‘We’re open for business’: Crystal Palace could stage big-time athletics in 2028
Cash investment has renewed hopes that the stadium might be used again, with the project director saying redevelopment plans would start in 2025
Nike and Salazar settle $20m lawsuit alleging abuse of US track prodigy
Nike and disgraced coach Alberto Salazar have settled a $20m lawsuit with a former athlete over allegations she suffered ‘emotional and physical abuse’
Team GB are Britain’s most popular sports outfit, so how do we get people to watch?
The BBC lavishes money and attention on the Olympics then neglects its sports between Games. It’s time for some creative promotion
Oakland’s unprecedented triple exodus is a unique sporting tragedy
Oakland is an acute victim of a stadium-financing racket that has existed for decades. But the loss of the city’s three pro sports teams over the past decade is a special kind of tragic
Beth Potter and Alex Yee in ‘best ever’ Team GB Olympic triathlon squad
Beth Potter and Alex Yee have been earmarked as potential gold medallists in Team GB’s ‘best ever’ Olympic triathlon squad
Olympic champion Thompson-Herah splits with coach over pay demands
The Jamaican sprinter has dropped coach Shanikie Osbourne nine months before Paris Games after a ‘breakdown in negotiations’
Leading ultra-marathon runner banned for using car in 50-mile race
A leading British ultra-marathon runner has been banned for 12 months by a UK Athletics’ disciplinary panel for using a car during a 50-mile race
The medals and the damage done: how bad is elite sport for the body and mind?
Holly Bradshaw’s questioning of whether the pursuit for glory is worth it has exposed the pitfalls of an athlete’s career
‘Have I done too much damage?’ Holly Bradshaw questions pursuit of glory
The British pole vaulter and bronze medalist Holly Bradshaw has lifted the lid on the ‘detrimental’ side of elite sport
Crisis-hit UK Athletics reeling as third senior coach leaves in a month
The resignation of Scott Simpson has stunned insiders given he was seen as the frontrunner to be performance director at UK Athletics after the Paris Olympics
Olympic champion Mary Peters: ‘I feel the terrible loss of life in the name of sport’
The former pentathlon gold medallist tells Donald McRae of the death threat and horror of Munich 1972, the Troubles, and promoting Belfast
Caster Semenya: ‘How would I label myself? I’m an African. I’m a woman. I’m a different woman’
She’s the Olympic gold-winner whose elevated testosterone levels led people to question her right to compete. With a few choice words for World Athletics, the middle-distance runner talks about labels, leaked medical records and how lowering her hormones took its toll on her body
Jakob Ingebrigtsen and brothers accuse father of violent and abusive behaviour
Jakob, Henrik and Filip Ingebrigtsen have opened up on their ‘aggressive’ father and former coach Gjert, who denies their allegations
UK Athletics chief blindsided by shock sacking nine months before Paris 2024
The shock firing of Stephen Maguire as UK Athletics chief came about following months of simmering tensions and rows over budgets before next year’s Paris Olympics