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Russia’s former world indoor 1,500 metres champion Yelena Soboleva has been handed an eight-year ban after she violated anti-doping regulations, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Wednesday. Soboleva, who set the world indoor record in 2008, had previously received a two-year suspension along with six other leading Russian women athletes ahead of […]
Thompson broke his personal best time while also qualifying for the Olympics Veteran Chris Thompson, who turns 40 next month, produced a masterful performance to win the British Olympic Marathon trials in the unusual surroundings of London’s Kew Gardens on Friday to secure his place in Tokyo. In damp, grey conditions on a multi-lap course […]
Golden girl Katarina Johnson-Thompson is taking no chances as she bids to be fit in time for the Tokyo Olympics. With less than four months until the Games start in Japan, Britain’s world champion heptathlete is back in training following a serious Achilles injury. And she has posted a picture on Instagram of herself ‘training’ […]
British athletes have been forced to self-isolate after returning from the European Athletics Indoor Championships that took place in Poland last weekend. The 46-strong squad have been told to isolate for a period of 10 days following a member of support staff returning a positive lateral flow test for coronavirus. The British Athletics squad won […]
Keely Hodgkinson was hailed as Britain’s newest athletics star by Dina Asher-Smith after conquering Europe at her first attempt. Four days after turning 19 the Wigan youngster ran a commanding race to become European Indoor champion over 800 metres in Poland. Her golden moment ensured Christian Malcolm’s unsung team departed Torun with 12 medals – […]
British athletics captain Jodie Williams chased away her demons to win a first championship medal in seven years last night. The one-time child prodigy had not made an international podium since 2014 and was new to the 400 metres distance. But on a dramatic night for her team in Poland she produced a lifetime best […]
Holly Bradshaw has revealed the “nightmare” logistical challenge of getting to Poland in shape to lead Britain’s medal charge at the European Indoor Athletics Championships. Pole vault star Bradshaw is favourite for gold tomorrow but she has arrived in Torun having been unable to compete in five out of eight possible events due to cancellations […]
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 […]