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World Athletics bans transgender women from women’s competition

The governing body will exclude male-to-female transgender athletes if they have gone through male puberty from female competition from the end of this month

The Independent UK

World Athletics ends Russia ban over state-sponsored doping but maintains Ukraine invasion sanction

World Athletics has voted to end its eight-year ban of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) but the country's athletes, and those of Belarus, will remain excluded from international competition because of an ongoing, separate ban over the invasion of Ukraine.

Evening Standard

World Athletics commits to gender equality with female vice president promise

The governing body will have 40 per cent female representation on its Council.

The Independent UK

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Exclusive: Former Liverpool chairman Sir Martin Broughton reveals talks with billionaire investors

Sir Martin Broughton has revealed he spoke to investors over a potential Liverpool deal

Liverpool Echo

World Athletics’ transgender regulations see scientific rigour give way to a fudge

Sebastian Coe promised to be ‘guided by science’ when it comes to sport’s most divisive issue. But World Athletics’ solution is clearly designed to protect it from legal action too

The Guardian - UK

Sports unraveled, collided with politics, racism in 2022

Hardly a day passed in 2022 when a headline that ran across the ticker on ESPN wouldn't have been out of place on CNN or Fox Business

The Independent UK

Neeraj Chopra eclipses Usain Bolt as most written about track and field athlete in 2022

Not many have gone past Usain Bolt in the 21st century, but India's Neeraj Chopra has managed to do that.

The Times of India

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Kenya avoids ban despite 55 athletes serving suspensions as Lord Coe sends warning

The famed East African running nation has avoided being blacklisted after Lord Coe confirmed that they would not be given a blanket ban from competition

Daily Mirror

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The Independent UK

Princess Anne's savage 'most stupid person' comment overheard in awkward mic blunder

The Princess Royal is well-known for her no nonsense approach and she showed this when she called someone stupid in a room full of people

Daily Mirror

London 2012: what the Olympic Games' legacy of sustainability means for events today

This summer has marked 10 years since the London 2012 Olympics, and a chance to reflect on the event’s legacy. From the outset, the aim was to make it a ground-breakingly sustainable event. According to the United Nations, sustainability is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising…

The Conversation

Jake Wightman has become the Commonwealth Games poster-boy aiming for golden hat-trick

Jake Wightman is on cloud nine following his 1500m success at the World Championships in Oregon, but he is now hoping to capitalise on that success with victory at the Commonwealth Games and next month's European Championships

Daily Mirror

Sebastian Coe inspired Commonwealth 1500m attempt, says Wightman

The world 1500m champion Jake Wightman has revealed he was dreading racing the distance again at the Commonwealth Games until a word of advice from Sebastian Coe

The Guardian - UK

Josh Kerr: Commonwealth Games stadium an absolute blessing for British athletes

Exclusive interview: The Scot hopes to bounce back from fifth in the World Championships in pursuit of another medal after Olympic bronze last year, with the Alexander Stadium set to host the athletics at the Commonwealth Games

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Evening Standard

A decade on Olympics are still delivering for London, says Sebastian Coe

London is still reaping the rewards of the 2012 Olympics, it was claimed today, as the 10-year anniversary of the Games was marked.

The Guardian - UK

Defiant Sebastian Coe flies flag for London Olympics with a murky legacy

Lord Coe maintains pride in what the 2012 Games gave UK sport and reveals Sir Alex Ferguson almost managed Team GB

The Guardian - UK

Sebastian Coe hopes current athletes break 1980s records that ‘aren’t safe’

Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics president, admitted that sporadic drug testing in the 80s meant records in several events ‘may not be the safest’

Daily Mirror

Jake Wightman could become most successful GB middle distance star ever, says Seb Coe

Track legend Sebastian Coe was reminded of his own 1984 Olympic-winning run in Los Angeles by way Wightman attacked to win World Championship gold in Eugene

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The Independent UK

Lord Coe: Jake Wightman could be most successful British middle distance runner

Wightman has 12 months until he launches a world title defence in Hungary.

The Guardian - UK

Sebastian Coe tips Jake Wightman to challenge for unprecedented treble

Wightman is now aiming for Commonwealth and European gold, with Coe saying there’s ‘no reason’ the 1500m world champion can’t win both

The Independent UK

‘Biology trumps gender’: Athletics could ban transgender and DSD women from female events

World Athletics will review its policies on transgender women and DSD athletes and president Sebastian Coe has hinted the sport will follow swimming in tightening its regulations

The Guardian - AU

Caster Semenya out of world 5,000m as Coe signals tougher female sport rules

Caster Semenya’s first appearance in the world championships since 2017 saw her knocked out without fuss or fanfare after finishing 45 seconds off qualifying for Saturday’s 5,000m final

Evening Standard

World Athletics Championships: Max Burgin draws inspiration from David Rudisha in 800m dream

Max Burgin has set his sights on becoming Britain’s answer to David Rudisha.

Asharq Al-Awsat

For Ukrainian High Jumper, World Silver Feels Like Gold

The second-place finish at world championships was beside the point for Ukraine's best high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh. "For me, it's gold," she said Tuesday night, as she looked down at her newly won prize, one nobody would have been right to expect four months ago after she took a three-day…

ABC News

Caster Semenya returns to world athletics championships, but not in her pet event due to rules around testosterone levels

Caster Semenya switches to 5,000m because of hormone-treatment rules imposed upon her that she calls "an affront to the spirit of the sport".

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