JUST three days before the world’s best athletes flock to Birmingham for the city’s first-ever Samsung Diamond League meeting, the Alexander Stadium has made yet another mark on the athletics circuit with the unveiling of a new 5,000-seat stand.Read
JUST three days before the world’s best athletes flock to Birmingham for the city’s first-ever Samsung Diamond League meeting, the Alexander Stadium has made yet another mark on the athletics circuit with the unveiling of a new 5,000-seat stand.Read
BY HER own admission Eilish McColgan will finish last at this weekend’s Diamond League extravaganza in Birmingham but that does not mean there is nothing riding on the rising star’s performance.Read
BIRCHFIELD Harriers have been buoyed by a string of outstanding individual and collective performances that have put both the club and some of its rising stars on the road to continental glory.Read
COMMONWEALTH Games gold medallist Louise Hazel insists she has no intention of living in Jessica Ennis’ shadow at this summer’s World Championships – instead revealing she intends to steal her thunder in Daegu, South Korea.Read
BIRCHFIELD Harrier Joel Fearon has been called up to the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the European Indoor Championships in Paris next week.Read
NEWLY-crowned national indoor high jump champion Tom Parsons has set his sights on a second consecutive lifetime best at the Aviva Grand Prix at the NIA on Saturday.Read
TRACK star Craig Pickering is hoping to build on last Saturday’s impressive performance in Germany at this weekend’s Aviva Europen Indoor Trials and UK Championships in Sheffield.Read
MARK Lewis-Francis has no doubt Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium will light up the international athletics scene in 2011 after finally being handed Samsung Diamond League status.Read
Six years after he beat Maurice Greene to win Olympic sprint relay gold, Mark Lewis-Francis returned to the top of the podium at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
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LOUISE Hazel admits she is more than happy to bide her time in pursuit of upgrading her Commonwealth heptathlon title won in Delhi to an Olympic one.Read
MARK Lewis-Francis insists he’s finally a force to be reckoned with after rounding off his 2010 season with a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games.Read
BIRMINGHAM sprinter Katrina Hart sent a message to her rivals ahead of next year’s IPC World Athletics Championships after claiming 100m gold in the para-athletics.Read
AN OLYMPIC hopeful from the Midlands is calling on the Government to give more financial support to up-and-coming athletes – or risk losing the gold medalists of the future.Read
BIRCHFIELD Harriers travel to Eton tomorrow to complete their UK Women’s Athletics League campaign, refusing to even contemplate taking the Division One title.Read
