Robin Scott-Elliot
Robin Scott-Elliot is a Sports News Correspondent for The Independent.
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10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week
04 August 2013 12:00 AM
Last weekend's Anniversary Games in London whetted the appetite for track and field again so here are the potential stars of the World Championships which begin on Saturday
Cycling in turmoil as UCI president Pat McQuaid is branded a 'dictator'
31 July 2013 01:00 AM
Livid rival Brian Cookson accuses incumbent UCI president of embarrassing 'an entire sport'
Comment: Pat McQuaid's finish-line shifting is bizarre. It's time he went
31 July 2013 01:00 AM
He is a tit-for-tat man, deploying a level of argument not out of place at happy hour writes Robin Scott-Elliot
In 2016 will the blade runners be racing Usain Bolt?
29 July 2013 06:22 PM
After fastest Para 100m ever on Sunday, some think so – but their slow start is a major obstacle
Anniversary Games: Alan Oliveira’s new 100m record puts Rio 2016 in spotlight
28 July 2013 11:03 PM
That the last world record on this track went to a Paralympic athlete seemed a fitting finale to the closing act of the first part of the Olympic Stadium’s life. It has played host to the transformation of a movement and on Sunday it hosted a full-house of 65,000 to celebrate what Paralympic sport has become to this country in the space of a year. Outside the Paralympic Games it is the largest ever audience for such an event.
Exclusive: Women calling the shots as rugby gets up for the cups
28 July 2013 12:00 AM
Debbie Jevans and Sally Bolton have blazed a trail in British sport by being put in charge of rugby's two World Cups, both of which will be held in England. Robin Scott-Elliot asked the questions when they met
Battling Jessica Ennis-Hill is playing a waiting game
28 July 2013 12:00 AM
No repeat of Super Saturday for heptathlete, who must decide whether to go to Moscow
London Olympic Anniversary Games: Usain Bolt sets year's fastest time in 100m win
26 July 2013 10:23 PM
Record-breaker gets year's best time and fastest of any of the men he'll run against in Moscow
Robin Scott-Elliot: Ashes wheel won't turn back if Aussies would rather watch 'Shaun the Sheep'
26 July 2013 09:35 PM
The Last Word: Here people watch sport, from football down, in numbers envied elsewhere
2013 Anniversary Games: Golden summer memories come crowding back at the Olympic Stadium
26 July 2013 08:53 PM
They started filing happily into their seats not long after four o'clock, having made it past the clowns cavorting at the entrance gates – positioned perhaps in case anyone should be seen daring not to smile – and were still there six hours later, possibly wearied by the endless Britpop pumped around the stadium but still revelling in what was.
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