I’m sure I’m not the only person who, after watching 2007 film The Bucket List, began to think of things they’d like to do before they die. Like Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in that film, I’d love to go skydiving, visit the Taj Mahal and fly over the North Pole. But before I do those trivial things, there’s the far more important matter of attending various athletics meetings around the world. I’ve been fortunate enough to ...
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, ...
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