Tensions spill over between rival training groups Athletics chiefs order meeting to cool tempers British officials have held peace talks with the 4x100m squad in a bid to end the acrimony between some sprinters affecting the chances of relay gold in the Commonwealth Games and European Championships. The problems between the two training groups one coached by Rana Reider and the other by Steve Fudge...
Jamaica's Yohan Blake wins 150m in third-fastest time Greg Rutherford wins long jump at Great CityGames In front of nearly 10,000 people on Manchester's main drag, Yohan Blake matched his electric pink outfit with a high-wattage run and then gave the strongest indication yet that he will compete at this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Blake left his fellow Jamaican Kemar Bailey-Cole far in...
The IAAF Diamond League opened in Doha on 9 May with one dominant thrower in action - New Zealand’s Valerie Adams notching her 46th straight victory in the women’s shot put - and now it’s the turn of Croatian discus thrower Sandra Perkovic to try to impress in Shanghai on Sunday (18)....
Having soared magnificently over a bar set at 6.16m in Donetsk three months ago, supplanting Sergey Bubka as World record holder, France’s London 2012 Olympic Games champion Renaud Lavillenie said in Shanghai on Saturday (17) that he is ready to go higher....
Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford is confident that his British long jump record of 8.51m will be ratified by UK Athletics....
Watch Usain Bolt setting the world's fastest time for the 150m at the 2009 Great City Games in Manchester....
Meghan Beesley storms to victory in the women's 200m hurdles at the Great City Games in Manchester, setting a new world best time in the process....
Jamaica's Yohan Blake wins the 150m at the Great Manchester Games, but fails to beat the time of 14.35 seconds set by compatriot Usain Bolt at the same event in 2009....
World indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty says there is a rift between Britain's two male sprinting camps....
Multi-medal winning athlete Allyson Felix said Saturday that 2014 would be a crucial year following her recent injury setback, as she aims to make an instant impact at the Shanghai Diamond League meet....
Andre Olivier and LJ van Zyl are both expecting fast races on Sunday when they line up in their respective events at the second Diamond League athletics meeting of the season in Shanghai....
It is the second leg of the IAAF Diamond League in Shanghai on Sunday and for Renaud Lavillenie, a return to the competition where he has become a dominant force. ...
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The current European Athletics 400m champion indoors and out, Pavel Maslak, will represent his Czech TJ Dukla Praha club at the European Champion Clubs Cup Senior Group A in Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Portugal, on 24-25 May. ...
Les Croupiers runner Martin Rees among those in action at this year's event at Sutton Park The post Preview: British Masters Road Relay Championships appeared first on Athletics Weekly . ...
Phillips Idowu, Shara Proctor and Dwain Chambers among British athletes in action as Diamond League series moves on to Shanghai The post Athletes ready to shine in Shanghai appeared first on Athletics Weekly . ...
Jamaican sprinter 'definitely' wants to change sports 'When I'm 29 I'll come off the track and field' Yohan Blake, the second-fastest 100m runner in history, insists he wants to play county cricket for Yorkshire but has rejected the chance of an immediate net with the club's head coach, Jason Gillespie, because he has to fly back to Jamaica to train. Blake, 24, who is competing in the 150m at the Great...
'Clash of egos' between two British sprint groups Kilty confident that differences can be settled The world indoor 60m champion, Richard Kilty, has claimed there are rifts between Britain's top sprinters and warned it could ruin their chances of 4x100m relay gold in the Commonwealth Games and European Championships. Kilty, who competes in the 100m at the CityGames in Manchester on Saturday afternoon,...
Bitter long jump rivals go head to head at Great CityGames Yohan Blake will attempt to break Usain Bolt's 150m record There have been plenty of fictional dust-ups in Albert Square over the years and one would not necessarily bet against one happening for real when Greg Rutherford and Chris Tomlinson go head-to-head in the long jump in Manchester's Albert Square, in front of the Town Hall, as part of...
The provisional entry lists for the IAAF World Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas, on 24-25 May are now available....