Seems, we will have Rooney featuring in a final this summer. Granted, Martyn Rooney, is not as famous as his footballing namesake, but he does have a decent chance of winning some gold. The 2010 European Championships, held this year in Barcelona, Spain, once was a nice, comfortable place where we could send our top 400 metre runners, knowingly they would come back with gold or at worse silver. However, the days of Roger Black, Duaine Ladejo and Iwan Thomas are filed away under the heading, “British Athletics, The Time When We Were Good At Running”.

Of course it has been a long wait since we have had much success with British Athletics betting. By that I mean exactly what “Smithy from Gavin and Stacey” said in his Sport Relief speech, proper athletics, the running type not the sitting down sports. Team GB failed to win a single individual gold medal at the previous European Championships.
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After a two year ban, Dwain Chambers, has finally been reselected for Team Gb and will run in the 60m at the European Indoor Championships in Turin on the 6-8 March 2009 – he has been automatically made favourite by the bookies upon hearing the news that Chambers will run. The powerhouse sprinter was sidelined by UK’s governing athletic body (UKA) after testing positive for a banned drug.

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