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Inside the 'crazy' plan to boost track and field's popularity before the 2028 Olympics

With a gold-medal stride and an image gracing Nike marketing campaigns, Sanya Richards-Ross was one of the United States' most successful track and field stars during her decade-plus career — a stature she sustained, every year, by leaving the United States.

Los Angeles Times

Newcastle athlete prepared for back-to-back championships

"It just means when you get, in this case, three championship races in the space of three weeks, she's got the engine to do it."

Newcastle Herald

Dates Revealed for 2028 Olympics, Paralympics in Los Angeles

The city of angels will play host to the Summer Games for the third time in its history.

Sports Illustrated

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L.A.'s 2028 Olympics will go from July 14 to July 30

The 2028 Summer Olympics are now — officially — six years away as Los Angeles organizers have set the dates for the massive international competition that will take place at venues throughout Southern California.

Los Angeles Times

Fraser-Pryce back on top, leads Jamaican sweep in 100 meters

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce sped her way back to the top of the sprint game, winning her fifth world title at 100 meters by leading a Jamaican sweep and knocking off the reigning Olympic champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah

The Hindu

Tom Dean vows to give his all at Commonwealth Games despite ‘tricky’ summer schedule

The 22-year-old Londoner followed up his two golds from last year’s Olympics with three bronze medals at the World Championships last month

The Independent UK

Rosie Eccles hoping to step out of Lauren Price’s shadow at Commonwealth Games

The 25-year-old has suffered illness, injury and Olympic heartbreak in the build-up to Birmingham 2022

The Independent UK

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Hockey at CWG: India aim to end Australia's dominance

NEW DELHI: The phenomenal success at the Tokyo Olympics has ignited hopes of the in-form Indian men's hockey team stopping the Australian juggernaut at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

The Times of India

U.S. women's track making strides with new wave of athletes

The unusual part for Chase Ealey on Saturday evening wasn't that she threw the shotput with her eyelids covered in dots and broad brushes of red, white and blue makeup.

Los Angeles Times

Fraser-Pryce Back on Top, Leads Jamaican Sweep in 100 Meters

That mile-wide smile would come a split-second later. When Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce saw her name come up first Sunday night in the 100-meter final, she pumped her right fist in the air twice and let out a loud scream toward the stands. Yep, she did it. Again. And shame on anyone…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Focussing on off-the-ball and man-to-man play ahead of CWG, says Nilakanta Sharma

The Indian men’s hockey team finished a disappointing fourth at the 2018 Commonwealth Games after they went down to England in the third-place playoff match.

The Times of India

Kerley Leads American Clean Sweep in 100M, Shot Put Joy for Ealey

Fred Kerley led an American clean sweep in the men's 100 meters final at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday and Chase Ealey helped give home fans a night to remember with the first U.S. victory in the women's shot put. Kerley, the Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, timed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gavin Newsom reveals the motivation behind his Florida ad targeting Ron DeSantis

WASHINGTON — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron De Santis have been trolling each other recently on the pandemic, abortion, LGBTQ rights and more.

Tribune News Service

Boomers centre Aron Baynes aiming for NBA comeback less than a year after Olympics injury almost paralysed him

Eleven months ago, Aron Baynes couldn't walk or hold a pen. Now he's in the mix for a new contract and will potentially play in his 10th NBA season.

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The Hindu

Felix gets a bronze on her farewell at world championships

Allyson Felix won her 19th and final medal in the world championships Friday night — a bronze she took after running the second leg of America’s 4x400-meters in the mixed relay that’s been touted as the last major race of the 36-year-old’s career

The Guardian - UK

‘I could have been a Mo Farah’: trafficked boxer denied his shot at Olympic glory by Home Office

Kelvin Bilal Fawaz reveals how Farah’s TV interview was a reminder of how his own boxing career was lost to life in immigration limbo

WEKU

Jim Thorpe is reinstated as the sole winner of two events in the 1912 Olympics

The legendary athlete is declared the sole winner of the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of amateurism rules.

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. will face Canada in CONCACAF W Championship final

The United States beat Costa Rica 3-0 in the semifinals Thursday night on goals from Emily Sonnett, Mallory Pugh and Ashley Sanchez.

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Daily Mirror

5 GB gold medal hopes at World Athletics Championships as Dina Asher-Smith leads charge

The World Athletics Championships are back - and a number of British stars will be looking to defend their titles or claim further glory in Oregon

Tribune News Service

Mark Zeigler: Are the World Championships in Eugene a launching pad for U.S. track, or a burial?

EUGENE, Ore. — Newly renovated Hayward Field sits in the middle of the University of Oregon campus, its futuristic exoskeleton rising above the aging brick buildings like a spaceship. It cost Phil Knight and friends $300 million, and it includes a 5,000-square-foot video board, a 10-story tower with a hall…

The Times of India

'I am playing my best table tennis at 40': Sharath Kamal decodes India's medal chances at CWG 2022

NEW DELHI: "My biggest recall of India at the Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games (CWG) is that guy with the hair band playing table tennis." The 19-year-old teenager who said this during a conversation with the author couldn't remember the name of the player, but could almost portray the…

Sports Illustrated

Thorpe Reinstated As Sole Winner of Two Events From 1912 Olympics

Jim Thorpe was originally stripped of his gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon events at the Stockholm Games.

ABC News

Brisbane's 'once in a lifetime' proposal for major Olympic sports precinct on inner-city raceway site

The "very early stages" concept plan for a 29-hectare sports precinct in Albion will relocate Brothers Rugby Club to the south to make way for a major Olympic venue.

AAP

Walker Montag in the medal mix at worlds

Jemima Montag is well placed to join the long honour roll of Australian walkers to win Olympic or world championships medals.

The Independent UK

Laura Muir warning to rivals as she targets ‘elusive’ World Championships medal

The Olympic silver medallist feels stronger than ever

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