Athletics
Warholm wants to go one step further
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Friday, 06 November 2020 04:44
Two-time world 400m hurdles champion being fuelled by a close run thing After all the motivational pre-race slapping and shouting and he is in position in the starting blocks, there is a short list which Karsten Warholm runs through in his mind. “My coach has three checkpoints – ‘be fit, be fresh and don’t f*** it up’,” grins the 24-year-old…
AW Awards includes search for ‘the greatest’
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Thursday, 05 November 2020 10:48
Voting is open to decide the outstanding athletes of 2020, plus the finest from the past 75 years Usain Bolt, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Haile Gebrselassie and Jackie Joyner-Kersee are among the athletes nominated in ‘the greatest’ category of the AW Awards, launching today (November 5). This may have been a year of major disruption but there are still many great performances…
How the latest lockdown affects UK athletics
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Thursday, 05 November 2020 09:45
Track and field training this month will be challenging during English lockdown, whereas restrictions on what is allowed are varied and ever-changing across the UK Athletics club activity has gone into limbo in England as the month-long lockdown begins. Group sessions and all competitions have been suspended but athletes are still able to train with one other person or enjoy…
Euro Cross winner Robel Fsiha banned
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Thursday, 05 November 2020 04:32
Eritrean-born Swedish runner will be stripped of European cross-country title he won in Portugal last year Just over 12 months ago Robel Fsiha stormed to a surprise victory in the senior men’s race at the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon. Surging powerfully on an uphill section with a kilometre to go, he pulled clear of Aras Kaya to win…
A lap with… Jess Judd
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Wednesday, 04 November 2020 10:03
Katy Barden catches up with the British 5000m champion Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, Jess Judd has recharged, refocused and enjoyed deserved domestic success. It wasn’t the summer she’d planned, but performances, within the context of 2020, are all relative. In the absence of the Olympics, compromise was key. “I’m actually really happy with where things have ended…
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