After five years, Dina Asher-Smith is back on top of a medal rostrum at a major international championships. And although the Olympic Games might be the main objective this season, a fifth European Championship gold – the 18th major medal over an 11-year span – sends a message that will be noted across the Atlantic.
US sprint stars Noah Lyles and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone impressed on their way to easy victories at the New York City Grand Prix on Sunday as Jamaican star Elaine Thompson-Herah suffered an injury scare.But the race was overshadowed by an apparent injury to Jamaica's Thompson-Herah, the two-time Olympic 100m and 200m champion.
Keely Hodgkinson could emulate Jessica Ennis-Hill as one of the transcendent British stars of an Olympic Games and, ahead of her first championships of 2024, has revealed how the London 2012 heptathlon changed her life.