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The Percocet dulled his foot pain and also his anxiety. Rideout was used to alcohol and cocaine, but this was different. He felt happy, confident and optimistic. He returned to the podiatrist for more pills. Then more. Soon he was altering the prescriptions manually, changing a seven into a two and adding a zero, before targeting smaller pharmacies that wouldn't run verification checks.

We are heartbroken to hear that former England youth player Amy Carr has passed away aged 35. Amy, who was diagnosed with a second brain tumour in 2024, devoted her time to raising money for vital brain tumour research that could help others. She remains an inspiration to all.

World Athletics, the international governing body for athletics, requires all athletes to undergo an SRY test before competing in the female category for all major championships and Diamond League events. The rule is in place to exclude trans women and intersex people from competition. The SRY gene tests are used to detect the presence of the Y chromosome via a cheek swab or blood sample and cost £185.

Yeah, training's gone really well. I'm very happy with where I am. As you get into an indoor season and you start racing and running faster and the reps get shorter and the recovery gets longer, I think you just naturally come into even more shape, which is obviously really exciting.

Derval O'Rourke recently saw the trailer for the new Rory McIlroy documentary about his Masters victory and there's a line in it about last year being his 17th attempt to win the green jacket.

ICYMI: The 2026 Winter Olympics are currently underway in Milano Cortina. From the "Quad God" to all the athletes winning gold, there has been a ton of buzz around this year's games. And while we watch history happen, let's take a walk down memory lane and see how fan-favorite Olympians have transformed over the years: 1. To start, Michael Phelps made his first Olympic appearance at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, when he was just 15 years old:

Although the 4 a.m. start allowed athletes to avoid the worst of the heat and pollution levels, the air quality index was 178 at the start time, a level that is considered unhealthy, and the temperature hovered near 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit). The combination made for challenging conditions from the start.

The dream was to change my background, which I can say wasn't that good. I just trusted that I was doing this for my future to be better, and not to give up. I just decided that with the talent I have: You can do better, and your life can be better.

"Coming out was a tough time for me," he admitted, adding: "The first ever person I told was actually a sports psychologist because I wasn't really performing very well." He continued: "I wasn't really enjoying my curling. But I really think that it helped me to feel comfortable within the team environment and now, 12 years later, I'm going to my second Olympics feeling pretty good about myself."

I was a senior in high school, and I just said I wanted to run in it. Long story short, I dropped out in the hills in Newton. He didn't complete the race, and was taken by ambulance to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, he said. Still, he vowed to give it another shot.

"I've been pretty absent on here the last few months, so I thought I'd share a little life update," she said. "I finished my 12th round of chemo just before Christmas, which meant I had a lovely chemo-free Christmas with my family. The past few months have been a mixed bag of cuddling Sam, our wee springer spaniel, on the sofa, and spending time with my nearest and dearest when my energy returned. Without them, I would be lost."

During the first weeks of last year's clay-court season, Francesca Jones found herself fighting through a breathless three-set tussle in Bogota that was rapidly falling out of her control. Trailing 5-3 in the final set of her second-round match, an exhausted Jones began her service motion. As she tried to leap into the air and strike the ball, however, she staggered forwards and collapsed to the ground. Two points from defeat, she was steered off the court in a wheelchair.

You can't miss it, the giant Crossbar flanked by two stylised crosses in black on the whitewashed outside walls glares down the street, a stone's throw from Brighton's Churchill Square. Outside is the narrow shelf that the co-owner Lucy Tallant, the DIY enthusiast of the pair, attached to the wall for those wanting to hang around outside. As she worked on that shelf, two girls walked past and one proclaimed: Yeah, they're opening a lesbian club.

My immediate feeling was just one of shame really. I was very emotional, she said, just born from the perspective that I really felt like I'd let down the girls that I was running for and I'd really kind of got this narrative in my head and psyched myself up that what I was doing was just so insignificant in comparison to what they're enduring.

Merton Council will spend 220,000 to launch the event, but estimates it will generate 600,000 profit, rising to 1.4m by the third year and will support up to 49 local jobs, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. Leader of Merton Council Ross Garrod hopes the race will become "south London's biggest running event" and attract runners from across London, Surrey and beyond.

The Saucony Run Shoreditch Half will debut on Sunday September 20, 2026 - and it's from the same people who're behind the Hackney Half. The event began last year as a 10k, with runners starting in Shoreditch Park, winding through the boroughs of Hackney and Islington, then crossing the finish line back at the park. We don't know exactly what the half marathon route will look like yet, but we do know that it'll also start and end at Shoreditch Park.