Image: Colin E Braley/AP/Shutterstock NFL expert? Hardly. A fascination in how athletes are remunerated for their services? Without a doubt. … More
Author: seanwhipp
Assisting athletes explain their sport on their own terms, highlighting the humans behind the statistics.
Footwear, Physics and Carbon Fibre: A tale of consumer fury & in-house wizardry
Lead image: Smiling Eliud – brought to you by Quinn Harris/Getty As a young, hopeful exercise science student (with a … More
Diamond League Preview (pt.2): Field and Track – Stratton and McDermott take flight in Brussels (feat. Noah Lyles and the lane width/track width blue moon)
With the close of business on a Friday sailing by, I’ve waved dutifully, donned my vigilante cap and fired up … More
The Hull Challenge: A weekend of athletics in 15:00.32
Greetings folks, in a renewed effort to provide centralised/contextual/more than one lazy tweet-based coverage of our weird and wonderful sport, … More
Break (Welt)klasse in case of emergency: your backup Zurich preview
(outrageously large image courtesy of Getty) The phrase “Letzigrund Stadium” might not be one to draw instant recognition in Australia, … More
Rugby 7’s, Williams, Isles, Weir and the new Olympic sport set to tempt Australia’s sprinters
With the recent news of 100m sprinter Trae Williams (10.10) moving on to Rugby 7’s, here’s a fun example of … More
IAAF Diamond League Preview: Five Aussies and an 11th-hour Semenya entry
The first leg of the 14 meet IAAF Diamond League series takes place early Saturday morning AEST (2:00-4:00am, Eurosport), and … More
One final season in red and white
This article originally appeared on Tempo Journal. WORDS – SEAN WHIPP PHOTOS – FREDIS BENITEZ NOVEMBER 17TH, 2018: 11:44AM Morgan McDonald stands … More
The moments that mattered: Our recap of the 2018 World Marathon Majors
This article originally appeared on Tempo Journal. 2018 was a remarkable year for the marathon. Not only for the setting … More
Portrait of a Master: How Eliud Kipchoge wrote his name in history.
This article originally appeared on Tempo Journal. WORDS – SEAN WHIPP PHOTOS – ZACH HETRICK AND PIM RINKES Eliud Kipchoge’s record breaking … More
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