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Arkansas sweeps outdoor track & field championships
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U.S. triple jumper out of Games for missed tests
American triple jumper Omar Craddock was banned for 20 months on Friday over missed doping tests and will miss the Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 world championships in Oregon.
Olympic Sports
Why Dina Asher-Smith believes it's the right time to speak openly about mental health
Dina Asher-Smith tells ESPN how the COVID-19 pandemic has seen her adopt a renewed focus on mental health ahead of the summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Track and Field
Olympic runner Semenya caught speeding
Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya pleaded guilty to speeding in South Africa. She was released on bail and sentenced to 50 hours of community service.
Track and Field
Neeraj Chopra: If we don't get competition, what's the point of all the training?
Chopra was supposed to head out to Turkey, and then Europe for competitive training, but that has been cancelled due to the pandemic.
Track and Field
Disgraced ex-athletics head returns to Senegal
After a local soccer club paid a bond of over $600,000, disgraced former world athletics head Lamine Diack was allowed to leave France and return home to Senegal.
Olympic Sports
Soviet gold-medal thrower Press dies at age 83
Tamara Press, a three-time Olympic champion from the Soviet Union who withdrew from international competition amid speculation and jibes about her gender, has died. She was 83.
Olympic Sports
Track leader confident after Olympic test event
Sebastian Coe, the head of the world governing body of track and field, said a half-marathon test event run in Japan's northern city of Sapporo made him confident that the Olympic marathon can be held successfully.
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Seahawks WR Metcalf to run at USA track event
Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf is participating in the 100-meter dash at the USA Track and Field Golden Games and Distance Open on Sunday.
Olympic Sports
Belarus Olympian to protest with hunger strike
Belarus Olympian to protest with hunger strike, an Olympic silver medalist who is one of Belarus' most lauded athletes, says he is going on a 10-day hunger strike to support victims of political repression in the country.
Track and Field
Hima, Dutee to miss Tokyo qualifier in May
The men and women's 4x400m teams were set to compete in the World Athletics Relays in Poland on May 1 and 2.
Track and Field
Diamond League season to begin at Gateshead
This year's Diamond League will open in Britain for the first time, with Gateshead replacing Rabat as the season's first host city, organizers said Friday.
Track and Field
Ban cut, but still no Games for sprinter Coleman
American sprinter Christian Coleman will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing Friday in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests.
Track and Field
Semenya pinning Games hopes on 5,000 meters
Caster Semenya won the 5,000-meter race at the South African national championships Thursday in a personal-best time and then said she is likely to focus on long-distance events for the rest of her career.
Track and Field
Sindhu, Neeraj and shooting stars: India's top 10 medal prospects at Tokyo
With 100 days to go to the start of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, we list India's ten best medal prospects.
Track and Field
2 Russian gold medalists receive doping bans
- Russian Olympic champions Andrei Silnov and Natalya Antyukh have each been banned for four years for doping offenses, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday.
Poor wheelchair access, no testing, venue complications mar Para Nationals
The organisers said they stepped up to conduct the event for the athletes, who, despite the challenges, were glad the event was held after being cancelled for two years.
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Last-minute Nationals venue change leaves India's para athletes in the lurch
Many were already on the way to Chennai, before it was switched to Bengaluru days before the competition.
Track and Field
No overseas fans in Tokyo: Indian Olympic support staff become collateral damage
Vinesh, Sreeshankar might go without coaches in Tokyo after IOC bans overseas fans from Olympics and limits travelling support staff.
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Olympic hammer champ Nazarov banned 2 years
2016 Olympic hammer throw champion Dilshod Nazarov has been banned for two years for doping and will not be able to defend his title at the Tokyo Games.
Track and Field
Emotional Sable braves Snesarev's loss to set new record
Sable broke his own national record in 3000m steeplechase at the Federation Cup in Patiala.
Track and Field
Mamba mentality and no parottas: Sreeshankar makes long jump to Tokyo
Long jumper Sreeshankar broke his own national record and sealed Olympic qualification with a jump of 8.26m in Patiala on Tuesday.
Track and Field
0-100 in 11.38: Meet Dhana Lakshmi Sekar, India's latest sprint sensation
Dhana Lakshmi Sekar's 11.38 seconds in 100m is the fastest time recorded in the women's 100m in India by anyone other than Dutee Chand.
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Boston Marathon field set for 20,000 entrants
The pandemic-delayed 2021 Boston Marathon will have space for 20,000 entrants, race organizers announced Monday.
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Georgia's Boling wins the 200M by .01 of a second
Georgia's Matthew Boling edges LSU's Terrance Laird by .01 of a second in the 200 meter final.
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Eight matches that doomed Louis van Gaal at Manchester United
John Brewin reviews the eight matches that ultimately doomed Louis van Gaal's tenure as manager at Manchester United.
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'I think I'm a better fisherman than Steyn and Morkel'
South African fast bowler Kyle Abbott brags about his angling skills, and confesses to bullying Australians in the Kings XI dressing room
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The athleticism of Beyonce
Is Beyonce an athlete, too? Joy Priest explores the musician's roots as a young runner in the South and examines how the musician trains like a competitive sportswoman.
