Backstraight Boys (& Girl) Athletics Chat
Join Jody, Bayo, and Claire each fortnight 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 @Claire_GThomas.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 184
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Backstraight v Citius - Bonus Edition
We had planned a big World Champs Review for you this week, but being all athleticsed out and with 2 Diamond Leagues and a London Half Marathon to watch, our very special guests kindly…
Budapest Day 9 - The We Need More Of You In Our Sport Edition with Tamsyn Manou and Sebastian Coe
Talk about ending on a high!!! Neeraj, Yaroslava, Jakob, Mary and the World Athletics President Sebastian Coe on our little podcast.
An amazing end to an amazing champs with amazing gue…
Budapest Day 8 - Multiple Medal Madness with Radzi
Full fledged Backstraight Boy Radzi joins us to revel ain another night of first class action.
Champs kept on championing as the likes of Faith, Noah and Sha’Carri increased their Gold …
Budapest Day 7 - The Last Chance Saloon Edition with Tianna Madison
On a night of sprints and jumps who better than sprint and jump legend Tianna Madison to join and discuss all the action.
The field events left it until the very last rounds to claim th…
Budapest Day 6 - The One Love Edition with Tiara Williams and Katelyn Hutchison
Matt upgrades to Silver, Femke upgrades to Gold, Canada come out swinging and Jamaica rule the roost on Day 6 in Budapest.
We’re joined by our new mixed zone besties Tiara from Real Ta…
Budapest Day 5 - The Declaration of War Edition with Jazmin Sawyers
The Scottish/Norwegian War lasted between 1262 and 1266 but now, after nearly 800 years of peace, it seems that Jake and Josh are determined to reignite it.
Another sensational night of …
Budapest Day 4 - The Waiting For The Man Edition with Kyle Merber
Sorry we’re late but it took a very long time for a certain, exuberant Italian to make it to the mixed zone last night. Totally worth the wait obvs ♥️
Today we chat with special guest Ky…
Budapest Day 3 - Sha'carri: She's Not Back, She's Better Edition with Jade Johnson (Again)
Jade's back to discuss another astonishing night of Athletics.
Nuff Respect to Sha'carri Richardson for proving the doubters (Including us wrong).
What a champs!!!
Please enjoy, please su…
Budapest Day 2 - The KATima Whitbread Edition with Jade Johnson.
A Golden night for the Brits as KJT becomes a double World Champion and Zharnel Hughes lives up to his potential with a sensational 100m Bronze medal.
With the wLJ another highlight we i…
Budapest Day 1 - The Double Dutch Disaster Edition
In the first of our quick nightly pods we're aghast over the Dutch misfortunes but ecstatic who we managed to meet on day 1 of Budapest 2023.
If tonight is anything to go by it's gonna b…
Budapest 2023 Preview: The Golden Girls Edition with Dame Denise Lewis and Christine Ohuruogu
Budapest 2023 is finally upon us so it was time to pull out the big guns. To discuss the World Championships we thought we should get on some legendary champions and they don't come any…
The Selection Reflection Edition with Dai Greene, Amber Anning and Jade Lally
When we’re not debating relay lineups, there’s nothing us Athletics nerds love more than chatting about selection policy and now is the time to do it.
With Budapest on the horizon and t…
The Meet Us In London Edition
Straight after the London Athletics Meet we thought we'd drop you a special, no frills episode discussing all the highlights. We chat about sensational performances from Femke Bol, Max …
The Trials and Tribulations Edition with Lloyd Kempson
There's been a feast of athletics over the last few weeks so we invited our good friend and athletics fanatic Lloyd Kempson to join as talk all things track.
Lloyd is a runner, coach and…
A Backstraight Reunion: The 'Don't Mention Pacing Lights' Edition
It's been 2 months since Jody and Bayo were in the same room together. Now that they have stopped gallivating around the world, it's time to reunite and discuss everything that has been…
Anyika Onuora - My Hidden Race
A few months back Anyika Onuora was our guest on Instagram Live to discuss her wonderful new book My Hidden Race. Had so many requests that promised to release it as a pod so that all o…
Jazmin Sawyers Interview Special
We usually save out interview specials for retired legends of the sport but after this winter's exploits we 'Why wait?'. Here's everybody's favourite singing Long Jumper, Jazmin Sawyer…
Re-Run: UK Sprint Queen Special
We promised to repost some of our fave Backstraight episodes and what better place to start than our UK Sprint Queen Special from back in 2018.
Please enjoy, please subscribe and please …
Nafi, Jakob and All That Jaz: European Athletics Indoor Championships Review with Special Guest Mel Anning
Keely made it look easy, Karsten was in PB form, Nafi made history and Jaz had us all jumping for joy. The Boys have been journalising in Istanbul and in the studio they are joined by a…
New Era, Old Flames: An Exciting Istanbul Preview
Having been unceremoniously dumped by their devoted girlfriend of the last 5 years, the newly single boys run back into the arms of an old flame and welcome OG Backstraight Boy, Matt Wo…