About this episode

The episode discusses the recent European Championships, focusing on remarkable performances in the 10,000m and 800m events, doping issues, and swimming world records.

Not yet a member? Ad-free listening, the Discourse community, and a members' show every week, all for less than you spend on gels . Show notes On the show this week, a European Championships wrap featuring Nadia Battocletti's astonishing 10,000m finish and Audrey Werro's win over Keely Hodgkinson, a German sprinter under a doping cloud, world records in the pool, and a follow-up on peptides. (00:01:41) A follow-up to the peptides show with Mike , and the thing Ross wishes he had said. The anecdote that BPC-157 failed to fix someone's Achilles is the human version of publication bias, because nobody ever tells you about the thing that didn't work. (00:12:23) The European Championships format and the broadcast, which featured more talking heads than athletics on the BBC, and an athletic programme with far too little action relative to downtime. (00:16:52) The women's 800m, where Werro beat Hodgkinson for her fourth sub-1:55 of the year, and Bol ran a national record in third. Whose trajectory looks best in the medium to long-term? (00:28:26) Batocletti's exceptional sprint finish, and a Tim Noakes tweet asking why she could speed up at all . Ross explains the end spurt, the reserve…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike, Ross, Ross Tucker, Mike Finch

Topics covered

• European Championships
• 10,000m running
• 800m running
• doping
• swimming world records
• peptides
• athletic performance

Keywords

• 10,000m
• 800m
• European Championships
• doping
• swimming
• world records
• peptides
• athletic performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC, BPC-157, German

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