Men's 3,000mSC about to get underway, and MMB looks ready. God help tonight's mascot.

Hes a bit rough isnt he. The French should win this!! No shirt off

Geez, I now find myself in the embarrassing position of supporting Mekhissi.

I was about to say the same thing as my "lol Turkey" detector just went off.

Times really are hard!

The 'former-[nation] now running for Turkey' does make for a good drinking game to ease the pain though.

Vive la france

What are you on about? They are moving as economic migrants or to improve their chances of competing in major championships. I have seen no evidence of coercion or that they have been forced to change country, but you clearly have.

And as regards "back stabbing"

Now for Dafne - and maybe a medal for Desiree

Good effort by Rob Mullett in 6th. A funeral march in the first kilometre put paid to him getting his second sub-8:30 Olympic qualifier though.

Well, the French have obviously perfected the art of brain transplants because Mekhissi now looks reasonable and sportsmanlike.

Um ok lets move on keep this a nice thread ok.

Chance of medals for GB here (not gold obviously).

Noooo, Henry came up lame

No more than a training jog for Dafne.

Women's 100m final - Schippers in 10.90 (-0.2m/s)

Queen Dafne.

Gutted for Desiree pulling up with an injury.

Oh no. Desiree's done herself in after a poor start.

Good win for Daf, obviously.

Well, despite the 10k, that was a terrific evening of athletics. Well done to everyone in Amsterdam. They even managed to stave off the rain from those threatening clouds.

Yes I remember when Israel started that immigration programme. It was reported that a few 'not so Jewish' people managed to sneak in!!

Yes, the guy who thought the home straight was a red carpet!!

Even though it was windy and a probably bit chilly tonight, she'll need to do better to medal in Rio. You might only be battling for bronze if you run outside 10.80.

Agree, the 10,000 used to be a highlight in major champs up until the 90s. Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Viking countries, ourselves, the Germans, the old USSR, everyone took it seriously. Nowadays all those kinds of athletes are doing triathlon, cross-country skiing or cycling. Nowadays, in Europe only GB and Spain even bother to try to develop youth athletes for these events.

At 24 and still improving, I guess he still has time to learn big race composure. But yes he ought to be in the hunt for a medal in Rio.

IAAF needs to do something about the nation hopping. Just waving a white flag is pathetic. At least introduce some boundaries/guidelines. I'd suggest the following:-

i) Once you reach senior level you can only represent 1 country as per the likes of Football & Rugby. Easily policed
ii) Unless you are born in a country or have automatic citizenship from birth e.g. via your parents then you need to have been resident in that country for 5 years. This would reduce a lot of nation hopping to those who hand out Citizenship at the drop of a hat but also allow for those who moved to a country when younger

Back to the US Olympic trials - top three in the women's 100mH were (windspeed +1.2m/s):
Rollins 12.34 (despite RT 0.200!)
Castlin 12.50
Ali 12.55

Neither Harrison nor Harper-Nelson made the team.

Another notable shock was Shamier Little failing to qualify for the women's 400mH final.

Thanks - I watched Thursday's events on Youtube and will catch up shortly.

Great evening of T&F. Nice to see big Daf win on home turf.

Not a fan of this new concept of having the medal ceremonies outside/elsewhere from the stadium. I know some on here prefer it as it doesn't interupt the flow of events, but when Tiff got her medal earlier there were just a handful of people standing about watching it. Bet none of them even watched the medallists win their medals.

I much prefer it in the stadium with a full crowd standing for the anthem. It seems very detached this way.

Hope they don't do this in Rio.