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: X-ATHLETICS, CLERMONT FERRAND, 2024
“Indoors it’s a completely different beast,” said Ash Moloney after winning bronze in his first ever heptathlon, at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in 2022. “I reckon it’s more…
Preview: Heptathlon, European Indoors, Istanbul
The second preview of events this weekend in the Atakoy Arena in Istanbul: the men’s heptathlon. Kevin Mayer is the obvious choice for favourite, and fully fit and in form…
Preview: World Indoor Championships 2022, Belgrade
Pretty much every preview you will read of the combined events competitions at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade this weekend will focus on the Olympic and World champions in…
Preview: X-Athletics, Clermont Ferrand 2022
Forget the Millrose Games, forget Karlsruhe. The action this weekend is in Clermont Ferrand, at the X-Athletics multievent meeting – the meeting with the best logo in the athletics! Every…
Arona 2021: Preview
The Combined Events Challenge competitions are coming at us faster than women’s 10,000m world records. Just 2 weeks after Damian Warner’s skirmish with 9000 points in Götzis, it’s onto Arona…
Multistars 2021: Preview
Two years have passed since the last edition of Multistars in April 2019, when the biggest problem in our lives was how many thermal layers to wear to keep out…
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…