Retired American athletics sports champion, Michael Johnson, has found himself in hot waters after he questioned the accuracy of the clocks at the World Athletic Championships in Oregon, which saw…
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Mo Farah will return to run the London Marathon in October after finally calling time on his track career. The 39-year-old athlete’s decision to stick to the roads had been…
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Athletics
World Athletics may bar transgender women from female competition
by The Guardian June 21, 2022The World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, has hailed swimming’s decision to ban transgender women from elite female competition as in “the best interests of its sport” – and hinted that track and…
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Athletics
Reece Prescod becomes first Team GB athlete to publicly forgive CJ Ujah
by The Guardian May 19, 2022The sprinter Reece Prescod has become the first British athlete to publicly forgive CJ Ujah for failing a drugs test and costing Team GB a 4x100m relay silver medal at…
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A runner from Ethiopia who dreams of representing Team GB is facing deportation back to his home country even though a state of emergency has been declared there. Seyfu Jamaal, 21, arrived…
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Athletics
Exclusive: UK Athletics’ chief was on £226k salary during controversial period
by The Guardian November 10, 2021UK Athletics’ controversial chief executive Jo Coates was earning a salary package of £226,143 before she resigned last month, making her one of the highest paid administrators in British Olympic…
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Athletics
Leading World athletics Coach Rana Reider to be investigated over sexual misconduct
by The Guardian November 3, 2021One of the world’s leading track and field coaches is to be investigated by the US Center for SafeSport after multiple complaints of sexual misconduct were made against him, the…
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Mary Cain sues Nike and Alberto Salazar for $20million
by The Guardian October 12, 2021Former middle-distance runner Mary Cain has filed a $20m lawsuit against disgraced coach Alberto Salazar and Nike alleging she suffered years of emotional abuse. Cain was considered a generational talent…
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Athletics
Malaysian athlete stripped of Paralympic gold after arriving three minutes late
by The Guardian September 1, 2021Malaysian shot putter Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli appeared to have won gold in the shot put in the F20 class. But after the victory on Tuesday, he was disqualified because he…
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Athletics
How far has fight against doping really come since ‘dirtiest race in history’?
by The Guardian September 24, 2018Thirty years ago today, Ben Johnson crouched on his starting blocks before the 100m Olympic final in Seoul, waiting. A gun went off. And he went supernova. Even now there is a…