With 18,000 athletes expected to compete across three days of action, The Penn Relays, at least in terms of participants, can lay claim to be the world’s biggest annual athletics event. SPIKES offers ten reasons why the event, which starts on Thursday 25th April, is such an overwhelming success.
Kenya conquers Poland; Bolt and Blake beaten over 400m; US athletes get down; world records; cross country cash and Carl Lewis. It’s SPIKES’ weekend in numbers.
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…
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.
The rising US sprint star tells SPIKES the inspiring story of how track and field, and a kindly coach, took him from a life of gangs and petty crime to star in one of global sport’s most prestigious events.
Evan O’Hanlon @evanohanlon
Drinking beetroot juice while watching true blood is the only way it should be done! pic.twitter.com/h1waVsix
Oscar Pistorius @OscarPistorius
Haha I get the craziest fan mail!! Kids have to be the coolest. I have a horn in one pic and a mermaid tail in another! pic.twitter.com/RiiAQhTD
Chris Tomlinson@LongJumpChris
“It’s taken 3 months to watch my jump from Olympics, can’t believe my bum trails 30cm behind feet. Feel sick watching it. Feet over 835.”
Yohan Blake@YohanBlake
“On my way to training and playing POPCAAN song name DREAM. Because I never stop dream until it come true big up twitter family”
Goldie Sayers @goldiesayers
“A hand-written obscenity about multiple manhoods (on back of white van on the M4) immediately loses its gravitas with a misplaced apostrophe”
