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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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• The 63-year-old who ran the world's deepest marathon

  02-12-2025 05:42 via bbc.com
  Rory Coleman ran the worlds deepest marathon and broke his 10th world record. But why?
  
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• The hidden workings of dating apps uncovered

  01-12-2025 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  How dating apps changed our love lives by connecting us, but at what cost?
  
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• Preview Julia Donaldson's joyful tale of love

  01-12-2025 16:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Two devoted scarecrows plan the perfect wedding – until a rival threatens everything.
  
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• World record holder Duplantis set for London return

  01-12-2025 14:37 via bbc.com
  World record holder Armad Duplantis confirms he will return to the London Stadium for the first time in eight years in 2026.
  
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• Ridley Scott's masterful epic of betrayal and vengeance

  01-12-2025 01:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Maximus Decimus Meridius, favoured general of the Roman emperor, is betrayed and enslaved.
  
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• Duplantis & McLaughlin-Levrone named world athletes of year

  01-12-2025 00:07 via bbc.com
  Armand Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone are crowned world athletes of the year at the World Athletics Awards in Monaco.
  
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• Duplantis wins top award and takes aim at Grand Slam Track’s exclusion of field events

  30-11-2025 22:39
  Duplantis named World Athletics’ male athlete of yearSydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins top female awardArmand Duplantis has capped a remarkable 2025, in which he broke four world records and won another world title, by being named World Athletics’ male athlete of the year.Immediately after picking up the award, the Swedish pole vaulter took aim at Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track, which collapsed in the summer and is still yet to pay athletes their full prize money. Continue rea
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Ashes defeats, Arsenal goals and Deaflympics medals

  28-11-2025 09:00
  Have you been following the big stories in cricket, football, rugby union, athletics and motor sport? Continue reading...
  
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• Hospital CCTV helps clear long jumper of doping

  27-11-2025 09:45 via bbc.com
  China's world champion long jumper Wang Jianan is cleared of doping after a review of hospital CCTV footage.
  
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• Chalmers joy as 2030 Commonwealth Games hosts confirmed

  26-11-2025 18:00 via bbc.com
  Guernsey athlete Alastair Chalmers says he is pleased that the Commonwealth Games has a confirmed host - the Indian city of Amdavad - for 2030.
  
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• Watch the award-winning rom-com starring Anne Hathaway

  26-11-2025 01:31 via bbc.co.uk
  A mother takes her daughter to a music festival and unexpectedly falls in love.
  
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• Revealed: sports agent Jonathan Barnett’s three-year legal battle with John Regis and Jennifer Stoute

  20-11-2025 11:00
  Special report: A leading agent and two Olympians fell out when their talent agency was sold, leading to ‘three years of torture’ which came to a sudden end after the emergence of text messages sent to a phone registered to BarnettA high-court claim that had pitted the leading sports agent Jonathan Barnett against his former business partners, the Olympic medallists John Regis and Jennifer Stoute, was withdrawn after an extraordinary three-year legal battle.A partnership of which Bar
  
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• A festive classic, now available on BBC iPlayer

  18-11-2025 01:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Two women swap homes for the holidays and find unexpected romance and self-discovery.
  
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• Athletes in Paralympic World Class Programme named

  17-11-2025 17:17 via bbc.com
  British Athletics announces the 41 athletes included in its Paralympic World Class Programme for 2025-26.
  
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• Former Olympic coach denies child sex offences

  17-11-2025 15:17 via bbc.com
  Vicente Modahl appears in court to deny child sex offences - and his trial is adjourned until 2028.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Ashes, All Blacks and a big payday in tennis

  14-11-2025 11:37
  Have you been following the big stories in football, rugby, tennis, darts, boxing, running, cricket and motor sport? Continue reading...
  
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• Women's 100m final on day one at LA 2028 Olympics

  12-11-2025 19:52 via bbc.com
  The women's 100m final will take place on day one of the 2028 Olympics, with the men's on day two, as athletics is moved to the first week in Los Anleges.
  
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• Off with a bang: women’s 100m final moved up to LA28 opening day

  12-11-2025 17:32
  Sha’Carri Richardson hails athletics ‘having its moment’‘Innovative schedule also honours tradition,’ says CoeThe women’s 100m final will headline the first day of competition at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics as part of organisers’ plans to “open with a bang”.The surprise decision, which will lead to all three rounds of the 100m taking place on the same day, was welcomed by the US sprint star Sha’Carri Richardson, who said it showed tha
  
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• A festive favourite to spark your Christmas spirit

  12-11-2025 02:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The feel-good Christmas story, perfect for cosy winter nights
  
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• Sprinter Bracy-Williams given 45-month doping ban

  11-11-2025 10:36 via bbc.com
  Former world 100m silver medallist Marvin Bracy-Williams is given a 45-month ban for doping offences after a whistleblower triggers an investigation.
  
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• 100 Meters review – mesmerising anime of young athletes in search of physical and spiritual high

  10-11-2025 10:00
  Dazzling rotoscoped running sequences make up for a lack of narrative subtlety in Kenji Iwaisawa’s filmMuch has been written about the act of running, a therapeutic exercise with the potential for cathartic release. Within the context of professional sports, however, the pressure of competition can make people lose sight of this ultimate goal. Adapted from the eponymous manga, Kenji Iwaisawa’s mesmerising anime looks beyond trophies and medals to investigate the existential drive tha
  
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• The remarkable story of an everlasting Hollywood icon

  10-11-2025 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The epic story of a Hollywood star whose life and talent blazed like no other.
  
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• The engrossing biopic of a Hollywood icon's early years

  10-11-2025 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Based on a true story, starring Toby Jones, Lesley Manville and Harry Lawtey
  
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• Churchill faces his gravest dilemma

  08-11-2025 21:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Churchill must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler or fight for the greater good.
  
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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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