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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 Independent UK

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…

The National (Scotland)

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 Independent UK

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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.

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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.

The Independent UK

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

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

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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.

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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

The Guardian - UK

Impossible conditions can’t stop Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone making history

McLaughlin-Levrone bested the pouring rain and gusting wind to run the second-fastest 400m of all time and claim World athletics Championship gold with a previously unbreakable record now in her sights

The Independent UK

Enhanced Games: Lord Sebastian Coe refuses to discuss controversial event

The World Athletics president faced the media after former world 100m champion Fred Kerley became the first track athlete to join the Enhanced Games.

The Independent UK

Enhanced Games targets British stars after signing US sprinter Fred Kerley

The signature of British athletes across all sports are being prioritised by controversial start-up the Enhanced Games

The Guardian - UK

Fred Kerley becomes first track athlete to join Enhanced Games

The former 100m world champion, who is serving a doping ban, is the highest-profile athlete yet to join the controversial event

The Independent UK

Champion runner back on track after four-year ‘burrito ban’

Shelby Houlihan was banned for doping, but blamed it on drug-tainted pork from a food truck

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India’s Neeraj Chopra, Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem to meet in javelin final

Olympic gold medallists will face off in the men’s javelin final at the World Athletics Championship 2025 in Tokyo.

The Guardian - UK

McLaughlin-Levrone throws down gauntlet to Kipyegon in race to be greatest

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ran one of the fastest times in history to qualify for the women’s 400m final, while Faith Kipyegon underlined her status by speeding to a historic fourth 1500m

International Business Times UK

Doping Outrage: Erriyon Knighton and Diribe Welteji Axed – Is Anyone in World Athletics Clean Anymore?

US sprinter Erriyon Knighton and Ethiopia's Diribe Welteji ruled out of the Tokyo World Athletics Championships amid major doping controversy.

The Independent UK

Cole Hocker breaks silence after being disqualified in 1500m at World Athletics Championships

The Olympic champion will not compete in Wednesday’s 1500m final after being penalised for ‘jostling’ with Germany’s Robert Farken

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The Guardian - UK

World Athletics Championships 2025: Duplantis claims pole vault world record as Kambundji wins 100m hurdles – as it happened

Mondo Duplantis broke his 14th world record while Ditaji Kambundji won gold in the women’s 100m hurdles

Evening Standard

World Athletics Championships: Molly Caudery and Emile Cairess forced into early exits on day three

Britain’s hopes for medals in women’s pole vault and men’s marathon dashed by injury and tricky conditions

The Independent UK

Great Britain dealt double blow after medal hope forced to withdraw

Molly Caudery sustained an ankle injury in the warm-up, while Emile Cairess battled through the heat before bowing out

The Independent UK

What are the false start rules at World Athletics Championships?

World Athletics operates a strict ‘one strike and you’re out’ policy

The Guardian - AU

Gout Gout’s future races towards him as he introduces himself to the world

Results show the 17-year-old is ready for more than what Australia can offer but his team are putting the brakes on his rise to stardom

The Independent UK

Gender testing returns to track, stirring up harsh memories and doubts that date to the 1980s

World Athletics portrayed gender testing as a common-sense way to protect the female category in track and field

Medical Daily

Heat Risks Force World Marathons And Race Walks To Start Earlier

The marathons and 35km race walks at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo will start half an hour earlier because of health risks posed by unseasonably hot weather, organisers said Thursday.

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