Backstraight Boys (& Girl) Athletics Chat

Mar 27 2025 169 ep. 59 mins 67
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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

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The ‘Very Quick’ Nanjing Review Edition

Mar 27 2025 48 mins  
Send us a text 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 Wo

The Nanjing Preview Edition + Interview Special with Andrew Pozzi

Mar 17 2025 79 mins  
Send us a text 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

The Apeldoorn Review Edition with Preet Majithia

Mar 12 2025 60 mins  
Send us a text 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

The Apeldoorn Preview Edition with A European Indoor LEGEND

Mar 04 2025 76 mins  
Send us a text 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 Bri

The Jumping Mad Edition with Jacob Fincham-Dukes + Fiona May

Feb 22 2025 67 mins  
Send us a text 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 L

The ‘Know Your History’: MOWA Special Edition

Feb 12 2025 50 mins  
Send us a text 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 Ath

Backstraight End of Year Review 2024 with Special Guest Claire Thomas

Dec 30 2024 108 mins  
Send us a text 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

The Ultimate Roundup Edition

Dec 17 2024 42 mins  
Send us a text 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!!! Please enjoy, pl

The BackCastic Athlete of the Year Edition

Nov 28 2024 93 mins  
Send us a text 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. Please enjoy, please subscri

The Jodie Williams Career Celebration: Special Edition

Nov 22 2024 52 mins  
Send us a text 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. But all good things must come to an