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The Ashes: England have backroom bases covered
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Delivering Kevin Pietersen back to the brink of full fitness is the latest triumph of England's backroom team, but it should be no surprise – they have the best support staff in the game.
World Championships: Jessica Ennis-Hill's hopes lifted by Tatyana Chernova's withdrawal
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Jessica Ennis-Hill's chances of winning heptathlon gold at the World Championships have been boosted by the defending champion, Tatyana Chernova, pulling out.
Anniversary Games: Jessica Ennis-Hill set to take part at Olympic Stadium
Thursday 25 July 2013
The Olympic heptathlon winner returned to action earlier this week
Jessica Ennis-Hill makes impressive comeback - but says it is too early to take decision on World Championships
Wednesday 24 July 2013
The heptathlete recorded a personal best in the javelin
Jessica Ennis-Hill to make comeback with low-key return in Loughborough
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Heptathlete will take part in Loughborough European Athletics Permit meeting tonight
Steve Fudge: Jonnie Peacock wants it all now but he must learn to be patient
Saturday 20 July 2013
He’s brilliant, almost to the extent where he’s thinking and worrying about stuff too much
World Championships: Exciting James Dasaolu can pick up a Moscow medal, says Neil Black
Wednesday 17 July 2013
Coach urges public to have faith in sprinter as he names squad for World Championships
Jessica Ennis-Hill forced to delay comeback yet again
Thursday 11 July 2013
The heptathlete has pulled out of the Sainsbury's British Championships in Birmingham
UK Athletics ready to go foreign again despite coach exodus
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Swedish head coach Eriksson to quit for Canada and is latest key figure to exit post-2012
The iQuiz part two: In pictures
Thursday 09 May 2013
Tuesday's iQuiz first round was as hotly contested as ever - and it's been memorialised on film.
14-year-old girl Cherelle McKenzie-Jackson found guilty of manslaughter of Junior Nkwelle in Brixton
Friday 05 April 2013
A 14-year-old girl who “set up” a schoolboy to be stabbed by her boyfriend after a row over football was ordered to be detained for eight years today.
New Loughborough campus to be built on Olympic Park
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Loughborough University will establish a campus at iCITY on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Lower university entry grades and let in more sports prodigies, says ex-Olympian Steve Cram
Thursday 14 March 2013
Universities in the UK should start lowering their entry requirements to let in more students with sporting talent, according to an Olympic athlete turned university chancellor.
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey dreams big after nightmare year on sidelines
Wednesday 27 February 2013
Instead of The Lightning Bolt versus The Beast, the big head-to-head on the track at the London Olympics last summer might have been Usain Bolt against Harry A-A. It was a thought that inevitably passed through the mind of Harry Aikines-Aryeetey as he departed Heathrow with the rest of the British team, bound for the first post-Olympic international track and field championship, the European Indoors, which open here in the west of Sweden tomorrow morning.
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- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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