Muscle fibres honed, fast-twitch reactions snapping, endurance batteries charged, the 2024 European Athletics Championships will be full of human endeavour, enhanced in its drama with less than two months to go until the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
From debutants trying to make a breakthrough, to edge-of-Olympic-selection nervousness, to those making their final preparations for the XXXIII Olympiad, the European Championships taking place in Rome from 7-12 June, will showcase success, agony, and unexpected moments as athletes take to track & field events at the Stadio Olimpico.
Continental bragging rights are, of course, at stake, but…