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On This Day in 2012: UK Athletics appoints Peter Eriksson as Olympic head coach

Eriksson swapped his role as UKA’s Paralympic head coach to succeed the outgoing Charles van Commenee.

The Independent UK

Paula Dunn named interim head coach of UK Athletics after Stephen Maguire exit

UKA announced on Tuesday that Maguire was leaving his role, less than two months after guiding the team to a highly successful World Championships.

The Independent UK

UK Athletics: Paula Dunn named interim head coach after shock Stephen Maguire exit

Stephen Maguire oversaw a record-equalling 10-medal haul at the World Championships in August but left UKA his role on Tuesday

Evening Standard

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UK Athletics chief blindsided by shock sacking nine months before Paris 2024

The shock firing of Stephen Maguire as UK Athletics chief came about following months of simmering tensions and rows over budgets before next year’s Paris Olympics

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Maguire: UK Athletics technical director leaves with immediate effect 10 months out for Paris Olympics

UKA are left looking for a new technical director less than a year before the 2024 Games

Evening Standard

Team GB must maintain positive Budapest vibes into Paris Olympics

As the dust settled here on Britain equalling its best-ever medal haul of 10 at a World Championships, UK Athletics technical director Stephen Maguire spoke of a need for athletes to step up to another level at the Paris Olympics in a year's time.

Evening Standard

Team GB has ‘feelgood factor’ back but Paris will be step up, says athletics chief

Britain has rediscovered the feelgood factor but the Paris Olympics will be ‘another level’, UK Athletics’ technical director has warned

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Britain equals best medal haul at worlds with Hodgkinson taking 800m silver

GB end up with 10 world championship medals, equalling their tally in 1993, after the men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams earned bronze medals

The Guardian - UK

Prescod accuses UK Athletics of ‘emotional blackmail’ over relay withdrawal

Reece Prescod has accused UK Athletics of ‘emotional blackmail’ in an explosive interview during which he defended his sudden decision to pull out of Britain’s 4x100m relay team

The Guardian - UK

Reece Prescod accuses UK Athletics of ‘emotional blackmail’ after relay withdrawal

The 27-year-old opted not to be part of the relay squad for the World Championships

The Independent UK

Reece Prescod accuses UK Athletics of emotional blackmail over relay row

Reece Prescod has accused UK Athletics of emotional blackmail following his withdrawal from the 4x100metre relay squad at the World Athletics Championships.

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

Reece Prescod quits Great Britain relay team on eve of World Athletics Championships

Prescod was part of the medal-winning men’s sprint quartet at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene

The Independent UK

UKA chief defends ‘winning’ selection policy that sees British athletes miss out

UK Athletics’ chief selector has defended the organisation’s strict policy that will mean at least 19 athletes miss out on next month’s world championships

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British athletes accuse UKA of ‘stealing’ World Championships chance

Furious British athletes have accused the national federation of ‘stealing’ their chance to compete at next month’s World Championships, with UK Athletics set to rip up their invitations

The Guardian - UK

Daryll Neita takes centre stage to storm to 200m win at UK championships

Daryll Neita lit up the UK Athletics Championships with a dazzling victory in the women’s 200m, while Zharnel Hughes completed the men’s sprint double

The Guardian - UK

UK Athletics handed £150,000 in lottery cash to stage London Diamond League

UK Athletics has been given a financial boost from UK Sport after fears that hosting the event would lead to it losing £500,000

Daily Mirror

Jack Buckner calms fears UK Athletics could go bankrupt - and says Olympic funding is ring-fenced

“It’s a bit like a hard season, you’ve got to work your way through it. We’re going to be okay. I’m optimistic I’ll be in front of you for a few years yet. But I’m not jumping around”

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Chris Thompson says track and field must learn from 'Glastonbury' of athletics

All roads lead to Highgate for Night of 10,000m PBs and UKA boss Jack Buckner admits: "It would be great to see more innovation like this across the sport"

The National (Scotland)

Susan Egelstaff: Kids competing against adults in elite sport is never a good idea

The sporting adage “if you’re good enough, you’re old enough” has been repeated countless times since Welsh rugby legend Gareth Edwards…

The Guardian - UK

London Marathon in talks to help save cash-strapped UK Athletics

Event director Hugh Brasher said: ‘We have a responsibility to the sport’ as the governing body is embroiled in a financial crisis, having lost £1.8m last year

Advnture

Ultra marathoner disqualified after GPS data reveals she used a car

Joasia Zakrzewski covered a mile in under two minutes during the GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool race

Manchester Evening News

Marathon runner who finished third disqualified from Manchester race for using car

Joasia Zakrzewski, a 47-year-old GP from Dumfries in Scotland, had finished third in the gruelling, 50-mile GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool race staged on April 7, Good Friday

The Independent UK

UK Athletics bans transgender athletes from female competition

UKA confirmed on Friday it had received the required assurances from relevant bodies that the sporting exemption in the Equality Act 2010 applies to the Gender Recognition Act 2004

The Independent UK

Coach plays down ‘bust-up’ talk as Laura Muir leaves South Africa training camp

Muir and Jemma Reekie have returned to the UK and are training at Loughborough.

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