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  • Sha'Carri Richardson won two golds at last year’s World Athletics Championships

    ‘Fast, expensive … fancy’: How Sha’Carri Richardson revived her Olympic dream

    The American sprinter was at rock bottom when a positive marijuana test ended her hopes before the Tokyo Olympics. She has reinvented herself since
  • Athletes train at the Stade de France on track familiarisation day.

    Loud and proud track and field enters Olympic fray full of star quality

    Noah Lyles, Keely Hodgkinson and Julien Alfred are among medal hopefuls who could become household names in Paris
  • Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Josh Kerr go head to head in the men's 1500m final at the 2023 world championships

    Ingebrigtsen v Kerr: bickering rivals ready for titanic 1500m battle on track

    Echoes of Coe v Ovett abound as Norwegian great looks to take down Brit who beat him to world championship glory
  • Noah Lyles’ fastest time of the year is a 9.83 seconds in the 100m

    ‘It’s always going to be me’: Noah Lyles defends fastest man in world claim

  • ‘I’ve never been one to crave the limelight’ … Allyson Felix.

    Fascinating Olympians
    Death of a teammate, traumatic pregnancy, bruising pay war: how Allyson Felix survived it all to become a track legend

  • Kenya runners

    Revealed: how a Kenyan runner turned undercover agent to lift the lid on dopers

    Special report A meeting in a New York coffee shop helped US investigators get the inside track on a network of doping and the agents that prey on vulnerable athletes
  • Gianmarco Tamberi with the Italian flag during his team’s boat trip down the River Seine.

    Tamberi reveals he lost wedding ring in Seine during Olympic ceremony

    The Italian high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi has apologised to his wife on social media after his wedding ring was lost in the river
  • Illustration of an ancient Greek vase.

    Olympic mind Games: 10 ways athletes try to gain a psychological edge

    Peter Collett
  • Keely Hodgkinson sets a personal best in the 800m at the Diamond League meeting in London in July

    Keely Hodgkinson delighted to embrace mantle of Team GB’s poster girl

  • Jess Thom in sports gear under an arch with green leaves and bunting

    Top Olympic tips for mental resilience to enhance success

  • Tadej Pogacar, Sol Aguirre of Peru, Xander Schauffele.

    Sports quiz of the week
    Sports quiz of the week: Olympics, sturdy beds, cheating and money

  • Linford Christie

    TV review
    Linford review – the scenes about the racist fetishisation of his genitals are heartbreaking

    He may have been one of Britain’s most successful ever athletes, but Christie’s triumphs opened him up to abuse from the press, the police – and sexual harassment
  • Phoebe Gill celebrates with the union jack after winning the British 800m title in June

    Team GB’s Phoebe Gill, 17, uses Emma Raducanu for inspiration in medal hunt

    Team GB’s Phoebe Gill says she has been able to balance her A-level studies with her running as she vies for 800m glory
  • A regional athlete competes during a test event for the Olympics Games at the Stade de France.

    Purple reign: why Paris Olympics track could be the fastest in history

    The Stade de France track has a new colour and, organisers hope, could provide the platform for a host of new records
  • The US is due to host the Summer Games in 2028 and the Winter Olympics in 2034.

    Wada move after Chinese doping case could threaten LA 2028 Olympics

  • Student larks … Ben Cross and Nigel Havers in Chariots of Fire.

    Chariots of Fire review – classic British take on 1924 Paris Olympics is superbly watchable

  • The Italian Dorando Pietri staggers towards the finishing line at the end of the 1908 Olympic marathon, only to be disqualified later

    Mystery solved after 116 years: how the King helped prove marathon really is 26m 385yds

    Joe Neanor set out to prove length of 1908 Olympic race – and the official distance since then – was correct
  • Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be one of just 50 decathletes and heptathletes using the facility.

    Johnson-Thompson one of 50 athletes to use revered World Cup dressing room

    Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be one of only 50 athletes at the Paris Olympics with access to the same dressing room as France’s 1998 champions
  • (Left to right) British medal hopes Emma Finucane, Delicious Orie and Keely Hodgkinson

    Inside the Olympic medal factories: how Team GB are shaping up in key sports

    Big names eye gold in athletics and swimming while Britain hope to improve on their rowing showing from Tokyo
  • Woozy visuals … Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning.

    Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning review – intelligent exploration of trans athletes

    Julia Fuhr Mann’s impressive feature eschews the usual point-counterpoint conventions that structure arguments in favour of a more artsy approach
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