Athletics - Track and field thread

[Old Hooker]

Hard to imagine a more popular performance thanJaz Sawyers hitting 7m to win the European Indoors long jump ***le yesterday. Diminutive in stature she took a couple of brilliant scalps in doing so.

A real case of maximising potential and, not for the first time, raising her game when the pressure was on.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Athletics great Dick Fosbury dies aged 76

Dick Fosbury - the man who revolutionised the high jump in athletics - has died at the age of 76.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bada-Bing!]

World Athletics bans transgender female athletes

World Athletics has banned transgender female athletes from competing in the female category at international events.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Former world 100m champion Bowie dies aged 32

American sprinter Tori Bowie, a three-time Olympic medallist and former 100m world champion, has died aged 32.

www.bbc.co.uk

Only 32. Doesn’t say how she died.

 

[Old Hooker]

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