It took a while for Janay DeLoach Soukup to fall in love with the sport, and now she wants to have a go at everything. Meet the heptahtlon-training, hurdles-loving, Olympic medal-winning, long jumper with her eyes on Moscow gold.
After a London 2012 injury nightmare, Dwight Phillips is back. The legendary US jumper talks to SPIKES about last summer, his bid to win a fifth world title in Russia, world records and Rio.
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.
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.
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.
Luguelin Santos became the youngest Olympic 400m medallist in history at London 2012. Here he tells SPIKES about his remarkable story to sprint stardom.
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…
Last year, no-one with a pole soared higher than Olympic silver medallist Björn Otto, who tied for seventh on the all-time list with a clearance of 6.01m in Aachen. Here, Otto tells SPIKES how he hopes to go even higher when he hangs up his poles, as a commercial airline pilot.
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…
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.
Jenn Suhr tells SPIKES how she won the mental battle to crack Isinbayeva’s record, and why she’s the underdog in Moscow.
