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‘It’s a very strange feeling’: can the man who won Olympic gold bring glory to the Paris Games?

2024 Games organiser Tony Estanguet tells how chats with British sporting legend Sebastian Coe have kept him on an even keel

The Guardian - UK

Olympic track and field winners will win more than eternal glory for the first time with $50,000 prize money: 'They deserve some skin in the game'

World Athletics's Sebastian Coe explained that the reward could ease the financial burden on families that support athletes in their foundational years.

Fortune

Olympic track and field seeing dollar signs with splashy cash infusions into the sport

Track and field athletes heading to the Paris Games will be competing not only for a gold medal but a first-prize check worth $50,000 that goes with it

The Independent UK

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Sports quiz of the week: Masters, money, mud, monikers and main courses

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The Guardian - UK

Coe defends World Athletics’ move to award $50,000 to Olympic gold winners

World Athletics has broken 128 years of Olympic tradition by announcing it will give athletes money for winning a gold medal at the Games

The Guardian - UK

Kenya’s world-record marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum killed in car crash

Kiptum, who exploded onto the marathon scene in October, was the overwhelming favourite to win the Paris Olympics.

Al Jazeera

Seb Coe criticises Paris Olympic bosses amid £595 ticket furore

Tickets start from as much as £595 for certain events

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‘The focus had to be on the ice’: Robin Cousins on skating and his double life as a gay Olympian

The 1980 BBC Sports Personality winner talks to Donald McRae about the road to glory at Lake Placid while having to keep his sexuality secret

The Guardian - UK

Crystal Palace National Sports Centre revival is the best possible answer for London athletics

The jewel in the crown of British athletics has been left to rack and ruin, but now there is hope on the horizon

Evening Standard

Thomas Bach open to extending IOC presidency and denting Coe’s ambitions

International Olympic Committee rules state that Bach must stand down after 12 years as president in 2025 but he has refused to rule out standing again

The Guardian - UK

Athletics needs lift in Budapest as Olympics loom with Usain Bolt legacy still impossible to replace

The World Athletics Championships must provide an injection of interest in the sport as the Netflix cameras roll into town

Evening Standard

World Athletics Championships: Zharnel Hughes leads race for gold as downsizing Brits hope to profit

Great Britain are sending their smallest team for 15 years to Budapest as UK Athletics hope streamlined selection will pay off

Evening Standard

Athletics would be ‘insane’ not to change to attract new fans, says Seb Coe

Seb Coe, the World Athletics president, admitted that the sport was in a ‘race against time’ to stay relevant among young people

The Guardian - UK

Usain Bolt: 'We need to make athletics more exciting - people don't want to watch'

'If you don't have a superstar that stands out like I did, then it's going to be hard to draw the big crowds and draw that attention that you want'

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Transgender athletes condemn ban on inclusion in female events

SYDNEY/LOS ANGELES: Transgender athletes have condemned World Athletics' exclusion of transgender women from elite female competitions, while the decision was welcomed by some sportswomen as a win for fairness.

The Guardian - UK

World Athletics Council excludes transgender women from female events

World Athletics has confirmed that its council has voted to exclude transgender women from female events

Evening Standard

Seb Coe backs UK Athletics to recover from financial slump of £1.8m

World Athletics boss Seb Coe has backed UK Athletics to recover from its current financial predicament.

The Independent UK

Female athletes targeted by most online abuse, World Athletics study finds

World Athletics’ research looked at almost half a million social media posts.

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Daily Mirror

Seven nation 'watch list' announced by World Athletics over suspicious Olympic qualifying

Seven Olympic nations have been placed on a "Competition Manipulation Watch List" by World Athletics due to suspicious qualification patterns for last year's Tokyo Olympics.

The Independent UK

Jake Wightman dares to be great as Zurich Diamond League offers glimpse of future

The 1,500m world champion is among a star-studded field in Switzerland, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Armand Duplantis and Yulimar Rojas also in action

The Guardian - UK

Yevhen Pronin: ‘If we do not kill them, they can kill our children’

The acting president of Ukraine’s Athletics Federation has such a reputation for flying drones against Russian targets that he has a bounty on his head

Wales Online

Raucous Birmingham crowd providing the perfect backdrop to tales of dramatic athlete triumph at Commonwealth Games

Another capacity crowd - take note Seb Coe and World Athletics - rose as one to roar Eilish McColgan and Katarina Johnson-Thompson to golds in the space of 29 raucous and rocking minutes on Wednesday

Daily Mirror

Jake Wightman has become the Commonwealth Games poster-boy aiming for golden hat-trick

Jake Wightman is on cloud nine following his 1500m success at the World Championships in Oregon, but he is now hoping to capitalise on that success with victory at the Commonwealth Games and next month's European Championships

Daily Mirror

World champion Jake Wightman reveals Seb Coe inspiration behind 1500m double bid

The athletics programme begins on Tuesday with world and Olympic silver medallist Kelly Hodgkinson opening her account in the 800m. Katarina Johnson-Thompson starts the defence of her heptathlon crown

Evening Standard

London 2012: 10 years on, what is the true legacy of the Olympic Games?

It is often forgotten in the euphoria which followed that Team GB were slow starters at London 2012, day five producing the first gold medal, from rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning.

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