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Robin Scott-Elliot: Athletics risks being dragged down by lack of speedy action over Jamaica’s drugs scandal 26 Aug 2013 | 10:32 pm
It is the question every athlete or cyclist who achieves something out of the ordinary will be asked for now and probably ever more: Are you clean? Did you run the 100m at lightning speed without ille...
Mo Farah’s lack of world records might well be his best defence against drug allegations 26 Aug 2013 | 02:39 am
‘Everyone is so into this drug mania. Everybody believes that if anybody runs well they have to be on drugs. But the way I look at it, if you don’t want people to say things about you, go run real cra...
Weekend Review – 24/08/2013 – 25/08/2013 26 Aug 2013 | 02:26 am
Chris Clarke moved up to second in the 2013 UK rankings and 9th on the all-time list with victory in the 200m at the UK CAU Track & Field Championships in Bedford at the weekend. The Steve Fudge-coac...
Great North Run 2013 will see Defar and Dibaba clash once more 23 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
Great North Run 2013 will see two of the world’s top women’s athletics stars going head to head over the half marathon distance on September 15. Ethiopian’s Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba, who hol...
Stockholm Diamond League round-up 23 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
Less than a week after the IAAF World Championships, a number of GB & NI athletes were in action this evening on the twelfth leg of the IAAF Diamond League. After finishing in an impressive fifth pla...
Gay’s positive test was for banned steroid 23 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
American sprinter Tyson Gay's positive test was for a banned steroid that carries a two-year suspension, the BBC has learned. News of the American's failed test emerged last month, but the details of...
Black and Minority Ethnic groups in athletics 22 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
British Athletics is one of four governing bodies in the UK set to work with Leeds Metropolitan University on research into sporting experience and coaching aspirations among under-represented groups’...
Elite set for Stockholm Diamond League 22 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
World Championships 400m gold medallist LaShawn Merritt heads the line-up at Thursday's Stockholm Diamond League meeting. Full Article HERE
Perri Shakes-Drayton to undergo knee surgery 22 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
European Indoor Champion Perri Shakes Drayton (coach: Chris Zah) is to undergo surgery imminently to repair tears to her cartilage and posterior cruciate ligament after sustaining the injuries during ...
Mo Farah Knighthood Backed By Cameron 21 Aug 2013 | 01:50 pm
David Cameron has said he would "warmly welcome" a recommendation for Mo Farah to be knighted. The 30-year-old athlete achieved a historic double-double in Moscow on Friday night as he added two worl...
