20 h. ago Dutch runner is knocked out cold in horror fall after smashing her head on the track at European Indoor Championships

DAVID COVERDALE AT APELDOORN: Maureen Koster was knocked out and wheeled away after a horror fall during the women's 3,000 metres final at the European Indoor Championships.

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23 h. ago Dutch athlete suffers horror fall and is knocked unconscious after smashing her head on the track at European Indoor Championships

DAVID COVERDALE AT APELDOORN: Maureen Koster was knocked out and wheeled away after a horror fall during the women's 3,000 metres final at the European Indoor Championships.

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23 h. ago Dutch athlete suffers horror fall and is carried off on a stretcher after smashing her head on the track at European Indoor Championships

DAVID COVERDALE AT APELDOORN: Maureen Koster was knocked out and wheeled away after a horror fall during the women's 3,000 metres final at the European Indoor Championships.

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25 h. ago George Mills wins 3,000m silver at European Indoor Championships

The 25-year-old Briton, who is the son of former England footballer Danny Mills, finished runner-up to Jakob Ingebritsen.

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31 h. ago Jeremiah Azu wants 2025 to be ‘year of my life’ after European Indoor title

Azu thanked his partner Terri, who gave birth to his son Azaire last week

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68 h. ago Georgia Hunter Bell misses out on 1500m gold after ear infection woe

Favourite is fourth at European Indoor ChampionshipsAgathe Guillemot wins as Hunter Bell has late slumpGeorgia Hunter Bell was such a huge favourite for 1500m gold that a £50 bet on her to win at the European Indoor Championships would have returned just one pound of profit. She was Britain’s banker. A cast-iron certainty. And then, with 100m to go, it all went horribly wobbly.At that point, the Olympic 1500m bronze medallist was leading and looked to have everything under control. But just when everyone expected her to switch on the afterburners, her legs turned into spaghetti – the result, it later transpired, of an ear infection. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Georgia Hunter Bell misses out on 1500m gold after ear infection

Favourite is fourth at European Indoor ChampionshipsAgathe Guillemot wins as Hunter Bell has late slumpGeorgia Hunter Bell was such a huge favourite for 1500m gold that a £50 bet on her to win at the European Indoor Championships would have returned just one pound of profit. She was Britain’s banker. A cast-iron certainty. And then, with 100m to go, it all went horribly wobbly.At that point, the Olympic 1500m bronze medallist was leading and looked to have everything under control. But just when everyone expected her to switch on the afterburners, her legs turned into spaghetti – the result, it later transpired, of an ear infection. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago George Mills: ‘Jakob Ingebrigtsen is phenomenal but he has a target on his back at European Indoors’

Interview: The 25-year-old discusses his strict winter regime of rice, running and siestas in South Africa ahead of his battle with Ingebrigtsen at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn this weekend

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3 d. ago ‘I’m a simple guy’: athlete George Mills, son of Danny, on his monastic regime

Runner hopeful of 3,000m medal at European IndoorsOf his plain diet, he says: ‘Flavour doesn’t make you fast’When George Mills is not pushing his body through 120-mile training weeks at his sparse altitude camp in Dullstroom, South Africa, he could teach Benedictine monks a thing or two about abstinence.Last summer, when he won a­­­ ­European Championships 1500m ­silver medal in Rome, his ­celebrations consisted of nothing but a kombucha followed by a lengthy run the next morning. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'Greta Thunberg of sport' Innes FitzGerald reveals motivations before senior GB debut

Innes FitzGerald, who was widely recognised for decision to skip competition in Australia two years because of climate concerns, is set to make her senior track bow for GB in this weekend's European indoor championships

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5 d. ago I have big goals – Georgia Hunter Bell out to prove she is no one

Hunter Bell will bid for her first major international title at this week’s European Indoor Championships.

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5 d. ago European Athletics Indoor Championships: Schedule, times and how to watch on TV

Georgia Hunter Bell, Femke Bol and Jakob Ingebritsen are all in action this week

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6 d. ago Jakob Ingebrigtsen opens up on Josh Kerr rivalry and why he lost Olympic 1500m final

The Norwegian is preparing to compete over 1500m and 3000m in Apeldoorn this week at the European Athletics Indoor Championships

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1 week ago Innes Fitzgerald, ‘Greta Thunberg of sport’, in first senior athletics squad

European Indoor Championships next step for teenagerRunner hopes to emulate Keely Hodgkinson with victoryFour years ago, Keely Hodgkinson went from being an unknown teenager to an overnight sensation by claiming glory at the European Indoor Championships. Next week Innes Fitzgerald, another 18-year-old British star, will hope to repeat the trick after being named in her first British senior squad.Fitzgerald, who recently smashed Zola Budd’s national under-20 indoor 3,000m record by 16 seconds, joins Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell and world indoor pole vault champion Molly Caudery in a 44-strong British squad for Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago UK Athletics Indoor Championships: Schedule, times and how to watch on TV

The best of British athletics will be fighting for medals and the chance to compete at European and World Indoor Championships in the coming weeks on the road to the Tokyo World Championships in September

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