Fitness and staying slim is important to all Britons, for our health and happiness, but for these young athletes it is their whole career. The GB and NI athletics team travel the globe winning gold medals and breaking world records. How to they keep themselves in peak physical condition to win these impressive titles? Katarina […]
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Is Canadian athletics really 'fine' after disappointing world championships?
Despite failing to win a single medal at the recent IAAF world athletics championships in London, Canadian officials don’t see a problem. “It’s fine. We have got the athletes — that hasn’t changed,” says Rob Guy, Athletics Canada CEO. “I am not a believer in luck but we were four medals down [in London] before […]
Juggling act: School, athletics left middle-distance runner McBride exhausted
Brandon McBride’s rookie season as a professional middle-distance runner, filled with big expectations, stress and success, quickly became a lesson in how to balance academics and athletics. After graduating from Mississippi State University last year with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, McBride enrolled in a master’s program in public administration at his alma mater. […]
Usain Bolt injured and Mo Farah beaten in high drama at World Athletics Championships
GETTY Usain Bolt and Mo Farah both ended without a World Athletics Championships gold on Saturday Both Bolt and Farah had plans to race again after the championships but at much smaller events and the schedule had allowed both athletes to book their leaving parties from the world athletics scene on the same night. Their […]
Usain Bolt INJURED in final race relay nightmare at World Athletics Championships
But Great Britain won gold to take their first ever title in the men’s 4×100 metres relay. Running in the final leg for Jamaica, Bolt pulled up with around 60m to go and tumbled to the track. Stewards offered to help Bolt with a wheelchair but the sprint legend opted to limp away and applaud […]
Mo Farah wins 5000m SILVER at World Athletics Championships but is beaten in final race
The Brit will move to the road after these championships and tried to ensure he would do so with 11 consecutive global titles under his belt at 5,000m and 10,000m. A number of the field tried to break Farah throughout the race and it was Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris who produced a stunning final lap to […]
Darya Klishina considered DOPING at 15: Russian in World Athletics Championships final
Klishina was left contemplating a summer without competing at the Rio Olympics last year when evidence emerge of state-sponsored doping in Russia. The IAAF suspended all Russian athletes but because Klishina had been living outside Russia in the United States, she managed to successfully prove she was a clean athlete and gain entry to the […]
Laura Muir left EXHAUSTED on track after 5000m heat at World Athletics Championships 2017
Muir missed out on 1500m bronze by the slimmest of margins on Monday night but nevertheless turned up on Thursday for her second event, which would see her run her very first outdoor 5k race of the year. The Scot kept pace with the field for the majority of the first heat but tired badly […]
World Athletics Championships 2017 Day 6 LIVE results: Farah and Makwala in action
Farah is 5,000m action in the heats at 8.05pm where his biggest challenge is likely to come from Muktar Edris of Ethiopia who has the fastest 5k time in the world this year. Makwala, however, is set to run a time trial in a bid to see him qualify for the 200m semi-finals, also later […]
World Athletics Championships 2017 Day 6 timetable and preview: When is Mo Farah running?
GETTY Allyson Felix and Mo Farah will be in action on Day 6 Farah won a thrilling race on Friday night and will have been recovering ahead of his attempt to secure an 11th consecutive global title. Later on the evening, another legend of the track is in action – Allyson Felix is a nine-time […]