Over the next few weeks, athletics websites will be flooded with preview material for the IAAF World Championships in Moscow. But there are only so many previews you can read before realising that they’re all pretty much outlining the same medal contenders and predicting who will win what. So going beyond simply talking about the top athletes in each event, I’ve tried to look ahead at what might be some of the more interesting stories that will ...
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. ...
