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Lots of Olympians competing this weekend:

- ADELAIDE - World Athletics Continental Tour meet - featuring Australia's best and a group of overseas athletes - broadcast live on 7plus.com.au from about 6.30pm AEST Saturday.

- DOHA - The Swimming section of the World Aquatics Championships commences at 5.30pm AEST on Sunday. Many stars missing from this meet but Australia's Cam McEvoy & Shayna Jack are two of the medal favourites. Heats & Finals (about 3am) streaming live on 9now.com.au
 
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Lots of Olympians competing this weekend:

- ADELAIDE - World Athletics Continental Tour meet - featuring Australia's best and a group of overseas athletes - broadcast live on 7plus.com.au from about 6.30pm AEST Saturday.

- DOHA - The Swimming section of the World Aquatics Championships commences at 5.30pm AEST on Sunday. Many stars missing from this meet but Australia's Cam McEvoy & Shayna Jack are two of the medal favourites. Heats & Finals (about 3am) streaming live on 9now.com.au
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Is this long course or short course? Had a quick look at FINA and wiki and they don't say which way it is

First time there has been an aquatics world championship in an Olympic year.
 

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Another gold to Australia just gained in Doha with a fantastic relay race.

Even before the pool swimming starts we have 2 gold, 3 silver & a bronze courtesy our divers and open-water swimmers.

GOLD Alysha Koloi (1M Springboard)
SILVER Annabel Smith/Maddison Keeney (3M Synchro)
SILVER Shixin Li (1M Springboard)
BRONZE Rousseau/Li/Keeney/Hains (3M/10M Team)

GOLD Gubecka/Johnson/Sloman/Lee (Mixed Relay)
SILVER Chelsea Gubecka (5k Open Water)
 
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It's long course, but as I said lots of swimmers (Titmus, McKeown, Ledecky) missing due to its' closeness to trials & Paris.
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I assume other major swimmers from around the world are giving a miss as well. Record books might be slightly tainted. Bit like guys who got to played tests whilst Packer cricket was on and the best players were playing in his comp.

And the bastards involved at ICC level, wont even give WSC test matches first class status.
 
AdelaideGT said:
Another gold to Australia just gained in Doha with a fantastic relay race.

Even before the pool swimming starts we have 2 gold, 3 silver & a bronze courtesy our divers and open-water swimmers.

GOLD Alysha Koloi (1M Springboard)
SILVER Annabel Smith/Maddison Keeney (3M Synchro)
SILVER Shixin Li (1M Springboard)
BRONZE Rousseau/Li/Keeney/Hains (3M/10M Team)

GOLD Gubecka/Johnson/Sloman/Lee (Mixed Relay)
SILVER Chelsea Gubecka (5k Open Water)
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Fantastic results, but only the bolded event is an Olympic event in Paris.

I wish high diving off 25m or so for men and 20m for women was an Olympic event. Its a bloody long way down. Aussie Rhiannan Iffland has won the last 3 world championships. She is one of the favourites to win again.

Here is SwimSwam's page for all disciplines at the World Aquatics Championships not just the swimming with preview and review articles and other links.

2024 World Aquatics Championships

Full coverage of 2024 World Aquatics Championships on SwimSwam. 2024 World Aquatics Championships results, recaps and video.
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The bloody 9 Now app keeps dropping in and out.
 
What the heck is going on with the Gabba and the stadiums for 2032? It’s honestly starting to sound like a big mess. Athletics to possibly be held at Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre?? I’m worried it’s going to be extremely flat after Paris and LA getting the prior Olympics.
 
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Athletics to possibly be held at Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre?? I’m worried it’s going to be extremely flat after Paris and LA getting the prior Olympics.
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The athletics at LA will be held in a stadium built half a century before QSAC.
 

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What the heck is going on with the Gabba and the stadiums for 2032? It’s honestly starting to sound like a big mess. Athletics to possibly be held at Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre?? I’m worried it’s going to be extremely flat after Paris and LA getting the prior Olympics.
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I will put something in the Brisbane Olympics thread later tonight or tomorrow with a bit of a time line, but the Gabba was always a poor choice.

However because Coates got approval from the IOC that an 80,000 seat stadium like in Paris and LA have for athletics and ceremonies, wont be needed in 2032, and that prior to the Qld government's formal bid, they had locked in the $6bil Cross River Rail project with 6km of tunnels under the CBD in a 10km line that links a new Albert St station in the CBD and goes under the Brisbane River to the new Woolloongabba station, construction started in 2020, will be finished in 2026, and a seperate light rail project connecting to the new Woolloongabba station, the Qld government said OK, lets upgrade the Gabba for $1bil rather than build an 80,000 seater at Albion, 3 train stations NE of Central on a greenfield site.

I've never seen a proper cost for the Albion site stadium, but it was supposed to be about $1bil the same as the Perth stadium. Perth Stadium overall cost was $1.6bil, because that includes the cost for the railway infrastructure of over $300mil and some of the remediation works relating to the Burswood dump, the bridge, some roadworks etc, but the private entity that built and financed the actual stadium paid about $1bil to construct the actual stadium.

The Albion site includes the Albion Paceway (ie harness racing) and across the main road, there is Alan Border Field and a couple of decent sized parks that could be used to build a warm up track.

But because the Gabba is landlocked around 4 major roads, the knockdown and construction costs are enormous and a blow out from $1bil to $2.7bil is no real surprise.

Stuffed if I know where the hell they are going to build the warm up track near the Gabba, there is no free land or parkland to build it. Maybe 5km away.

Palaszcauk made herself Olympics Minister. New premier Steven Miles knew about the issues at the Gabba and given the Andrews government ditched the Comm Games because of cost blow outs, and stupid idea to build all new stadiums, when Melbourne already had most of them, he appointed his Minister for State Development and Infrastructure Grace Grace as the new Olympics minister.

Then there is the issue that cricket and AFL will have to find a new home for 4 years and who will pay for that?? The proposed stadium for AFL and cricket had a capacity of only 20,000 for the 4 years and no agreement who will pay how much each.

So new premier Miles can cut the umbilical cord Palaszczuk had to the Olympics,

He doesn't have one, and he can change the main stadium if the 60 day review says there is a better option. Coates would have known that it was a dude idea with such a huge blow out, but he knew that once Palaszckuk was gone, he could come out and bag the Gabba redevelopment option and give the Qld government scope to make a change with less political fall out.

So I expect either the original Albion option to be recommended, but a cheaper 60,000 seater than an 80,000 seater or the cheaper short term option of redeveloping the QEII stadium at Mt Gravatt which is now called Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre (QSAC) and the suburb renamed to Nathan.

They could use the London Olympics meccano set option of the 60,000 seater for the Olympics that is dismantled and a 20,000 seater left permanently as the home of athletics in Qld and maybe the home of athletics in Oz like London was supposed to be. But UK governments intervened and the 80,000 seater is now a 60,000 seater with moving seats at the ground tier, and West Ham use it for its home ground and occasionally a big athletics meet is held there. And there is a warm track there already in the area..

QSAC is 12 km south of Brisbane and has good bus network transport, but no rail stations anywhere close by.

Albion is a better option for a new stadium over QSAC, but it would mean the death of the Gabba. A 60,000 seater is too big for the needs of AFL and cricket now, but 20 years time it could be very well the right size if Brisbane population gets to 4.2mil as projected by 2050.


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Impressive win by 17yo prodigy Cam Myers at the NSW Milers 1500m tonight.

1500 Myers 3-33.30 Hunt 3-33.64 Wightman GBR 3-34.31 Edwards 3-34.42 Davies 3-35.14 Whitely 3-36.19 Keen GBR 3-36.43 Robinson IRE 3-36.57 Tatezawa JPN 3-37.13 Thomas 3-37.96

Another Olympic qualifier for Cam, Hunt becomes #10 Aussie of all-time but just misses the Paris mark. 6 of the top finishers above set new PBs.

Only just 8 weeks of the year gone and the Aussie 1500m list is pretty impressive:

3-33.30 Myers (U20)
3-33.64 Hunt
3-34.42 Edwards
3-35.14 Davies
3-36.19 Whitely
3-36.37 McSweyn
3-36.52 Anstey
3-37.34 Spencer
3-37.77 J Thomas
3-37.96 B Thomas
3-38.77 Ramsden
3-39.39 Lewis
 
How good is Cam Meyers?? This video gives a good insight and compares his times to Ingebrigsten's when he was 16 years old and 17 years old. Cam turns 18 on the 9th June

It could be a great ride over the next 12 to 15 years, but history has shown not all dominate youth age and junior age athletes have a linear rise in their output as they get older. There are plateaus and injuries, new athletes come onto the block and just plain bad luck that stops them from being dominate open aged athletes like they were at youth and junior level.

400m runner Darren Clarke was a classic example of oh so close and yet so far as a under age Australian prodigy who didn't quiet get there as an open age athlete.

Darren missed out on a bronze medal as an 18 year old at LA by 0.04 after being in front at the 300m mark. Missed out on bronze in Seoul by 0.46, with a time of 44.55. His semi final time of 44.38 is still the Oz and Oceania record and would have got him silver in 2008 Beijing 400m. Missed out on bronze in the 4x400m relay at LA by 0.38, the time 2.59.70 is still the Australian and Oceania record.

Over the last 30 years its been mainly the women track athletes have been able to convert their youth/junior dominance to open age gold - Cathy, Sally, Jana on the track and discuss thrower Dani Samuels was youth, junior and open age champion and got a 4th in Rio aged 28, and high jumper Eleanor Patterson was a world youth champion and won 2022 Eugene world championships.






 
This one is for you Drummond. I know you are a big Femke Bol fan, but I think a bigger fan of fellow Dutchie, Dafne Schippers.

The Total Running Production guys who did the Cam Meyers video above, a few days earlier did one on Bol as for the second time she has broken the 400m indoor world record.

In 2023 she broke Czechoslovakian Jamlia Kratochvílova's 1982 record and at 41 years was the longest standing athletics world record at the time, either indoor or outdoor.

Unfortunately I don't think I will still be on this planet when a female breaks the outdoor 400m record of 47.60 by East German Marita Koch ran at a World Cup meet in Canberra in October 1985. The only record longer than that is Kratochvílova's July 1983 800m world record of 1.53.28 a few weeks before the first world championships, but both these women were products of the drug fuelled eastern bloc sports programs.

Now I don't keep that close an eye on indoor world champs and meets but SBS have come to the party with this Friday 1st March at 8.25 SA time so 8.55pm AEDST will start their coverage of the 2024 Glasgow world indoor championships.

Most sessions go from 8.20pm to 12.30am morning session and 5.30am to 8.30am evening sessions SA times, for the 3 day meet. See timetable at:

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Timetable | Glasgow 24 | World Athletics Indoor Championships

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But this videos gives a good idea of Bol's current form and discusses Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's history and form and the upcoming battles in Paris.


 
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The World Indoor schedule is pretty Aussie-friendly for those who want to see our small team in action:

FRI 01 MARCH
2240 W 800m heats - Catriona Bisset

SAT 02 MARCH
0605 W 1500m heats - Linden Hall
0641 W HJ FINAL - Nicola Olyslagers/Eleanor Patterson
2310 W 800m SF - Catriona Bisset?

SUN 03 MARCH
0715 W 3000m FINAL - Jessica Hull
2125 W 60mH Heats - Michelle Jenneke

MON 04 MARCH
0600 M PV Final - Kurtis Marschall
0640 W 60mH SF - Michelle Jenneke?
0800 W 60mH FINAL - Michelle Jenneke?
0820 W 800m FINAL - Catriona Bisset?
0845 W 1500m FINAL - Linden Hall?

All times AEDT

Best chances of medals are probably Nicola Olyslagers and Jess Hull. Kurt Marschall and Eleanor Patterson have been inconsistent so far this year, so medals would be a pleasant surprise.

Trina Bisset and Linden Hall have been a little below their usual good form in Australia but could show significant improvements in Glasgow. They both have solid experience running on the boards indoors - finishing 5th and 6th respectively in the last (2022) edition.

Anything better than a semi-final for Shelly Jenneke would be a great result for her.

Jenny Meadows will probably be one of the commentators which will greatly annoy me during the 800m. She always says 'Cat-tree-owner Bee-say' instead of 'Katrina Bis-ett'... lol
 
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A bit disappointing that Eleanor Patterson has pulled out of the meet, but she hasn't seemed in great form in her short indoor campaign.


Diving World Cup in Montreal - featuring plenty of Aussies - is also on this weekend -
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The latest schedule information for World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2024 - Canada.
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This should be out best ever Olympics mainly due to dominance in the pool. We are favourites to win 9 gold in swimming and real chances in another 4.
 
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This should be out best ever Olympics
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The Gracenote mob who put out a regular list of their medal predictions for the Olympics dropped us one spot down on their medal tally yesterday with Italy moving up. We're in 7th I think it was.
 
Good run by Australia's first competitor Trina Bisset. Led almost the whole way to keep herself out of the pushing and shoving.

Comes home a comfortable 2nd in her fastest time this year.
 
AdelaideGT said:
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Relive the action from Glasgow! Geo-restrictions may apply. Check how to follow in your country <a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-championships/glasgow24/where-to-watch">here</a>
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You need to register - but no VPN required - and you will see every minute of the women's High Jump featuring our Nicola Olyslagers.

"COME ON!!!!!"
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Isn't it on sbs this morning
 
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