On hearing of the death of Lady Macbeth and faced with his own impending overthrow, Shakespeare’s Macbeth tries to make sense of it all. Life, he concludes, is “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Could have been talking about the World Relays.
In the...
Way back in 1972, when Frank Shorter was just a crazy young kid with a dream of winning the Olympic marathon and China was just beginning to emerge onto the international stage after decades of isolation, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French Revolution.
“Too...
If you know a bit about Australian marathon history, you will recall that Lisa Ondieki is our only Olympic marathon medallist. Her silver medal in Seoul in 1988 behind the great Rosa Mota is the only medal attained by an Australian at the Olympics. Robert de Castella and Steve...
He was cheered on to the track each time he entered. Careered around the outer fence high-fiving young kids and a surprising number of older folk after each race, even though, metaphorically at least, he was borne out of the arena on his shield. Results were immaterial: he was...
Jim Walmsley is one of the most iconic endurance athletes of the modern era. Known for his historic wins at the JFK 50 and Western States 100, and now celebrated as the first American man to win UTMB, Walmsley has cemented his legacy in trail and ultra running history....
It takes a (comparatively) long time for a discus thrown from one side of a field to fly through the air and come down some 75 metres distance from whence it was launched. It takes no time at all to spark a discussion.
A year ago, Mykolas Alekna went to...
A column by Len Johnson
Many years of following football teams – Queens Park Rangers, Melbourne Victory, Australia – has taught me one thing: always check the offside flag.
Whether you’re leaping out of your seat with both arms thrown aloft, or slumping down with both arms wrapped around your head trying...
Written by Jaryd Clifford | Runner's Tribe
Twenty years ago, in the mountains of Tigray, a young shepherd boy herded cattle for his family. The rugged terrain was this boy’s comfortable place, his first home. On April 27, that same young boy from rural Ethiopia will stand on the start...
A column by Len Johnson
Towards the end of the Melbourne’s Maurie Plant Classic meeting last weekend a longtime media colleague asked where I would rank the meeting against previous Melbourne classics.
“It’s up there,” I replied. A simple answer to a complex question. You can rank athletics meetings on many different...
Written by Brett Davies - RT
Part 1- Berlin 1936, Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960 & Mexico City 1968:
By Brett Davies
At the Olympics in Paris, fans were treated to one of the greatest Olympic Men's 1500m races ever. It was a race that was billed as a match-up between the reigning Olympic...
