Last week was a great week one as Kenenisa Bekele battled Father Time and his fellow competitors at the TCS London Marathon where the women’s-only WR fell
Double Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu has sealed his place at the
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics after winning the men’s singles title
at the Japan Figure Skating Championships.
Brownlee and Spirig plotting to break iron-distance triathlon world records Thursday, 28 January 2021
Back-to-back Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee is one of four athletes who will look to break the iron-distance triathlon world record next year.
Britain s London 2012 and Rio 2016 gold medallist is set to take on the iron distance, which features a 3.8-kilometre swim, 180km cycle and 42km run.
The 42km run is an athletics marathon in its own right.
Brownlee is tentatively scheduled to embark on the record attempt between March and May in 2022, along with Norway s Kristian Blummenfelt, who holds the half-iron-distance world record.
The men s world record of 7 hours 35min 39sec is currently held by Germany s Jan Frodeno, but the pair want to break the seven-hour mark under the Pho3nix SUB7 banner.
Olympic champion Murray given Australian Open wild-card entry
Back-to-back Olympic champion Andy Murray has been awarded a wild-card spot for the 2021 Australian Open.
The three-time Grand Slam champion, who is also a five-time Australian Open runner-up, is set to be part of the main draw entry for the tournament in February.
It comes two years after Murray lost to Spain s Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round in Melbourne in what at the time looked like it could be his last-ever match.
Murray ultimately decided against retirement.
Bugged by a hip problem and other injuries, he remains outside the top 100 in the world rankings, hence needing the wild-card entry.