Weekend in numbers: The stars of field and track are back
Tyson Gay, Keshorn Walcott (above) and Johannes Hock lay down some huge markers as the athletics season bursts into life.
Tyson Gay: “I think my best years are ahead of me”
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.
Ten reasons why the Penn Relays rock
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.
Fantasy athletics with Bolt, Ennis, Rudisha, Dibaba & Pearson
Wouldn’t it be great to see just how far certain athletes would go if they dedicated themselves to a different event? SPIKES picks five athletes that we’d love to see unleash their talents on another discipline…
Stall smokies in OZ and a lightning Bolt in Brazil…
A great weekend of athletics saw some shock victories in Oz, Bolt on Copacabana beach, Ethiopian sprinters and a big April Fool. SPIKES crunches the numbers…
Around the world this weekend in numbers
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.
James Dasaolu: “6.48 converts to sub-10 second 100m running”
James Dasaolu is finally realising his potential. The new European indoor 60m silver medallist and Croydon boy chats to SPIKES about beating injury and going sub-10.
Ashton goes long: the weekend in numbers
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…
Churandy Martina: Bolt and Blake are beatable
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…
Can Amsterdam jam to the tune of athletics?
Amsterdam is famous for many things and athletics is not one of them. Can Holland’s top DJs help change all that? SPIKES meets the man behind a new athletics event that’s putting the track in track and field. P.S. There’s a DJ set with your name on it, Usain.
Deck-athlon: Can tunes tempt Bolt to Amsterdam?
If SPIKES ran the Olympics…
…it would be a disaster. But anyway, last week we posed this question on Twitter: what would you choose if athletics could have an extra Olympic discipline? Here are five of the best suggestions
Er… when we said: “set athletics on fire,” we didn’t mean…
