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World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has disclosed that plans are underway to add World Championships marathons to World Marathon Majors.
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe says discussions are underway to comprise the World Championships marathons into World Marathon Majors.
As reported by Athletics Weekly, Coe noted that he has been in discussions with the WMM organisers about weaving the world championship road races into their big-city event programmes.
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08:31 - 20.12.2023
ATHLETICS Faith Kipyegon & Kelvin Kiptum crowned 2023 Athletes of the Year by American outlet
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon and Kelvin Kiptum have been named outright 2023 World Athletes of the Year by an American athletics outlet, a week after World Athletics split the award
“The issue for us is really about how we can create those opportunities. A lot of athletes are also looking at the world championships and thinking that Chicago or New York is around the corner and asking themselves whether they should be running the worlds when they can earn good money on the roads a few weeks later.
"Maybe we can reduce the marathon to a half-marathon at the world championships which would at least take some of the athlete welfare issues away and would allow them to do it in the build-up to a marathon majors event,” he added.
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15:21 - 16.12.2023
ATHLETICS Noah Lyles stands by his ‘NBA world champions’ jibe, fires back at rapper Drake over ‘poor’ album
American sprint king Noah Lyles has maintained his stance on his ‘NBA world champions’ dig while hitting out at rapper Drake for criticising him when his album was ‘not so good’.
The president also explained that he finds it difficult to see an end to the global warming crisis any time soon and will be keen to put measures in place that will provide the best outcome for athletes and fans.
“In light of global warming and the inability of governments to use anything other than ‘BS’ in this space then it’s going to be down to the sport to try to figure out how they navigate their way through this.
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13:00 - 19.12.2023
ATHLETICS World Athletics boss fires back at Noah Lyles over controversial Athlete of the Year Awards decision
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has responded to American sprint king Noah Lyles over his criticism of the decision to split the 2023 World Athlete of the Year awards
"We’ve found 76% of our athletes already said that global warming has had a profound impact on their competition and training programmes.
"I think it’s inevitable that sport will globally have to look at rejigging the calendar because there won’t be any immediate respite from this problem and we’re further from the 2030 targets than we’ve ever been, whatever anyone tells us at COP 28!” she said.
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