He’s as quick as Usain Bolt over 40m, is a former pole vaulter, and fancies himself as a potential triple jumper. Meet Gloucester winger and recent England call-up Jonny May, a man who owes some of his rugby success to the sport of athletics.
Tyson Gay, Keshorn Walcott (above) and Johannes Hock lay down some huge markers as the athletics season bursts into life.
Find out how one of the world’s fastest men ever must battle his own body, not to mention Usain Bolt, for a shot at immortality.
The European Indoor heptathlon champion Eelco Sintnicolaas tells SPIKES about his 100m sprint transformation, struggling to touch his toes, competing against Ashton Eaton and his famous namesake Santa.
As a baby, Ashton Eaton was fired from his doomed home planet in a makeshift spaceship. Landing on Earth, he developed super-powers. No, hang on, that was Superman. But there are similarities…
The world’s best-ever all-round athlete (Eaton) talks to SPIKES about overcoming the post-Games blues, rivals for Moscow gold, and his 2020 Olympic pole vault dream.
James Dasaolu is finally realising his potential. The new European indoor 60m silver medallist and Croydon boy chats to SPIKES about beating injury and going sub-10.
He’s had the best view in the house for every one of Bolt’s storming Olympic finals. Churandy Martina, one of the world’s most consistent performers, chats to SPIKES about getting kicked in football, Beijing heartbreak and beating the Jamaicans…
The girl who discovered the 400m by accident talks to SPIKES about London gold, life after athletics and running sub-49.
She is tenth on the all-time list for the 100m and is reigning European champion. Bulgarian sprinter Ivet Lalova, and her very specific face, takes our super quick interview.
No-one in history has clocked more sub-10 second 100m performances than Jamaica’s Asafa Powell. SPIKES can count 87 over the last nine years, and here are his five favourites.
As Great Britain’s Jodie Williams embarks on the long road to Moscow 2013, she chatted to SPIKES about her friend Allyson Felix, being too quick, and her addiction to the ‘horrible’ 400m.
European 100m champion and track pin-up Ivet Lalova wants to see more athletics in interesting places, and some very different kind of races.
