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Plus: Middle-distance star Laura Muir - who also competes in Gateshead on Sunday - says she is intent on ending series of near-misses
Dina Asher-Smith needs to find form this summer to have a chance of winning Credit: GETTY IMAGES Early-season races are invariably sedate affairs: a chance to remove the rust and loosen the limbs after months of punishing winter training. There tends to be very little at stake. Olympic medals cannot be won and lost in May. That much remains true, but as warm-up events go, the women’s 100 metres at this Sunday’s Gateshead Diamond League could prove one of the most significant races of the year. If Dina Asher-Smith is in any danger of underestimating the scale of her task at this summer’s...
Linford Christie, pictured at the Lee Valley Athletics Park, north London. Photograph: Tristan Bejawn/The Guardian From running to the shops in Jamaica to wrapping himself in the Union Jack, the Olympian has had phenomenal highs and bruising lows. He looks back on an extraordinary life in athletics Thu 13 May 2021 06.00 EDT Linford Christieâs Olympic training unwittingly began many years before he began to take over the world, 100 metres at a time. As a child, he spent seven formative years in Jamaicaâs most populous parish, St Andrew, where his grandmother, Anita, would send him of...
Linford Christie: Britain’s fastest ever sprinter on race, patriotism and persistence Tumaini Carayol Linford Christie’s Olympic training unwittingly began many years before he began to take over the world, 100 metres at a time. As a child, he spent seven formative years in Jamaica’s most populous parish, St Andrew, where his grandmother, Anita, would send him off to the shops with a cunning technique to ensure that he came back promptly. “She’d spit on the floor and say: ‘Don’t let it dry before you come back,’” laughs Christie over Zoom. “She was most pro...
Died: April 16, 2021. MIKE Mitchell, who has died aged 77, was a guitarist whose solo on The Kingsmen’s version of Richard Berry’s song, Louie Louie, helped define a sound that helped shift rock and roll out of the school hop and into infinitely rawer territory. The song was recorded by the teenage band in a three-track studio, where, according to Mitchell in a 1999 interview with John Broughton on Casey Radio, Melbourne, Australia, the Kingsmen’s one-take wonder of Louie Louie and two more songs took an hour all in, costing a cool $36 to make. The result saw Berry’s three-cho...