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Eightlane Preview // BUPA Great Manchester Run – 10k

Manchester will host its annual Great Manchester run this Sunday as part of a fantastic weekend of sport in the City.

With the Great City Games also being hosted on Saturday, Manchester is attracting some of the biggest stars in world athletics such as Olympic long jump Greg Rutherford, Alison Felix and Paralympic star Jonnie [...]

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Eightlane Preview // Great CityGames in Manchester

The BT Great CityGames returns for its fifth consecutive year at the centre of Deansgate tomorrow. 2013 sees the games hold one of its strongest fields yet in what is to be an explosive day of track and field action!

London 2012 triple gold medallist Allyson Felix tops the line up, running in the 150m [...]

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Bupa London 10,000 Preview // Farah targets fifth Bupa London title

Mo Farah will target his fifth straight victory at the 2013 Bupa London 10,000 road race on Bank Holiday Monday, 27 May, when he headlines an elite field containing some of Britain’s finest distance runners.

The double Olympic champion has been an ever-present at this 10km central London road event since it started in 2008. [...]

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Bupa Westminster Mile Preview // Stellar British line up in London’s Mile one-day athletics festival

David Weir and Richard Whitehead are just two of the thousands of athletes who will be part of a new Mile event held in central London on Sunday 26 May.

Paralympic gold medallists Weir and Whitehead will both be competing alongside previous paralympians Noel Thatcher and Simon Butler.

The Bupa Westminster Mile, organised by the [...]

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Jonnie Peacock happy back in Britain after post-Paralympics adventures

Jonnie Peacock is sat in one of Manchester’s grander hotels, looking fashionable in slim-fit denim and boy band scuff-stubble and chuckling drily at a prophecy made by the Guardian after his 100m T44 Paralympics gold medal. In the giddy delirium of that September night, when the first breath of autumn was warmed by 80,000 people [...]

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Centre Stage /// Consistency is key for Lisa Dobriskey

Lisa Dobriskey has rarely enjoyed a period free of injuries but goes into this Sunday’s Westminster Mile off the back of a largely uninterrupted winter and an encouraging early start to her season five days ago.

The UK’s second-fastest female 1500m athlete of all-time tasted victory at the Loughborough International Athletics event and says she is [...]

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Olympic medallist Beth Tweddle launches athletes’ post-career programme in Glasgow

TWEDDLE was in the city today to help launch the Athlete Career Enhancement Programme which will help athletes who are approaching the end of their career or suffering from injury.

Full Article HERE

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Semenya has funding cut for Rio 2016

Former world 800m champion Caster Semenya has her funding withdrawn ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Full Article HERE

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BMC Eltham, Durham & Exeter Results

The regional BMC season is well underway.

Eltham – Zac Randall edged out Matt McLaughlin in the A 800m race. Full Results HERE

Exeter – Rosie Chamberlain won the Womens A 800m by quite some margin in 2.12 and Andrew Worden won the A 1500m in 3.55. Full Results HERE

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Lee McConnell to miss year to have a baby

London Olympic semi-finalist Lee McConnell has announced she will not compete this year as she is expecting her first child with husband Craig Bonthron in early November.

“The pregnancy has come as a bit of a surprise but we are ­absolutely delighted with the news,” the 34-year-old 400 metre runner said. “I plan to ­continue [...]

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Dwain Chambers is out to scale new heights

“I will be fit but while running is one thing, I am not sure what it will be like climbing up a mountain at two in the morning in the snow,” said Chambers, who finally won his battle to compete at the Olympics last summer after helping overturn the British Olympic Association’s lifetime ban on [...]

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Japhet Koech: from Kenya’s Rift Valley to the Edinburgh marathon

As you enter the small town of Iten, up in Kenya’s Rift Valley, a sign over the road reads proudly: Home of Champions. This is no understatement.

If you get up at 6am on virtually any day, the dirt roads that criss-cross the countryside around Iten will be full of runners, passing each other like [...]

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Loaded Mile field at Eugene – IAAF Diamond League

The iconic Bowerman Mile annually closes the Prefontaine Classic – the second US leg of the 2013 IAAF Diamond League – but this year’s finale on June 1 seems destined to send Eugene’s fans into orbit.

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David Weir slams UK Athletics’ lack of ‘respect’ after his coach is overlooked for wheelchair racing job

David Weir refuses to sign a contract with UK Athletics after he accused the governing body of lacking “respect” towards his long-term coach, Jenny Archer.

Full Telegraph Article by Simon Hart HERE

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Commonwealth Games javelin star Lee Doran is helping to inspire teenager Natasha Wilson

Commonwealth Games javelin star Lee Doran is helping to inspire teenager Natasha Wilson’s dream of reaching Glasgow 2014. Wilson underlined her potential by making her Great Britain debut at the Loughborough International on Sunday, where she finished fifth overall with her throw of 46.24m even though she was three years younger than most of her [...]

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Derbyshire teen becomes ‘fastest 14-year-old in Europe’

A Derbyshire teenager has become the fastest 14-year-old to run 200m in European history, according to British Athletics’ statisticians.

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Oscar Pistorius’ brother acquitted of culpable murder for the death of a female motorcyclist

Oscar Pistorius’ older brother cried tears of relief Tuesday as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide and negligent driving for the death of a woman in a road accident.

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Katarina Johnson-Thompson pull out of the Hypo Meeting in Gotzis

The British heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has been forced to pull out of the Hypo Meeting in Gotzis this weekend with an ankle injury.

Full Article HERE

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NEWS: Hammer coach has died aged 76

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Run, jump, dunk – Ukhov’s life on and off the field

“Come on guys: stretch, extend your toes!” shouts Rimas Kurtinaitis, 1988 Olympic basketball champion and current head coach of the Moscow-based Khimki team. As soon as Ivan Ukhov steps on to the basketball court, he’s straight to it, sitting down and stretching.

Full Article HERE

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NCAA Track Recruits 2013

Which British athletes are going to the NCAA in 2013?

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Jessica Ennis to complete at UK Women’s Athletic League Premier Division next month

Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis is to open her 2013 season competing at Edinburgh Leisure’s Meadowbank Sports Centre, in the UK Women’s Athletic League Premier Division next month.

The appearance, which will mark Ennis’ first outdoor competition since her outstanding success at London 2012, will see her compete in three events for her club, Trafford [...]

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Channel 4 announced as broadcaster for British Athletics summer 2013 para athletics events

British Athletics has today received a further commercial boost with the signing of Channel 4 as broadcaster for its elite para athletics fixtures, starting this summer with the two events within the Sainsbury’s Summer Series.

The deal guarantees high profile, terrestrial coverage of the first ever Sainsbury’s IPC Athletics Grand Prix Final in Birmingham on [...]

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The long, hard climb to the high ground for Dwain Chambers

After returning from his doping wilderness for Olympic year, Chambers is preparing in the Alps for new challenges in 2013, he tells Matt Majendie.

Full Article HERE

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McColgan is happy with standards for Games places

Eilish McColgan believes Commonwealth Games standards which are “fair” are driving 
Scotland’s track and field stars to Hampden.

Full Article HERE