Adam Gemili has urged athletes to make their voices heard to get track and field out of the hole it is in. This is the worst of times for athletics in the UK with the only event scheduled being this week’s British Championships; two days of competition, behind closed doors, which has failed to attract any of the big hitters.
Sir Mo Farah and Katarina Johnson-Thompson will instead compete at a Diamond League meet in Brussels. 'Super Saturday' seems a lifetime ago, let alone the halcyon days when the nation would stop to watch Seb Coe, Steve Ovett and their contemporaries. “The sport needs headlines,” Daley Thompson admitted. “It needs a great shop window – otherwise the kids will never get interested.” Right now it has neither and Gemili,
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