Preview | Brussels Diamond League Final and news wrap-up with Jake Wightman

We're going to look at the Diamond League final in a few moments' time.

That's sort of the focus of this episode, really.

We'll sort of pick out...

some of the things we're most looking forward to, I think.

Obviously, it's a proper two-day Diamond League final in Brussels.

But just a few things that sort of happened in the last week, we might as well just be good to talk about.

One of the things I did want to speak about is Nadia Batacletti, Jake, and your thoughts on her, because she ran an Italian record of 357, 5,400 metres at the weekend last Obviously, she's the European champion over 5,000, 10,000 meters.

She's one of the best in the world over that distance.

She's branching out into road running as well.

We expect she'll probably move into marathons at some point, but she's kind of putting those quick times in now at the end of her season.

How impressed were you by that?

I think it's just the ability to deploy the same finishing speed over each distance is the thing that's most impressive.

I don't think there was, by the looks of it, any more fatigue or lactic in her legs over the 15 than there was in the 5 and 10 when she raced at Europeans.

Yeah, I think she's almost like the complete athlete at the moment.

And whether this is just...

She's been so good other years, but I feel like this purple patch at the moment is being so, so good.

And when you hear about what she was saying about her May time, I think it was where she wasn't even sure she'd have a season to think that in August she's had these couple of weeks.

So the other thing that's interesting is she always races with strapping on.

And I was like, is she still nursing something? Because if this is what she's doing when she's nursing a potential problem, it's like she potentially haven't even seen the best of her.

But yeah, it's deadly how quick her acceleration is.

I think that's the scariest thing is she pulls away in the last 200 of a race within probably 10, 20 meters, which is very, very impressive.

So yeah, I saw just a clip of the last lap and it was crazy that she can do that and then go and dominate over 10K at champs as well.

Yeah.

Do you know athletes

that keep strapping on because they've sort of had an injury or some niggles in the past and they're kind of almost too worried to take it off or it almost becomes a bit of like a tradition for them? Maybe, I don't know, like a...

We're going to look at the Diamond League final in a few moments' time.

That's sort of the focus of this episode, really.

We'll sort of pick out...

some of the things we're most looking forward to, I think.

Obviously, it's a proper two-day Diamond League final in Brussels.

But just a few things that sort of happened in the last week, we might as well just be good to talk about.

One of the things I did want to speak about is Nadia Batacletti, Jake, and your thoughts on her, because she ran an Italian record of 357, 5,400 metres at the weekend last Obviously, she's the European champion over 5,000, 10,000 meters.

She's one of the best in the world over that distance.

She's branching out into road running as well.

We expect she'll probably move into marathons at some point, but she's kind of putting those quick times in now at the end of her season.

How impressed were you by that?

I think it's just the ability to deploy the same finishing speed over each distance is the thing that's most impressive.

I don't think there was, by the looks of it, any more fatigue or lactic in her legs over the 15 than there was in the 5 and 10 when she raced at Europeans.

Yeah, I think she's almost like the complete athlete at the moment.

And whether this is just...

She's been so good other years, but I feel like this purple patch at the moment is being so, so good.

And when you hear about what she was saying about her May time, I think it was where she wasn't even sure she'd have a season to think that in August she's had these couple of weeks.

So the other thing that's interesting is she always races with strapping on.

And I was like, is she still nursing something? Because if this is what she's doing when she's nursing a potential problem, it's like she potentially haven't even seen the best of her.

But yeah, it's deadly how quick her acceleration is.

I think that's the scariest thing is she pulls away in the last 200 of a race within probably 10, 20 meters, which is very, very impressive.

So yeah, I saw just a clip of the last lap and it was crazy that she can do that and then go and dominate over 10K at champs as well.

Yeah.

Do you know athletes

that keep strapping on because they've sort of had an injury or some niggles in the past and they're kind of almost too worried to take it off or it almost becomes a bit of like a tradition for them? Maybe, I don't know, like a...