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Sebastian Coe hopes current athletes break 1980s records that ‘aren’t safe’

Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics president, admitted that sporadic drug testing in the 80s meant records in several events ‘may not be the safest’

The Guardian - UK

Jake Wightman could become most successful GB middle distance star ever, says Seb Coe

Track legend Sebastian Coe was reminded of his own 1984 Olympic-winning run in Los Angeles by way Wightman attacked to win World Championship gold in Eugene

Daily Mirror

Lord Coe: Jake Wightman could be most successful British middle distance runner

Wightman has 12 months until he launches a world title defence in Hungary.

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Sebastian Coe tips Jake Wightman to challenge for unprecedented treble

Wightman is now aiming for Commonwealth and European gold, with Coe saying there’s ‘no reason’ the 1500m world champion can’t win both

The Guardian - UK

‘Biology trumps gender’: Athletics could ban transgender and DSD women from female events

World Athletics will review its policies on transgender women and DSD athletes and president Sebastian Coe has hinted the sport will follow swimming in tightening its regulations

The Independent UK

Caster Semenya out of world 5,000m as Coe signals tougher female sport rules

Caster Semenya’s first appearance in the world championships since 2017 saw her knocked out without fuss or fanfare after finishing 45 seconds off qualifying for Saturday’s 5,000m final

The Guardian - AU

World Athletics Championships: Max Burgin draws inspiration from David Rudisha in 800m dream

Max Burgin has set his sights on becoming Britain’s answer to David Rudisha.

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For Ukrainian High Jumper, World Silver Feels Like Gold

The second-place finish at world championships was beside the point for Ukraine's best high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh. "For me, it's gold," she said Tuesday night, as she looked down at her newly won prize, one nobody would have been right to expect four months ago after she took a three-day…

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Caster Semenya returns to world athletics championships, but not in her pet event due to rules around testosterone levels

Caster Semenya switches to 5,000m because of hormone-treatment rules imposed upon her that she calls "an affront to the spirit of the sport".

ABC News

Caster Semenya is back, so is her sport's thorniest problem

South African runner Caster Semenya's surprise return to the world championships this week coincides with a new reckoning over the rules in track and field that regulate the participation of women with high natural testosterone in female events

The Independent UK

Mark Zeigler: Are the World Championships in Eugene a launching pad for U.S. track, or a burial?

EUGENE, Ore. — Newly renovated Hayward Field sits in the middle of the University of Oregon campus, its futuristic exoskeleton rising above the aging brick buildings like a spaceship. It cost Phil Knight and friends $300 million, and it includes a 5,000-square-foot video board, a 10-story tower with a hall…

Tribune News Service

On U.S. soil, Ukraine's athletes bring message: 'We protect our country on the track'

LOS ANGELES — The acting president of Ukraine's track and field federation logged into the Zoom meeting from his olive-green tent near the front lines, the country's yellow and blue flag in the background.

Los Angeles Times

Coe: 'Inconceivable' Russians would be allowed at worlds

The leader of global track and field said it would have been “inconceivable” to have allowed Russians into this week’s world championships given the country’s war against Ukraine

The Independent UK

Hard decisions need to be taken sooner rather than later on the transgender issue in sport - Susan Egelstaff

FOR years, most sports have considered one subject too hot to handle: the transgender issue.

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Transgender athletes in women’s sport: Athletics could follow swimming and rugby league with ban, hints Coe

World Athletics could become the latest sporting governing body to ban transgender women from participating in elite female competition.

The National (Scotland)

Lord Coe hints athletics could follow swimming in banning transgender women

World Athletics could follow swimming in changing its rules.

The Independent UK

Athletics could follow swimming in banning transgender athletes, Sebastian Coe hints

Swimming has voted to stop transgender competitors from competing in women’s elite races if they have gone through part of male puberty

ABC News

World Athletics and FIFA reviewing transgender policies after FINA ruling

World Athletics boss Sebastian Coe praises swimming authorities for their new rules around transgender athletes, adding that the athletics policy will be reviewed at the end of the year.

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The Independent UK

Sebastian Coe hints athletics could follow Fina in banning transgender athletes

World Athletics could follow swimming in changing its rules

Daily Mirror

Sebastian Coe to look at athletics transgender rules after praising swimming for ban

Swimming governing body FINA has banned transgender athletes from competing in top women's events and World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe has hinted his sport could go the same way

The Guardian - UK

Coe hints athletics may bar transgender women from female competition

Sebastian Coe suggested his sport may follow swimming’s lead, saying ‘biology trumps gender’ and World Athletics’ policies will reflect this

The Guardian - UK

‘It would be bizarre’: Coe warns against athletics quitting 2012 Olympic Stadium

Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics president, said: ‘We have to maintain a world-class presence in London,’ amid reports that UK Athletics has been offered £15m to cut ties with the stadium

The Guardian - US

Lia Thomas says she transitioned to be happy, not to win swimming titles

Lia Thomas, who became the first transgender swimmer to win a major US college title, has pushed back against criticism that she had an unfair advantage

Daily Mirror

Chelsea news: Blues may have "debt for 50 years" as Premier League expulsion looms

Chelsea could be plunged into significant debt if their sale does not go through soon according to Lord Sebastian Coe, and they could be expelled from the Premier League

The Independent UK

Sir Jim Ratcliffe ‘still pushing’ to buy Chelsea despite bid rejection

The bank overseeing the sale of the club has rejected Ratcliffe’s bid

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