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Athletics News for 2 May 2017
IAAF must reconsider at record-breaking speed | Letters
The Guardian - 2 May 2017 20:45
The IAAF seems to have done a very sensible thing in a stupendously clumsy way (Radcliffe and Edwards fury at 'cowardly' plan to strip athletics records, Sport, 2 May). By discounting the records of athletes rather than ...
Colin Jackson on European Athletics world records proposals
BBC - 2 May 2017 18:24
Britain's double 110m hurdles world champion Colin Jackson criticises European Athletics' plans to rewrite world records set before 2005.
Ivana Spanovic teleconference highlights - IAAF Diamond League
IAAF - 2 May 2017 16:37
With just three days to go until the start of the 2017 IAAF Diamond League series, world and Olympic long jump bronze medallist and 2016 Diamond Trophy winner Ivana Spanovic spoke to the media via a teleconference on Tue...
Colin Jackson says plans to strip athletes of records are 'ridiculous'
BBC - 2 May 2017 13:37
Welshman Colin Jackson says plans to strip athletes of world records set before 2005 are "ridiculous".
Half marathon success for Northampton man with motor neurone disease
BBC - 2 May 2017 10:50
Dave Solomon crosses the finish line of a half marathon in three hours and 14 minutes.
Laura Muir to take on Zola Budd's 1985 mile record at Anniversary Games
BBC - 2 May 2017 01:01
Laura Muir will attempt to break Zola Budd's 32-year-old British mile record at the London Anniversary Games on 9 July.
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