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Athletics Birmingham Diamond League, August 20: Mo Farah sprinted clear to win the 3,000m at the meeting in his final track meeting on home soil. The 34-year-old, who is switching to road racing in 2018, came home in seven minutes 38.64 seconds to win the Müller Grand Prix Birmingham. “All I dreamed of as a […]

28th Jul 2017

Mo Farah undefeated at 10k for almost six years

Mo Farah’s 10k victory in the Czech Republic means he is now undefeated at this distance for almost six years (Photo: Citizen59/Flickr Creative Common) Athletics Mo Farah’s 10,000m victory Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava in the Czech Republic means he is now undefeated at this distance for almost six years. Farah won in a time […]

28th Apr 2017

SPORT BRIEF: Nour El Sherbini retains the El Gouna Squash Open

Nour El Sherbini retained the El Gouna International Squash Open (Photo: Flickr/Creative Commons) Athletics The doctor who gave double Olympic champion Mo Farah a controversial supplement has the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on April 19 that he failed to properly document the treatment. Dr Robin Chakraverty said the amount of L-carnitine was well […]

31st Mar 2017

SPORT BRIEF: Emre Can insists his contract stand-off with Liverpool is not about money

(L-R) Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Yaya Toure (Manchester City) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) and Emre Can (Liverpool) are all in talks to move from their clubs this summer (Photo: Flickr/Creative Commons) Athletics Mo Farah has welcomed any move to reanalyse his drug test samples despite the body that governs anti-doping in Britain appearing to warn against […]

25th Nov 2016

SPORT BRIEF

Athletics Great Britain’s Olympic champion Mo Farah is one of three athletes still in contention for the men’s IAAF World Athlete of the Year award. The 33-year-old will go up against Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and South Africa’s 400m star Wayde van Niekerk. The women’s award is between Ethiopia’s 10,000m champion Almaz Ayana, Jamaican […]

1st Jul 2016

Sport Brief: Mo Farah breaks a 34-year-old British record

Athletics Mo Farah broke a 34-year-old British record at the Birmingham Diamond League meeting on June 5 to underline his form with the Rio Olympics exactly two months away. The Briton dedicated his victory to his hero Muhammad Ali, the boxing great who died on June 4, aged 74. “I just want to wish his […]

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