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2018 was a doozy. A vintage year. Mondo, Dina, Eliud, Kevin, Laura, Abderrahman, Nafi, Niamh: we could list athletes until 2020 rolls around, but we've just received our accreditation for European Indoors in March, and are rather excited to crack on with covering that for you instead. It was a year in which 6.69 didn't even get you on the women's long jump podium at the British Championships; in which we saw KJT beam - yes, beam! - after a shot put in a major heptathlon; in which you could win double European gold and then be unable to purchase yourself a celebratory beer, because you're an underage, 17-year-old prodigy. How to tackle such a sumptuous 12 months of athletics? With Tom Bosworth, pastries, and mimosas, of course. We sat down with the Commonwealth silver medallist to discuss everything: from the highs of Birmingham and Berlin, to the lows of the Diamond League scheduling and Callum Hawkins' Gold Coast collapse; why Caster is our female athlete of the year; and to whom we would give this year's Wooden Spoon Award. It was lots of fun, and we hope it prompts a fond look back over a seriously good year of track and field your end. Leave us a review, share this episode with all your friends and family, and get in touch: @BackstraightB, @Claire_GThomas, and @TomBosworth. 

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