When four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson set up the Grand Slam Track league it was meant to redefine athletics, finally making it popular outside the Olympics. But just a few months after launching the whole thing collapsed: the final event was cancelled and athletes are still owed millions of dollars. So what went wrong? Can they make up the $19m shortfall? And where does this leave the athletes?

We'll be joined by Paul Doyle, agent to more than a dozen athletes who competed at Grand Slam Track, and The Athletic's Adam Crafton who's been investigating why it fell apart.

Plus Gabby and Mark tell stories of Henry Pollock's room mate on the Lions tour, react to Anisimova's comeback after the Wimbledon final disaster, and despair about how much cricket there is, even for cricket fans!

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