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Barber, who claimed her second world crown last week at Eugene, Oregon, in the United States, tested positive at the Australian team camp ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this week. But with the women's javelin final not until August 7, she could still compete.
Commonwealth Games (CWG) ambitions have been badly hit by the last-minute withdrawal of Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, but they still have high hopes of gold in several sports including boxing and badminton. The Commonwealth's most populous country is not generally known as a global sporting powerhouse -- except for cricket -- but it has regularly performed well at the Games. India came third in the medals table behind hosts Australia, and England, at the last edition of the Games at the Gold Coast in 2018, and were in the top five at the previous four.
Dina Asher-Smith has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games with a hamstring injury. Asher-Smith pulled up towards the end of her leg in the 4x100m relay event at the World Championships in Oregon last weekend, saying afterwards that her «legs had stopped corresponding» with her.
Dina Asher-Smith has withdrawn from the England team for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham due to a hamstring injury.
For a nation always clamouring for more, Neeraj's injury is untimely reminder that rare success is sustained only by pushing the limits of enduranceAs a nation, we are so enamoured with personality cults, both inside and outside the arena of sport, that we sometimes forget Neeraj Chopra stands alone in his field. He is a toweringly successful sporting figure of considerable dramatic appeal, acceptable across the spectrum. He also stands distinctly apart, the flag-bearer of a mystifying art who defies the straitjackets we pigeonhole our public figures into. In a country obsessed with the divine, this Olympic gold-winning javelin thrower stands a beacon of human potential. Adulation, however, is not a cure for fallibility.
Lord Coe wants athletics to seize its chance to expand after the first World Championships in America.
Armand Duplantis wrapped up the World Athletics Championships in Eugene in stunning fashion on Sunday, setting a new world record in the pole vault as the curtain came down on the 10-day global track and field extravaganza. The gripping finale could not have been any better scripted for the first world championships ever to be held on American soil -- apart from the fact maybe that the US-born and raised Duplantis was wearing the yellow and blue of Sweden and not representing the Stars and Stripes.
Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson narrowly lost out in a tight battle with Olympic champion Athing Mu but was still able to take home silver in the 800m. Hodgkinson and Mu, both 20, were toe-to-toe at the World Championships in Eugene, with the American finishing with a time of 1:56.30, just 0.08 seconds ahead of the Brit – who admitted she was a “bit gutted”. Ad/> «I gave it everything right up to the line,» Hodgkinson told BBC afterwards.