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Garcia Leon dominates 20km race walk for Peru's first ever world gold

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Kimberly Garcia Leon won Peru's first-ever gold medal on Friday after dominating the women's 20km race walk, the opening event of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

AFP

2022 World Athletics Championships: Dina Asher-Smith pledges to get back on track after tough 2022

Dina Asher-Smith has pledged to bounce back from her slow start to 2022 to once again prove her championship credentials in Eugene.

Evening Standard

Great Britain suffer mixed 4x400m relay disappointment on opening day of World Championships

Nick Miller qualified for Saturday’s hammer final in Eugene

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Tamberi struggles, Felix swansong dream alive

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Italy's joint Olympic champion Gianmarco Tamberi avoided a shock early exit by scraping into the men's high jump after qualification at the World Athletics Championships on Friday.

AFP

Visa delays force Chris Thompson to miss World Athletics Championships

British athlete says he is ‘absolutely devastated’ as Michael Johnson criticises World Athletics over problems

The Guardian - UK

2022 World Athletics Championships: Three medal hopefuls for Britain in Eugene

The 2022 edition of the World Athletics Championships began on Friday and 10 days of exciting action lies ahead.

Evening Standard

Mark Zeigler: Are the World Championships in Eugene a launching pad for U.S. track, or a burial?

EUGENE, Ore. — Newly renovated Hayward Field sits in the middle of the University of Oregon campus, its futuristic exoskeleton rising above the aging brick buildings like a spaceship. It cost Phil Knight and friends $300 million, and it includes a 5,000-square-foot video board, a 10-story tower with a hall…

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US visa issues plague World Athletics meet: All you need to know

Hundreds of athletes, mostly Africans, have faced visa delays in getting to the US to participate in the event.

Al Jazeera

World Athletics Champs organisers scrambling to fix visa issues

EUGENE, Oregon: Organisers of the World Athletics Championships were desperately trying to clear a visa issuing logjam that threatened to prevent around 100 athletes, coaches and officials from entering the United States for the competition, which starts on Friday.

Bangkok Post

World Athletics Championships 2022 live stream: How can I watch for FREE on TV in UK today?

The World Athletics Championships is underway in Oregon.

Evening Standard

Frat pack means no excuses, says Lyles

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - After winning the world 200m title and a second gold as part of the winning US 4x100m relay team in Doha in 2019, Noah Lyles headed to last year's Tokyo Olympics with high hopes.

AFP

Felix vows to give it all as 'incredible journey' nears end

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Allyson Felix will bow out of athletics after the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, but the most decorated track star of all time vowed to leave it all out there as her "incredible journey" nears the end.

AFP

Where and how did Spencer Webb die? Oregon ‘rock slide’ swim hole is popular cliff jump spot.

Spencer Webb, a star football player from Sacramento who played tight end for the University of Oregon, died this week in a cliff-diving accident at a popular swimming hole not far from the university’s Eugene, Oregon, campus.

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Duplantis heads stellar cast at US' first world champs

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Fresh from setting a new outdoor record, Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis heads a stellar cast into the inaugural world championships on US soil in Eugene, Oregon, that kick off on Friday.

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The Guardian - UK

Dina Asher-Smith: ‘You can’t run fast with baggage – you gotta throw it out’

Injury destroyed the British sprinter’s Olympic dreams in Tokyo but she is looking forward and ready to defend her world 200m title

The Independent UK

Oregon tight end, social media star, dies of head injury

Oregon Ducks tight end Spencer Webb has died after falling and striking his head on rock slides at a popular swimming lake near Eugene, Oregon

Sports Illustrated

Oregon Tight End Spencer Webb Dies at Age 22

The junior was preparing to enter his fifth year in Eugene.

The Independent UK

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake urges Great Britain’s athletes to seize their moment at World Championships

The World Championships start in Eugene on Friday

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Mark Zeigler: Ukraine track team escapes horrors of war at Chula Vista training center

SAN DIEGO — Viktor Bryzhin and Olga Vladykina won Olympic track gold medals for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea. Bryzhin was on the 4x100-meter relay team. Vladykina won the individual 400 meters and got the baton in the anchor leg of the 4x400…

AFP

Hurdles king Warholm going into worlds at 100% after injury

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Norwegian hurdles king Karsten Warholm insisted Wednesday he was going to bring everything he could to the table as he battles back from injury in his quest for a third world championship gold.

AFP

Maiden US world champs offers spotlight for 'unknown' stars

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Track and field stars are hoping a maiden world championships on US soil will shine the light on athletes in a country where athletics is dwarfed by the big money sports of American football, basketball and baseball.

AFP

No place for Russian 'killers' in athletics, says Ukraine's Mahuchikh

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Yaroslava Mahuchikh used to be not just fierce rivals with Russia's Mariya Lasitskene, but also friends in the tight-knit world of elite women's high jumping.

AFP

World, Olympic 400m champion Gardiner out of Eugene

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Bahamian star Steven Gardiner, the reigning world and Olympic 400m champion, said on Monday he will not defend his crown at the World Athletics Championships that begin Friday in Eugene, Oregon.

The National (Scotland)

Unburdened Laura Muir has sights set on title at World Athletics Championships

THERE’S nothing quite like getting the monkey off your back to release some pressure.

AFP

Semenya set to end 5-year world championship absence in Eugene

Paris (AFP) - South Africa's double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya looks set to make her first appearance at a World Championships in five years in the 5,000 metres after being named in the list of registered athletes by World Athletics on Saturday.

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