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UK Athletics has pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter following the death of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei.

UK Athletics has been charged with manslaughter over the death of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei.

Geoff Capes, who competed for Great Britain in the shot put at three Olympic Games, won two Commonwealth titles and twice won the World’s Strongest Man competition, has died aged 75.

Dame Denise Lewis was appointed as the new president of UK Athletics back in December, but she has now decided to "temporarily step away" from the role amid concerns about her punditry work for the BBC

The new series of Gladiators has started and there are 16 new faces to get to know. The fresh crop of strong men and women include Giant, a firefighter turned bodybuilder from the Midlands

Seb Coe: “The feedback we’ve had from Netflix is interesting, They were genuinely shocked by the universality, the global nature of our sport. We are in conversation with them about an extension to that series at some stage”

The deficit is more than double the loss posted in 2021-22 and comes just two years after UKA had cash reserves of £2.2million

Tracking data showed she was not running for 2.5 miles of the event and then the 47-year-old, who represented Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, was then stripped of her medal

Ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski claimed a trophy during the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool race but has now been banned for 12 months after an independent panel intervened

Olympic long-distance runner John Nuttall has tragically died at the age of 56 after suffering a heart attack on Thursday morning, his wife Liz McColgan has confirmed

International athletes Ricardo Dos Santos and Bianca Williams say they were racially profiled when Met Police officers searched and handcuffed them in July 2020 after stopping them while driving home to west London

“I wanted to come here to get gold. Three silvers now surely means that one point I’m going to get gold - that it’s a matter of when not how"

Track legend reveals hidden story of her 1993 world title win in Stuttgart and tells Budapest-bound Brits to win the mind game

Britain's 200 metre champion sprinter says she is ready to challenge for global medals and make a name for herself, insisting "anything is possible"

Fastest man in world this year bossed the 100m on water and the 200 on dry land to make major statement ahead of Budapest World Champs

CJ Ujah makes 100m final at British Championships but can finish only fifth behind new national record holder

Lance Armstrong, the disgraced American cyclist who was stripped of seven successive Tour de France titles, took to social media to tease a conversation on transgender participation on sports

“It’s a bit like a hard season, you’ve got to work your way through it. We’re going to be okay. I’m optimistic I’ll be in front of you for a few years yet. But I’m not jumping around”

All roads lead to Highgate for Night of 10,000m PBs and UKA boss Jack Buckner admits: "It would be great to see more innovation like this across the sport"

Event organisers have denied Joasia Zakrzewski's claim they knew she had used a car for part of an ultra-marathon where she finished third and was awarded a trophy

Joasia Zakrzewski is facing calls to be banned after she used a car to complete part of her ultra-marathon but has admitted she made a "massive error accepting the trophy"

Joasia Zakrzewski, who represented Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, hit the headlines following a controversial ultra-marathon race on Good Friday

The Scottish 1,500-metre star won silver in 2020 Tokyo Olympics and is one of Britain's biggest athletics medal hopes ahead of next year's Games taking place in Paris

'If you don't have a superstar that stands out like I did, then it's going to be hard to draw the big crowds and draw that attention that you want'

American Dick Fosbury, the man who changed the face of the high jump discipline forever and won a gold medal at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, has died at the age of 76