Faith Kipyegon stormed to a historic fourth world 1500m title as the Kenyan great extended her streak of dominance with a fifth consecutive global gold in the event. The 31-year-old matched retired men’s world record holder Hicham El Guerrouj as the only other athlete in history to amass four 1500m titles at the championships. After securing her third consecutive Olympic …
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USA’s Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker was disqualified from his semi-final at the world championships on Monday after he barged his way through a crowd on the home straight. Hocker was boxed in on the inside with nowhere to go – just as he had been in the Olympic final a year ago. He saw a sliver of a gap …
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Fuelled by her desire to stand on the top of the podium after winning 100m bronze at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Jefferson-Wooden arrived in Tokyo as favourite following a stellar season. Jefferson-Wooden, who has enjoyed success as part of the USA’s 4x100m relay team, had run the fastest three times of 2025 and remained unbeaten over the distance. She …
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Should either Thompson or Seville triumph, they would become the first Jamaican man to win a global 100m title since Usain Bolt nine years ago. Speaking on BBC One, four-time global heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill said: “Kishane Thompson looked phenomenal. The strength and power he had coming out of the starting blocks, his transition phase, he even slowed down massively …
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Top eight results from the 2025 World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo from Sept. 12-21, airing live on NBC Sports and Peacock … Women’s 10,000mGold: Beatrice Chebet (KEN) — 30:37.61 Silver: Nadia Battocletti (ITA) — 30:28.34 Bronze: Gudaf Tsegay (ETH) — 30:39.65 4. Agnes Ngetich (KEN) — 30:42.66 5. Ejgayehu Taye (ETH) — 30:55.52 6. Ririka Hironaka (JPN) — …
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The World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo — Sept. 13-21 on NBC Sports and Peacock — feature 2024 Olympic gold medalists looking to stay atop their events and others hoping to break ground. That contrast is evident with the two biggest U.S. sprint stars — Noah Lyles, the Olympic 100m champion looking to repeat as world champion in the …
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Who will define the 2025 fantasy football season? To answer that question, we turned to our Featured Pros, who revealed their expert predictions for the players most likely to appear on championship-winning rosters this year. These insights highlight which breakout stars, draft values, and league-winners our experts believe will be the backbone of title teams in 2025. We then take …
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Gabby Thomas will miss the World Track and Field Championships due to an Achilles injury. Thomas, a triple gold medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics (200m, 4x100m, 4x400m), has dealt with an Achilles injury since May. It exacerbated in July. Worlds are Sept. 13-21 in Tokyo. “I understand that it will be disappointing for some track fans to hear this …
Read More »BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics have a new owner, and there’s one thing that isn’t going to change at the NBA’s most-decorated franchise. “Coming in second is not the objective, and it’s not acceptable,” private equity mogul Bill Chisholm said Tuesday after taking control of the team from Wyc Grousbeck. “The ultimate yardstick is winning championships. Wyc’s got two, …
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