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Two-time Olympic and reigning 200m world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown denies being a drugs cheat and has been left in ‘shock’ by her failed doping test, according to her manager.
The problem with legacy is that it is so damn random. Thomas Hardy believed he would be remembered for his — often very mediocre — poetry. He thought his novels, by comparison, were hack work.
An ice bath with Yohan Blake and lunch with Usain Bolt. Since becoming the No 1 junior sprinter in the world and competing in the Olympics last summer Adam Gemili has been mixing with some superstars off the track.
Great Britain’s Ashley McKenzie hopes bronze at the International Judo Federation Miami Grand Prix can prove another step towards him qualifying for the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Two-time Olympic and reigning 200m world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has plunged world athletics, and the dominant Jamaican sprinters in particular, into crisis by testing positive for a banned substance.
Britain’s rowers, who captured their best-ever haul of Olympic medals at London 2012, are heading for this summer’s world championships in South Korea still without a main sponsor.
Brazil’s Alan Oliveira took Jonnie Peacock’s tag as the world’s fastest amputee sprinter by running a world record 10.77 seconds for the 100 metres in Berlin.
It was one of the iconic images of the London Olympic Games last year: Mo Farah celebrating his 10,000m gold medal run with his wife Tania, then heavily pregnant, and step daughter Rihanna.
British No 1 Laura Robson is confident that her form will pick up in time for Wimbledon. The 19-year-old won an Olympic mixed doubles silver medal in the summer but her form has been up and down since.
Olympic gold medalists Luke Campbell, Etienne Stott and Timothy Baillie received their MBEs from Buckingham Palace on Thursday.
Olympic champion Nicola Adams has fired a warning to her prospective flyweight rivals as she prepares to return to the ring for the first time since her historic London 2012 triumph in Hungary next month.
London’s Olympic Park is to stage six professional boxing matches after a deal was struck with promoter Frank Warren. The vacant British middleweight title will be contested by Billy Joe Saunders and John Ryder.
Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has pulled out of this weekend’s Diamond League meet in Oslo as she continues her recovery from an achilles injury.
Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has pulled out of this weekend’s Diamond League meet in Oslo as she continues her recovery from an achilles injury.
Phillips Idowu is unrepentant. Ten months on from the day he failed to make the Olympic triple jump final in his home town, he is sitting in a Rome hotel declaring he would prepare in exactly the same way again.
Usain Bolt suffered a shock defeat in the Rome Diamond League after losing his first big 100m of the season to former Olympic Champion Justin Gatlin.
Arsenal and Manchester City will travel to Finland for a friendly in August just one week before the season starts. The teams will go head-to-head at the 40,000 capacity Olympic Stadium in Helsinki.
Four-time Olympic champion Sir Ben Ainslie has called for America’s Cup rules to be reviewed after his friend Andrew Simpson was killed last month.
Great Britain’s Mo Farah failed to claim victory in his first Diamond League outing of the year as the double Olympic champion took second place in today’s 5,000m in Eugene, Oregon.
This is Brazil, after all, host of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, yet a nation apparently reliant on cowboy builders. The six stadiums in this month’s Confederations Cup, including the Maracana, are finished, but only just.