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We’re joined by 400h star Seamus Derbyshire to talk about his breakout season, surprise relay success and how being his automatic self had rejuvenated his career. 

We also fill you in on our guest appearance at The British Athletics Supporters Club annual get together and bemoan the inevitable mess that is World Athletics AOY award 🙄 

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After a lot of hand wringing about Team GB's showing in Tokyo we've decided to look on the bright side and celebrate some of our positive performances. 

We're joined by World Champ finalist Scot Lincoln to celebrate his great season,  recent move to Australia and potential new Sumo career.

We also discuss Femke Bol's shock move to the 800m and propose the idea of BSB merch!!!

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Thought we'd take a breather after returning from Tokyo before dropping our review pod. Not that we've been slacking, we've been rewatching every last minute of the action if course!!! You miss so much in the stadium. 

We're joined by one of the very few people we can be certain has followed everything as closely as we have broadcasting legend and honorary Backstraight Girl Jeanette Kwakye.

Together we discuss all of the ups and downs of a fantastic 2025. World Championships. 

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Better late than never, right???

Sorry for the delay but we’ve been having some Japanese adventures before finally dropping our update of the last weekend. 

There was lots of drama over the last two days including relay mishaps, surprise shared medals and lots and lots of rain ☔️ 

We’ll be back very soon with a full Champs review and hopefully some special guests. 

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Sorry we're late guys, but I'm sure you'll appreciate that after the exploits of Friday we we got a bit delayed in our podcasting responsibilities.

There was a fantastic turn out for our afternoon meet up and beers before we headed to the stadium and continued the partying.

Rai and Femke claimed more 400h GOLD whilst Noah 4peated in the 200m and MJW did the sprint double but it was our very own Amy Hunt claiming silver that tipped us over the edge and back to the pub.

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Who better to join us on a history making day of 400m running that the one lap Legend Christine Ohuruogu?

We discuss Sydney McLaughlin - Levrone’s jaw dropping run in 47.78,  second fastest time in history.

Keshorn Walcott also make history winning a World title 13 years after winning the Olympics back in London 2012 whilst  Collen Kebinatshipi became Botswana’s first ever WC.

TJ GOAT Yulimar Rojas made a brave attempt at retaining her title but has to settle for bronze behind Leyanis Pérez Hernández and OLY Cham...

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Olympic 1500m finalist and host of The Running Channel podcast Andy Baddeley joins us to celebrate a well deserved Silver medal from Eugene ‘22 Champ Jake Wightman 🥈

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Colin’s back to take us through the 110m hurdles final and we all marvel at Ethan’s monster HT, Faith’s 4th 🥇🥇🥇🥇 and Sydney’s STUNNING Semi Final run 😮 

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We're joined by the legendary Olympic, World and Commonwealth 100mh Champion Sally Pearson to discuss another night of shock results here in Tokyo.

We get her expert take on a startling Ditaji Kambundji win in the sprint hurdles and an elated Geordie Beamish in the steeplechase. 

But not everything was as surprising. Of course Mondo did it again. A WR on the biggest stage!!!

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We had a fantastic evening in the stadium hanging out with some with Athletico Royalty and enjoying the iced wine 🧊 🍷

The action was pretty great as well.

A sensational 10k result gave fan fave Jimmy Gressier a surprise win and the 100m Finals didn’t disappoint with new Champions in both events and a resurgent Jamaica passing the baton to the next generation. 

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We’ve made it all the way to Tokyo and whilst the jet lag is kicking in we’re here to recap Day 1 along with Trackastic Podcast host and Atheltico royalty Chris Brown Sport. 

Golds from fan fave Evan Dunfee and a resurgent Ryan Crouser had us cheering, whilst Beatrice Chebet’s dominant kick finish outpaced all of her rivals as usual.

Mixed bag from the Brits with heartbreak for our Jaz but the sprinters all made it through safely with finals to come this evening 🤞🏾

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For our World Championships preview edition we're joined by Hurdles Royalty Sally Gunnell and Kevin Young 👑

Both Sally and Kevin were crowned the 1992 Olympic and 1993 World 400mh Champions,  setting WR's along the way and with Tokyo 2025 only days away we all get deep into what we're looking forward to most (There's a lot of hurdles chat).

We also reminisce about their legendary careers as well as discover that we've all known each other for a VERY long time!!!

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The DL Final action took second place to our epic quest to meet The Queen, Merlene Ottey 👑

Well mission accomplished, so whilst we quickly review the best perfs on the track we also fill you in on all our old skool ‘networking’ at a fabulous Weltaklasse. 

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EMERGENCY PODCAST ALERT!!! 🚨 

MORGAN JUMPED 2 METRES!!! 

THE TEAM WAS ALSO ANNOUNCED!!!

BUT MORGAN JUMPED 2 METRES!!! 🥳

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After a week of stunning DL performances the boys discuss Keely and Karsten comebacks, WR near misses and a very damp LJ competish before we all head to Zurich for the big Final later this week. 

They then have a good old gossip rounding up all the off track drama that’s been taking place and wonder if those last few selection decisions aren’t quite as set in stone as we’d all thought. 

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We promised you a special guest and they don’t come any more special than hurdles LEGEND Colin Jackson here to tell us all about his new venture the Track, Field & Life app. 

It’s a one stop shop for athletics nerds everywhere with results, rankings, bios and more. 

We also chat about the trials results from both sides of the Atlantic and make a plans for a right royal meet up in Zurich 🤞🏾

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The gang’s all here as FIVE times British Long Jump Champion Jazmin Sawyers returns to  tell us all about her fantastic weekend at a sensational UK trials. We discuss all the action, the marvellous new surroundings and the potential headaches for the selectors. 

Over in America the news was even more shocking and that’s was just the fights!!! The USATF champs never disappoint and this year was no exception with some jaw dropping performances and heartbreaking results. 

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Just dropping into you feeds with a quick round up of all the action from Day 1 of the British Trials.

Great performances and great stadium but some potential headaches for the selectors.

Thanks Mel. Sorry Divine.

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Trials season is upon us and this weekend we’re off the Birmingham to enjoy all the drama at the  Novuna UK Athletics Championships. 

As usual the selection criteria is somewhat complicated so join us as we break everything down and discuss the most exciting clashes off the weekend

Big thanks to Preet Majithia and Alex Seftel for doing all the hard work. 

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The boys have got LOADS to talk about after a jam packed London Diamond League with great performances all round, especially from the Brits. They’ve joined by some familiar names from the Mixed Zone after the event. 

There’s also discussion of a high go quality Euro U23’s and some great news about the 2029 World Champs. 

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The boys are back from Glastonbury and here to discuss all the fantastic athletics that's we've been enjoying over the last couple of weeks, including The European Team Championships and a sensational Pre Classic.

They're also joined by fan favourite and The Hardest Working Woman in Track Maia McKoy, who tells us all about her recent success on the circuit and how a certain African adventure went somewhat awry.

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The boys are back from Glastonbury and here to discuss all the fantastic athletics that's we've been enjoying over the last couple of weeks, including The European Team Championships and a sensational Pre Classic.

They're also joined by fan favourite and The Hardest Working Woman in Track Maia McKoy, who tells us all about her recent success on the circuit and how a certain African adventure went somewhat awry.

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The gang's all here to round up a very busy week of Track and Field, including a resurgent Diamond League and a shocking Grand Slam announcement, as well as great performances at the NAACP, but most importantly some major Jaz news!!!

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Instead of our usual round up edition of our trip to Götzis we have something a little different for you this week. 

Here is an interview that we did straight after the meet with the guys from The Swiss Track Check podcast. They’re basically the Swiss Backstraight Boys and when they spotted us in the crowd, invited us on to their pod to discuss our amazing weekend in the mountains. 

Normal service will resume next week with a big guest!!!

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To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis we’ve managed to bag some spectacular guests this week. 

Double World Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist Katarina Johnson Thompson and World and European Indoor Champ Sander Skotheim join us to chat about their experiences competing in the world’s premier multi event competition.

We’ll we heading a to the Austrian mountains as well to enjoy 2 days of action, meet some legends and most of all eat LOTS of apple cake. 

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EMERGENCY POD ALERT!!!!

Our Backstraight Girl is BACK. In her first competition since September 2023 she competed at the Loughborough International meet on Sunday and jumped very encouraging 6.53m.

Of course we had to her her straight on the pod to tell us all about it and celebrate another special occasion at the same time.

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The boys are back and to make up for their shameful absence they are really spoiling you with today's guests. Fresh from their spectacular victory at The World Relays Amy Hunt and Success Eduan drop by to tell us all about taking down some of the biggest names in the business.

They also catch up with all the other action that has taken place in the last month and hint at some exciting new interviews taking place this week You won't want ti miss them!!! 

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We’re joined by newly minted World Indoor 400m champ and long time friend of the pod Amber Anning to chat about her sensational last few months. 

Afterwards the we discuss last weekend inaugural Grand Slam Track meet and Decathlon Legend Daley Thompson’s entrance into the Big Brother house. 

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The gang are all recovered from their weekend jet lag and get together to do a speedy recap of the Nanjing World Indoors. Obviously it goes on longer than than planned. 

They each pick a favourite event and discuss how the overall champs was much better than anticipated. But it wouldn’t be a BSB pod without a good old rant so luckily their have been more baffling World Athletics announcements this week to have us all up in arms. 

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The Championships keep coming and so do the BSB podcasts!!!

The gang is all here and we're joined by European and World Indoor 60mh Champ Andrew Pozzi. 

Newly retired he tells us all about the highs and lows of his career and then joins us to try and make sense of a truly chaotic Nanjing World Indoor Champs. Despite our best efforts we fail miserably. 

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Jody didn’t make it to Apeldoorn so we’ve invited Backstraight Roving Reporter Preet on to fill us in on all the action. 

Netherlands cleaned up at their home champs with 7 Golds whilst Team GB had mixed results. 

Big names like Lieke, Jakob, Sander and Ditaji shone but Jerry’s win and a resurgent Andy Robinson stole the show for British fans 🤩

All this and we discuss the very weird UK team for Nanjing. 

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After many discussion about which legend we should invite on for our Apeldoorn  2025 Euro Indoors Preview, we realised we already had one in da house !!! 

Reigning European Long Jump champ (And more importantly #1 Backstraight Girl) Jaz Sawyers is here with us, to discuss all the action at the upcoming champs. 

Bayo has been up a mountain, Jaz is recovering from the Brit Awards and Jody still hasn’t decided if he’s attending the champs, but join us whilst we get absolutely everything wrong before the action starts on Thursda...

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Four time Olympic Champ Carl Lewis called it an 'April Fools joke' and double champ Militiatis Tentoglu said it was 'dog shit'  and threatened to retire from the event, but World Athletics seem determined to implement their controversial new Long Jump innovations.

Obviously this is a topic very close to the podcast's heart so we gathered together an all star team of LJ luminaries to have a heated (If one sided debate). Jaz is back along 🥳 along with UK #1 Jacob Fincham - Dukes as well as friend of the pod 2 x Worl...

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This week we’re joined by a whole host of legendary guests to celebrate MOWA (The Museum of World Athletics). 

Last summer we were invited (Gatecrashed!) a gathering of dozens of Olympic and World champions who had joined Seb Coe to celebrate Paavo Nurmi’s 5 Olympic Gold medals from Paris 1924 being lent to MOWA for display at Paris 2024!!!

The Museum of World Athletics is a travelling and online collection of some of the most iconic memorabilia from the sports long and storied history. 

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The old gang are all here as we're joined by OG Backstraight Girl, Claire Thomas to round up the whole of 2024!!!

We has 3 Major Champs and a whole host of stunning performances to look back on so we choose our highs and lows from an amazing year of T&F.

Special shout outs to Jazmine Sawyers and Preet Majithia for all of their help this year and of course all our special guests.

See ya in 2025 :-)

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The year is coming to an end so we get together for a quick catch up on all of the recent news for the world of T&F

From the Euro Cross Country to new announcements from WA and British Athletics as well as updates on the Ultimate Championships and talk of a potential Treadmill  Champs. We pack in a lot before our End of Year Review, coming soon!!! 

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With World Athletics about to announce there Athletes and Performances of the Year awards (And inevitably get it wrong) we’ve called in some Athletico royalty to make the definitive decisions for 2024!!!

We’re joined by Chris Brown Sport and Jamie McGann from the TrackCastic podcast to hand out the most prestigious prizes of the year. 

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Ten years ago, long before the podcast, 20 year old sprint sensation Jodie Williams did an interview for our old blog Jody and Bayo's Athletics Spectacular. It was at the very beginning of her senior career and she could not have started it off in an more auspicious way, ending the season with both European and Commonwealth medals.

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Sprint Season 2 is here and we have MANY thoughts!!! 

Noah, Gabby and Shericka are back, but Season 1 faves Sha’Carri and SAFP are missing, as is the entire continent of Africa, whilst newcomers like Julian Alfred and Kushan’s Thompson prove that the biggest personalities don’t necessarily make the most compelling characters. 

The boys dig into the good and bad, discussing what might be required for a potential Season 3. 

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