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Racism towards black athletes is “getting worse” and social media companies need to be doing more to tackle online abuse, four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has said. Footballers Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka were sent racist abuse after missing penalties…
With just two and a half hours left before the qualifying deadline, steeplechaser Ed Trippas stopped the clock at just the time he needed. On the very last possible day, Trippas qualified for the Olympics when he ran eight minutes 19.6 seconds…
Australian Olympic champion Rick Mitchell, who won silver in the 400-metre at the Moscow Olympics, died on Sunday night from prostate cancer. Mitchell was the last Australian male runner to win an individual Olympic medal on the track. Men have since won…
Olli Hoare has delivered a performance that demands the Australian selectors pick him on the Olympic team after he beat his Australian rivals head to head in a race off for the last place on the 1500-metre team. Hoare, who has been…
Ollie Hoare is big in the US but you won’t have heard of him, which is not unusual for American runners except that the 24-year-old is not an American runner – he is Australian. Hoare is like an indie band that is…
Team GB were caught by Cuba and Poland on the final leg Great Britain won the bronze medal in the 4x400m women’s relay event at the 2021 World Athletics Relays meet in Poland on Sunday. Jessie Knight brought home the medal on…
Russia’s former world indoor 1,500 metres champion Yelena Soboleva has been handed an eight-year ban after she violated anti-doping regulations, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Wednesday. Soboleva, who set the world indoor record in 2008, had previously received…
Thompson broke his personal best time while also qualifying for the Olympics Veteran Chris Thompson, who turns 40 next month, produced a masterful performance to win the British Olympic Marathon trials in the unusual surroundings of London’s Kew Gardens on Friday to…
Torun will host the 2021 European Indoor Athletics Championships The European Indoor Athletics Championships this weekend will provide welcome relief for athletics fans who have seen little of the sport in the past year. The 36th biennial event is taking place in Torun, Poland, providing…
Rohan Browning has run the fastest time ever by an Australian on home soil and will take on the fastest men in the world when he becomes the first Australian male to run the marquee 100-metre sprint at the Olympics in 17…
No overseas spectators will be permitted to attend this summer’s rearranged Olympic or Paralympic Games in Tokyo, officials have confirmed. An announcement was made following a meeting of representatives of the International Olympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Tokyo…
Keely Hodgkinson led from the front to claim 800 metres gold for Great Britain on the final day of the European Indoor Championships in Torun. Four days after her 19th birthday, Hodgkinson held Polish pair Joanna Jozwik and Angelika Cichocka at bay…