Athletics

Britain’s Jake Wightman has upstaged Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in a huge upset to win a thriller of a men’s 1500m at the World Athletics Championships. Ingebrigtsen led at the bell for the final lap, but Wightman stuck with the pace and bolted with 200 metres to go, successfully holding off the Norwegian for victory in 3min 29.23sec. Ingebrigtsen took silver in 3:29.47, with Spaniard Mohamed Katir claiming bronze (3:29.90). Kenya’s Abel Kipsang shot to the front from the start, while Ingebrigtsen settled

DOHA: The stage is set for the 14th Taishan Artistic Gymnastics World Cup that gets underway today with the qualifiers at the Aspire Dome. A total 30 countries have registered for this year’s event, which will feature 77 men (MAG) and 31 women (WAG) gymnasts. After the two-day MAG and WAG qualifiers, the finals will be held on March 4 and 5. Like last year, the high-profile competition will be held without fans due to the strict COVID-19 protocols in place. “Implementing a

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Significant physical activity in sports requires athletes to constantly use all the capabilities of their bodies. While proper nutrition plays an important role, taking dietary supplements can be a change-maker for reaching the best result and effective muscle recovery. There is a wide range of supplements you can choose from. Let’s narrow them to the crucial ones which are widely available in many stores including Mexican pharmacy.  Creatine Creatine is an amino acid that provides muscle energy during exercise. Also, creatine speeds up

Elaine Thompson-Herah: Double Olympic champion feels new women's 100m record is within reach Double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah feels a new women's 100m world record is within reach as she prepares for the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Jamaican, 29, ran 10.54 seconds at the Eugene Diamond League last Saturday - the second fastest time in history. Only American Florence Griffith-Joyner has run faster, when she set her world record of 10.49 seconds in 1988. The meet in Switzerland takes place on Thursday.

Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah ran the second fastest women's 100m of all time at the Eugene Diamond League. The Jamaican, who retained her 100m-200m title double in Tokyo, clocked a new world lead of 10.54 seconds. Only American Florence Griffith-Joyner has run faster, when she set her world record of 10.49 secs in 1988. Britain's Dina Asher-Smith finished third in the 200m as she continues her return from the hamstring injury that blighted her Olympic campaign. The race was won by Switzerland's Mujinga

The 2022 London Marathon will take place on Sunday, 2 October as the event is moved from its traditional April date for a third successive year. Event director Hugh Brasher confirmed the race has been moved to allow for the "best chances" of a full-capacity event, including crowds. Shura Kitata won the men's elite race in 2020, while Brigid Kosgei defended her women's title, but there were no crowds or fun runners because of the coronavirus pandemic. "The London Marathon is an extraordinary

Qatari sprinter Abdalelah Haroun has died after a car crash in Doha, aged 24.Haroun won the bronze medal in the 400m at the 2017 World Championships in London, and was seeking to qualify for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He also won silver in the 400m at the World Indoor Championships in 2016, and double gold in the 400m and 4x400m at the Asian Games in 2018."Qatar sports and athletics, on a global level, lost a great hero," said Qatar Athletics Federation chairman

American middle distance runner Shelby Houlihan has been banned from athletics for four years after testing positive for a prohibited substance - which she blamed on a burrito. The 28-year-old says she was told in January the anabolic steroid nandrolone had been found in a doping sample. Olympian Houlihan said it may have come from eating a pork burrito, which she said could lead to a false positive for nandrolone, the night before her test. She has denied ever doping. The Athletics Integrity

Olympic long jump silver medallist Luvo Manyonga has been banned for four years after failing to meet whereabouts criteria three times in 12 months. The South African missed a doping test in November 2019, and made two filing failures in April and October 2020. As it is a second violation of the anti-doping code by the 30-year-old, he has been given double the normal two-year ban for whereabouts failures. He was banned for 18 months in 2012 for testing positive for crystal meth.

Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh died on Friday due to post-Covid complications. He was being treated at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research. The 91-year-old had tested positive for COVID-19 on May 19 but was in home isolation at his Chandigarh residence after revealing that he was asymptomatic. However, a few days later on May 24, the legendary athlete was admitted to the ICU of Mohali's Fortis hospital due to "COVID pneumonia". He was then moved to PGIMER in Chandigarh on

Calories. We hear this word so frequently nowadays because we live in a time of close attention to the body, figure, weight, and muscles. Some people want to lose weight. Others want to get some additional kilos to look more attractive. And all this is possible if you calculate the correct formula of daily calorie intake, which takes into consideration your age, gender, physical activity, and lifestyle. As the question of a diet and number of calories is so topical, let us dig deeper

An ultra-distance runner has covered four miles every hour for 81 hours straight, completing more than 337 miles. John Stocker beat Matt Blackburn in the Suffolk Backyard Ultra event that started on Saturday. Participants have to run 4.167 miles (7km) at Knettishall Heath every hour until they can no longer carry on. Organisers said Mr Blackburn, 35, and Mr Stocker, 41, both beat the previous world record for the global phenomenon. They said the previous record of 312.5 miles (502km) in 75 hours was

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey broke the women's 10,000m world record by more than five seconds - just two days after it had previously been smashed. Gidey ran 29 minutes 1.03 seconds at the Ethiopian trials in Hengelo, the Netherlands. On Sunday, Dutch runner Sifan Hassan had broken the previous record, set by Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana at the 2016 Olympics, by more than 10 seconds. "I expected to run a world record," said 23-year-old Gidey. "I'd like to try to break the world record again and

Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah's hopes of ending his track career at the Tokyo Games suffered a huge blow as he fell short of the qualifying mark for the 10,000 metres in Birmingham on Saturday. The 38-year-old finished eighth, behind fellow Briton Marc Scott, in the European Cup, which doubled as British Olympic trial. Farah's time in his first race at this distance for four years was 22 seconds short of the required standard of 27 mins 28 secs to qualify for the Games which are

Lawrence Okoye speaks gently, but with certainty. Seventy metres is discus' gold standard. Only three active have ever thrown that far and major titles are usually won with much less. Could Okoye, after seven years out of the circle, really reach that mark? "Absolutely," he says. "Absolutely." His belief is total. But it has basis. Given another life, and other choices, he probably would already have done so. In July 2011, at the age of 19, he threw 67.63m, further than any teenager

Great Britain's Jemma Reekie ran an outdoor personal best as she won the 800m at the Golden Games in California in the United States. Reekie passed Canada's Melissa Bishop with 120 metres to go and claimed victory in one minute 58.27 seconds. Fellow Scot Laura Muir (1:58.46) was second and compatriot Adelle Tracey (1:59.50) finished fourth as they all met the Olympic qualifying standard. The event took place in the build-up to next month's US Olympic trials. There were also other impressive performances from the British contingent,