James Rhodes
@James_Athletics
95% athletics, 5% everything else. Opinions my own. Jrhodesathletics@gmail com
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Eilish McColgan races over 10km in Berlin on Saturday. This will be her first race since the London Marathon.
Pet hate: accounts that take your work (photos) and use it to harness clicks or engagement on their pages. Please don't. What's an equivalent? Maybe going to a shop, stealing some food, and then selling it in your own shop. 🙃
Heptathlon, high jump, same reactions. Jade O'Dowda in Apeldoorn Isla Pain in Birmingham 😀
2:02.86 for Shaikira King - entirely solo - to win the England U20 Champs and confirm her spot in Tampere 🇫🇮
10.24 (+2.5) for Teddy Wilson, whilst I'm eating a pizza.
Isla Pain is having a great day so far in the U20 heptathlon. PB in the 100H and then PBs of 1.76m, 1.79m and 1.82m in the high jump! 🥳
Thanks to the delightful Brummie traffic, the X51 and I missed it 😆
At the england champs, incorporating the GB trials for the Euro u20's, reigning Eu 18 3000m champ Katie Pye is the first u20 to finish in the 50000m and is the first athlete auto selected for the team
George Mills has had surgery to fix the fractures in his wrist. "Can now move forward and work on getting back to full fitness towards Tokyo". instagram.com/p/DMgEsZJN6n7/…
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Also announced for Lausanne is a stellar 100H field - Masai Russell, Tobi Amusan, Ackera Nugent, Nadine Visser & Ditaji Kambundji 🔥💎
Brussels 💎 with a stellar long jump - the Olympic podium are reunited, but from the heptathlon - Katarina Johnson Thompson, Nafi Thiam & Noor Vidts will all compete 😍
Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie & Georgia Hunter Bell are announced for the 800m at the Lausanne Diamond League on 20 August 👀🔥
After an excellent season opener for Saga Vanninen in Bergen, her fellow Nanjing medallist Kate O'Connor is on track for a PB / NR and possibly 6500+ at the World University Games 🇮🇪
1:48.03 for Oliver Dustin in Watford, in his first race of 2025 and first 800m in over a year 🥳