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Ivorian Ta Lou clinches Africa’s first sprints medal at London 2017

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou clinched Africa's first sprints medal at London 2017 after a winning silver in the women's 100m with 10.86s- a personal best equalling mark. In winning silver, she replicated the feat chalked by...

Geoffrey Kirui becomes Kenya’s 5th marathon world champion after testing duel

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Geoffrey Kirui won the 2017 world men’s marathon title – becoming Kenya’s fifth champion in the event - after winning a testing duel in the sun with Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola over the four-loop course...

Nadia Eke: although it didn’t go as well as I wanted, the future is...

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. African women's triple jump champion Nadia Eke made her much anticipated bow at the IAAF World Championship London 2017,  jumping 13.54m in Group B of the women's triple jump qualification. Nadia missed out on a...

Emmanuel Dasor: I will bounce back harder despite missing out of Worlds

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Despite missing out of the IAAF World Championships London 2017 through injury, Ghanaian 400m runner Emmanuel Dasor is hoping to bounce back harder. The former Western Kentucky University student sustained a knee injury a day...

South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga banishes memory of Olympic miss by grabbing first World title

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. A 8.48m leap in the second round was enough to secure South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga his first world title in an enthralling, high quality long jump competition. The 26-year-old had missed out on gold at...

Ayana wins gold with second fastest winning time in championships history

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Despite the paucity of data-points in the build-up to this race, Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana still began as the consensus pick for this title but the world record-holder hadn’t raced at distance - or on...

Usain Bolt: My start is killing me

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Usain Bolt knew he needed to improve on his start to get any realistic chance of winning the men's 100m gold at London 2017. The warning signs were on the wall as he struggled to...

TV 3 Ghana’s Special on Team Ghana at London 2017

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Ahead of the IAAF World Championships London 2017, Ghanaian based Television station, TV 3, preview Ghana's participation at the Worlds. Team Ghana is made up of four individual athletes and the women's 4x100m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmRyG6lNKd4&t=3s

Van Niekerk and Makwala through to 400m semis

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. South Africa’s world and Olympic 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk, who is seeking a 200m/400m double here, did the minimum required to move through to tomorrow’s 400m semifinals as he won his heat in...

Usain Bolt: “I have to get this start together”

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Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines London 2017 Usain Bolt has admitted he needs to “get his start together” after coming back from yet another poor start to qualify for the semi finals of the men’s 100m with 10.07s at the IAAF World...