Over the past two days, I watched some events at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham (if on TV). Partly due to the heat that hugely reduced my range of options. And partly in reminiscence of the 2024 Championships in Rome. Among the amazing feats, Jimmy Gressier’s lead on most of the 5,000m, if not particularly strategic with Jakob Ingebrigsten in his flow, and Gressier’s sprint in the 10,000m. And Nadia Battocletti winning again both 5,000m and 10,000m races, very tactically with a extraordinary burst on the last lap. And Aurélien Quinion finishing third on the marathon race walk, under 3h, so exhausted he turned back after the finish line. And Gianmarco Tamberi repeating his antics and gold medal in the high jump (reaching to his family rather the Italian President this time!). And the much more serene victory of Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the current World and Olympic champion in the high jump. Слава Україні!
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Магучіх синій та золотий [B’ham European Athletics 2026]
Posted in pictures, Running with tags 10000m, Birmingham, Britain, Слава Україні, European Athletics Championships, French TV, high jump, marathon race walk, Rome, UK, Ukraine, Walsall on August 17, 2026 by xi'anau revoir
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags 1981, adieu, François Mitterrand, French elections, French politics, French presidents, French TV, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on December 3, 2020 by xi'an
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Posted in Kids, Travel with tags Air France, Birmingham, Charles de Gaulle, France, French TV, Les Marseillais, Marseiile, Roissy, University of Warwick on April 27, 2017 by xi'an
[On an Air France flight for Birmingham, two young French students apparently studying in Warwick kept blathering the entire time, with an utter lack of concern for their surroundings. Note: Les Marseillais is a particularly idiotic reality show on French TV.]
- …j’ai arrêté de regarder les Marseillais, c’est même pas conscient, tu vois…
- …grave, c’est sûr, moi aussi j’ai arrêté, j’avais trop d’épisodes à rattraper…
