Athletics is the starting point of many different sports and shares a lot of the same techniques. If you throw the hammer, it’s like the swing in golf. If you do the hurdles, it’s like kicking a football. If you do the triple jump, it’s like going for a slam dunk in basketball!

With over 2 billion people tuning in to watch during the Sydney Olympics in 2000, athletics regularly motivates and inspires new people into this fiercely competitive and exciting sport; watching, competing, officiating or volunteering.