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Hundreds of doping cheats ineligible for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be able to compete in next year’s rescheduled Games as they will have served their bans. The World Anti Doping Agency confirmed yesterday that suspensions handed out were for “specific lengths…
Seb Coe has backed Britain’s golden girls to overcome the frustration of a postponed Olympics and dazzle at Tokyo 2021. Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson were crowned world champions only six months ago and had high hopes of surfing that wave of…
Never has Yorkshire felt more like home sweet home for double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee. Britain’s star triathlete was 5,000 miles away at a training camp on Monday when foreign secretary Dominic Raab instructed UK travellers overseas to “come home now while…
Olympic chiefs vowed to keep their flame lit as a “beacon of hope to the world” after postponing the Tokyo Games until next year. The decision to delay the five-ringed circus until next summer was broadly welcomed by athletes but left two-time…
Despite the coronavirus restricting exercise for many around the world right now, Elisha Nochomovitz has proven the extreme limits that can still be achieved after running a marathon on his balcony. With his balcony just seven meters wide, Nochomovitz embraced the 42.2km (26.2 miles) distance, testing himself physically and mentally…
World Athletics president Lord Coe has called for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo to be postponed. In a letter to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, Coe says that an Olympics in July 2020 is “neither feasible or desirable” because…
Dina Asher-Smith has reacted with dismay and anger to news that Olympic chiefs have put off a decision on the Tokyo Games for up to a month. Britain’s world champion sprinter had been hoping Olympic boss Thomas Bach would announce that the…
A report into how UK Athletics handled decisions about its relationship with disgraced running coach Alberto Salazar found the board changed its stance on severing ties with him. This came after some members of the board claimed they felt subjected to “in…
The coronavirus outbreak may have led to the cancellation of numerous sporting events last weekend but recreational runners do not seem to have been deterred. Statistics recorded by Parkrun – organisers of the popular series of free, weekly, timed runs that now…
A senior Australian athletics coach believes the Olympics will be postponed because thousands of top athletes have been unable to properly prepare for the Games, as the coronavirus pandemic causes lockdowns around the world. Thousands of the best athletes around the world…
Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya has said she wants to compete at the 200m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The South African, 29, is not allowed to compete in events between 400m and a mile without taking testosterone-reducing drugs, following a…
Queensland Athletics has imposed an extraordinary ban on athletes from Japan and other high-risk coronavirus countries from competing at this month's Track Classic unless they are already in Australia. There is no restriction on people coming to Australia from high-risk countries, and…