Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr · 12 segments
On this episode of *After the Lights Go Out,* Steve Harmison and Leon McKenzie sit down with British athletics legend Colin Jackson for a raw, unfiltered dive into life after elite sport. On the…
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Steve HarmisonHost
So I won the European title there and I went to Crystal Palace to do my last outdoor race.
And I remember I had this rapturous... applause from the crowd that just went on and on and on and you can imagine they tried to get a deadline of the competition going and it knocked me for six emotionally i literally couldn't run because i wasn't expecting it so i said to the british athletics like please don't do anything like that again before i run in this in this next final because Again, it just saps all your energy because it takes away your nervous energy.
So I was really kind of anxious and waiting, thinking, oh, everybody's going to notice my last competition.
Please, I appreciate everything you're doing for me, but I just need to compete well.
I just wish I could have done one more race or I wish I'd have not told people I was going to retire so I could have just raced, you know.
But I was already in the mindset and telling everybody, yeah, it's my last race, my last competition.
But then when I finished, I remember one of my mates saying to me, he still is a very good friend of mine, by the way, even when he said to me, oh, mate, today you're something.
So I won the European title there and I went to Crystal Palace to do my last outdoor race.
And I remember I had this rapturous... applause from the crowd that just went on and on and on and you can imagine they tried to get a deadline of the competition going and it knocked me for six emotionally i literally couldn't run because i wasn't expecting it so i said to the british athletics like please don't do anything like that again before i run in this in this next final because Again, it just saps all your energy because it takes away your nervous energy.
So I was really kind of anxious and waiting, thinking, oh, everybody's going to notice my last competition.
Please, I appreciate everything you're doing for me, but I just need to compete well.
I just wish I could have done one more race or I wish I'd have not told people I was going to retire so I could have just raced, you know.
But I was already in the mindset and telling everybody, yeah, it's my last race, my last competition.
But then when I finished, I remember one of my mates saying to me, he still is a very good friend of mine, by the way, even when he said to me, oh, mate, today you're something.
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