Beijing 2015 – Highs and Lows

There were so many highlights at the World Athletics Championship both on and off the track.

My highlights would include

• Usain Bolt.
• Jamaica’s medal haul of 12.
• 400m men’s where 3 men went well under 44 seconds.
• Women’s long jump: 3 going over the 7 metre mark.
• Christian Taylor’s awesome 18.21m in the triple jump.
• Aries Merritt’s bronze in the 110m hurdles. Merritt’s kidney is at 20% capacity. He cannot have protein or potassium and yet delivered.
• Jessica Ennis-Hill returns from having her first child and delivers gold.
• Women’s 200m with Dafne Schippers & Elaine Thompson going at near flo-jo speed
• Super slow motion technology used on the 200m male sprinters coming round the turn. The epitome of poetry in motion.
• IAAF commentators Katharine Merry, Steve Ovett, Gary Samuels & Wayne Walker.
• Kayon Raynor’s reports from Beijing for radio & tv in Jamaica.
• Social media updates and photos by the athletes.
• Breast cancer survivor Novlene Williams-Mills anchoring Jamaica’s 4×400 relay team to victory.

Disappointments

• British media’s “evil” tag on Justin Gatlin.
• US media’s little to no daily coverage continues to be a letdown for such a major sport.
• The likes of Sally Pearson, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Adam Gemili not able to compete due to injury.
• Social media attacks on some of the athletes who were not victorious.
• Some of my predictions. I’ll stick to the day job

Pole Vault winner Cuba’s Yarisley Silva

Advertisements