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• Sprinter’s failed test cost Britain Olympic silver
• Ujah in squad for World Athletics Relays next month

CJ Ujah, whose failed drugs test cost Team GB an Olympic silver medal in Tokyo , has been recalled to Britain’s 4x100m squad for the World Athletics Relays in the Bahamas next month.

It means that the 30-year-old, whose positive test after the Olympic final was found to have been caused by a contaminated amino acid bought off Amazon for £10 during lockdown, could yet have a shot at redemption in the Paris Games this summer.

In an exclusive interview, the first woman to complete the Barkley Marathons explains how she beat the 100-mile course

“I was so close to passing out,” says Jasmin Paris, as she relives the moment she became the first woman to complete the race widely seen as the most devilish, daunting, and toughest of them all. “I felt I was going to reach the finishing gate, or collapse right in front of it. There was a tunnel of roars on either side. But I couldn’t focus. It was all a bit blurry.”

Since 1989, more than 1,000 ultramarathoners have attempted the Barkley Marathons in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee. But only 20 have ever finished the 100-mile course, which includes about 16,500 metres of elevation – the equivalent of climbing Everest twice – within the 60-hour time limit.

Accident-prone British hope for Olympic pole vault gold has learned to embrace the mishaps and believe in her talent

Until the moment Molly Caudery charges down the runway at the Paris Olympics, before bending, twisting and flipping her body over a bar above the height of a doubledecker bus, she will be wrapping herself in cotton wool. With good reason, as it turns out. For while the 24-year-old has a favourite’s chance of pole vault gold this summer – and the X factor to gatecrash the mainstream – she also has an innate klutziness that could scupper everything.

“It’s just little things that happen in my daily life, like chopping my finger off,” she says, referring to a freak weightlifting accident in 2021 that required three surgeries to repair after 90% of a finger came off. “There’s a natural chaos that my coach has had to learn to deal with, because it’s just a part of me.”

• Ohuruogu pictured at track with boyfriend Antonio Infantino
• Italian sprinter is banned but British 400m runner exonerated

British sprinter Victoria Ohuruogu has described her anguish at missing out on the chance to win a world relay medal last year after a 16-month anti-doping investigation cleared her of any wrongdoing.

UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) launched their case in December 2022 after Ohuruogu was photographed at a London track alongside her Italian sprinter boyfriend, Antonio Infantino, who is currently serving a three-year drugs suspension. Athletes are not allowed to work “in a professional capacity” with anyone banned from the sport.

• Birmingham’s financial woes make it a ‘risky’ venue says UKA
• Further doubt cast over city’s Commonwealth Games legacy

The British Olympic trials are set to be staged in Manchester rather than Birmingham this summer, raising further questions about the legacy of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

UK Athletics is expected to confirm its decision by the end of the month, and insiders expect it to choose the 6,500-capacity Manchester Regional Arena next to the Etihad Stadium over Birmingham’s 18,000-seater Alexander Stadium for financial reasons. Eyebrows will be raised given the Alexander Stadium underwent a £72m renovation only two years ago for the Commonwealth Games and is billed as “the national home of athletics”, yet has not staged a major track and field event since August 2022.

• World 60m record holder too quick out of blocks for rival
• Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers takes shock high jump win

Sprinting’s anti-hero has his mojo back. On a boisterous night in Glasgow’s East End, Christian Coleman powered to the world indoor 60m title with a display of staggering acceleration and controlled aggression.

The showdown with his great American rival Noah Lyles came down to a simple equation. Would Coleman, the world 60m record holder, put the race to bed early with his firecracker start? Or could Lyles, the reigning 100m and 200m world champion, remain within striking distance and get him at the death?

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• Panel finds former coach brought UK Athletics into disrepute
• Minichiello given life ban in 2022 over ‘gross breaches of trust’

Toni Minichiello, who coached Jessica Ennis-Hill to Olympic heptathlon glory , has been declared ineligible to receive public funding following the issuing of a life ban from athletics in August 2022.

An investigation found Minichiello engaged in “sexually physical behaviour” with athletes and an independent case management group issued a life ban from track and field .