A column by Len Johnson
Mackenzie Little took Australia’s third bronze medal of the championships in the women’s javelin, Beatrice Chebet out-ran Faith Kipyegon, Gudaf Tsegay and others in a 5000 metres that Sebastian Coe would hope will become a template for the Ultimate Championships but it was Emmanuel Wanyonyi...
There have been exciting advances on the Australian indoor all-time list in recent weeks. A number of athletes – including Stewart McSweyn, Morgan McDonald, Ollie Hoare and Jessica Hull – have produced performances putting them among the top Australians ever.
McDonald ran 7:42.76 for 3000 metres at New York’s famous...
Jack Bruce won his first national senior track title. Genevieve Gregson yet again emphasised her competitiveness, and versatility. Jude Thomas broke the national U20 record previously held by Ryan Gregson.
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Such were the main takeaways from the national 3000 metres...
A column by Len Johnson
Asbel Kiprop decides not to continue his quest to prove his innocence of an alleged doping infraction and suddenly all’s well in the war against doping.
Except, of course, it really isn’t, the case exposing worrying flaws in the system and, publicly at least, glossing over...
Time is marked out in finite units – seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. But neither time nor events seem to work out that way. Sometimes nothing much seems to be happening. Other times everything seems to be happening at once.
That’s the way it’s been for the week beginning Sunday...
A column by Len Johnson
Neil Robbins knew Ron Clarke well enough to call him ‘Fat’, Clarke’s boyhood family nickname. He was a teammate of John Landy and Marjorie Jackson; a clubmate of Les Perry, Geoff Warren and Dave Stephens, ‘the Flying Milko’. He trained with Merv Lincoln and many...
Dreaded Lurgi ends Rio hopes | A Column By Len Johnson
Forty years after going to my first Olympic Games I have had to reluctantly accept that I have no chance of making the team for Rio 2016.
I arrived in Sydney on Thursday, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and thinking I...
Actually, that’s a mis-speak. There is no such thing as half a team: the decision is to send NO team at all, just two individuals. Full teams of six for senior men, junior (U20) men and junior women but just two senior women.
To be fair, the senior women’s race...
If you’re an Australian distance runner who is still living in the ‘70s, you are probably aware of Brian Lenton. Indeed, there’s even a chance you are in them.
Back then, Lenton hit on an original idea for ‘his’ first book. He wouldn’t write it himself; he would send out...
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...
