Knight: Commonwealth Games can be cricket's showcase for Olympics
Heather Knight admits England's Twenty20 team can help push cricket towards being an Olympic sport again.
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'They will sign...' - McNicholas now drops exciting Arsenal claim after Zinchenko
Up to this point in the summer, the Gunners have already completed deals for the likes of Matt Turner, Gabriel Jesus, Fabio Vieira and Marquinhos.
Semenya falls well short in bold bid at world 5 000m: 'I am learning'
Caster Semenya's first appearance in a world championships in five years on Wednesday saw the controversy-mired South African fail to qualify for the women's 5 000m finals.
World Athletics Championships: Kazakhstan's Norah Jeruto wins world steeplechase gold
Kazakhstan in the women's 3000m steeplechase on Wednesday. Jeruto clocked the third fastest time in history and a championship record of 8min 53.02sec for the victory at Hayward field, with Ethiopian Werkuha Getachew claiming silver in a national record of 8:54.61.
World Athletics Championships: China's Feng Bin stuns women's discus for gold
Feng won off of her 69.12-metres opener, a personal best and her strongest performance of the season by a wide margin, as Croatia's Sandra Perkovic secured the silver in a 68.45-metres second attempt. With the home crowd urging her on, Allman rocketed the discus across the field on her third throw and she jumped with excitement but it was marked far short of Feng's effort, and she fumbled her final try for 51.41.
Jeruto claims steeplechase gold, Feng Bin wins women's discus
EUGENE, Ore. : Norah Jeruto set a World Championships record en route to winning the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase gold while China's Feng Bin outdid Olympic champion Valerie Allman in the discus final in Eugene, Oregon on Wednesday.
Ukraine Athletes Hoping To Offer "Positive Emotions" For Besieged Compatriots
Ukraine might have sent its smallest delegation of athletes ever to a world championships, but acting federation president Yevhen Pronin said the 22-strong team were just glad to be present in Eugene and offering up a glimmer of hope for compatriots. Yaroslava Mahuchikh claimed a silver medal in the women's high jump on Tuesday, a day after Andriy Protsenko claimed Ukraine's first medal of these championships with bronze in the men's high jump.