Matthew Ramsden Interview: Home is where I'm happiest
So you've recently decided not to go to the US on a college scholarship. Can you tell us how you came to this decision?
So in March I went to the US and visited four schools. The trip went well but I just...
RT turns it's focus from those pursuing these current Olympics to a possible Olympian of the future. Earlier this year Adam Pyke caught the attention of the Australian running scene when he finished 3rd at the Australian Athletics Championships 1500m behind Jordan Gusman and Rio bound, Ryan Gregson. We caught...
All of a sudden it looks like Australia has an 800m runner capable of mixing it on the world stage. Our brightest prospect since Tamsyn Manou, Catriona Bisset has seemingly come from the clouds this season.
By Matt Dawson - Runner's Tribe
Olympic champion Caster Semenya has come to personify the modern controversy surrounding the participation of intersex and transgender athletes in elite women’s sport. She follows a long line of women of more ‘masculine appearance’ whose performances have raised eyebrows on the track.
Stella Walsh of Poland...
By Mark Tucker
“I had broken 2:09. I forgot my exhaustion. Within a couple (of) hours, the agony of a world record run would manifest itself. The elation would be replaced by fear. I would be urinating quantities of blood and vomiting black mucous. The race left me so totally...
QLD Relay Academy: An Introduction
Australia has a huge history in the relay. We’ve won the Olympics, we’ve won World Championship medals, Commonwealth Games, Universiade, World Junior and Youth medals. The only event group on the program to boast such a record.
In 2012, despite having no individual male sprinter in...
Runner's Tribe recently caught up with 2016 Rio Olympian, 2013 World Champs 800m Bronze Medalist, and Big Bear Track Club Co-founder, Brenda Martinez for this awesome chat. (Phone interview transcribed by Runner's Tribe).
Where are you currently situated, and how is training going?
So I live in Big Bear Lake, which is...
Closing the door after bolt has bolted | A Column By Len Johnson
Usain Bolt didn’t need a third relay gold medal to confirm his place among the Olympic immortals, but getting one ensured he would not end on an anti-climactic note.
Bolt took the baton from Nickel Ashmeade for the...
Abebe Bikila Remembered: The First African Great
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"Before Abebe Bikila, there were no runners in Africa, or at least no runners that the world knew about." - Haile Gebrselassie
If there was just one person who has influenced the running world the most, it...
Peter Bol was selected to represent Australia in the Rio Olympics today. This is the interview he did immediately after clocking the qualifier.
RT: How good does it feel to have just clocked the Rio Olympic Qualifier in the 800m?
PB: It's always an unbelievable feeling when you run a PB and...
