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Indian javelin ace Chopra displaces Bolt in global interest charts

Paris (AFP) - Usain Bolt has failed to top the list of the most written about athletes for the first time in years in a sign that track and field is emerging from the hold the retired Jamaican sprint legend had over the sport.

AFP

Female athletes targeted by most online abuse, World Athletics study finds

World Athletics’ research looked at almost half a million social media posts.

The Independent UK

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

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Kenya escapes ban as World Athletics hails government's financial pledge

Rome (AFP) - Kenya avoided becoming a sporting pariah as World Athletics president Sebastian Coe welcomed its government's pledge of a financial package to combat doping in what he called "a long journey" to build trust.

AFP

Kenya faces threat of athletics ban amid doping crisis

Government commits to ‘zero tolerance’ approach as it urges world athletics governing body not to ban its athletes.

Al Jazeera

Belfast Irish Milers Meet set to return in 2023 with added bonus

The event has secured World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger Status for the second year running

Belfast Live

Sports: World Athletics Relays 2023 Postponed Until 2025

The Council said that the decision was taken with the agreement of both the Guangzhou organizing committee (LOC) and the Chinese Athletics Association (CAA). Read on for details:

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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

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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The Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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…

Wales Online

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

AFP

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.

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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

Evening Standard

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.

The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

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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