car was stolen ( did I mention the first day I was away my car was stolen from my driveway...the toerags broke into the house to get the keys. It has been found...but still haven't got it back from the police) anyway the Auris was so impressive that, even though I have only ever had Ford's...we went and looked at buying an Auris..cannot give it a better recommendation than that.