“Has anybody here seen Kelly? K-E -double L-Y” the refrain from a huge music hall hit became box office again in 2004 as the ever popular Kelly Holmes finally set aside her prior Olympic and World level disappointments, and previous consolation of clouds with silver linings, to win her lyrical double gold. To have seen […]
*T&FT@30 – Rewind 2004
*T&FT@30 – Rewind 2003
Birmingham successfully hosted the World Indoor Champs at the National Indoor Arena in March 2003: with Birchfield Harriers Ashia Hansen winning the Triple Jump and fellow Midlands star Marlon Devonish triumphant in the 200m Birmingham consolidated its status as the home of British Athletics. The British team won 7 medals finishing 4th on the medals […]
T&FT@30 – Rewind 2002
2002 was the “M&M” year with Manchester & Munich venues for the quadrennial European Champs & Commonwealth Games combo – it was remarkable how many fans managed to attend both events with only 6 days between the schedules – not to mention athletes doubling up too! T&FT was selected by the organisers to be an […]
*T&FT@30 – Rewind 2001
2001 was a “Canadian Odyssey” as world class athletics and the draw of Alberta & the Rocky Mountains caused an avalanche of fans to sign up for the Edmonton World Champs – the off track experience matched that in the stadium with an imaginative T&FT excursions and cultural programme. The sparkling success of the Sydney […]
*T&FT@30 – Rewind 2000
One enchanted evening at the Sydney Olympics the stars were truly aligned at the T&FT Supporters Party as Michael Johnson & Denise Lewis joined us to the delight and astonishment of our clients – a preview of their future BBC roles as they expertly handled the Q&A interviews. What a highlight! “How was that arranged?” […]
*T&FT@30 – Rewind 1999
The millennium climaxed in stylish but scorching Seville a demanding venue, where the “heat of competition” took on a whole new meaning for athletes and fans in the stadium cauldron: it was hotter than Doha in 2019 with no venue air-conditioning or evening only session concessions – brutal. With daytime temperatures peaking at 42 C […]
*T&FT@30 – Rewind 1998
A year of world-wide venues with Valencia, St. Petersburg, Budapest and Kuala Lumpur each having their fascinations and were well supported as a result. T&FT also extended the important role of training camps for elite and club athletes in developing a well-rounded business It is in the winter off season that the groundwork for athletes […]
*WANDA Diamond League 2021 – Travel Packages
We have been making arrangements for fans to attend all IAAF sanctioned Diamond League events and their World Relays and Continental Cup events for 30 years and have established excellent relationships with the individual event promoters to secure event tickets. We are organising a series of options to cover the last three Diamond League events of the […]
*T&FT@30 – Rewind 1997
With Europe the centre of world athletics in 1997 as Paris, Turin and Athens hosted the IAAF World Indoors, World Cross Country and summer World Champs, and with the Europa Cup Final in Munich, 700+ fans travelled with T&FT to these 4 easily accessible events – a record volume for T&FT for that period. Athens […]
UKA Events Team – Thanks
We would like to acknowledge the many great events delivered by Cherry Alexander, Georgia Beykra and colleagues that T&FT has had the pleasure to work with as UKA reorganises itself. London 2017 was the best attended / presented World Champs ever – we have attended all of them – with memories to cherish
*CHORZOW European Team Championships 2021
The European Athletics Team Championships Super League will return to Poland in 2021 after the Slaski Stadium in Chorzow / Katowice was confirmed as the host venue for the top tier of Europe’s foremost team event which takes place on 19-20 June. The Super League was due to be held in Minsk, Belarus next year […]
*T&FT@30 – Rewind 1996
Kansas’s Wizard of Oz had a “twister” and magic ruby red shoes and in Atlanta in 1996 Michael Johnson ran like the wind in his magic golden spikes to be the star of the Olympic Games athletics programme. The Games on the track and in the field were predictably held with US razzamataz to which […]