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Tom Humphries eyes Beijing

NATIONAL cross country champion Tom Humphries takes his first competitive strides towards the Beijing Olympics when he runs the 5,000m at Loughborough tomorrow. Read

Julie Crane eyes high jump place at Beijing despite horror smash

BY RIGHTS, Julie Crane shouldn't be taking part in athletics at all. Read

Louise Hazel hopes to put Birmingham University on the podium

BIRCHFIELD Harriers' new heptathlete Louise Hazel is the cornerstone of the Birmingham University women's team in the BUSA championships at Bedford this weekend. Read

Ashia Hansen eyes Beijing

DOUBLE world indoor champion Ashia Hansen is back on track to compete in the Beijing Olympics and plans to triple jump again in early June. Read

Super Cally is on right track

ALEXANDER Stadium's first track meeting of the season heralded the discovery of potentially an exceptional 800m runner in Cally Read, of Cannock & Stafford. Read

Walsh helps leeds to title

RESCUING dormice hardly seems to accord with winning gold medals but it represents the lifestyle of James Walsh whose Leeds team retained the national 12-stage road relay title in Sutton Park. Read

Midlands challenge hampered by injury

THE joke on Tipton Harriers is that most of their runners are suffering from advanced Lazarus syndrome - not so much "get up and walk" as "get up and run." Read

MLF will get over Olympics KO

UK ATHLETICS performance director Dave Collins has backed Mark Lewis-Francis to return to the top of the sport but admitted the injury that has ruled him out of the Olympic Games could have been "potentially career threatening". Read

Yelling's marathon gamble pays off

COMMONWEALTH bronze medalist Liz Yelling's decision to mix it with the leading pack of international stars in yesterday's Flora London Marathon paid a handsome dividend. Read

Bronze for Harriers

TIPTON Harriers eked out a bronze medal in the Midland 12-stage road relay but it became clear in Sutton Park that winners Notts are increasing their command of the region's long-distance team events. Read

Tipton seeking winter warmer

IT HAS been a bleak winter season for the top West Midland clubs but tomorrow's Midland 12-stage road relay provides Tipton Harriers at least with some chance of consolation. Read

Tom Humphries has high hopes

IT MIGHT not sound like it but Tom Humphries' self-allotted challenge of making the top 30 at the world cross country championships in Edinburgh on Sunday is mountain-gazing of a great height. Read

Bud Baldaro

How to avoid hitting the wall in the London Marathon

TOP coach Bud Baldaro is offering his expertise to anyone running in next month's showpiece London Marathon. Read

Hannah Brooks

Cloud has a silver lining for Hannah Brooks

BIRMINGHAM track star Hannah Brooks refused to be downcast despite agonisingly missing out on gold at the British University Championships in Sheffield at the weekend. Read

Laura is hot for top spot

LAURA Kenney had planned to fly to warm-weather training on March 20 but is out of Africa for a few days after winning the world cross country trials at Nottingham. Read

Kelly Sotherton

Kelly Sotherton set for pre-Olympic battle

KELLY Sotherton and Jessica Ennis are set for a pre-Olympic battle in a four-event challenge at this summer's Norwich Union London Grand Prix. Read

Kelly Sotherton is so near and yet so far

BIRMINGHAM'S Kelly Sotherton was left frustrated yet again in Valencia after failing to win her first ever global title at the World Indoor Championships. Read

Blind Dave Heeley to run London as part of his marathon challenge

THE eyes of the world were on blind Dave Heeley as it was announced that 2008 Flora London Marathon will be a part of his attempt to run seven marathons, on seven continents, in seven days. Read

Kelly Sotherton remains focused

BIRMINGHAM'S Kelly Sotherton plans to do her talking on the track this weekend but it is the subject of drugs that continues to engulf Team GB at the World Indoors. Read

Brum's ace as olympic base

FORMER Olympic gold medalist Jason Gardener has backed Birmingham to become a prime venue as a pre-2012 games training camp. Read

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