Nothing better than a good pole vault contest is there
Hella impressive from Duplantis

He’s so good! Really happy for him, the TV and I both really cheered for him when he cleared it.

Really enjoy watching the lower placed runners leg it for the marginally higher prize money :smiley:

He’s nuts. So much space over the bar

Handsome Swedish pole vault child is good huh

Speed on that final leg

Love those trumpet lads

Dina Asher Smith just seems like a lovely lovely person

‘Bolt-esque’

really glad they have Johnson there to gently burst every GB hype bubble

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Still so much hype though. Eurosport is so much better for coverage.

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Yeah. Quite like some of the BBC commentators but they spend way too much time talking shite in the studio.
Think athletics is the only sport I follow where I do tend to root for the British athletes tho, mainly cos of familiarity and there being so many competitors at a meet that it’s impossible to know all of them

Great bunch of championships these. Feels a bit like the olympics

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Wonder what’s happened to the Czech relay team?

I have a massive soft spot for some of the commentators, and think that Irvine and Roslin do a great job of presenting, but bin off everyone other than Johnson in the studio pls, and Paula Radcliffe and Steve Cram

Guliyev on the final leg there. Mad speed

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Really wanna see that split time, looked insane

Obviously all on the sauce, but British athletes are at least likeable compared with the cyclists/footballers/tennis players etc

‘Fringe’ sports tend to have way more personality involved. you’d have to have a personality to be a hammer thrower or pole vaulter

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