Athletics
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‘Start exercising!’: secrets of Thailand’s 105-year-old athletics champion
A recent winner of four Masters Games gold medals, Sawang Janpram began competing at 97 – motivated by his dau…
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Pakistan celebrates Arshad Nadeem’s history-making Olympic gold
Javelin thrower who won Pakistan’s first ever medal in track and field has done ‘the impossible’, says brother…
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From lucky shoes to Olympic trailblazer: Solomon Islands athlete pushes for Pacific Games gold
Veteran long-distance runner Sharon Firisua among stars competing in the two-week tournament set to begin in H…
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Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging
Picture of athletes’ ‘6/4’ race numbers erased in perceived reference to 1989 massacreA photograph of two Chin…
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Chinese uproar as state TV host calls gold-medal winner a ‘manly woman’
Shot put champion Gong Lijiao quizzed about boyfriends and settling down into ‘a woman’s life’The Chinese stat…
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Filled with doubt, division and Covid, Tokyo braces for Olympics
After a year’s delay, the Games begin this week. But it is an event that few in a fearful host nation now want…
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Milkha Singh obituary
One of India’s greatest track athletes, known as ‘the Flying Sikh’, who won gold at the 1958 Commonwealth Game…
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Indian athletics star Milkha Singh dies after catching Covid, aged 91
Narendra Modi leads tributes to ‘Flying Sikh’, who won India’s first Commonwealth gold in 1958Milkha Singh, on…
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An ultramarathon ends in tragedy: runners describe horror of Gansu race
Twenty-one competitors died in the freezing Chinese mountains, raising major questions about safety in the spo…