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Ticking over into olympic year | A Column By Len Johnson New Year’s Eve signals the end of one year and, if you’ve got the stamina, the arrival of the next. For athletics fans, though, there’s something special about New Year’s Eve in a pre-Olympic year. The year 2016 will not...
Happy New Year and The Steigen Spectacular A COLUMN BY MARK TUCKER “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely...
Athletics: Sooner we say the eulogy the sooner it can be resurrected A Column By Joshua Kristos Papanikolaou Track and field is dead. In terms of a professional spectacle it matters to very few people in the world and that won’t change until everyone who loves the sport accepts that fact. So many...
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Make it rain | RT Workout Any Day Session 1 HD  4 X 1km with 4min, 6min & 8min recovery Splits for Mason Cohen per KM - 2:48, 2:45, 2:40, 2:37 Thanks to Ben Liddy and squads. RT WAD Sessions | Workout Any Day
RT Interview with Chris Erickson | Olympics three ways Chris recently secured automatic nomination for selection to the Australian Olympic Team after winning the national 50km race walk title in Melbourne (Vic) After missing out on the 50km at the last two Olympics, how does it feel to have finally booked...
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Race footage thanks the Athletics NSW & Bankstown Sports Athletics Club. Pictures thanks to Jordan Gusman & Sam Strutt
Rio 2016, have you met Melbourne 1956? A Column By Len Johnson “Your projects have been changed several times. Your sites, even including the main stadium, have been changed several times . . . you are contemplating changing the rowing to a site I have never heard of. “There seems to...
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Runner's Tribe interview with NZ's Camille Buscomb who recently came 2nd at the Zatopek:10 in Melbourne. Camille is sponsored by New Balance New Zealand.
Bilateral vs Unilateral Movement Development for Runners By Mark Blomeley Ok, so you’re probably looking at the title and thinking what the? Let me explain… To put this simply, bilateral movement refers to a two arm or two leg movement, whereas unilateral refers to a single arm or single leg movement. In other...
A Column By Len Johnson When David McNeill ran 27:45.01 in the Payton Jordan meeting in Stanford this May, his performance had a certain Dickensian element. To cite the opening line from A Tale of Two Cities , it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The...