A celebration of the boy bands who’ve always played a vital role in modern music. BBC News
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Keely Hodgkinson to return from injury at Lausanne Diamond League meeting
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson will make her long-awaited return from injury at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on 20 August. The 23-year-old Briton has not raced competitively since winning gold in Paris last August after suffering a hamstring tear in February. After a minor setback led to her withdrawing …
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Maeve Kyle became Ireland’s first female track and field Olympian at the 1956 Games and then a highly respected athletics coach. BBC News
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Meet the Olympic and World champion they call ‘Canadian Thor’. BBC News
Read More »World Athletics Championships: GB relay team receive gold medals 28 years late
Great Britain’s men’s 4x400m relay team from the 1997 World Athletics Championships have been given gold medals – 28 years later. Roger Black, Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch and Mark Richardson – plus Mark Hylton, who ran in the heats – finished second to the USA at the event, which was …
Read More »Dobson storms through field to win 400m in London
Great Britain’s Charlie Dobson runs down the favourite Matt Hudson-Smith to win the 400m at the Diamond League meeting at the London Stadium. BBC News
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Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell times her charge well to win over 800m at the Diamond League in London. BBC News
Read More »Diamond League: Julien Alfred wins 200m in London
Saint Lucian 100m Olympic champion Julien Alfred clocks the joint-ninth fastest women’s 200m in history to beat Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt in London. READ MORE: Hunter Bell, Dobson and Lake claim wins in London Available to UK users only. BBC News
Read More »London Diamond League: Wins for Georgia Hunter Bell, Charlie Dobson and Morgan Lake
Georgia Hunter Bell, Charlie Dobson and Morgan Lake claimed victories in front of a sell-out home crowd of 60,000 at the London Diamond League. Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter Bell stormed clear on the home straight to take victory in the women’s 800m in a season’s best one minute 56.74 …
Read More »World Athletics Championships 2029: UK government backs London bid
In June more than 100 of Britain’s most renowned athletes wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urging the government to back London’s bid to host the World Athletics Championships. It came after concerns that a bid could be at risk, with uncertainty over the estimated £45m …
Read More »London Diamond League: Noah Lyles on life after Olympic gold
Lyles, who suffered with severe asthma as a child and has also spoken openly about his mental health struggles, describes becoming ill with Covid at Paris 2024 as “one of the greatest challenges I have ever had”. The 100m champion still managed to achieve bronze in the 200m, before being …
Read More »Ruth Chepngetich: Women’s marathon world record holder suspended for doping
Ruth Chepngetich, the women’s marathon world record holder, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for a banned substance. The diuretic hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) was detected in a sample collected from Kenyan Chepngetich on 14 March, the AIU said in a statement., external Chepngetich, 30, broke the world …
Read More »Keely Hodgkinson to compete in Athlos NYC event in October
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson has signed up to compete in the Athlos New York City event this autumn. Athlos is a project backed by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. The 23-year-old will miss the London Diamond League meet this weekend as a result of …
Read More »Diamond League Monaco: Noah Lyles upsets Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo in 200m
Tebogo, 22, said he was “disappointed” in his performance but now has an “idea of what to work on”. Sweden’s Armando Duplantis won the men’s pole vault with 6.05m but missed out in his attempt at adding a centimetre to the world record height of 6.28m, while Emmanuel Wanyonyi, of …
Read More »'I'm Divine Iheme – the fastest 15-year-old in history'
Divine Iheme tells BBC Sport’s Daniel Ogunshakin about breaking sprinting world records as a teenager and his Olympic dreams. BBC News
Read More »Divine Iheme: Teenage sprinter and his mum talk about Olympic dreams
When Divine Iheme ran the 100m in 10.3 seconds as a 14-year-old last summer, it was a world record for that age. To put that time in context, Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles’ personal best at the same age was about one second slower, while Australian sprint prodigy Gout Gout …
Read More »Brian Wilson's story in an acclaimed biographical drama
At the height of success with The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson suffers from mental illness. BBC News
Read More »Caster Semenya: South African double Olympic champion wins partial victory at European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle over athletics’ sex eligibility rules.
Caster Semenya’s right to a fair hearing was violated by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court when she lost a 2023 appeal against World Athletics regulations that effectively barred her from competing, Europe’s top court has ruled. The double 800m Olympic champion won a partial victory at the European Court of …
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Cole Hocker – Claiming a place in history with Olympic 1500m gold BBC News
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