Katarina Johnson-Thompson times run to perfection for World heptathlon gold August 20, 2023 Katarina Johnson-Thompson produced a personal best in the decisive 800m to win heptathlon gold at the World Athletics Championships for a second time. The Briton, whose career has been ravaged by an Achilles injury since she won this title in 2019, showed remarkable guts to pip American rival Anna Hall today in Budapest. Johnson-Thompson, 30, [...]
Non-Brits to watch at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest August 18, 2023 The World Athletics Championships starts this weekend with the best and brightest track and field stars descending on Budapest in Hungary. And while the British contingent will be eager for medals, everyone else will too. Here are four athletes from outside of Britain to take note of over the next 10 days. Shericka Jackson (Jamaica) [...]
Eilish McColgan OUT of the World Athletics Championships in Team GB blow August 17, 2023 Distance runner Eilish McColgan is out of the World Athletics Championships, it was confirmed today. The news is a huge blow to one of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s biggest medal prospects. McColgan was set to take part with Jessica Warner-Judd in the 10,000 next week in Budapest having not been selected by British Athletics [...]
Ed Warner: Lionesses bonus row will rear its head again after Women’s World Cup August 17, 2023 Ed Warner on why the FA could face a public broadside from the Lionesses after the Women’s World Cup, this week’s World Athletics Championships in Hungary and Team GB’s selection policy. Within 24 hours of winning the Davis Cup for the first time in almost eight decades, Andy Murray and his Great Britain team captain [...]
Hughes smashes 30-year-old 200m record at London Diamond League July 23, 2023 Zharnel Hughes starred at London Stadium yesterday as the Brit set a new national record in the 200m at the Diamond League. A packed arena of 50,000 watched on as the 28-year-old finished third behind American Noah Lyles – who set a world lead and meeting record time – and Letsile Tebogo in the half-circuit [...]
Women rightly top the bill as Diamond League returns to London July 21, 2023 After a four-year absence, top level track and field will return to the capital this weekend when the London Stadium stages Diamond League athletics. More than a decade after Mo Farah did the double, Usain Bolt the treble and Super Saturday took place at the London 2012 Olympics, Sunday offers a chance for the next [...]
‘Absolutely embarrassing’: Victoria blasted for Commonwealth Games hosting U-turn July 18, 2023 A bitter war of words has broken out over the 2026 Commonwealth Games after the Australian state of Victoria abruptly pulled out of hosting the event. Victoria was named host for the multi-sport championships last year but reneged on that commitment on Tuesday, citing spiralling costs – plunging the Games into doubt. Commonwealth Games Australia [...]
World Athletics stands firm on DSD rules despite Caster Semenya legal victory July 11, 2023 World Athletics insists it has no plans to change its rules despite double Olympic champion Caster Semenya winning a landmark legal case at the European Court of Human Rights. Semenya, 32, won a challenge relating to rules introduced by World Athletics in 2018 that force athletes like her with differences of sexual development to take [...]
Padam: How Hughes has injected life into British track and field July 5, 2023 Until very recently you had to go back to the year of the European single market’s founding and just prior to Kylie Minogue’s fifth studio album to find a British man setting a national track and field record in the 100m. Now, in the year of Barbie the Movie, an attempted Russian coup and the [...]
Enhanced Games president likens doping to ‘being gay 50 years ago’ July 3, 2023 Ever thought about watching a 100m race where you knew everyone was using substances to artificially enhance themselves, rather than finding out a couple of years later when a ban is issued? Well the Enhanced Games may be for you. The idea pits competitive sport alongside the world of performance enhancing drugs in an Olympics-style [...]