Children across the country may have been inspired, by recent European Athletics Championships and the feats of athletes like British sprinters Amy Hunt and Matthew Hudson-Smith, to take up the sport.
But is the sport ready for them? One club not far from the venue which hosted the championships said they were struggling to cope with the interest.
A summer camp run by the Wolverhampton and Bilston Athletics Club was well-attended which their chairman, Colin Thompson, said "was inspired by" the Birmingham event.
"That helps us, but what happens is people come down, having been inspired by the sport, only to find that we can't accommodate them through lack of coaches," he added.
The club has lost four coaches over the last year and struggles to maintain their track, due to local plant life.

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