Month: June 2024

Stuart Weir is our journalist in Rome for the 2024 European Athletics Championships. This is his piece on two British pole vaulters that he has interviewed many times, who are…

The Olympic bronze medalist, Holly Bradshaw, is out of the European Championships.  The official release is below, but Holly noted that she had a back issue, which I would describe…

OKOYE AND RELAY TOP EIGHT ON ACTION-PACKED OPENING NIGHT AT EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS   The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team got off to a strong start on a busy first…

Six Impressions of Day 1 1 Two medals for the hosts The win in the 5000m race by Nadia Battocletti in the last race of the day was a fitting…

Katerina Johnson-Thompson has withdrawn from the European Athletics Heptathlon. Katerina had competed well in the 100m hurdles and high jump and then faltered in the shot put. Just before the…

2024 NCAA Track & Field Championships, Observations on Day 2, by Paul Merca When we last left you, Texas’s Leo Neugebauer led the decathlon field at the NCAA Division I…

Perkovic for history, Ingebrigtsen for double, Duplantis for WR, Italian hopes for gold ROME (ITA):  The 26th edition of European Championships in legendary Stadio Olimpico (Olympic Games 1960, Europeans in…

First morning thoughts The European Athletics Championships, Roma 2024, started, as TS Eliot might have said had he been here: not with a bang but a whimper.  The magnificent Stadio…

This is Friday, June 7, 2024. This is Week 13, Day 5. This is a recovery day. Your workout for today: Warm-up slowly, 40-60 minutes, easy running, 6 x 150-meter…

Jeff Benjamin’s Spring Book Reviews Second In A Series Bend Don’t Break – A Memoir Of Endurance By Frank O’Mara  Approaching age 50, Frank O’Mara seemed to have everything going…