SPIKES has made Francena McCorory boss for a day and things just got interesting. The US Olympic 4x400m gold medallist and Jacko fan thinks athletes should be able to listen to their favourite tunes on the track.
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.
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.
Scottish 400m hurdler Eilidh Child talks to SPIKES about having to raise her game; an excellent indoor season; celeb spotting with Jess Ennis, and making her mark in Moscow.
Luguelin Santos became the youngest Olympic 400m medallist in history at London 2012. Here he tells SPIKES about his remarkable story to sprint stardom.
Our weekend of athletics in numbers charts the continued rise of Kirani James; a new 100m WL from Diondre Batson; the enduring appeal of Haile Gebrselassie; race walks firsts; multi-event matrimony; good news for European teens and Kenenisa Bekele in the wind.
Olympic 4x400m champion Chris Brown has entered a new world as a meet promoter, and SPIKES catches up with him ahead of the inaugural Chris Brown Bahamas Invitational on Sunday, which features fellow sprint stars Kirani James and Veronica Campbell-Brown.
Our weekend in numbers round-up sees Ashton Eaton getting even better, a world’s best in the 100m hurdles shuttle relay, Tyson Gay losing to his sister, US 400m hurdler Kori Carter looking scarily good, big news marathon and an unbeatable race walker.
He was part of the quartet responsible for winning the Bahamas’ only medal at London 2012, and their first ever men’s athletics gold. But individually, Chris Brown is the ultimate nearly man.
No woman has ever ran one lap in under 50 seconds as many times as 400m Olympic champ Sanya Richards-Ross. She picks out her favourites exclusively for SPIKES.
The girl who discovered the 400m by accident talks to SPIKES about London gold, life after athletics and running sub-49.
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.
