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DINA ASHER-SMITH has won GOLD at the World Athletics Championships in the 200 metres. The 23-year-old adds the World title to her silver medal in the women’s 100m sprint on Monday. Dina came second behind Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the shorter race. There was also impressive running by Laura Muir in the 1500 metres. Decathlon […] More
LORD SEB COE has slammed BBC presenter Gabby Logan for making “judgements” about poor crowds at the IAAF World Championships in Doha. The unhappy IAAF president claims the sport was wrongly being portrayed on TV by people like Logan in the BBC studio, who then “clear off back to Match of the Day”. Lord Seb […] More
THIS is the notice handed out to the Doha security staff to ensure disgraced Alberto Salazar does not try to enter the IAAF World Athletics Championship. SunSport has obtained a photo of the A4 paper handed out to those personnel stationed at entry checkpoints of the Khalifa International Stadium in Qatar. Security staff at the […] More
FEMALE competitors at the World Athletics Championships have lodged a formal complaint over the use of controversial “Block Cams” being used. Viewers watching the sprint races from Doha have been taken by surprise at the screening of extreme close-ups of athletes crouching at the start of the races. Team GB’s Dina Asher-Smith has been ribbed […] More
THE whistleblower behind the Alberto Salazar doping ban last night slammed Mo Farah and UK Athletics. American Steve Magness claims Farah has to “answer questions” as he decided to stay with the disgraced coach until 2017 — two years after serious allegations emerged. Mo Farah (right) has been slammed by the whistleblower behind the Alberto […] More
A SPORT dying before our eyes in the desert, with too many influential figures burying their heads in the sand. A huge potential global audience switching off, unable to believe anything they see, because the athletics establishment has been too eager to look the other way on doping. It was already a disastrous time for […] More
HEARTBROKEN Adam Gemili apologised for letting a world medal slip through his fingers, saying: I ran like an amateur. But the Londoner has vowed to stand on the 200m podium at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics next summer. Team GB’s Adam Gemili issued an apology after letting a medal slip through his grasp in DohaCredit: Reuters […] More
SIR Mo Farah’s former coach Alberto Salazar was yesterday banned from athletics for four years for doping offences. Salazar, 61, who oversaw the British athlete’s most successful period on the track, trafficked banned testosterone, an investigation found – and has now been sent home from the World Athletics Championships in Qatar in disgrace. Sir Mo […] More
