A look ahead to the men’s throws events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
Shot
Young Kiwi prodigy Jacko Gill may have been stealing all the headlines in recent years, but his team-mate Tom Walsh suddenly came to prominence last winter and st...
A look ahead to the women’s jumps events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
High jump
Levern Spencer leads the St Lucia team in Glasgow and in this season s Commonwealth rankings she leads the high jump entries too with her 1.96m clearance fr...
A look ahead to the men’s jumps events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
High jump
Derek Drouin goes into the men s high jump as the clear favourite, the Canadian having set his 2.40m personal best and Commonwealth record in Des Moines, USA,...
Welsh hurdler provisionally suspended and withdrawn from Commonwealth Games team
European 400m hurdles champion Rhys Williams has been provisionally suspended by UK Anti-Doping following a doping violation.
A look ahead to the women’s distance events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
800m
World champion Eunice Sum has lost one race this year to American Ajee Wilson and tops the Commonwealth rankings with her 1:57.92.
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A look ahead to the men’s distance events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
800m
One of the big attractions of these Games, David Rudisha provided one of the highlights of the last major championships in Britain, the 2012 Olympics, when he s...
A look ahead to the women’s sprint and hurdles events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
100m
Trinidad and Tobago s Michelle-Lee Ahye is the fastest in the field with 10.82 and is unbeaten in 10 finals at the distance in 2014.
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Sprint hurdler Wilhem Belocian dips under 13 seconds as David Omoregie claims GB’s third medal at World Juniors
Frenchman Wilhem Belocian blasted to a time of 12.99 over the barriers on day three of the IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, ...
A look ahead to the men’s sprint and hurdles events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
100m
No Usain Bolt, no Yohan Blake and four of the fastest five Jamaicans this year are missing, but a strong Caribbean challenge is assured, including fro...
A history of the walk events, which are controversially absent from the Glasgow Commonwealth Games
Track walks were first held in the Olympics in 1906 and the road 50km was introduced in 1932, but the Commonwealth organisers ignored the walks until 196...
