Track & field athletics writer | Head of digital @athleticsweekly
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🔴 What’s the best track you’ve ever visited?
Mine involves cinders, a miniature oval next to a hotel in the Alps and a love of tracks that started on a lumpy school grass oval.
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🏟️ Some people chase sunsets. I chase athletics tracks.
From a lumpy 300m grass oval in Blackpool to a tiny track in the Alps, confessions of a track fetishist 👇
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Today marks seven years since Eliud Kipchoge went sub-two in Vienna ⏱️
Sawe has since done it officially in London, but I still think Vienna was the more monumental moment.
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"You can't run 30 hours a week, you'll destroy your body!" 😅
Ben Dhiman told me how he trains for UTMB, and it involves a lot more ski mountaineering than you'd expect.
My chat with the 2026 champion. 🎿
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Jeffrey Archer, who first appeared in the pages of @athleticsweekly on June 22, 1957, as a promising teenage sprinter, has died aged 86.
The novelist remained busy until his final days, appearing on TV this month to promote his last book.
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🐕 Two years ago I bought a canicross harness and set out to turn my cockapoo into a training partner.
But unfortunately I found out he'd rather sniff a hedge 🌿. New piece: thehomestraight.substack.com…
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70th. birthday shout for double Olympic champion and multi world record breaker Sebastian Coe, my photo. shows Seb. training in the Peak District in 1979 @AthleticsWeekly
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for anyone into athletics and middle distance running - this is quite brilliant @Jason_AW - I was lucky enough to get a view from the track for some of these - always a significant distance behind - @sebcoe - a quite remarkable runner !
"He could run. I mean, really run." - WR Loader, Testament of a Runner.
📸 @AthleticsImages
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"He was just the next guy." Josh Kerr on Jakob Ingebrigtsen. "It comes from a place of insecurity." Same rivalry, different quote.
Athletics finally learned to talk trash. The women's 800m still hasn't — and I asked them why.
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"He could run. I mean, really run." - WR Loader, Testament of a Runner.
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Cowards. Clip farming. A war of words that went out live on BBC radio.
The strange history of trash talk in athletics — and why the women mostly skip it.
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🤖 Made with AI
Berlin Marathon wasn't easy for Brits to watch this morning but here's a round-up of what happened.
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26 years ago today: Cathy Freeman, 110,000 flashbulbs capturing the moment, one Olympic Stadium in Sydney — and me filing this report on deadline as it happened. Some things you never forget. 🇦🇺
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Beaten in Copenhagen this weekend. Still one of the most compelling runners in the sport.
Why a bad day for Jakob Ingebrigtsen is more interesting than most people's best 👇
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"It still feels kind of surreal that I have gone from 400m to half marathons." 🇸🇪
World half-marathon champ Andreas Almgren on his rise — from a data scientist's methodical training blocks to gold in Copenhagen, with NYC Marathon now in his sights.
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Andreas Almgren is a rising ⭐️
European 5000m and 10km records, world 10,000m bronze, European 10,000m gold — and now a world half-marathon title in a European record of 58:06.
What can he do on his marathon debut in New York?
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen caught Dawit Seare with 200m to go in Copenhagen, looked to have the world 5km road title sewn up… and then got run down himself by the relatively unknown Eritrean.
One of the most brutal reversals you'll ever see. Seare's late kick was something else 😳
No lasers, no light shows, no DJ – 12 hours after Athlos lit up London, Copenhagen reminded us road racing doesn't need any of that. Just two clinical 150m kicks from Agathe Guillemot and Robert Farken and the whole field left scrapping for minor medals.
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"It still feels far too soon to be handing a World Championships to a country where doping has been so widespread." - @Lawton_Times
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