Athletics
British Athletics chief quits after 7 months
BRITISH Athletics head coach Peter Eriksson is devastated to be leaving his “dream job” after just seven months, admitting there is no better role in the athletics world.
Sharp and Child spearhead Scots team at Loughborough
European champions Lynsey Sharp and Eilidh Child will lead the Scotland team at this weekend’s Loughborough International.
Capital student Hamilton passes tough test in Cardiff
Queen Margaret University student Allan Hamilton, who missed the recent British Universities Championships in Bedford due to exams, bounced back to win his first significant outdoor competition of the season when he won the long jump in the British League Premier Division match at Cardiff.
In pictures: Bupa Great Women’s 10k, Glasgow Picture gallery
AROUND 8,000 women took part in the Bupa Great Women’s 10k in Glasgow today- the largest female running event in the UK.
Lynsey Sharp: Mixed emotions on drug cheats
YOU always have conflicting emotions when someone in your sport fails a drugs test. Those emotions are all the stronger when it has a direct effect on your own results.
Farah targets fifth win in a row in London 10k
Double Olympic champion Mo Farah will target a fifth straight victory in the Bupa London 10k road race on 27 May, event organisers have revealed.
Lynsey Sharp looks to kick on after momentous year
THERE can’t be many athletes who have gone off to America for a few weeks and returned as European champion, but that’s what has happened to Lynsey Sharp. The Scottish 800-metre runner flies back from the USA today after an eventful stay, in which she also played a part in setting a new British record for the 4x800m relay.
Success for Edinburgh as students grab a title double
Edinburgh University athletes Ray Bobrownicki and Rhona Auckland both struck gold on the second day of the British Universities Championships at Bedford yesterday.
Learmonth is ready to get the party started at Bedford
Just back from three weeks altitude training at Font Romeu in France, where he was training so hard he did not even have a break to celebrate his 21st birthday, Lasswade track star Guy Learmonth will open his outdoor season in the British Universities Championships at Bedford this weekend.
Reed seeks Black advice
Hammer-thrower Kimberley Reed (EAC) has turned to Scotland’s men’s record-holder Chris Black for coaching advice.
Sportscotland gives Capital athletes boost
EDINBURGH’S European 800m champion Lynsey Sharp is one of 65 Scottish athletes who have been awarded grants from sportscotland.
Lynsey Sharp: Drugs ‘huge problem’ in athletics
SCOTTISH runner Lynsey Sharp believes doping in athletics is a “huge problem” and plenty of athletes are cheating without being caught.
Lynsey Sharp ‘sick’ despite retrospective gold
Lynsey Sharp will be awarded a European Championship 800 metres gold medal retrospectively after it was confirmed that Russian champion Yelena Arzhakova has been banned for two years for a doping offence.
Capital 1500m runner O’Hare makes 2014 Games grade
Chris O’HARE (Edinburgh AC) is the latest Scot to bag a Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games qualifying grade in winning a 1500 metres in 3:38.48 at the Payton Jordan Invitational in Palo Alto, California.
Athletics: Thoirs vaults into record books
JAX Thoirs is Scotland’s new pole vault record holder – as the American-based student stakes his claim for the Commonwealth Games.
Commonwealth Games chief sets goals for Scots team video
MORE medals than ever before. More gold medals, in particular, than ever before. And a bigger team than ever before.
Inside track: Sharp and Child among GB stars at Penn Relays
SCOTLAND’S Olympic track stars Lynsey Sharp (Edinburgh AC) and Eilidh Child (Pitreavie) will both be in action for the first time in the famous American track meeting, the Penn State Relays, in Philadelphia tomorrow.
Athletics: Partridge and Samuels to head to Moscow
SUSAN Partridge and Sonia Samuels have been named on the Great Britain team for the marathon at the World Championships in Moscow in August, British Athletics has announced.
Partridge in Glasgow 2014 frame after marathon effort
WITH over a year to go to the selection deadline, the chase has hotted up for places in the Scottish team for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games after the performances of Susan Partridge and Hayley Haining in yesterday’s Virgin London Marathon.
London Marathon: Susan Partridge Moscow hopes rise
Susan Partridge and Derek Hawkins are both set to be named in Great Britain’s provisional team for this summer’s world championships in Moscow after finishing as the leading Britons in the London Marathon yesterday.
London Marathon: Wheelchair crash safety plea
CANADIAN wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy hit out at the organisers of the Virgin London Marathon after seeing his race ruined by a collision at a drinks station.
Commonwealth Games: Kiwi boss delighted by visit
THE head of the New Zealand team is confident that Glasgow will host an “amazing” Commonwealth Games next year. Speaking at the end of a four-day visit, chef de mission Rob Waddell said he was impressed by all the facilities that are already complete, and confident that those still being built will meet every requirement of next summer’s event.
Tom English: Furore over Mo Farah’s Marathon run
MO FARAH will run the London Marathon today: half of it at any rate. Round about Tower Bridge, Farah will ease up on the pace and peel away to the side and stop.
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Christian Dailly on his London Marathon run
BY TAKING one breath at a time, putting one foot in front of the other and trying, despite all that has happened, to bloody well keep going, Christian Dailly will perform a task as trivial and yet as meaningful as life itself in today’s Virgin London Marathon.
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