Athletics
Big Diamond League changes announced
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Friday, 04 December 2020 11:54
Return of 200m, 5000m, steeplechase, triple jump and discus for 2021, while new ‘Final 3’ format is introduced A number of big changes have been announced for the 2021 Wanda Diamond League (WDL) series, including the reintroduction of 200m, 5000m, steeplechase, triple jump and discus events. It was announced in November 2019 that those events would be cut from the…
Why getting in the swing has helped Mondo Duplantis
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Friday, 04 December 2020 09:36
AW Awards winner and pole vault world record-holder has discovered an obsession with golf which has helped him add a new dimension to his psychological armoury “It’s just easy,” says Mondo Duplantis when talking about what it feels like when he finds his groove during the heat of pole vault competition. This year, the 21-year-old has made it look that…
Valencia poised for red-hot road races
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Friday, 04 December 2020 06:18
Spanish city stages marathon and half-marathon with super-strong line-ups on Sunday It has been dubbed the “best race in history”. The organisers of this weekend’s Valencia Marathon and Half Marathon are describing it as “la gran carrera”, or the great race. The line-ups, they add, are “fenomenal”. Whether you speak Spanish or not, it is not hard to understand that…
Why we should all learn from Usain Bolt
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Thursday, 03 December 2020 05:21
Colin Jackson would love to see the man voted by AW readers as the Greatest male athlete of the past 75 years sharing his athletics knowledge and insight with the world While much of Usain Bolt’s time is currently being taken up by being a new dad to baby daughter Olympia, he has not been lost entirely to the sport…
Mondo Duplantis and Jemma Reekie among winners in AW Awards
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Thursday, 03 December 2020 11:19
With votes counted, we can now reveal your athletes of the year Mondo Duplantis, Jemma Reekie, Max Burgin and Hannah Cockroft are among the winners of the 2020 AW Awards, with our readers responding in fine style when it came to selecting the athletes they believe to have performed with distinction over the past 12 months. While this may have…
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