The International Prague Indoor Meeting on Tuesday 25 February, a test event for next year’s European Athletics Indoor Championships at the O2 Arena, will likely offer some spectacular performances.

The medal record of Kseniya Ryzhova makes impressive reading: 2007 - gold; 2009 - gold; 2011 - gold; 2013 - gold.

Great Britain’s 400m hurdler Dai Greene is focused on trying to regain the European Athletics Championships title in Zurich this summer.

Just as he thought he would be ready for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot next month, the extraordinary few days in the life of Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie has taken another turn.

An extraordinary weekend for athletics and one which ended in not exactly the way the most-talked about man would have expected it to.

In five days time, the indoor pole vault world record of 6.15m would have marked its 21st anniversary but the celebrations have started early.