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The Moment of the Year: the wait is over

The World Athletics year's best list

The year’s best athletes: my choice

The Blog Is 13 Years Old

Olympism: a bee in de Coubertin's bonnet (part 5 of "the real story of the Olympics")

Thiam is back

The Ultimate Championship: a success

Field events at the Birmingham Europeans

Brookes and the Revival of the Olympics (part 4 of "the real story of the Olympics")

High and low hurdles: a record explosion

Track events at the Birmingham Europeans

The steeplechase mile: one and done (part 2 of "where did innovation go?" mini series)

The 2026 Women's Decathlon championships

Where did innovation go?

Zappas and the Revival of the Olympics (part 3 of "the real story of the Olympics")

Why do we run anticlockwise?

A great long jump competition in Monaco

Once again, I find myself writing about Athletics Podium

The First Call for the Revival of the Olympics (part 2 of "the real story of the Olympics")

Women shot-putters and the de facto world record

A great article in the Deca Passion blog

The Enhanced fiasco

Before the modern, the ancient Olympics (part 1 of "the real story of the Olympics")

The IOC has seen the light. Finally!

The centenary of Kinue Hitomi's book

World Relays in Gaborone

It's time for the real story of the Olympics

Sub-2 marathon: the writing was on the wall

Walk for your life (where I do not write about race-walking)

Cheating on World Athletics’ Front Page

The World 2026 indoors

Dispelling myths about distance running

The transgender question is still not settled

Vaporflys or how supershoes changed the Marathon forever

A bizarre theory on world records

On bad scoring tables

The best of the best of 2025 (according to Athletics Podium)

On the forbidden cartwheel

End credits for Grand Slam Track

Carles Baronet re-launches a newsletter

The 4x100 women's 2000 olympic relay, or how France's medal was stolen

And how about the World Athletics Rising Stars?

Where are the European Rising Stars?

The World Athletes of the year 2025

The World Athletics Awards choices (some good, some less so)

The World Athletics Rising Stars finalists

The rising stars of 2025

The bewildering choices of World Athletics

The World Athletics Athlete of the Year nominees

The year's best athletes

Track events at the Tokyo World's

Field events at the Tokyo World's

The blog is 12 years old

Combined events at the Tokyo World's

The SPE15 site

The real 4x100 m mixed relay is here (at long last)

The Tokyo World Championships: who's in and who's out

The Balkan Games (aka Balkan Athletics Championships)

Decathlon2000 goes free

US Track & Field Trials 2025: who's in and who's out

On the Grand Sham Track

The SRY gene test is here

On the fake progressivity of the WA scoring tables

For the Decathlon fans

Hell froze over: I am writing an article on triathlon

Night of records in Eugene

The one-day decathlon

The first women's decathlon of the year

The Speed Project

Anna Hall did it!

On ultrarunning

The sit-to-stand test

Why I don't like the Grand Slam Track

On "wind doping" stupidity

Revisiting the javelin controversy

The Grand Slam Track

The World 2025 Indoors

The International Track and Field Annual is not dead (yet)