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 ...
I was as pleased as the next person to see that young Frenchan Christophe Lemaître became the first white man to legally run under 10 seconds for the 100m. I find it interesting when there are cultural outliers in sport, but I try not to give too much credence to such things. Hopefully this distinction can finally be laid to bed and Lemaître can get on with the rest of his career without having to carry ...
Last weekend I went to the UK Championships & European Trials at my ‘home track’ of Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. Going back there always brings back memories as it’s the track I used to train at throughout my teens. But last weekend the only running I was doing was from the finish line to the long jump pit to the water jump, camera and monopod in hand. As a spectator/photographer, it was my first outdoor athletics ...
Every now and again an athlete’s name will pop in my head that will leave me wondering: “where the hell did they go?” The very nature of track and field – ‘a sport of many sports’ – means that, across all the events, there are hundreds of athletes within the ranks of world class in any given season. Of course not every athlete is expected to become another Merlene Ottey with an international career ...
Question – when does a winner of a race receive less attention than the athletes they beat? Answer – when the winner is African and there are Western athletes in the field who set a PB or finish in the top three. (more…)
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