Backstraight Boys (& Girl) Athletics Chat
Join Jody, Bayo, and Guests each fortnight (Or so) as they discuss athletics' hot topics, cover live events, and host stars of the sport in longer interview specials. Hit 'subscribe', give us a rating, and join in the conversation on Twitter: @BackstraightB and IG: @BackstraightBoysPodcast .Podcast imagery: Mark Shearman @athleticsimages
Episodes
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 ja...
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 somewha...
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 ...
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 acti...
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 t...
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 u...
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.
Of course we'll be watching every last minute liv...
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 ...
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 heat...
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 t...
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...
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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