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Seven nation 'watch list' announced by World Athletics over suspicious Olympic qualifying

Seven Olympic nations have been placed on a "Competition Manipulation Watch List" by World Athletics due to suspicious qualification patterns for last year's Tokyo Olympics.

Daily Mirror

Ex-Team GB Olympian Brian Hewson who was one of first to run four-minute mile dies

Brian Hewson, a former Team GB runner who competed at two Olympic Games and was one of the first people to run a mile in under four minutes, has passed away

Daily Mirror

London Marathon to offer non-binary gender option to make event "truly inclusive"

Elite races at the London Marathon will still operate under the World Athletics rules but the change for the mass-participation race has been changed following an extensive review

Daily Mirror

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World Athletics looking into menstrual cycle research - Coe

Zurich (AFP) - World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has hailed as "worthwhile" comments by female athletes questioning the apparent lack of research into the effect of the menstrual cycle on performance.

AFP

Coe pushing for Paris Olympic city events, confident of security

Zurich (AFP) - Track and field supremo Sebastian Coe is pushing organisers of the 2024 Olympics to include live events in downtown Paris in a bid to "democratise" sport, playing down any security fears over their hosting.

AFP

Kovacs thrives amid Zurich's cheers with beers

Zurich (AFP) - American Joe Kovacs hailed Zurich's "cheers with beers" as he launched the third best shot put of all time to win the Diamond League final with a new competition record on Wednesday.

AFP

More sports events scrapped in zero-Covid China

Hong Kong’s top badminton tournament has been cancelled because of stringent anti-Covid policies that required players to compete in an “isolation bubble”, organisers said on Thursday.

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Yevhen Pronin: ‘If we do not kill them, they can kill our children’

The acting president of Ukraine’s Athletics Federation has such a reputation for flying drones against Russian targets that he has a bounty on his head

The Guardian - UK

Athletics: Kenyans are running for other countries, but that's not why medals are fewer

The 2022 World Athletics Championships ended in relative disappointment for Kenya, which continued its decline in the overall medal standings. Since the 2005 championships in Helsinki, when Kenya ranked ninth with only seven medals, the team has been exceptionally consistent. It has ranked in the top three in all subsequent…

The Conversation

Raucous Birmingham crowd providing the perfect backdrop to tales of dramatic athlete triumph at Commonwealth Games

Another capacity crowd - take note Seb Coe and World Athletics - rose as one to roar Eilish McColgan and Katarina Johnson-Thompson to golds in the space of 29 raucous and rocking minutes on Wednesday

Wales Online

US mulls more events after World Championship success

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - As a metaphor for a sport with lofty ambitions, Armand Duplantis soaring to a pole vault world record was the perfectly scripted final act that a thrilling World Athletics Championships deserved.

AFP

Amusan shatters 100m hurdles world record to revive super shoes debate

A foot injury prompted Tobi Amusan to start wearing bouncy longer-distance Adidas shoes instead of track spikes

The Guardian - AU

Keely Hodgkinson edged out of 800m gold on final day of World Athletics Championships

Keely Hodgkinson was edged out of a gold in a thrilling 800metre final to fellow 20-year-old Athing Mu at the World Athletics Championships.

Evening Standard

Neeraj Chopra wins India’s first silver at World Athletics Championships

Indian javelin champion secured the silver with his 88.13m hurl in Oregon’s Hayward Field

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World Athletics Championships: Great Britain seal 4x100m men’s relay bronze amid Dina Asher-Smith injury

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake has urged Great Britain to look to the future after claiming a relay bronze.

The Hindu

World Athletics Championships 2022: Sydney McLaughlin shatters 400 hurdles record with 50.68

The 22-year-old McLaughlin beat second-place finisher Femke Bol of the Netherlands by 1.59 seconds

WEKU

For the fourth time in 13 months, Sydney McLaughlin sets a world record

She ran the 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 50.68 seconds, shattering her old mark by 0.73 seconds.

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’

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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

AFP

Ukraine athletes hoping to offer 'positive emotions' for besieged compatriots

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Ukraine might have sent its smallest delegation of athletes ever to a world championships, but acting federation president Yevhen Pronin said the 22-strong team were just glad to be present in Eugene and offering up a glimmer of hope for compatriots.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s all been worth it’: Jake Wightman in dreamland after emulating Cram’s gold

Jake Wightman hopes to build on his stunning 1500m world championship gold medal by adding the Commonwealth title and the European 800m crown during the next five weeks

AFP

Semenya welcome at world champs, says Coe

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Caster Semenya, who will make her first appearance in a world championships in five years when she competes in the women's 5000m in Eugene, has every right to be there, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Tuesday.

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".

The Independent UK

Caster Semenya is back, so is her sport's thorniest problem

South African runner Caster Semenya's surprise return to the world championships this week coincides with a new reckoning over the rules in track and field that regulate the participation of women with high natural testosterone in female events

Los Angeles Times

Inside the 'crazy' plan to boost track and field's popularity before the 2028 Olympics

With a gold-medal stride and an image gracing Nike marketing campaigns, Sanya Richards-Ross was one of the United States' most successful track and field stars during her decade-plus career — a stature she sustained, every year, by leaving the United States.

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