Ricky Bateman

[Connor @ConnorAR97]

Say what you will about the Gallipoli campaign, at least Australia made it past the Beach

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

Absolute SCENES in Melbourne as Australia fans are going wild after the huge FIFA World Cup win! 🗣️

[CommBank Socceroos @Socceroos]

METCALFE WOW

[CommBank Socceroos @Socceroos]

CONNOR METCALFE WHAT A STRIKE!!!

🇦🇺 2-0 🇹🇷

#Socceroos #FIFAWorldCup

[SBS Sport @SBSSportau]

FED SQUARE IS ABSOLUTELY LOSING IT! 🔥🤯

Generations of football fans losing their minds together in the heart of Melbourne. Beautiful chaos.

🏆 #FIFAWorldCup | June 12 - July 20 | Every Match on SBS 📺

[CommBank Socceroos @Socceroos]

NESTORY IRANKUNDA PUTS THE #SOCCEROOS AHEAD AGAINST TÜRKIYE AT THE #FIFAWORLDCUP! 💚💛

[Richie Bateman PhD. @BatemanPhD]

@BrutalManhood Straight to the main spot, pump for 10 seconds, lay on side, fall asleep.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.

Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why.

During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.

They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.

This needs to stop.

[The Simpsons @TheSimpsons]

Prove you’ve watched too much Simpsons 🍩

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Two sub 2 hour marathon performances in the same race, with a third runner under the old world record.

The most mind blowing day of performances in maybe any sport.

What happened, what were the contributing factors, and how do we make sense of it? https://t.co/2EZj5b2MDC

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

What in the world did we just see!

The 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken. Three guys went under the old world record...

Sabastian Sawe just ran 1:59:30 with crazy negative splits, closing the last half in 59:01....faster than the American Record in the half.

One of the most mind blowing performances we've seen. How did we get here?

Every breakthrough is a mixture of belief and progress.

It takes folks daring to see what's possible, surrounding themselves with a quality team and doing the work to give themselves a shot.

You've got to bet on yourself in a big way.

When asked whether he believed he could run a sub-2-hour marathon before the race, Sawe answered with one word:

"Yes."

Let's get the obvious out of the way. Performance enhancing drugs are the legitimate question mark to every breakthrough.

So Sawe did as much as he could about taking that off the table.

He and his team asked to be tested all the time. His sponsor put up 50K to the Athlete Integrity Unit. The tests are run independently, no advance notice. Over a 2 month stretch, he went through 25 drug tests.

There's always a doubt. There has to be given what we know. Hopefully there's transparency in the results. But hats off to Sawe for addressing it:

"I want to prove that I am clean when I set foot at the start line."

But how'd we actually get here where two guys went sub 2 in the same race?

1. Shoe tech

We've had a revolution in shoe technology that boosts running economy.

For years shoe companies said their shoe would make you faster and was mostly marketing. Until 2016, when it actually did.

Initial research showed a 3-4% saving in economy, while subsequent work has shown it's highly variable.

Now, it's a matching game. Find the perfect shoe for your form and you can get a big boost.

Normally, it takes years of lots of miles and strength training to boost economy.

But now we get that instant boost that not only helps boost performance but often leaves us feeling less beat up in the later stages of the marathon.

So we get a little bit less hitting of the wall...

2. The fuel

For a long time, fueling was limited by biology. You can only take in and process so much.

Then in the 2000s, researchers found if we mixed sugars, we can boost intake because they're processed differently.

Then recently, Maurten found if you use a hydrxogel, you boost utilization without GI distress anymore.

We've gone from pushing 60g/hr to 120g/hr in a few decades.

Again...less bonking.

3. Depth

A few decades ago, you spent your career racing on the track and then once your speed started to fade a bit you went to the marathon.

Now, many skip right to the marathon. That's where the money is.

And with the economy boost from the shoes, you can make that jump quickly.

More depth of talent means more competitors in their prime pushing barriers.

4. Belief

Even with the shoes and tech, a few years ago sub 2 hours seemed a long way off, until Kipchoge pushed that barrier in a series of time trials.

Yes, they weren't official races and had contrived pacing. But it absolutely shifted everyone's thinking on what is possible.

A generation of runners saw Kipchoge go for it.

Our prediction of what is possible changed.

It's mind blowing how far we've come in such a short time.

What once seemed decades away, just got smashed twice in the same race.

Hats off to Sawe, especially for addressing the scourge of doping and showing folks what is possible with a lot of hard work, some crazy belief, and some fortuitous advances.

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE 🫨

Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to break the 2-hour barrier in official race conditions, storming to a historic 1:59:30‼️

@KejelchaYomif, on his marathon debut, also breaks 2 hours with a stunning 1:59:41 and @jacobkiplimo2 clocks 2:00:28, also faster than the previous world record 😤

[All Rock Music @allrockmusic]

There’s live TV, and then there’s Beastie Boys tearing through “Sabotage” on Letterman in 1994 like they were trying to blow the roof off the place.

[Tour de France Video Games @PCyclingManager]

In Tour de France 2026, anticipate rain, adapt your braking and trajectories, take risks to make gains on descents, and try to win your first Tour de France. 🌧️

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/3A5yB3gp95

#TDF2026 #TourdeFrance @LeTour

[7Sport @7Sport]

Unbelievable.

Gout Gout 🐐

[7Sport @7Sport]

Hear from the man of the moment following his historic run!

[Ricky Bateman @RickyBateman16]

Hooley Dooley

[7Sport @7Sport]

19.67 OH MY GOODNESS

Gout Gout has just DESTROYED the National Record 🤯

[7Sport @7Sport]

Gout with a procession in the heats 🔥

Fastest time in Australia this year for our rising star!

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

DOMINANT. 🔥

19-year-old Cam Myers wins the Australian 1500m national title and solo’ed a 3:29.85 personal best — just shy of the Australian record. 🇦🇺

The OAC’s Olli Hoare finishes second.

[Jonathan Gault @jgault13]

It’s hard to overstate how impressive this is.

3:29.85.

Wire-to-wire.

No pacer.

19 years old.

What a sensational run by Cam Myers to win the Australian 1500m title.