A Letter to World and European Athletics, 22 March 2021
To: Sebastian Coe, World Athletics President, and Dobromir Karamarinov, European Athletics Interim President Dear colleagues We are writing to you to express our concerns about the size of fields for…
Preview: Tallinn pentathlon, 2025
This weekend, another four are competing in the Tallinn combined events meeting: world indoor silver medallist Saga Vanninen of Finland, Yuliya Loban of Ukraine, Bianca Salming of Sweden, and Paulina…
Tallinn heptathlon, Day 1: on European record watch
“I thought the 60m was faster” said World and European Indoor silver medallist Sander Skotheim, ruefully, after the first event at the Tallinn combined events meeting this weekend. “But if…
Tallinn Heptathlon Preview, 2025
Hot on the heels of the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand last weekend, the next stop on the World Athletics Combined Events tour is the Tallinn Combined Events meeting on…
2025 Decathlon Calendar
The Decathletes of Europe 2025 Decathlon Calendar is here! Check out the 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 editions here. Thank you to the photographers who provided permission to use their…
Women’s Decathlon World Championships, Geneva, Ohio
As the Olympic decathlon draws to a conclusion in Paris on Saturday 3rd August, four thousand miles away in Geneva, Ohio another decathlon championships has begun – an inaugural World…
Preview: Olympic decathlon, Paris 2024
It’s going to take 9000 points to win the Olympic decathlon. Since Leo Neugebauer broke Jürgen Hingsen’s German decathlon record in June last year. Since Pierce LePage scored within 100…
Rankings, Ratingen and US trials preview: decathlon
In Olympic year, the route to Paris can take many different paths. There are those who have qualified automatically with an Olympic standard, and who do not need to go…
Preview: Euro Champs decathlon, Rome 2024
In Olympic year, the European Championships decathlon in Rome brings the decathletes of Europe together in a reprise of the great battles of the last five years. More lies ahead,…
“We cannot have preferences for specific athletes and federations,” says European Athletics, as they grant a special wildcard for Kevin Mayer and the French Federation
“We cannot have preferences for specific athletes and federations.” European Athletics has told heptathletes, who have missed out on qualification and selection for the European Championships in Rome due to…
Preview: Götzis 2024
“If I had to choose between my wedding and Götzis,” said world decathlon bronze medallist Lindon Victor, “I’m going to choose Götzis. That’s how much I love it here.” There…