When we interviewed US Olympic pole vault champion Jenn Suhr earlier this year she told us about her quirky training facility in Riga, New York state. The freezing base has helped propel her to the world indoor pole vault record, so SPIKES braved the cold to find out more…
Ashton Eaton is showing no signs of slowing down; Kipsang is king of NY; Delano Williams PB’s in Jamaica; Pitkamaki is javel-ing like it’s 2007 and the latest from Russia. Read on for SPIKES’ weekend in numbers…
No annual indoor athletics event quite holds the status of the Millrose Games, so it would be remiss of SPIKES not to take a nosy at what we can see this year.
Tight for the tape: France’s Linda Ferga-Khodadin edges the USA’s Danielle Carruthers for the 60m hurdles win in 2005.
King of the rabbits Matt Scherer (far left) trains as hard today as he did when he was competing. He tells SPIKES about his amazing 2012, and what it’s like to help David Rudisha break a record.
Suzy Walsham sneers at escalators and laughs at lifts. On Wednesday she’ll be powering up 1,576 steps, 86 floors and a quarter of a mile to the top of the Empire State Building in the ultimate skycraper race. SPIKES just had to ask the multiple tower running champion: WHY?
“The first time I saw her train I said to Alberto, ‘this girl has a chance to make the Olympic team’” - John Henwood, coach in residence.
High school phenom Mary Cain, 16, is ripping up the record books for fun.We speak to her ‘coach in residence’ John Henwood, a former New Zealand 10,000m international, to find out why the New York based teenager is so good.
Going places: USA’s Mary Cain on her way to sixth place in the 1500m at the World Junior Championships last year.
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’…
Errr… Is this thing on?
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And here she is sending the crowd wild in Fredonia, New York.
