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Olympic gold-winning hurdler Brianna Rollins-McNeal – a long time rival of Sally Pearson – could be banned for eight years after being provisionally suspended for an anti-doping violation, track and field's doping agency announced on Thursday. Rollins-McNeal is the reigning 100-metre hurdles Olympic champion after winning in Rio, and in 2013 she became a world […]
From Usain Bolt down, the great and the good of athletics stopped in their tracks yesterday to pay tribute to Lloyd Cowan. Cowan, who passed away aged 58, was the coach who guided Christine Ohuruogu to Olympic and double world title glory. The gentle giant of a man who gave Andy Turner the belief to […]
Seb Coe says he firmly expects the Tokyo Olympics to go ahead – despite the postponement of the World Indoor Athletics Championships. The World Indoors, scheduled for Nanjing in China next March, had already been postponed once. They have now been rescheduled for 2023. Despite that and the fact Tokyo confirmed a record 602 new […]
Russia’s sporting future is at stake in a four-day hearing which starts in Switzerland on Monday. The World Anti-Doping Agency declared the country’s anti-doping agency, RUSADA, non-compliant with its code in December last year over alleged manipulation of laboratory data. It imposed a series of sanctions, including a four-year ban on Russian teams competing in […]
Christian Coleman, the reigning 100m world champion, has been banned from athletics for two years for anti-doping violations. The American committed three whereabouts failures in 12 months and a disciplinary tribunal upheld the Athletic Integrity Unit’s (AIU) original suspension, meaning Coleman will not complete at the Olympic Games in Tokyo next summer should they go […]
Christian Malcolm has started work as British athletics new head coach – despite still living in Australia. Malcolm does not return from Down Under, where he is head of performance for Australia Athletics, until next month. But he has wasted no time renewing acquaintances with British stars like world champion duo Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina […]
Mo Farah spoke of his shock after Eliud Kipchoge, the greatest marathon runner of them all, had the cloak of invincibility ripped from his back. The 8/1-ON favourite had won all four of his London Marathons and made history by breaking two hours on his last outing. Yet in the biggest sensation in 40 years […]
Mo Farah has revealed plans to become a coach and mentor after he hangs up his running spikes. And Britain’s most decorated athlete will take a step in that direction today when he runs in the 40th London Marathon. Farah has agreed to take part not as a competitor but as pacemaker to Brits looking […]
Russia’s suspended athletics federation (RusAF) has been granted a six-month extension to finalise its reinstatement plan before World Athletics decides on potential fresh sanctions or even expulsion, the sport’s global governing body said on Saturday. RusAF was suspended in 2015 after a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of mass doping […]
George Mills heeded the advice of football-playing dad Danny to add a notable chapter to his family’s sporting story. The 21-year-old was crowned British champion for the second time this year by timing his run perfectly to win the 1500 metres in 3 mins 51.39 secs. He did so in the shadow of the Etihad […]