‘There is no structure’: Coach Vicente Modahl calls for grassroots improvement
Former Olympic coach Vicente Modahl has called for cheaper healthy food and an improvement in the guidance of grassroots athletes.
Former Olympic coach Vicente Modahl has called for cheaper healthy food and an improvement in the guidance of grassroots athletes.
For those on the outside, Bollington visually impaired sprinter Libby Clegg’s preparations for this summer’s Paralympics Games could not have been worse.
Winter training: the fabled activity of athletes, something we hear a little about at the open and close of each outdoor season but generally something conducted in grim solitude while most are nestled in at home.
Following recent doping scandals involving Russia and Kenya, Manchester’s Diane Modahl believes the IAAF must do more to preserve innocence in athletics.
After becoming disillusioned with life in a bobsleigh, Manchester Olympian Rebekah ‘Bex’ Wilson is rediscovering her love for sport on the rugby pitch.
Sale Harrier Jona Efoloko was able to toast a job well done at the Sainsbury’s 2015 School Games after leaving with a gold medal to show for his efforts.
Dina Asher-Smith is the fastest woman over 100m and 200m in British history and appears to hold Great Britain’s best chance of picking up a first female sprint medal since 1960 at the Olympic Games next year.
Stockport’s Aimee Pratt, 17, will study biology at Adams State University (ASU) in Colorado while furthering her blossoming athletics career in which she has already won both the English Championship and the English School Championship.
Sale’s John Smith admits switching sports was always going to be a risk, but the wheelchair racer has no regrets after making his Olympic Stadium debut on Sunday as part of National Paralympic Day celebrations.
Sale Harrier Andrew Robertson reckons he had world record holder Usain Bolt running scared for the first 40 metres of their clash at the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games before the multiple world and Olympic sprint champion powered home in 9.87 seconds.
Kirsty Law admits finding herself a coach is top of her to-do list after coming away from the Sainsbury’s British Championships with bronze in the discus final.
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