Review: World Indoors 2022, Belgrade
HEPTATHLON 60M “It’s bloody fast!” was the conclusion after the first event of the men’s heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade. The words were those of Australia’s Ash…
Rankings Analysis: 15 February 2022
This is the first in a new weekly series of posts providing an analysis of developments in qualification for major championships, and the current world rankings for combined events. The…
Preview: Tallinn Combined Events Meeting, 2022
It’s a quick journey from the X-Athletics meeting in central France to the snowy streets of Tallinn for the second big combined events meeting of the year. Estonia is one…
Preview: Tallinn and Magglingen Combined Events Meetings 2021
On the weekend of 8-9 August 2020, several decathlons took place across Europe. As Risto Lillemets was becoming the 19th Estonian to exceed 8000 points in Tallinn, 1500 miles away…
Preview: Tallinn Combined Events Meeting
The postponement of the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing meant that some other meeting was going to have to bear the heavy responsibility of being the highlight meeting of the…
I Can Has 6000 Points?
There’s no humour like niche athletics humour. There’s no meme like an athletics meme. And no country does athletics memes like Estonia does athletics memes. On the Number 35 bus…