World Athletics has announced the return of the second instalment of Netflix athletics docuseries SPRINT.
“SPRINT – the thrilling Netflix sports docuseries starring the fastest athletes on the planet – has stormed back on to screens with the release of SPRINT Part 2,” World Athletics said on its website on 13 November 2024.
Four months after the first season launched, the world’s fastest athletes are back. This time the four-part series focuses on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the thrills and spills that unfolded in the French capital.
“As a sprinter, you are going to be remembered by how you did at the Olympic Games,” four-time Olympic medallist Ato Boldon told World Athletics. “You don’t get it right, you have four years to think about what went wrong.”
Olympic 100m champions Noah Lyles and Julien Alfred are among stars of the series, along with 200m gold medallists Gabby Thomas and Letsile Tebogo.
Like Lyles and Thomas, Marcell Jacobs, Fred Kerley and Shericka Jackson all featured in the first series and they return for Part 2, joined by a new string of athletes including Kishane Thompson, Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Kenny Bednarek and Oblique Seville.
“On the track, I’m a whole different person,” says Thomas, who became a treble Olympic champion in Paris. After winning 200m gold, the 27-year-old formed part of USA’s victorious women’s 4x100m and 4x400m teams. “I know in my heart that I can win.”
Created by the team behind Drive to Survive, SPRINT Part 2 follows the lives of these top athletes, offering an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to become the best.
It features speed, drama and fighting talk.
“I’m the fastest, and I’ve got the medals to prove it,” says Lyles, the Olympic 100m champion who was hit with Covid in Paris but still went on to get 200m bronze. “Everybody’s got a chance… to get second.”
The four episodes in SPRINT Part 2 are:
1. All American
2. Changing of the Guard
3. Going for Gold: Part 1
4. Going for Gold: Part 2
The first season of SPRINT was a resounding international success – in its first week of being released, SPRINT ranked sixth on the list of the most-watched shows on Netflix worldwide and was in the top 10 in 50 countries.
Learn more about SPRINT and its stars on World Athletics’ dedicated webpage.
