Screen grab from World Athletics YouTube page EJ Obiena showed why he’s one of the best pole vaulters across the globe after clinching the silver medal behind world record holder Armand Duplantis in the prestigious FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands late Sunday. Obiena, who is in the final stages o
Friday, 29 January 2021
Britain’s world 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith equalled her British record of 7.08sec in winning the 60 metres at the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the year in Karlsruhe on a night when France’s former world pole vault record holder Renaud Lavillenie looked back to his lofty best.
Despite not having competed indoors for three years, the 25-year-old Briton, who set her record in 2015, was never headed as she finished clear of France’s Orlann Ombissa-Dzangue, who clocked 7.16, and Switzerland’s Ajla Del Ponte, who equalled her personal best of 7.17.
Asher-Smith’s time in the Europa Halle replaced her own mark of 7.11, set in the heats, at the top of this year’s rankings and she will head on to the next World Indoor Tour meeting on Sunday (January 31) in Dusseldorf in buoyant mood.
Doctor Who Revolution Of The Daleks review: The meat ‘n’ veg version of Who Kevin Harley
Warning: Spoilers for Doctor Who: Revolution Of The Dalek in our review!
From 2005 to 2017, the Doctor Who Christmas specials were tipsy indulgences, often overblown but fully flavoured. Under current showrunner Chris Chibnall’s watch, the special lands on New Year’s Day, where it docks in 2021 as a more temperate proposal: the meat ‘n’ veg version of Who to the feasts of Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies, solid yet a little stodgy.
Starting where 2019’s ‘Resolution’ left off, ‘Revolution’ chugs into gear slowly. Despite the hooks of new Daleks, companion departures and returning pals, it opens on Chris Noth’s Trump-ish hotelier Jack Robertson, first seen in 2018’s ‘Arachnids In The UK’ and here found spying business opportunities in the Dalek casing left over from ‘Resolution’. The display of his Dalek ‘defence drones’ adds a playful