Track & field athletics writer | Head of digital @athleticsweekly
UK
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🔥 Runners keep being lured into Hyrox. Elliot Giles is the latest – and says he’s coming back for more.
Is it a distraction or an attraction? 👇
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💪 Wall balls: 1, Elliot Giles: 0 (for now).
Why a world record holder is swapping the track for Hyrox, and why he’s “coming back for more” 👇
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“We are desperate for funding to get a new track. We don’t have a competition license.”
Cornwall AC, England Athletics & Athletics Weekly’s Club of the Month, share the challenges they face due to the condition of their track.
The club, which played a key role in Molly Caudery’s youth career, is now hoping to raise funds for a new track where its athletes can train and compete 🏃♂️
Watch the full video on Cornwall AC - trib.al/GNWdqw8
Sad to hear sports journo giant David Miller has died aged 91. A well-known football writer, he also covered athletics a lot and wrote Seb Coe's original autobiography.
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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.
Here’s why ➡️ thehomestraight.substack.com…
"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. 🎿
@AmazfitGlobal @AthleticsWeekly
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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.
📸 @AthleticsImages
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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. 🇦🇺
📸 @AthleticsImages
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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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