During my time at Athletics Weekly, on more than one occasion I have answered phone calls and emails from athletes – as well as parents and siblings of athletes – asking why they are not featured more regularly. Usually I would simply apologise and appease them with a feature or an extended news item in a future issue, but in most instances we were not really at fault. If an athlete wants to gain more exposure, ...
It has been a while since I have made a blog entry, as I’ve been fairly busy with other things (namely getting a new job with my old employers at AW and setting up my new website), so I figured I’d write about disappearing. More specifically, athletes who come from nowhere, win one big title or have one good season, then go back to obscurity afterwards, never to be seen or heard from again. ...
The three big continental championships of this summer have been and gone already, which usually means just one thing for athletics fans – post-championship blues. So what better way to cheer yourself up (and kill time on your lunchbreak) than to play some track and field-themed games online?! (more…)
There is an old law in Vermont that states women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth. No one ever sticks to that rule of course, but it exists nonetheless. It’s a bit like the Euro Meetings recommendation not to invite athletes who have tested positive to their meetings – none of the meeting organisers seem to be applying that rule to their competitions. Or they uphold the rule for some athletes, ...
Ever since striking it lucky on a 50-1 bet backing Christine Ohuruogu to win the 2007 world 400m title (and subsequently winning a few bob at recent championships), after each championships my friends and family tend to say to me: “you should have given me some tips!” So the purpose of this blog post is to share some advice on athletes I think are good value to back for a medal at this week’s European ...
