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RT: Collis, thanks for your time. Congrats on your 4th consecutive win at the Noosa Bolt. What is it about Noosa, it seems you have a stranglehold over that race? CB: Well I tried three times before I finally got a win and now I don't really want to give...
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From Runner's Tribe ADDICT comes the second instalment of the 'Destination Doha' interview series hosted by highly knowledgable/top distance runner, Mitch Brown. This episode features 2 X Olympian, Genevieve Gregson. Mitch catches up with Gen as she prepares for the Doha World Championships at an MTC (Melbourne Track Club) training...
Scottish middle distance runner Jake Wightman has taken down the King of 1500m running, and the Tokyo Olympic 1500m champ, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, to win the world 1500m title in Eugene. In a brilliant piece of tactical running, Wightman overtook Ingebrigtsen down the back straight for the last time, taking the...
By Brett Davies Australia has had a surprisingly successful history at the World Indoors, especially since there are no standard IAAF 200m indoor facilities anywhere in the country. Also, they are invariably held in the northern hemisphere, generally around the time of our national championships and other big events. Australians...
Having just completed another solid domestic season and short Asian circuit I can now sit back and look over the season I just had. From the beginning of the season I had set myself a few goals, as everyone does. One goal which was a priority to me was winning...
The Impact of Doping in Our Sport | A Column by Amity Delaney (c) RT As a former competitive athlete, when I would step up onto the starting line of the race, I knew that I had trained hard and prepared as best as I could. As an athlete, I also assumed...
A column by Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe Only one event has had its Gold Coast 2018 trial and already selectors and athletes are in a quandary. Actually, make that two quandaries if we count the news that Australia may be restricted to a quota of 73 athletes in the able-bodied...
Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe Whenever my gaze is drawn to what, in the circumstances, might be called the ‘wrong’ side of our microwave, I find John Stanley, Chris Wardlaw and Dave Fitzsimons looking back at me. Surprisingly, perhaps, the images of these three distinguished Australian distance runners of the 1970-80s...
When I think about books on running, and athletics more widely, it doesn’t take me long to think about Kenny Moore. Moore’s book – Best Efforts: World Class Runners and Races – along with Brian Lenton’s collected interviews in Off the Record and Through The Tape – was one of...
Olympian Brett Robinson will go down in history as the fastest Australian man over 42.2km, after breaking Rob de Castella’s 36-year-old Australian marathon record at the Fukuoka International Marathon this afternoon.
                   

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