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• Victor Conte, architect of infamous sport steroids scandal, dies aged 75

  04-11-2025 11:33
  Balco boss revealed Marion Jones used growth hormonesConte served four months in prison over involvementVictor Conte, the architect of a scheme to provide undetectable performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes including the baseball stars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and the Olympic track champion Marion Jones decades ago, has died. He was 75.The federal government’s investigation into a company Conte founded, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco), yielded the convictions
  
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• Pawlett following in footsteps of heptathlon heroes

  04-11-2025 07:13 via bbc.com
  After a bittersweet first World Championship in Tokyo, Abigail Pawlett has her sights set on joining Britain's Olympic heptathlon medallist club.
  
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• First international podium 'amazing' for Turner

  03-11-2025 12:48 via bbc.com
  Jersey triathlete Ollie Turner says he is "lost for words" after claiming his first international race podium finish.
  
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• GB's Dever finishes fourth in New York marathon

  02-11-2025 18:21 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Patrick Dever comes an impressive fourth in the men's race at the New York marathon as Benson Kipruto beats Alexander Mutiso in a dramatic photo finish.
  
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• Kenyans sweep podiums at New York City Marathon as Obiri sets women’s course record

  02-11-2025 17:36
  Hellen Obiri regains title she won in 2023 raceBenson Kipruto wins men’s race by less than a secondHellen Obiri set a women’s course record to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday while her fellow Kenyan, Benson Kipruto, won the men’s race by edging Alexander Mutiso by less than a second.Obiri, who also won the race in 2023, finished in two hours, 19 minutes and 51 seconds. Obiri was running with 2022 winner Sharon Lokedi until she pulled away from her countrymate in the fi
  
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• New York’s marathon of chaos and charm awaits Hassan and Kipchoge

  01-11-2025 09:00
  Olympic champions Sifan Hassan and Eliud Kipchoge make their NYC debuts on Sunday, where rolling bridges, loud crowds and marathon chaos awaitThe New York City Marathon, like the city it takes over each fall, is as vast as it is vibrant; as loud as it is chaotic; and more than a little daunting, too.No marathon is easy. But an air of unpredictability lingers over the five boroughs, with hopefuls humbled, and favorites frustrated, as they embark on a challenging 26.2-mile tour of the city. Contin
  
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• Wada wants Usada to do more to stop Enhanced Games

  31-10-2025 10:04 via bbc.com
  Wada president Witold Banka calls on Usada "to do more" to help prevent the Enhanced Games from taking place.
  
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• World Athletics victims of £1.3m corporate theft

  30-10-2025 17:08 via bbc.com
  World Athletics says it has sacked staff and called in law enforcement after discovering corporate theft worth over 1.5m euros (£1.3m).
  
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• 'Climate change impacting marathon records'

  28-10-2025 12:51 via bbc.com
  Rising temperatures have made record times in some races "nearly impossible", says new research.
  
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• Will 'stars align' for Wightman at Glasgow 2026?

  28-10-2025 09:03 via bbc.com
  World 1500m silver medallist Jake Wightman believes the "stars are aligning" at the right time for him to make one final attempt at winning a Commonwealth Games gold for Scotland in Glasgow next summer.
  
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• Gout Gout breaks record to end school sprint career and magic year on high

  24-10-2025 10:45
  Gout breaks his own 400m meet record to win in a personal-best 46.14sThe 17-year-old thanks his coach as he signs off as a schoolboy athleteAthletics prodigy Gout Gout farewelled his junior career and one of the most dazzling years on the track for an Australian sprinter with sadness and gratitude.The 17-year-old thanked his coach, Di Sheppard, and Ipswich Grammar school for the wild ride as he signed off as a schoolboy athlete by breaking his own meet record at the GPS Track and Field champions
  
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• Women’s marathon world record-holder Chepngetich handed three-year doping ban

  23-10-2025 17:47
  Runner claimed she had taken housemaid’s medicationControversial Chicago record will stand despite banThe women’s marathon world record-holder, Ruth Chepngetich, has been banned for three years after the Athletics Integrity Unit rejected her claim that her failed drugs test came from taking her housemaid’s medication after feeling hot and having a rapid resting heartbeat.The Kenyan stunned the world when she ran 2hr 9min 56sec at the Chicago marathon in 2024, a time that shatte
  
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• Marathon record holder Chepngetich given three-year ban

  23-10-2025 17:15 via bbc.com
  Women's marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich is banned for three years after the Kenyan admits to anti-doping rule violations.
  
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• Just redo it: inside Nike’s plans to put the swoosh back into its sales

  23-10-2025 15:00
  The world’s largest sportswear company was wobbling amid complaints that it had become too safe. Armed with a provocative new slogan, the company reveals the innovations and strategy it hopes will turn its reputation aroundThe entrance to Nike’s swish global headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon is paved with rough cobbles, designed to remind employees to watch their step when they go forward.Last summer, though, not even the world’s biggest sports brand could stop itself from taki
  
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• UK Athletics in profit for first time in eight years

  21-10-2025 13:56 via bbc.com
  UK Athletics reports a surplus for the first time since 2017, two years after facing the threat of bankruptcy.
  
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• Australia’s Matt Hauser wins world triathlon title with emotional victory on home soil

  19-10-2025 11:04
  World No 1 claims gold in Wollongong to end 15-year drought for AustraliaGermany’s Lisa Tertsch triumphs in women’s final to seal maiden crownWorld No 1 Matt Hauser has won the triathlon’s world championship series in Wollongong, ending a 15-year drought for Australia.Two-time Olympian Hauser never relented across Sunday’s 1.5km swim, 40km cycle, and 10km run event and won gold by a monster 34 seconds on home soil. Continue reading...
  
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• Ex-Olympic coach in court over child sex offences

  14-10-2025 19:03 via bbc.com
  Former British Olympic athletics coach Jose Vicente Leiva-Modahl appears in court for the first time after being accused of child sex offences.
  
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• More Than The Score

  13-10-2025 15:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Botswana's world 400m champion Collen Kebinatshipi believes they can dominate the decade
  
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• Keely Hodgkinson crowned 800m queen of New York by Serena Williams

  11-10-2025 10:46
  Olympic champion ends injury-hampered season on highWorld silver medallist Georgia Hunter Bell takes secondKeely Hodgkinson won the 800m to end her injury-hampered season on a high at New York’s all-female Athlos meeting. Britain’s Olympic champion outclassed the field in her signature event, finishing in 1min 56.53sec in only her sixth race this season after missing several months of competition due to injury earlier this year.Her fellow Briton Georgia Hunter Bell, the world silver
  
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• Serena Williams crowns Hodgkinson after Athlos 800m win

  11-10-2025 08:01 via bbc.com
  Britain's Keely Hodgkinson ends her 800m season with victory at the all-female Athlos meet in New York on Friday evening.
  
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• Bol switches to 800m and Hodgkinson 'can't wait'

  10-10-2025 20:24 via bbc.com
  Two-time world 400m hurdles champion Femke Bol says she is switching events and will compete in the 800m from next year.
  
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• How sprinter Levitt turned groceries to gold

  10-10-2025 14:18 via bbc.com
  Victoria Levitt says supermarket click-and-collect job helped her become world champion sprinter after taking gold in New Delhi earlier this month.
  
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• Kebinatshipi targets 400m world record after Tokyo gold

  07-10-2025 16:50 via bbc.com
  Botswana's Collen Kebinatshipi has set his sights on breaking the 400m world record after being crowned world champion in Tokyo last month.
  
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• GB's Davies wins seventh consecutive world shot put title

  05-10-2025 17:57 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Aled Sion Davies secures his seventh consecutive F63 shot put title on the final day of the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi.
  
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• Dillu dominates Cardiff Half 2025 with new record

  05-10-2025 12:39 via bbc.com
  Ethiopia's Yismaw Dillu wins the Cardiff Half Marathon 2025 in a new men's record time, with Miriam Chebet defending her women's title and Callum Hall taking the wheelchair race.
  
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• Cockroft wins third gold as Pembroke defends title

  04-10-2025 19:40 via bbc.com
  Multiple world champions Hannah Cockroft and Dan Pembroke add two more golds to Great Britain's medal tally at the World Para Athletics Championships.
  
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• 'What I've dreamed of' - Worlds bronze for Maguire

  02-10-2025 13:02 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Nathan Maguire thanks his family for helping him to achieve his dream after winning T54 1500m bronze at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi.
  
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• Britain's Cockroft wins second gold at Worlds

  01-10-2025 18:39 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft wins her second gold medal of the World Para Athletics Championships and the 18th world title of her career by winning the women's T34 100m in New Delhi.
  
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• Fortune eyes Commonwealths after World Para win

  01-10-2025 09:28 via bbc.com
  Sabrina Fortune hopes to compete at the 2026 Commonwealth Games after smashing her own shot put world record at the World Para Athletics Championships.
  
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• Muir's former coach Young banned for three years

  30-09-2025 14:50 via bbc.com
  Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir says she has put a "difficult chapter firmly behind" her after her former coach Andrew Young is banned for three years for "serious misconduct".
  
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• Laura Muir’s former athletics coach banned for three years for serious misconduct

  30-09-2025 13:00
  Andy Young’s ‘bullying’ leads to ban backdated to April 2023Actions included abandoning athlete by roadsideThe coach who guided Laura Muir to Olympic and world ­championship medals has been banned for three years for serious misconduct, ­including driving at speed with an athlete in his car after a ­disagreement before abandoning them at the roadside.Andy Young, who also coached Jemma Reekie to fourth place in the 800m at the Tokyo Games, was found by two independen
  
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• 'Not on my cards this year' - Arnold wins bronze

  27-09-2025 11:31 via bbc.com
  Hollie Arnold says winning a medal was "not on my cards" this year after securing a bronze in the women's F46 javelin at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi.
  
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• Lord Campbell of Pittenweem obituary

  26-09-2025 17:06
  Liberal Democrat leader and sage politician who was also an Olympic athlete and British record holder The veteran Liberal Democrat politician Menzies Campbell, who has died aged 84, was briefly the party’s leader for 19 months from March 2006, before falling prey to a whispering campaign by colleagues claiming he was too old, at 66, for the job. Not too old, however, to serve another eight years as an MP.Even at that age, Campbell could probably have outpaced most of his younger critics, h
  
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• Menzies Campbell: Athlete, lawyer and formidable politician

  26-09-2025 12:15 via bbc.com
  The former Liberal Democrat leader was one of the UK parliament's most distinctive and authoritative voices.
  
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• Kerr 'did more damage' by finishing world final

  26-09-2025 09:52 via bbc.com
  Josh Kerr confirms he sustained a "grade two" calf tear in the World Championship 1500m final.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Ryder Cup, Rugby World Cup final and a rebrand

  26-09-2025 09:30
  Have you been following the big stories in football, rugby union, golf, athletics, cricket and the NFL? Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The future of sprinting is hazy right now', says US sprint king Noah Lyles – video

  23-09-2025 03:00
  Having now won four successive 200m world titles, Noah Lyles has expressed a desire to surpass Usain Bolt’s record with a fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing in 2027. But when asked about the future of the sport, Lyles said: 'The future of sprinting is hazy right now. There is so much talent, there is so much room for growth and there are so many new personalities coming up, but I feel the way that the sport is right now, nobody knows which direction to go in.'Noah Lyles:
  
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• Number crunching premium bonds | Brief letters

  22-09-2025 18:38
  Tax proves taxing | A canal-boating break | Directionless sprinting | Changes that work | How very GuardianThe suggestion that the UK could raise significant sums by increasing the limit on premium bonds is not, unfortunately, mathematically sound (Letters, 17 September). If the money was moved from UK banks and building societies, then it would be moving from a taxed environment to an untaxed environment. So, in addition to paying 3.6% interest in prizes, the exchequer would lose between 20% an
  
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• Gulls, golds and Gout Gout: World Athletics Championships 2025 – in pictures

  22-09-2025 13:00
  At the conclusion of the 2025 World Athletics Championships, we take a look at some of our favourite images from Tokyo. Continue reading...
  
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• Noah Lyles: ‘The future of sprinting is hazy right now. Nobody knows which direction to go in’ | Jack Snape

  22-09-2025 09:13
  The American sprint king on young emerging rivals including Gout Gout, his advancing years and uncertainty surrounding the sportSprint king Noah Lyles sits smiling and calm after the storm that returned him to the throne in Tokyo, reflective even. He has expressed a desire, having now won four successive 200m world titles, to surpass Usain Bolt’s record with a fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing in 2027.But the American’s mind has wandered even further. “I hav
  
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• Australia’s diminished world championships return fails to cloud athletics optimism | Jack Snape

  22-09-2025 04:08
  The emergence of younger athletes like Gout Gout and success for the usual suspects provided reasons to be cheerful in Tokyo, says the team’s high performance directorAustralia’s head of athletic high performance has described Gout Gout’s national debut in Tokyo as “just brilliant” and has defended the team’s overall performance, even though the medal return was down on tallies at the Paris Olympics and at the previous World Athletics Championships in Budapest
  
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• Stars of track and field: Australian athletes at the World Athletics Championships – in pictures

  22-09-2025 01:15
  The green-and-gold squad shone bright in Tokyo. Here is a collection of some of the best photographs from the event Continue reading...
  
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• Nicola Olyslagers beats rain delays to win high jump gold for Australia

  21-09-2025 18:52
  Olyslagers wins Australia’s first gold of Tokyo 2025Matt Denny misses out on a medal in men’s discusNicola Olyslagers overcame two rain delays to deliver Australia’s first gold medal of the world championships on the final evening, being first to clear 2m to win on a countback over Poland’s Maria Zodzik and cement her place at the summit of high jump.On an extraordinary and at times farcical evening in Tokyo, however, the men’s discus was stopped because of incessan
  
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• Golden 5,000m kick gives Cole Hocker solace after being ‘robbed’ in 1500m

  21-09-2025 18:03
  American proves pedigree with devastating final surgeUSA also win women’s and men’s 4x100m relays on last dayAt the Paris Olympics last year Cole Hocker proved over 1500m that he has one of the most devastating finishing kicks in track and field. Over 5,000m in Tokyo the American reinforced the message even more emphatically.When the bell rang for the final lap Hocker was in 11th place, and close to 15 metres off the lead. But he quickly began picking off his rivals before timing his
  
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• World Athletics Championships: USA dominate table again as GB suffer worst finish since 2003

  21-09-2025 16:15
  Americans win most golds and most medals overallGB fail to win gold for first time since 2003 in ParisSamoa win first-ever medal at championshipsTeam USA continued their domination of the World Athletics Championships as they finished top of the medal table in Tokyo.The US topped the table in total medals won (26) and gold medals (16). Kenya finished second in those two categories with 11 total medals and seven gold. Jamaica, a traditional powerhouse at the championships won the third-most medal
  
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• Lyles brings USA home for 4x100m gold

  21-09-2025 14:58 via bbc.com
  The USA retain their men's 4x100m relay world championships with Canada taking silver and the Netherlands taking bronze at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
  
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• USA win women's 4x100m as GB miss out on medal

  21-09-2025 14:24 via bbc.com
  The USA win their third relay as they take gold in the women's 4x100m while Great Britain come in fourth at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
  
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• Botswana snatch gold from USA in dramatic 4x400m finish

  21-09-2025 13:37 via bbc.com
  Botswana's BusangCollen Kebinatshipi overtakes the USA's Rai Benjamin in the final metres top snatch 4x400m relay gold at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
  
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• 'She's a true warrior' - Meadows on Hodgkinson performance

  21-09-2025 13:30 via bbc.com
  BBC Sport pundit and Keely Hodgkinson's coach Jenny Meadows analyses the Olympic champion's performance in winning 800m bronze at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
  
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• 'I thought I had it' - Hodgkinson on 800m final

  21-09-2025 13:08 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's silver and bronze medallists Georgia Hunter-Bell and Keely Hodgkinson reflect on their performance in the women's 800m finals atthe World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
  
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