Athletics

Former Great Britain athlete Reece Prescod tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan he is competing at the Enhanced Games to help himself get back into a “sub-10” shape and to “push his body to the limits”, and would be open to enhancements if he feels they could take his body …

Grand Slam Track, the competition backed by Olympic great Michael Johnson, has been urged to settle debts owed to athletes who took part last year or risk setting a “dangerous precedent”. Its inaugural season promised lucrative prize money and salaries for contracted runners, but its final event was cancelled with …

The women-only world record applies to races that take place without male pacemakers or competitors. Assefa previously held the outright women’s world record after running 2:11:53 in Berlin in 2023. She remains the second-fastest female marathon runner in history, behind Ruth Chepngetich, who was banned from the sport for three …

British men Emile Cairess, Mahamed Mahamed, Philip Sesemann, Patrick Dever, Weynay Ghebresilasie, Tewelde Menges, George James, Jake Smith, Marc Scott, Jack Rowe, Andrew Fyfe, Alex Milne, Peter Le Grice, Sean Hogan, Christopher Thomas, Jake Barraclough, Chris Perry, David Bishop, Charlie Sandison, William Mycroft, Alfie Manthorpe. British women Charlotte Purdue, Rose …

American middle-distance runner Josh Hoey has broken the long-standing men’s 800m indoor world record by running a blistering time at Saturday’s Indoor Grand Prix in Boston. The 26-year-old finished in one minute 42.5 seconds to beat the previous record of 1:42.67 set nearly 29 years ago in March 1997 by …

Few people forget their school cross-country days, trudging through murky playing fields on freezing winter afternoons, invariably clad in kit sourced from the lost property bin. While park runs, trail runs and marathons boom in popularity among the masses, cross-country appetite from the general public is almost entirely absent, likely …

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A mocked idea to feed false plans to the Nazis via a drowned corpse is brought to life. BBC News

When a mission goes wrong, spy Ethan Hunt finds himself out on a limb and under suspicion. BBC News

That natural ability was evident from an early age. Obinna-Alo had always seemed anecdotally fast as she showed racing against neighbours in the street in Middlesbrough. And her father received a call from her primary school headteacher encouraging him to enrol his daughter in an athletics club to tap into …

A boy, born with facial differences, enters a mainstream school for the first time. Drama. BBC News

Organisers of GST have said the competition – which offered lucrative prize money – had been impacted by the withdrawal of committed investment, and that it intends to utilise the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process in the United States “to stabilise its finances, implement a more efficient cost and operating model, …

Australian Para-athlete Nicholas Hum, who won a bronze medal in long jump at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 2021, has died at the age 32. Hum made his international debut at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships and competed in three Paralympics and five World Para Athletics Championships. His final …

Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s Megan Keith claimed silver behind Italy’s Nadia Battocletti in the women’s race at the European Cross Country Championships in Portugal. Battocletti, who became the first woman in championship history last year to win individual titles at Under-20, U23 and senior level, won in 24 minutes …

Ollie Turner says his 13th place at Ironman Western Australia has capped off his “best year ever”, despite battling illness at the event. The 27-year-old from Jersey finished his first full-length Ironman in 8:09:55. The result came six weeks after his first-ever podium finish in a half Ironman in China. …

Available for over a year Hurricane Melissa – one of the strongest to ever hit the Caribbean – made landfall in Jamaica on 28 October. At its peak, it sustained winds of 298 kph, resulting in dozens of deaths across the region. It brought powerful winds and landslides to Cuba …

Battocletti became the first woman in championship history last year to win individual titles at U20, U23 and senior level. She looks primed to defend her title this year, but will face tough competition from Turkey’s Yasemin Can, although the 29-year-old is yet to find her earlier career form that …

“Earlier this year after committed financing fell through, GST undertook extensive efforts, in consultation with its advisors, to address its liquidity challenges and sought to negotiate payment arrangements that would provide a meaningful recovery to stakeholders. “However, a court-supervised reorganisation was deemed the most prudent path forward as these efforts …

Rare and unseen moments from the making of the hit single by charity supergroup Band Aid. BBC News

Robbie Savage takes on his first football manager job, but will he regret it?  BBC News