hello and welcome to sportsday with me, marc edwards. raising the bar italy s olympic champion gianmarco tamberi thrills home fans by taking highjump gold at the european athletics championships. erik staying hag, the dutchman will remain as manager of manchester united following a post season review. and still in with a chance, pakistan beat canada as they live to fight another day at the t20 world cup. thank you forjoining us on sports day. we begin with the penultimate day of the european athletics championships in rome with some of contenders sure to star at the olympic games in paris at the end ofjuly in action on tuesday. italy s olympic champion gianmarco tamberi thrilled the home fans by taking high jump gold while dutch star femke bol won the women s 400 metres hurdles gold. our correspondent natalie pirks is in the italian capital. well, another very busy night began with back to back championship records in both the men and women s 400 metre hurdles from world ch
And this will be different because it will be faster paced. we re still working on the disciplines, but we won t have every discipline. but you can take it as read that the marquee events the sprints, the middle distance, the long distance, thejumps, the throws and the relays will be there. and it also gives us a chance to innovate. and, as you know, there s been some conjecture about some new events that we might be interested in introducing. we will only do that if they road test well and are additive, not diminishing the sport. you mentioned about giving more power to athletes to promote themselves things that they haven t been able to do at the olympics. what do you mean by that? what may that include? look, the olympic games can be quite restrictive for an athlete. there are moments where you can self promote, but they re not possibly as much as the athletes need. this is a very different model.
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Over 150 runners and walkers from New Plymouth, Hawera, Feilding, Palmerston North and Whanganui descended upon Victoria Park on Thursday, April 25, to.
A leap for glory. kenya s joy was keely s pain yet again. keely hodgkinson has been the world leader this year, but there were plenty of threats in the 800m, not least the woman who beat her to commonwealth gold kenya s mary moraa. commentator: keeley looks pretty relaxed at the moment, but has she got anything in her legs? moraa has some finish on her and, in the battle for the line, it was hodgkinson who ran out of track. mary moraa s going to take the gold for kenya. keely hodgkinson takes the silver again. orphaned as a toddler, using her mother s memory as motivation, moraa s victoryjig comes straight from the heart. but hodgkinson believes she ll be dancing soon enough. i really did believe i was going to win. one of these days i will get the top spot. today, it s just not meant to be. the 4x400m relays were the last event. world champions the us were miles ahead of the pack. but the european champions, britain, brought home the bronze.