Any 15-year-old teenager can tell you there is a frustratingly-long list of things you cannot do. Can’t drink. Can’t drive. Can’t vote. Can’t take out a loan to buy a car to drive to a pub to buy a drink or drive to a polling booth to vote even...
It’s hard to get Amy Winehouse, Roger Bannister and Seth O’Donnell into the same story. Please bear with me as I give it a red-hot go. It’s a long bow but I think I might be able to bend it.
The Victorian Milers Club is in its twentieth year. Meeting...
A column by Len Johnson
It’s not often you pop down the road to see a national record. But that’s what happened when Georgia Griffith broke Abbey Caldwell’s national mark in the 1000 metres this week (Thursday 6 March).
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A column by Len Johnson
One moment it’s Cameron Myers running a 3:47.48 mile at New York’s indoor meeting of legend, the Millrose Games, his time equaling the outright and outdoor national record held by Olli Hoare.
Next, it’s Jack Rayner breaking 13 minutes for 5000 metres, the first sub-13 by...
A column by Len Johnson
As far as we know, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin didn’t care much for sport.
But the Russian revolutionary leader did know a thing or two about history (disclaimer: I don’t). And he once summed up history’s ebbs and flows with the observation: “There are decades in which...
A column by Len Johnson
When John Walker was asked about his ‘modest’ winning time in the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games final, he reputedly responded that world records are made to be broken, gold medals last forever.
It’s true, too. A year earlier Walker had become the first man to break...
A column by Len Johnson
Here’s a sentence this observer never thought he would write. Australia is dominating the men’s 60 metres sprint. No, really.
We’re up there in the women’s 60, too. That’s right, in the blue riband indoor distance to be contested at the world indoor championships in Nanjing...
Is it just me or is Cam Myers channelling Herb Elliott
Awards season continues. World Athletics announces its annual awards, leaving December and the latter part of November out of the ‘year’ presumably in pursuit of getting in first. Track & Field News releases its annual rankings, holy writ from The Bible of the Sport. Now – finally, comes the...
Last week this column took a look at the Track & Field News event rankings for the Paris 2024 Olympic year. There’s always more to the (self-proclaimed) Bible of the Sport’s annual rankings issue than can be covered in a single take, so let’s go back to it again this time around.
