Surfice to say when there's a major athletics championship on tv my entire day,week,weekend gets built around it this weekends IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul Turkey was no different.Granted coverage was sparse, an hour on Friday followed by two hours on Saturday and Sunday but I'll take little coverage over no coverage.....but can Universal Sports please get rid of Paul Sunderland he's crap and ruins otherwise great coverage of track and field.
In an Olympic year an Indoor World C'ship isn't going to reveal too much, a lot of top class athletes chose to side step Istanbul and while I mean no disrespect to any of the winners this weekend comes years end it'll be the Olympic champions that'll be vetted and remembered.
Three of my favourite female athletes competed this weekend Jessica Ennis,Derval O Rourke and Ivet Lalova, "Issie" made a welcome return in the women's pole vault and I can add another in a long line of Russian athletes to make my favourites list Darya Klishina,she may of only finished 4th in the long jump but goddamn if she didn't make an impression on yours truly, I will be following her progress in the Diamond League this summer and at the London Olympics.
On the mens side I was obviously disappointed to see Mo Farah finish 4th in the 3,000m thought it's hard not to give mad props and respect to Bernard Lagat for his win at 37 years,Andrew Osagie won bronze in the 800m and could be the first Brit over 800m to make a dent in the upper echelon of world athletics since the "golden era" of Coe and Ovett.
W/ the indoor season now drawing to a close and the Summer Olympics getting closer the season is about to heat up.
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