Aussie Josh Harris, 22, slashed more than four seconds from the beer mile world record with an unratified 5:04.9 at the Parkville event in Melbourne last weekend. SPIKES caught up with Harris to find out more about the art of chucking beer down your neck and running very fast.
Ahead of West Ham’s visit to Liverpool on Sunday, SPIKES catches up with pacy winger and former long distance runner Matt Jarvis, on the perils of mixing football and track; knocking it long to Usain Bolt and playing at the scene of Super Saturday.
European indoor 800m medallist Mukhtar Mohammed talks to SPIKES about moving from Somalia to Sheffield as a child, his football dream, Olympic heartbreak and the nightmare of having a coach who knows your every move…
World 400m hurdles champion Dai Greene on pre-event caffeine rituals, dodgy gear and Ryan Giggs.
Former 800m world record holder Seb Coe has described the race as “the toughest event physiologically, and the toughest event on the track to get right”.
We asked GB skipper and defending European Indoor 800m champion Jenny Meadows, and her husband and coach Trevor Painter, is Coe right?
As a Valentine’s Day special, Lisa Dobriskey and husband Ricky Soos take our Mr and Mrs challenge. So just how much does 2009 world 1500m silver medallist Lisa really know about her husband and coach Ricky?
He may have an Olympic silver medal but what did he have for breakfast? The USA’s 1500m man takes on the world’s fastest interview.
Elite athletes past and present have been telling SPIKES how they would change the rules and shake-up athletics (you can read them all here). Now it’s our turn: so brace yourselves for sixty action-packed minutes of multi-eventing as we introduce the ’60-minute pentathlon’…
The flower-haired US 800m champion has a penchant for the stage, wants to have dinner with two Presidents and has a few questions for Michael Jackson…
What a champion. With a whopping 25% of your votes, we crown David Rudisha’s show-stopping WR as THE golden moment of athletics in 2012.
Great Britain’s European Indoor 800m champion Jenny Meadows on Rugby League.
My dad was a massive fan and it was he who got me into Rugby League. My first ever memories of the sport was sat on my dad’s knee watching Wigan Warriors play at their old Central Park ground, but to be honest I was more interested in the sweets than the action on the pitch.
Over time, though, I slowly fell in love with the game and I was very lucky that my team, Wigan, were the dominant force in the English if not the world game. I loved watching Shaun Edwards play, a great reader of the game and playmaker and Andy Gregory – a powerful ‘chunky nugget’ who was a little general on the pitch.
