SPIKES, powered by IAAF, is publishing stories that help us learn more about our sports stores and our sport’s history. This piece, on the first indoor track meet, is a great example of their unique approach to covering our sport.
INDOOR ATHLETICS: VICTORIAN STYLE
26 JAN 2015
Indoor arenas are a place where reputations are forged and careers kick-started. Last year, Genzebe Dibaba set pulses racing when she set three world records in a fortnight, while Renaud Lavillenie broke Sergey Bubka’s 21-year-old pole vault record. SPIKES went to find out where all this indoor madness began.
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To read this fun feature, please go to: http://spikes.iaaf.org/post/the-history-of-indoor-athletics