Extra stats and WRs allow you to pull rank, despite the tardiness.

How was Crystal Palace? Didn't know you were an athletics fan.

Re. Laura - she just missed out - the qualifying cut this year was 162, having been 308 the previous year (though it was even tighter at 123 in 2009!) - as has already been mentioned, she has since tweeted that she'd have got in had there been one more withdrawal!

SMC1809 wrote:

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Extra stats and WRs allow you to pull rank, despite the tardiness.

 How was Crystal Palace? Didn't know you were an athletics fan.

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LOL I closed the forum immediately after posting and didn't realise what had happened until this morning.

For those seeing this after the other two threads have been deleted, SMC posted the draw, Peter posted the draw with rankings and then I posted what's in the first post here all within about a minute of each other, so given the varying amounts of info, we must all have started at almost exactly the same time - though I had tweeted the Brits' draws first as well (it's slightly easier going from draw/ITF to Tweetdeck column then from there to posting here than it is having the forum, the draw and ITF all open at once)

The athletics last night was great fun - lots going on, some very good athletes on show and a DC-type atmosphere. The highlights of the night were Mo Farah destroying the field over the last lap of the 3000m - the whole crowd ended up on their feet as he ran the last lap - Jenny Meadows' unexpected win in the 800m and the very hard fought (men's) long jump and (women's) triple jump competitions, not least because we were right next to the pit, just 4 rows back at the start of the home straight, having bought the tickets as soon as they went on sale last November - even those seats cost less than £25 each, which seems like an absolute bargain!

I've always preferred individual sports to team sports (hence tennis, athletics and cycling) - I like the idea that you can, at least to some extent, control your own destiny in individual sports instead of relying on people subjectively deciding whether to pick you for a team - though as the funding and WC issues always prove, even in a sport like tennis, you can't get away from subjectivity and 'politics' completely.

Sprinting was about the only regular school sport I was above average in, though if I admit to you that the woman who won the T36 (cerebral palsy, I think) 100m last night finished not far off my best time (very impressive from her, obviously!), you'll realise why I never took it too seriously!

My first memory of sport on TV as a little kid was David Hemery running in the 400m hurdles heats on the first day of athletics at the Munich Olympics (he was the defending champion at the time and ended up winning the bronze that year behind John Akii-Bua of Uganda - an interesting Olympic champion if ever there was one!), a year before I started watching Wimbledon.

I still have a magazine that came out afterwards with all the stats from those Olympics - so I was even getting into the numbers at the tender age of 6! How sad is that ... LOL In fact, if my life depended on answering a trivia question and I was allowed to choose between a tennis question and an Olympics question, I might well choose the latter! It was the Olympics that first got me interested in meeting people from other countries and learning languages too - and by a nice coincidence, the latter has come in quite handy given the crazy rules (in the sense that they just make life harder for everyone concerned) about anyone in the EEA being able to buy London 2012 tickets from any other country in the EEA.

Oops, that was a bit of a long digression  ... back to the tennis, anyone?

...so I was even getting into the numbers at the tender age of 6!

 

As a stato and athletics fan, you'll love this site - http://thepowerof10.info/, particularly the Rankings pages. My interest lies in the U13, women's discus - currently 21st in the UK.

Re T36, I'm pretty sure this is CP. We currently have the National U18 record holder over 1500m at our club.