Athletics

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Generation TikTok: how sportswomen set the bar higher than the men
Female athlete power on social media became ever more strident in 2024 – but the backlash also damaged careers and wellbeing

Emma John

22, Dec, 2024 @8:00 AM

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Sports quiz of the week: Keely Hodgkinson, title bouts and trophy sales
Test your knowledge of the Sports Personality winner, plus football, boxing, darts, NBA and much more

Guardian sport

20, Dec, 2024 @8:00 AM

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Sebastian Coe pledges radical reform in race to become next IOC president
The head of World Athletics unveiled a manifesto that will shake up the IOC and advocate for ‘science-based policies’ to safeguard female sport

Sean Ingle

19, Dec, 2024 @11:52 AM

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‘Women’s sport is in a good place’: Keely Hodgkinson hails Spoty’s four in a row
Olympic 800m champion has ‘so many milestones to hit’ and eyes a world record at February’s ‘Keely Klassic’ in Birmingham

Sean Ingle

18, Dec, 2024 @2:00 PM

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Keely Hodgkinson: free spirit and cold-blooded killer in super spikes
The BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year is a driven, self-confident athlete not afraid to stand up for herself

Sean Ingle

18, Dec, 2024 @8:00 AM

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‘Big dreamer’ Keely Hodgkinson named BBC Sports Personality of the Year
The Olympic 800m champion was rewarded for her remarkable year, with darts prodigy Luke Littler, 17, second and the cricketer Joe Root third

Sean Ingle

17, Dec, 2024 @10:04 PM

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Keely Hodgkinson wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 – as it happened
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson won the BBC’s award, with darts player Luke Littler second and Joe Root third. Join Simon Burnton

Simon Burnton

17, Dec, 2024 @9:18 PM

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Athletics the biggest loser in funding cut of nearly £1.75m for LA 2028 Olympics
Team GB’s track and field stars won 10 medals at Paris 2024 but athletics is one of only two sports to have funding reduced by UK Sport

Sean Ingle

16, Dec, 2024 @3:00 PM

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‘I’d love to run 2hr 7min’: Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee enters London Marathon
Triathlete Alex Yee has signed up April’s London Marathon and is targeting a time only Mo Farah and Emile Cairess have beaten among British athletes

Sean Ingle

16, Dec, 2024 @2:55 PM

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Sports quiz of the week: big contracts, friendly rivalries and ‘scorigami’
Test your knowledge of the week in sport as relationships ended and the end-of-year awards began to pour in

Guardian sport

13, Dec, 2024 @6:00 PM

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‘The world is his oyster’: what’s next for Gout Gout after setting athletics world alight?
The 16-year-old Australian will mix it with Olympic sprint royalty in the US before returning to Year 12 studies and the track in Australia next year

Jack Snape

10, Dec, 2024 @3:48 AM

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Brisbane is deciding on a 2032 Olympics stadium: how do the options stack up?
With the river city’s international reputation on the line, a 100-day review period hopes to cut through the political posturing and land on a main venue befitting of the Games

Jack Snape

09, Dec, 2024 @11:00 PM

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