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World Athletics scraps takeoff zone idea to avoid ‘war’ with long jumpers

World Athletics has scrapped plans to introduce a takeoff zone for the long jump rather than the traditional board because of widespread hostility from athletes

The Guardian - UK

‘Your column was very unfair’: what happened when I met World Athletics CEO

John Ridgeon believes I was downbeat about state of his sport. He may have a point … so we thrashed out our differences

The Guardian - UK

Mondo Duplantis takes aim at Grand Slam Track after winning World Athletics award

The Swedish pole vaulter won after another dominant year, while the similarly dominant American runner and hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone took home the women’s prize

The Independent UK

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Aussie high jumper soars to rare World Athletics award

Nicola Olyslagers is the World Athletics female field event athlete of the year, while Aussie broadcast legend Bruce McAvaney has also been honoured in Monaco.

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Duplantis wins top award and takes aim at Grand Slam Track’s exclusion of field events

Armand Duplantis capped a remarkable 2025, in which he broke four world records and won a world title, by being named World Athletics’ male athlete of the year

The Guardian - UK

LA Olympics to feature women’s 100m final on day one in event shakeup

The women’s 100m finalists will run three times on the opening day of the Games, a marked change from the usual two

The Independent UK

Off with a bang: women’s 100m final moved up to LA28 opening day

The women’s 100m final will headline the first day of competition at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics as part of organisers’ plans to ‘open with a bang’

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IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events

Sources expect the ban within the next six to 12 months with the IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, having pledged to protect the female category

The Guardian - UK

International Olympic Committee set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sports

The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year

The Independent UK

'Nothing motivates people to try a new sport like the Olympic Games' - Cyclocross plays a role equation for US success at elite level

USA Cycling's Brendan Quirk explains four-year plan to 2028 LA Olympics and thinks a cycling discipline in Winter Games would be 'off the charts' in Salt Lake City

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Olyslagers leaps into the mix for World athlete award

Australian high jumper Nicola Olyslagers is one of six global champions short-listed for World Athletics' women's athlete of the year award.

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Sebastian Coe pushes for a cross-country running race at the 2030 Winter Olympics

Sebastian Coe would love to see a cross-country running race brought back to the Olympics at the 2030 Winter Games

The Independent UK

World Athletics blames employees for $1.7M taken in 'systematic theft'

World Athletics says it has lost more than $1.7 million to “systematic theft” by its own employees

The Independent UK

World Athletics reveals £1.3m theft by former employees

The theft was conducted by two employees and a contractor over the span of several years

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Gender testing on tap for female skiers, snowboarders with 100 days to Olympics

With 100 days to go until the Winter Olympics, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has begun the complicated and expensive task of identifying female skiers and snowboarders who need to take gender tests before they arrive in Italy

Treadmills just became a global sport – Technogym’s new Run X could change running forever

Run X competitions will let runners worldwide race against each other on connected treadmills

The Independent UK

Olympic champion runner Semenya ends landmark legal fight against sex eligibility rules

Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya is ending her seven-year legal challenge against sex eligibility rules in track and field

The National (Scotland)

Susan Egelstaff: Of course athletes should be paid for the Ryder Cup and Olympics

USA's Ryder Cup players have been criticised for receiving money to play this year, in the same way World Athletics was criticised for giving…

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Seb Coe reveals Olympic calendar will need ‘re-engineering’ due to climate change

This year’s World Athletics Championships were contested in Japan during its hottest summer since records began

The National (Scotland)

Expert issues warning over World Athletics bringing back sex testing

WORLD Athletics’s reintroduction of sex testing at the World Championships 2025 is "a threat to all women", an expert has said.

The Independent UK

Max Burgin misses out on worlds 800m medal as Great Britain relay heats go awry

Burgin took another step closer to Seb Coe’s longstanding British record despite missing out on the podium

The Independent UK

World Athletics defends warm-up logistics in Tokyo after criticism

Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson is among those to have voiced concerns.

Evening Standard

World Athletics Championships: Keely Hodgkinson not happy with warm-up situation in Tokyo

Briton is into the final of the women’s 800m

The Independent UK

Keely Hodgkinson not happy with warm-up situation at World Championships

Yoyogi Park, where the warm-up track is located, is a near 15-minute drive from the stadium.

The Guardian - UK

Sex tests brought in after data showed 50-60 DSD athletes in finals, World Athletics says

World Athletics’ head of health and science told a panel in Tokyo that DSD athletes were ‘over-represented’ in female category finals since 2000

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