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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.

Bangkok Post

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…

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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

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.

Evening Standard

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

The Hindu

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.

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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’

The Guardian - 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

The Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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".

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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.

The Guardian - AU

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce fixes wig mid-race but still qualifies in worlds 200m

World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had to fix her wig halfway through her women’s 200m heat as she suffered a surprise defeat

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NFL rookie Devon Allen disqualified for false start at world athletics championships despite not going early

Devon Allen was trying to lock up a hurdles world title before starting his NFL career, but he was shown the door at the start line of the final despite not leaving his blocks early.

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Daily Mirror

Laura Muir confident for World Championships medal as she takes on ‘the greatest’

Olympic silver medalist Laura Muir is feeling confident about her medal chances ahead of the 1500metre final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon

ABC News

Australian athletes through to finals at World Athletics Championships

Eleanor Patterson and Olympic silver medallist Nicola Olyslagers will contest the women's high jump final, while Australian teammates Jess Hull and Georgia Griffith reached the decider of the 1,500 metres.

Daily Mirror

Fred Kerley crowned 100m world champion after leading USA clean sweep

27-year old Texan comes from behind on night of drama to add World gold to silver medal he won in Tokyo last year

The Guardian - AU

Under-investigation sprint coach apprehended and cautioned in Eugene

US sprint coach Rana Reider, already under investigation for sexual misconduct, has been removed by security for unauthorised access to warm-up area

The Independent UK

Ukraine on her mind as high jumper goes for gold at worlds

It took three days by car for high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh to escape from Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Visa delays force Chris Thompson to miss World Athletics Championships

British athlete says he is ‘absolutely devastated’ as Michael Johnson criticises World Athletics over problems

Daily Mirror

Chris Thompson ruled out of World Athletics Championships due to US visa delay

World Athletics president Seb Coe promises lessons will be learned after tens of athletes are denied entry to the States

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