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  • Wheelchair racer 2012 marathon Doaa Shayea

    14.Aug.12 Budding Rio athlete to be 2012 Paralympic Flame Ambassador

    A 14 year old athlete who has come through the Playground to Podium and Disability Sport Events programme has been chosen as the Paralympic Flame Ambassador for Plymouth.  Two years ago she took up athletics and was picked after winning five gold medals in the National Disabled Athletics Championships in Warwick in July.

  • 12.Aug.12 What's your Olympic legacy? Here's Mo's

    Wonderful pics from 10 Downing Street as world leaders met at the Global Hunger Summit. Mo Farah, fresh from his Olympic double gold winning glory, passed the baton in the Race Against Hunger to Prime Minister David Cameron.

  • World Marathon Challenge 2011 - Finish of the event

    12.Aug.12 Riding the wave of inspiration

    With the London Olympics reaching its climax, let’s ride the wave of inspiration and get schools everywhere joining the World Marathon Challenge. If you want a taster of some fun athletics action before then, why not attend a local Community Athletics Day and give it a go?

  • Children cheering kids

    10.Aug.12 Hundreds of community days to bring athletics to the nation

    It has not just been the Olympic and Paralympic athletes who have been getting ready for their big moment over recent months! This coming week sees great work by hundreds of clubs coming to fruition as they hold community days to give people the opportunity to give athletics a go.

  • Craig Heap

    01.Aug.12 Learn from gymnastics' expertise

    England Athletics is delighted to announce Craig Heap as a keynote speaker at one of our coaching conferences. Craig, a former GB Olympic gymnast and now Performance Development coach at the City of Newcastle Gymnastics Academy.

  • Roy Stratton

    27.Jul.12 Celebrating our volunteers

    As we come to the eve of the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, the nationwide torch relay culminates in the lighting of the Olympic flame.  Many of our athletics volunteers and great athletes of the past had the opportunity of a lifetime and were one of the 8000 inspirational people to take part in the torch relay.