Athletics

By The Telegraph

Athletics
Dina Asher-Smith: 'I'm very aware I now have a voice' - Britain's sprint champion on using her influence to battle discrimination
The Telegraph - By Anna Kessel
Women's Sport - Article Body Branded Header Dina Asher-Smith has a voice, and she wants to use it. The 23-year-old sprinter who stormed to three European golds last summer, a first for any British athlete,
Niamh Emerson interview: 'This is all so weird and new - I can't believe I have Jess Ennis-Hill's phone number'
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Niamh Emerson is just finishing describing – in wonderfully breathless, excitable fashion – how unusual it was to be treated like an adult at last week’s European Indoor Championships, when her flow is
London Marathon
Mo Farah craving track return as he seriously considers defence of world 10,000m title
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Mo Farah has admitted watching his British team-mates compete at the European Indoor Championships last weekend made him long to race on the track again, as he seriously considers returning to defend triple
Great Britain
European silver medalist Jamie Webb on being back in the classroom: 'It’s not every day I step in the room to a round of
The Telegraph - By Molly McElwee
From the cheering crowds of the Glasgow Emirates Arena on Sunday, to a sleepy-eyed class of Year 9 students on Tuesday: for Jamie Webb, the landing after his moment of European athletics glory has been
Tokyo 2020
'Phenomenal' Laura Muir can match my Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020, says Seb Coe
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Seb Coe believes middle-distance runner Laura Muir can win Olympic gold in Tokyo next year, with the head of British Athletics labelling her “a phenomenon”. Muir made history as the first person ever win
Great Britain
Laura Muir double caps off record-breaking British medal haul at European Indoor Championships
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
It had always been the plan for Laura Muir to bring the curtain down on these European Indoor Championships in golden style, but the Glasgow crowd could scarcely have anticipated the glut of British medals
Great Britain
Chris O’Hare claims 3,000m silver behind dazzling Jakob Ingebrigtsen at European Indoor Championships
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Making victory look almost laughably facile, Jakob Ingebrigtsen added to his growing reputation as athletics’ superstar-in-waiting by toying with his rivals to win European indoor 3,000m gold in Glasgow
Niamh Emerson bursts on to multi-event scene in slipstream of 'role model' Katarina Johnson-Thompson
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
As thoughts naturally turn to what Katarina Johnson-Thompson can achieve at the World Championships later this year, it appears the next cab off the over-populated rank of British female multi-eventers
Great Britain
Laura Muir blitzes her way to scintillating European Indoor Championships 3000m gold
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Why did we ever doubt Laura Muir? Just two and a half hours after winning her 1500m heat, Muir made a mockery of suggestions she might be feeling the weight of her earlier exertions by producing what undoubtedly
Great Britain
Katarina Johnson-Thompson secures another European indoor title - but just misses world record again
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Another hugely impressive European indoor title for Katarina Johnson-Thompson, another display of total dominance, and yet another moment tinged with just a hint of disappointment. It is testament to ability
Norway
Teenage sensation Jakob Ingebrigtsen remains unflustered on march towards global stardom
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Having produced the type of utterly dominant front-running display that is fast becoming his trademark, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen promptly stepped off the Glasgow track on Friday. The European indoor
Asha Philip: 'I was a double champion at two different sports, so surely I can do it at two different events'
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Every sprinter in the world, bar none, aspires to be the best over the blue riband 100m event. So if you were to call Asha Philip – the reigning European 60m champion, British 60m record holder and six-time
Regulation
Laura Muir could run 'in high heels', coach insists amid reports spikes do not comply with regulations
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Laura Muir’s coach has rubbished reports that there is anything untoward about her racing spikes, insisting she could run just as well “in high heels” as she defends the first of her two European indoor
Great Britain
Holly Bradshaw exclusive: Losing a sponsor deal before would have killed me but right now I'm loving life
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
With the benefit of hindsight, it is fortunate Holly Bradshaw and her husband Paul are, by her own admission, “pretty tight” with money – not ideal when it comes to buying rounds at the pub, but a relief
Great Britain
Richard Kilty exclusive interview: 'Most sprinters would swap their careers to achieve what I’ve done'
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Richard Kilty takes great pride in having dragged himself to where he is now. Brought up surrounded by criminality, drugs and violence on a “really rough” Stockton council estate, made homeless twice a
British Athletics
Richard Kilty to defend European Indoor Championships title despite British Athletics' decision to omit him
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Richard Kilty admits it will be “awkward to say the least” when he attempts to win a hat-trick of European indoor 60m titles next week only after event organisers stepped in to overrule his snub from British
IAAF
Caster Semenya's lawyers claim IAAF breached confidentiality rules
The Telegraph - By Tom Morgan
A row between Caster Semenya and athletics' governing body erupted on Monday as her lawyers claimed confidentiality rules had been breached for her behind-closed-doors fight to compete internationally
British Athletics
Selection chaos sees British Athletics forced to pick incomplete sprint team for European Indoor Championships
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Richard Kilty, the double reigning European 60m champion, has hit out at not being given the chance to attempt an historic hat-trick in Glasgow next month after British Athletics were forced into humiliatingly
British Athletics
Holly Bradshaw and Laura Muir enjoy perfect European Indoors warm up with Birmingham success
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Up to this point there have been two distinct stages to Holly Bradshaw’s pole vault career: the young hopeful who rapidly climbed the ladder to be in contention for a medal at London 2012 and the consistent
Ivory Coast
Reece Prescod says 'smart decision-making' the reason behind skipping European Indoor Championships
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Reece Prescod insists he has to think about the “bigger picture” after opting not to compete at next month’s Glasgow European Indoor Championships – an event at which he would be overwhelming favourite
Caster Semenya
IAAF insists it accepts Caster Semenya's 'legal sex without question' despite report lawyers will argue she is 'biological
The Telegraph - By Tom Morgan and Ben Bloom
Athletics’ ruling body has insisted that it accepted Caster Semenya’s “legal sex without question” despite reports that its lawyers would argue that the Olympic 800 metres champion was a “biological male”
Doping
Dwain Chambers barred from competing at Birmingham Grand Prix due to doping past
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Dwain Chambers' agent has hit out at UK Athletics after learning that the sprinter was not eligible for a lane at Britain's showpiece indoor meeting in Birmingham this weekend because of his doping past.
Belgium
Katarina Johnson-Thompson steps up to win long jump British indoor title
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Sheepishly, wary of tempting fate, it was with almost a whisper that Katarina Johnson-Thompson admitted this is the best she has ever felt going into a new season. As has become customary over the years,
Great Britain
Dwain Chambers return dashed by false start at British Indoor Championships
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
The familiar broad smile was there, so too the trademark swagger and – as he proudly displayed by pulling his vest up to reveal – a six-pack that would not look out of place in a bodybuilding contest.
Top 10
Richard Kilty ready for unlikely reunion with 40-year-old Dwain Chambers at British Indoor Championships
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Without Dwain Chambers, Richard Kilty would probably not be where he is today. The fateful moment occurred 19 years ago, when the prospect of the pair lining up alongside each other at the British Indoor
Great Britain
Dwain Chambers comes out of retirement aged 40 in bid to resume international career
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Dwain Chambers is coming out of retirement two months short of his 41st birthday in a bid to resurrect his international career by competing at this weekend's British Indoor Championships. Chambers, who
Doping
British high jumper Robbie Grabarz in line for London 2012 silver medal upgrade after Russian stripped of gold
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
Former British high jumper Robbie Grabarz is in line to be upgraded to Olympic silver from London 2012 after the Russian winner Ivan Ukhov was stripped of his title six and a half years after the event.
World Anti-Doping Agency
Former head of Wada claims drug-test methods not fit for purpose - 'organised crime has a field day in sport'
The Telegraph - By Robert Dineen
The former head of the global anti-doping body has added to pressure on Wada by saying that its testing methods are outdated. David Howman, the director-general of the World Anti-Doping Agency from 2003
Athletics
UK Athletics facing leadership crisis after chairman follows chief executive in resigning
The Telegraph - By Ben Bloom
UK Athletics is facing a leadership crisis without any permanent senior figures at the helm after the governing body’s chairman was forced to quit months after the chief executive suddenly resigned. Chairman