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Last-minute deal sees Diamond League meetings streamed live in Britain

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A last-minute deal signed by the BBC means viewers in Britain will be able to watch Diamond League athletics streamed live on television – and also on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube – starting with tomorrow's opening meeting in Monaco.

medallist, world bronze medallist Marcin Lewandowski of Poland and Norway's teenage European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen


Warholm sets world 300m hurdles best at Oslo’s Impossible Games

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Karsten Warholm achieved his mission at the Impossible Games in Oslo tonight as, running alone in a largely empty stadium – but watched worldwide via a live TV link – he marked the sport’s first big break-out from coronavirus lockdown with a world best for the 300 metres hurdles of 33.78sec.

Another of Norway’s local heroes, 19-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen, set a European 2000m record of 4min

outing, then had three unsuccessful attempts at the meeting record of 5.91m.Earlier in the evening Filip Ingebrigtsen

Jakob #Ingebrigtsen on beating @tim_cheruiyot's team in the 2000m.#ImpossibleGames?


Impossible Games set to deliver mission as Zurich’s Inspiration Games looms on horizon

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The largest and most significant athletics meeting of the pandemic-blighted year will take place with Oslo’s Bislett Stadium at its centre tomorrow night – the self-styled Impossible Games – with another similar event, the Inspiration Games, based in Zurich set to take place on July 9.

Home athletes Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen will be among those involved in the Norwegian capital

screen, with victory going to the team with the fastest combined time from its top three finishers.Team Ingebrigtsen


Cheruiyot to compete in virtual 2000m race at Impossible Games

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Timothy Cheruiyot will lead a team of five Kenyan runners in a virtual 2000 metres race as part of the Impossible Games, a behind-closed-doors Diamond League event primarily in Oslo.

The 1500m world champion and his team are set to take on Team Ingebrigtsen, which includes Norwegian

international broadcast.Cram holds the European record for the 2000m himself - 4min 51.39sec set in 1985.Ingebrigtsen




Kipchoge smashes two-hour barrier for marathon in Vienna

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Eliud Kipchoge achieved a historic breakthrough today - although not an official world record – as he became the first man to better two hours for the marathon distance, clocking a time of 1 hour 59min 40.2sec.

States, a longstanding friend of Kipchoge's, who was one of the designated "captains", and Norway's Ingebrigtsen


Kipchoge set for "man on the moon" INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna

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Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, who is seeking to run the first sub-two-hour marathon tomorrow in Vienna, has likened his quest to becoming "the first man on the moon".

Selemon Barega, former world 1500m and 5,000m champion Bernard Lagat of the United States and Norway's Ingebrigtsen


Warholm retains world 400m hurdles title on hectic night of finals in Doha

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Karsten Warholm of Norway won one of the most keenly anticipated contests of the International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships here as he held off his two huge rivals, Rai Benjamin of the United States and home athlete Abderrahman Samba, to retain his 400 metres hurdles title.

seen Muktar Edris defy the rising 19-year-olds - fellow Ethiopian Selemon Barega and Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen

rival in a final sprint to win in a season’s best of 12min 58.85sec, with Barega clocking 12:59.70.Ingebrigtsen


Guinea-Bissau runner makes a name at IAAF World Championships with selfless assistance of stricken opponent

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With all three of the big names in the men’s 400 metres hurdles winning their opening heats, the main focus on the opening day of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here fell upon the opening heat of the men’s 5,000m, which saw Guinea-Bissau’s Braima Suncar Dabo stop running to assist a stricken opponent, 33-year-old Jonathan Busby of Aruba, in finishing.

silver medallist Selemon Barega in 13:24.69.Barega’s contemporary, Norway’s European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen



Feat of Claye highlights Paris Diamond League meeting as Lyles speeds to 200m win

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Will Claye brought the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here to a dramatic conclusion as he produced a triple jump of 18.06 metres to outdo the fellow American who has beaten him to two Olympic titles and one world gold, Christian Taylor.

 Sudan’s Ayanleh Souleiman was second in a season’s best of 3:30.66 ahead of the Ingebrigtsen brothers.On


Mike Rowbottom: In-store with the Ingebrigtsens

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boys left the Extra supermarket with arms signed by the store’s illustrious sporting regulars - the Ingebrigtsen

youngsters waiting for autographs at the Sandnes Stadium that lies just a few hundred metres from the Ingebrigtsen

Each of the sponsored Mercedes cars carries the logo - "Team Ingebrigtsen - Das Beste oder nichts"And

- the numbers grow for a low-key Ingebrigtsen press event ©ITGNot saying the Ingebrigtsens are as big

But two series of documentaries, entitled, inevitably, Team Ingebrigtsen, aired in Norway but widely

The Brothers Ingebrigtsen - from left, Filip, Henrik and Jakob - prepare to do their thing for Norwegian


Hassan’s 5,000m personal best only earns her third place at London Diamond League as Obiri wins

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Little more than a week after breaking the 23-year-old women’s mile record in Monaco, Sifan Hassan raced over her favourite distance of 5,000 metres at London Stadium and bettered her own European record with a time of 14min 22.12sec – but it was only good enough for third place.

the Emsley Carr Mile in a personal best of 3:49.45, the fastest run this year, with Norway’s Filip Ingebrigtsen


Warholm lowers his European 400m hurdles record on first day of London Diamond League meeting

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Norway’s Karsten Warholm set a European record in the 400 metres hurdles for the second time in as many races as he earned victory on the first of two days of action at London Stadium as part of the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting.

10,000m in Hengelo, today out-kicked Norway’s 18-year-old European 1,500m and 5,000m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen