Athletics European championship

[April madness]

Just started this topic - how many of you will be watching it this week? Any medal hopes for your country?

[sh0wst0ppa]

Nope! I'll be surprised if GBR win anything

[davis_greatest]

I didn't know it was on but now I do, I'll certainly try to watch some. Thanks

[April madness]

It's the first day today I guess GBR still will be strong, sprints, relays, long jump and triple jump men, heptathlon. Even Latvia has some medal chances

[hegeland]

I think (hope) Sweden will be cashing in the first of thier many gold medals tomorrow. I think we got a chance of about 4-5 gold medals.

I'll be there in person, so I hope Carolina Klüft will win it over Barber.

[April madness]

holding my fingers crossed for our Jelena Prokopcuka in 10km run this evening, might be a very good chance for her as well our javelin throwers, high jumper and long jumper in qualification.

hopefully Carolina wins, have fun evening there

[hegeland]

Thanks, I will wave at the cameras!

[April madness]

ok, I will try to spot you then

[April madness]

looked like it was a very good evening, though I didn't notice you, hegeland

[Skypigeon]

yeah i'll certainly watch as much as I can!! Being a Swede, like Hegeland I think we have a very very good chance of at least 3-4 gold medals..I think Kajsa Bergquist might even get the world record...at least she has a good chance, she's getting better and better.

[April madness]

hi Skypigeon, very enjoyable competition so far

[hegeland]

That was a h*ll of an evening, I can tell you!

I don't think I've ever seen such a long ovation for any athlete as the one we gave Carolina Klüft. That was something extra, indeed.

Kelly Sotherton impressed me, except for the javelin.

And tomorrow it's mens high jump, with Stefan Holm and Linus Thörnblad.

[April madness]

good luck to the high jumping swedes hope there will be good luck for our javelin throwers too

[berolina]

I was watching 10000 m yesterday, totally boring I thought. And in the end I cheered for the German guy and he won!
But overall I think the broadcasting's terrible, ES show anything, so it's a bit confusing and the commentary is awful.
German television is even worse, they broadcast a sort of live event, showing things when they think they should be taking place and lots of audience, nobody's interested in that.

[hegeland]

Phew, what an evening, best one so far, even though only one swedish bronze tonight.

Great to see Jan Zelecehny (whatever) still competing at such a high level, forty years young.

Exciting high jump final, bit sad of course, but still a great and worthy champion.

Link to live webstream and results: http://www.european-athletics.org/