Review: X-Athletics 2023, Clermont Ferrand
At the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand on the weekend of 28th and 29th January, Makenson Gletty and Leonie Cambours shone as the top French athletes, Simon Ehammer secured perhaps…
Preview: X-Athletics 2023, Clermont-Ferrand
I first attended the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand in January 2019, the year I decided I was going to put my lifelong love for the combined events out into…
Review: Multistars 2022
MULTISTARS REVIEW 2022 At the Multistars meeting in Grosseto on the weekend of 30 April and 1 May, European U20 medallists of 2019 graduated to break their national records, Italy’s…
Preview: Multistars 2022, Grosseto
Multistars has proven to be a significant staging point en route to the major championships of the year. If you place highly at Multistars, you have a great chance of…
Championships Round Up, 25-27 February 2022
Photos: Bilal Aouffen (Maria), USATF, UGA, Princeton, Gators A recent welcome development from World Athletics is the introduction of a “protected weekend” for national championships. It helps ensure athletes do…
Review: X-Athletics, Clermont Ferrand 2022
Multiple national records, multiple world leads and the only world record* set on Saturday that would survive the day, X-Athletics in Clermont Ferrand was the place to be on 29th…
Review: 2021 European U23 Championships, Tallinn
HEPTATHLON When we left the heptathlon at the end of Day 1, Adrianna Sułek had a lead of 150 points over Holly Mills, largely as a result of Holly’s lower…
European Indoors 2021, Toruń: Review
In the first major championships since the start of the pandemic, the 24 best multieventers in Europe gathered to compete in Toruń in Poland at the European Indoor Championships. In…
Preview: Euro Indoors 2021 – The Masters v The Youngsters
Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a boy called Kevin. He was only 19, and he and his friends had a wonderful time running, jumping…
Forza Azzurri!
When you’re half-Italian and half-Scottish, watching sport can be an emotional affair. On the one hand there is Italy, the Azzurri. “Azzurri represents sporting pride, it has the power to…