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Stunning returns from Bolt, Farah and Ennis-Hill make the competition in Beijing one of the best yet.
Organisers of the World Championship in Athletics will be on their toes after recent revelations of mass doping by endurance athletes. Here’s what you need to know about doping and how to evade it.
Your guide to the events to watch and the athletes to follow in Beijing.
Coe must put an end to a dark era of athletics.
One day in 1995, one man jumped farther than anyone else, before or since. How did he do it?
The world of sport has been rocked by the explosive allegations that surfaced over the weekend.
Even before this year’s race began, only five or six riders had any real chance of winning.
Synchronising his steps with the next fastest runner may have helped Usain Bolt win the world record in the 100 metre sprint.
Parents want to simultaneously support and push their kids. But when it comes to sports, this mentality can backfire in subtle ways.
In a $5 billion industry, there’s no longer a level playing field.
When it comes to keeping an eye on all the action in sport a coach can only see so much. But machine learning can crunch all the data and look for improvements.
Youth sports are viewed as a rite of passage in a child’s development. If the clichés that permeate sports broadcasts and locker room speeches are to be believed, sports participation teaches children…
Parents, government officials, and tuition-paying students are all seeking solutions to the skyrocketing costs of higher education and the burden of student debt. Currently, public universities in America…
It is never easy to run 100m in less than ten seconds, as the recent Commonwealth Games demonstrated. However, as the world record stands at 9.58 seconds, the attention in recent years has turned to whether…
When it comes to physical exercise, we don’t tend to take into account how important our brain is for keeping our whole body going. But our ability to control our muscles – to keep them contracting and…
American sprinter Tyson Gay and former 100m world record-holder Jamaican Asafa Powell are reported to be among six athletes to test positive for a banned substance: oxilofrine. But what is this drug that…
Beetroot juice is known as a superfood for athletes that increases stamina in sporting ability, and a new study backs this…
Young athletes with who feel pressured to please others are most vulnerable to burnout. Researchers in the UK studied the…
Over the last 100 years there have been countless outstanding athletic performances, such as Ed Moses, Daley Thompson, Michael Johnson, Emil Zatopek, Roger Bannister, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Cathy Freeman…
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