Athletics

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Divine Iheme tells BBC Sport’s Daniel Ogunshakin about breaking sprinting world records as a teenager and his Olympic dreams. BBC News

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 …

At the height of success with The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson suffers from mental illness. BBC News

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 …

Cole Hocker – Claiming a place in history with Olympic 1500m gold BBC News

Great Britain’s George Mills sets a new personal best in the 1500m, but has to settle for third as Frenchman Azeddine Habz sets a new national record in Paris. BBC News

Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes makes a late burst to take second place at the Diamond League event in Eugene, Oregon and finish behind Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson. BBC News

Matt Hudson-Smith was the highlight on a mixed evening for British athletes, posting a season’s best 44.10 to win the men’s 400m ahead of American duo Christopher Bailey and Jacory Patterson. British record holder Zharnel Hughes also ran a season’s best of 9.91 to finish second in the men’s 100m, …

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon wins the women’s 1500m with a world record at the Diamond League event in Eugene, Oregon. BBC News

European champion and two-time Olympian Ciara Mageean has been diagnosed with cancer. The middle-distance runner, from Portaferry in Northern Ireland, said the diagnosis has “been a lot to take in”, but added she is “ready to face this with the same fight I’ve always brought to the track”. Posting on …

With this year “pretty much a write off” due to another major injury, Zoey Clark admits her chances of competing at Glasgow 2026 are slim but is not ready to give up on a home Commonwealth Games. The 30-year-old relay specialist from Aberdeen had been working her way back from …

Great Britain finished fifth overall at the European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid. The GB team, captained by discus thrower Lawrence Okoye, finished on 381 points, 3.5 points behind the Netherlands in fourth and three points ahead of sixth-placed Spain. Sarah Tait, making her international debut, was one of the …

Mackenzie Little – global Javelin medallist and full-time doctor BBC News

It was that record performance in Monaco which made Kipyegon believe sub-four – once considered physiologically impossible for a woman – was within reach. But the three-time Olympic 1500m champion still had a chasm to bridge, being required to run two seconds per lap faster than she had before. Kipyegon …

Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee, says its members have shown “overwhelming support” to protecting the female category in sport. Speaking on Thursday, she said the IOC must “play a leading role” in discussions on gender eligibility. At her first news conference since taking over the …