The World Championships start on August the 15th and Britain are sending arguably their strongest squad since the days of Christie, Jackson, Gunnell etc.

Heres the British squad in full with genuine medal prospects in red

MEN
100 METRES: Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar, Dwain Chambers
110 METRES HURDLES: Andy Turner, Gianni Franks
200 METRES: Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers, Toby Sandeman
400 METRES: Martyn Rooney, Rob Tobin, Michael Bingham
400 METRES HURDLES: Rhys Williams, David Greene
800 METRES: Michael Rimmer
1500 METRES: Andy Baddeley, Tom Lancashire
5000 METRES: Mo Farah
4x100 RELAY: Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar, Marlon Devonish, Harry Akines-Aryeetey, Craig Pickering, Ricki Fifton
4x400 RELAY: Martyn Rooney, Rob Tobin, Michael Bingham, Chris Clarke, Nigel Levine, Conrad Williams
LONG JUMP: Greg Rutherford, Chris Tomlinson
TRIPLE JUMP: Phillips Idowu, Nathan Douglas, Larry Achike
HIGH JUMP: Germaine Mason
POLE VAULT: Steve Lewis, Luke Cutts
SHOT PUT: Carl Myerscough
JAVELIN: Mervyn Luckwell

WOMEN
110 METRES HURDLES: Jessica Ennis, Sarah Claxton
200 METRES: Emily Freeman
400 METRES: Christine Ohuruogu, Nicola Sanders
400 METRES HURDLES: Eilidh Child, Perri Shakes-Drayton
800 METRES: Jemma Simpson, Marilyn Okoro, Jenny Meadows
1500 METRES: Lisa Dobriskey, Stephanie Twell, Charlene Thomas
3000 METRES STEEPLECHASE: Helen Clitheroe
POLE VAULT: Kate Dennison
JAVELIN: Goldie Sayers
HAMMER: Zoe Derham
HEPTATHLON: Jessica Ennis, Louise Hazel
4x100 RELAY: Joice Maduaka, Laura Turner, Anyika Onoura, Emma Ania, Jeanette Kwakye, Montell Douglas
4x400 RELAY: Christine Ohuruogu, Nicola Sanders, Perri Shakes-Drayton, Lee McConnell, Marilyn Okoro, Vicky Barr
20 KILOMETRE WALK: Joanna Jackson
MARATHON: Paula Radcliffe

Looking good for Britain after the first day, Jessica Ennis is a near cert for a gold medal as she is over 300 points clear after the first day in the Heptathlon

Also here's the draw for the mens 100m semis

SEMI FINAL 1

1. Marial Mbandjock (France)
2. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (Norway)
3. Darvis Patton (USA)
4. Daniel Bailey (Antigua & Barbuda)
5. Michael Rodgers (USA)
6. Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
7. Tyrone Edgar (Great Britain)
8. Marc Burns (Trinidad & Tobago)

SEMI FINAL 2

1. Gerald Phiri (Zambia)
2. Monza Edwards (USA)
3. Richard Thompson (Trinidad & Tobago)
4. Asafa Powell (Jamaica)
5. Tyson Gay (USA)
6. Dwain Chambers (Great Britain)
7. Michael Frater (Jamaica)
8. Naoki Tsukahara (Japan)

Fuck me


How much faster can Bolt go??????????????????????????????????????????

What a run!

Not much.

they were sying on bbc 2 he reckons he can go to 9.4

Did anyone notice in that race, it looked like he eased up with 15-20 meteres to go, he can deffo go below 9.5 seconds

Oh and while that was going on, a GOLD medal for old blighty

I'm telling you that in 10-20 years time the 100m will be run inside 7 seconds...

By a greyhound?

In 22 years since Ben Johnson the cheating, Canadian version of Chris Eubank set the record at 9.83 it has come down a quarter of one second to 9.58.

Pro-rata if "inside 7 seconds" means 6.99 seconds then it won't happen until 2237 but if you meant 7.99 seconds then we'll only have to wait until 2149.

I cannot wait.

The only person who will break Bolt's record in the next 20 years is Bolt himself. He's not human, frankly.

I was in the pub to watch this, at about 80m I said he's gonna break the record. The sound of shocked people when he clocked 9.58... that link you put up is really interesting - it took 12 years for anyone to set a better legal time than Ben Johnson's 9.83 (Maurice Green with 9.79 in 1999), then three years to take a hundredth of a second off that time (Tim Montgomery with 9.78), three years for another hundredth of a second (Asafa Powell), then Powell himself who took the record down to 9.74 two years afterwards. Roughly speaking, all of the changes to the record since Jim Hines in 1968 have been incremental. Bolt has taken 0.16 seconds off the record in two years, incredible stuff.

I saw him running the 200m at Lausanne about 6 weeks ago. Ran the best time of the year, in the middle of a thunderstorm when it was pissing buckets.

Thats a bit OTT mate, the progression of how the world records have gone suggests otherwise

August 2009 - Usain Bolt - 9.58 - Berlin (World Championships)
August 2008 - Usain Bolt - 9.69 - Beijing (Olympics)
May 2008 - Usain Bolt - 9.72 - New York
September 2007 - Asafa Powell - 9.74 - Rieti
June 2006 - Asafa Powell - 9.77 - Gateshead

Now that is recently, Powell's world record broke one that stood for 7 years, it took more than 20 years to cut the world record by a similar amount before that

@ Woods cursing into his arm.

@ you posting on the wrong thread

bolt will run into the 9.4's phonomenal run, and looking forward to the 200m

I've got a funny feeling he'll break the 19 seconds barrier in the 200m

The favourite for the womens 800m has been withdrawn because she is to have a gender test!



Apparently it takes a few weeks for the results...

There's been rumours about "her" for months apparently, never thought it would get as far as the IAAF asking for a gender test

if indeed she has pulled out, great chance for either or both brits in the final (Meadows & Okoro) to get in the medals

Well "she" won it, and easily too

Meadows got the bronze medal, looks like its turning out to be a decent championships for Great Britain

He's done it again, the man is simply untouchable

unbelievable from bolt again, what a race he was so far ahead of everyone and apparently there was a slight headwind and he was tired aswell, I agree with michael johnson, he can run under 19

He did copy the bow & arrow thing from Stavros Flatley.

No world record for Bolt and the Jamaicans in the 4x100 relay, slightly disappointing from them me thinks, still won though

Excellent from the British team in that race though, cracking run to get the bronze medal

2 more medals for the British on the final day today, an excellent pair of silvers in the Mens 4x400 relay and in the Womens 1500metres thanks to Lisa Dobriskey, the latter partially thanks to the Spanish athlete (who finished 1st) getting disqualified for pushing the favourite out of the race

Dobriskey gets Silver
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8217210.stm

Mens 4x400 Relay
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8217211.stm