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Michael Johnson's Grand Slam Jam: Why are athletes still owed millions?

Michael Johnson's Grand Slam Jam: Why are athletes still owed millions?

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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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