Review: World Indoors pentathlon, Glasgow 2024
Since January, the Glasgow pentathlon had been all about Maria. Her world lead of 4728 might have been no higher than the best global mark ahead of the previous World…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2021 Arona review, Ratingen and US trials preview
Last weekend was the 3rd leg of the World Athletics Combined Events Challenge: hot sun, palm trees and big points in the south of Tenerife, just off the coast of…
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…
Review: Tallinn Combined Events Meeting
A Ukrainian pentathlon clean sweep, the Estonian you might not have expected on the podium, a refocusing of the energy originally intended for the World Indoor Championships, and a message…
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…
The January Ten
Every month, I’ll share a digest of ten decathlon-related facts, figures and features. Here’s my pick of the best of January – read it quickly because it looks like February…