Simon @ The Pacer

Olympic marathon gold for Sifan Hassan🥇

YouTube video by Olympics From 4th to 1st in one lap, Femke Bol's incredible comeback!

FEMKE BOL'S 400MH PROGRESSION

2019 55.32 (18yrs old)
2020 53.79 (19yrs old)
2021 52.03 (20yrs old)
2022 52.27 (21yrs old)
2022 52.27 (22yrs old)
2023 51.45 (23yrs old)
2024 50.95 (24yrs old)

With Femke always being benchmarked against Sydney, it can be easy to forget just how elite she is.

Ingen gjør det bedre! Long live Kingebrigtsen!

Another European XC gold to add to the collection this morning. Unmatched when it comes to churning through the gears/mud 🏅

👍Great reminder, he'd have cruised it in '96!

Yeh, they've said each event will be broadcast in a made-for- television 3 hour window. Will feel glacial 🧊

In Gout Gout we trust!

YouTube video by Lachlan Shanks Gout Gout National record 20.04 (+1.5) at Australian all schools 2024

More madness from Gout Gout... 20.04 in the 200m 🫠🫠🫠🫠

youtu.be/hPlvYDsAYnI?...

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Yeh, she was my number 2. Can't tell if I'm just biased being British though!

The nicher, the better

Sentimental picks very much encouraged!

Had to Google this one but looks a great contender!

YouTube video by Carl King Lewis Colin Jackson & Colleagues Win the 4x110m Hurldles at Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield 1992.

🤔 Question for those who enjoy pondering Track and Field history:

Who is the greatest athlete to never win an Olympic Gold?

For me, it's the Welsh whippet, Colin Jackson. World Champ and World Record holder, both indoors and out!

Who would you pick?

And check out this magnificent 4×110MH!

Pick me! A little less professional than those listed but I try and post interesting musings on track and field

Absolutely flies once he gets going, and isn't too cool to celebrate. I'm a big fan already 👏

I'm thinking Jacobs!

YouTube video by 10 News First Gout Gout Runs Fourth Fastest Australian 100m Time | 10 Sport

Wind assisted, but my word Gout Gout is going to be special...

youtube.com/shorts/YR_yX...

Some dates for ya diary from World Athletics, with accompanying event timetables 🤤 📅 🏃‍♂️ 🎽

But also easy to apply the concept to other global sports.

Yep, it's a benchmark distance for demonstrating speed in American Football. Having a track athlete do it in 4.15 shows a football crowd just how fast track athletes are...and hopefully piques their interest in athletics.

YouTube video by RunnnSphere Kalen Walker Runs 2nd-Fastest 40 Time EVER!

I'm all for cross-pollination when it comes to promoting athletics.

Put an athlete in a context that a sports crowd understand, and just let them be awed. This is a great example where the fans have an obvious benchmark to compare to.

V effective for T&F, a sport that's hard to contextualise.

So this is what I missed: "Once the finalists have been established, a fan vote will open – for all registered users of Inside Track – to help determine the overall World Athletes of the Year".

Haha yeh, the name sucks and WA have really crowbarred their name into it 😅 But struggling to think of better, maybe the Ultimate Athletics Championship or just We Hate Field Events 😉

a man in a yellow jacket is dancing in front of a blue and yellow flag ALT: a man in a yellow jacket is dancing in front of a blue and yellow flag

Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't understand how Mondo didn't win the overall Male Athlete of the Year.

His achievements are no lesser than Bolt's 9.58 and he's made PV a marquee event, even for generalists. Tebogo is class but not on Mondo's level, yet.

All feels a little calculated...

Valencia is a notoriously fast, flat-as-a-pancake course that always delivers!

And today was no different with Sebastian Sawe cantering to a 2:02:05 finish, the 5th fastest marathon in history. Better still, this was Sawe's debut over the distance 👏👏👏

Not a good read. I've watched the 6 or so seasons of Team Ingebrigtsen which ran from 2016-2021. From that, it's clear that Gjert is hyper controlling, obsessive and right on the line of acceptable, and that's with a film crew there. Can't imagine the fear when they weren't.

Haha this is classic! I never knew 🤣

I agree, they do. But rivalries need to be more than 2 people flying down a track 4 times a year. There needs to be tension and a little bite, especially off the track. Top athletes rarely show enough personality to build an engaging story, something which @lylesnoah.bsky.social is very effective at

But I suspect they'll just be fun one-off nights, filled with fast times, smiles and hugs, fireworks, influencers and Doja Cat (tbc). Entertaining enough, but not a compelling story to get new viewers invested in the sport in the long term.

What do you think?

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I believe reduced format events (eg. Grand Slam Track) will work if they are able to create these stories/rivalries off the track. So that viewers are primed and excited when it comes to race day, like boxing fans come fight night.

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