Emma Middleton
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- Sep 18, 2026
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How the women's 800m became athletics' headline act (opens the original)
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For 32 years, the women's 800m was absent from the Olympics, with its competitors deemed too frail. Now, it is one of the most hotly anticipated events on the track. This extraordinary story starts at the 1928 Olympic Games, which represented a huge - if temporary - step forward for women's sports. The Amsterdam Games were the first to allow women to compete in track and field events. Five women's events were added to the programme - the 100m, high jump, discus, 400m hurdles and, controversially
European Athletics Championships: Keely Hodgkinson - why is 800m world record so tough to break? (opens the original)
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The world record for the women's 800m is the longest-standing in athletics. No-one has managed to break it for 43 years. So why, despite leaps forward in shoe technology and our understanding of nutrition and recovery, has that record not fallen? Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson is one of the top three middle-distance runners in the world competing at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham this week. So could that record, finally, be broken? The women's 800m world record is held by C
'I won Commonwealth Games bronze - then went back to work at McDonald's' (opens the original)
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"Someone said to me: 'It's crazy that you can win a Commonwealth medal and then come back to work.'" So 22-year-old Summer Shaw decided to make a TikTok video, external about her swift change of scenery while on a work break at a McDonald's restaurant. The five-second clip that Shaw posted "for funsies" went viral, and has been watched over one million times. Then came the comments... "People were asking: 'How is this possible?' "They were like: 'This shouldn't be allowed.'" Shaw won Scotland's
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