Backstraight Boys Athletics Chat

2020: the year that we witnessed garden-staged pole vault AMRAPs and a London Marathon consisting of 19 laps of St James' Park. A season that brought us world records, empty stadia, and Noah Lyles running a devastating 180 metres (in every sense of the word). Months of waiting for Karsten Warholm to scorch his way to history, and a few seconds of explosive perfection as Johannes Vetter hurled a javelin beyond the 97-metre mark. A season sprinkled with individual moments of brilliance, and yet overshadowed by a global pandemic, a decimated calendar, and a huge amount of uncertainty. It's been a strange year for us all.With all of this in mind, and a few rants about the new long jump competition structure and the lights being used to help pace WR attempts, the team look back on 2020: celebrating its highs and the *incredible* podcast guests we've been lucky enough to host, and reflecting on where things were just as disappointing as they had every right to be, given the circumstances...The conclu