Michael Tinsley has dipped below 49 seconds for the 400m hurdles in each of the past nine seasons: but he just could not make a major championships. In 2012, it finally came together as he landed Olympic silver with a new PB. This is his journey.
On Saturday Robbie Britton and a couple of hundred others started running around the Dutch city of Steenbergen. They didn’t stop for 24 hours. Team GB’s Britton, 26, ran five full marathons and two-thirds of another: finishing 19th at his first World Championships. SPIKES just had to find out more about the marvellous madness of ultra-running…
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.
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.
Meet ambitious high jumper and Olympic silver medallist Erik Kynard. The bright young thing talks to SPIKES about high jumping away from danger, London 2012, and why winning gold means everything.
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.
European Indoor heptathlon champ Eelco Sintnicolaas, of the Netherlands, on his hero Roman Sebrle.
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.
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.
Laura Marsh: “I often wonder what I could have achieved in javelin”
As England bid to defend their title at the women’s cricket World Cup in India this week, SPIKES finds out why all-rounder Laura Marsh swapped throwing a javelin for a cricket ball…
Cross-country ace Fionnuala Britton talks exclusively to SPIKES about being in the form of her life, marathons and her plans for taking her success on the snow to the track…
“Then it flicked up I’d ran 1:43.77. To be honest it probably posed more questions than answers and I thought, what have I got to do?”
Andrew Osagie
