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World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman, who served an 18-month ban for breaching anti-doping whereabouts rules, plans to race for the first time in nearly two years at New York’s Millrose Games next month. The competition on 29 January will be his first since February 2020 after the pandemic and the anti-doping suspension curtailed the […]
Adam Gemili will continue training with Rana Reider British sprinters Adam Gemili and Laviai Nielsen have been removed from UK Athletics’ World Class Programme after deciding to stay with American coach Rana Reider, UKA has announced. Last month, the duo, along with fellow sprinter Daryll Neita, were told by the governing body to “cease all […]
Eight years after he shot dead his girlfriend, Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is up for parole, but first he must meet with her parents. Pistorius, a double-amputee athlete who competed at the 2012 Olympics, has been eligible for parole since July after he was convicted of murder for shooting model Reeva Steenkamp multiple times through […]
Agnes Jebet Tirop's husband has now been arrested as he tried to flee to a neighbouring country after being named as a "suspect" in the Kenyan Olympian's tragic death. The Kenyan Olympic star, who was the women's 10km road race world record holder, died a week before her 26th birthday after she was allegedly stabbed […]
Police are treating Agnes Jebet Tirop's husband as a "suspect" after the Olympic star was found dead at her home in Kenya. Athletics has been rocked by the death of the women's 10km road race world record holder, who finished fourth in the Olympic 5,000m final in Tokyo two months ago. She had allegedly been […]
Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei won a thrilling women’s London Marathon on Sunday in two hours, 17 minutes and 43 seconds as world record holder and defending champion Brigid Kosgei faded late in the race to finish outside the podium places. Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia was a comfortable winner of the elite men’s race in a time […]
It's that time of year again… actually – it isn't! The London Marathon is taking place in October rather than April for the 2021 edition as elite and non-elite runners alike take to the streets of the capital to run 26.2 miles. As well as the men's women's and wheelchair races, tens of thousands of […]
The man who sprinted to Olympic gold less than two weeks ago will not race again this year. Lamont Marcell Jacobs was fastest in the 100m sprint at Tokyo 2020, and followed up his surprise solo win with another gold for Italy in the 4x100m relay. His manager Marcello Magnani confirmed the sprinter would not […]
Usain Bolt has hinted at the possibility of putting one of his Olympic gold medals on the line against NFL star Tyreek Hill. The pair have had several exchanges over who is the faster runner, as the Kansas City Chiefs player is keen to go head to head with the eight-time Olympic champion. The conversation […]
The three-year gap between Olympic Games will help Australia’s track and field team peak in Paris in 2024 after a “sensational” performance in Tokyo, according to high-performance chief Andrew Faichney. Australia won three athletics medals in Tokyo, with the expressive Nicola McDermott clinching high jump silver on the last night of competition, coming hot on […]