Olympic hurdler David King has retired from athletics. The 31-year-old six-time British champion from Plymouth reached the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He reached the final of the 2022 World Indoor Championships, having drawn lots after recording an identical time to Japan’s Shusei Nomoto in the semi-final....
I know it seems like a long way away, but in just 25 months, the final Olympic torch runner will be a block from their final destination to open up the Los Angeles 2028 Games, but will never make it as they’re slammed to the ground by a thrown cinder block. And by the time...
Passport-holders from 12 nations are now outright banned from entering the United States. They are: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Seven more countries – Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela – face significant but not full restrictions on travel. Section...
This was a big story during the Paris Olympics last year. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won a gold medal despite controversy surrounding whether Khelif was a man or a woman. Khelif won gold in the women’s 66kg category at last summer’s Olympic Games, having been cleared to compete despite being disqualified from the 2023 world...
Rebecca Woods BBC Panorama Getty Images Rūta Meilutytė won Olympic gold in 2012, and recalls cutting comments about her weight A world record-breaking swimmer has told BBC Panorama she was left “broken” by the harsh regime run by one of the UK’s most successful swimming coaches. Rūta Meilutytė, who won gold at the London 2012...
Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson will return from injury to race in the women’s 800m at this summer’s London Athletics Meet on Saturday 19 July. The 23-year was forced to withdraw from February’s Keely Klassic in Birmingham because of a hamstring injury. At last year’s event at London Stadium, Hodgkinson set a meeting record, national...
This is the moment Jamaica’s sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce completely demolished other parents in a race at her son’s school sports day. The three-time Olympic champion, who is the third-fastest woman in history, competed against other parents at her son’s school on Wednesday. “They haven’t banned me yet so I’m at the line,” she posted...
Fairplex has an existing grandstand, which was built in 1932 and holds 8,000 spectators. It is set to be renovated this year, but is not yet certain if this will be incorporated into stadium plans. The site has previously held concerts for between 40,000 and 60,000 people. The International Cricket Council (ICC), International Olympic Committee...
A mixed-team golf event will be held at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles following approval by the International Olympic Committee executive board. Organisers have said it will contested as 36-hole competition across two 18-hole rounds – foursomes and fourball – with a maximum of one team per country. Teams will be comprised of one...
Cricket’s return to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 2028 will be as a six-team T20 tournament for both genders, the International Olympic Committee has announced. Participating teams will be able to field squads of up to 15 players after the IOC allocated quotas of 90 athletes per gender for the event. The IOC has...
Nuguse beat defending champion Ingebrigtsen and finished within 0.15 seconds of gold in a dramatic Paris final, in which Cole Hocker squeezed past Britain’s world champion Kerr to win in an Olympic record time. The event’s current heavyweights represent four of the nine fastest men in history over the distance, but Nuguse is the only...
Jakob, 24, and his brothers Filip, 31, and Henrik, 34, who are also Olympic athletes, made public claims in October 2023 that their father – who was their coach until 2022 – had been violent. The trio, who are among seven Ingebrigtsen children, wrote at the time that they “still feel discomfort and fear” about...
