• 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 .

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Take-off zone proposal was summed up by Carl Lewis as an ‘April Fool’s joke’ – but you only need to look to darts to find a solution

Even at 55 years’ distance, Bob Beamon’s gravity-defying leap at the 1968 Olympics takes the breath away. I watched it again after World Athletics floated plans to scrap the long jump board in favour of a large “take-off zone” to eliminate fouls, and it remains six seconds of sporting perfection. Those 19 rhythmic strides down the runway, the board hit with millimetric precision. Then Beamon’s long legs launching and fluttering high through the Mexico air, like a man pedalling furiously on an imaginary recumbent bicycle, before landing 8.90 metres away.

The American didn’t just break the world record that day. He shattered it by 55 centimetres. As Sports Illustrated put it: “Beamon, in effect, had taken off into thin air in the year 1968 and landed somewhere in the next century.” But now long jump risks being changed forever – for the worse.

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• Runner set the world record at Chicago Marathon in October
• Kenya’s minister for sports Ababu Namwamba confirms news

The world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach Gervais Hakizimana have died in a traffic accident on Sunday, Kenyan media outlets have reported.

Kenya’s minister for sports Ababu Namwamba said on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter: “Devastatingly sickening!! Kenya has lost a special gem. Lost for words.“

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• Team’s preparation for Games will be unaffected, says chair
• Front-loaded Nike deal will ease financial plight

UK Athletics is set to announce record losses of £3.7m for the financial year after failing to secure a title sponsor or television deal in the buildup to the Paris Olympics.

The latest accounts from athletics’ governing body will show that it lost nearly £800,000 in one day when it hosted last year’s Birmingham Diamond League and another half a million by staging the World Indoor tour in February. But while losses leave the organisation £3.2m in the red, UKA’s chair, Ian Beattie, denied there was any risk of bankruptcy or that GB’s best athletes would have their preparations for Paris interrupted.

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Athlete says court’s decision may jeopardise her chances of going to the Olympics next year

The British sprinter Bianca Williams has been banned from driving over a failure to disclose the identity of the driver of a car that police allege had committed traffic offences.

A court imposed the ban despite being told it could jeopardise Williams’s chances of going to the Olympics next year.

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Scot’s stunning 1500m gold in Budapest required plenty of sacrifices but he is proud of having won ‘the honest way’

It is almost 40 years since vast swathes of the British public tuned into watch Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram leave the rest of the world gasping in their slipstreams. But on Wednesday evening Josh Kerr, a 25-year-old from Edinburgh, rekindled those golden memories with a world championship 1500m victory for the ages.

Few had given Kerr, instantly recognisable with his Oakley sunglasses, much of a chance against the Olympic gold medallist, Jakob Ingebrigtsen. But Britain’s newest champion had not spent eight months living a monkish existence to settle for second.

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The American’s thrilling victory in the 100m at the world championships was the culmination of a long journey of transformation

Sha’Carri Richardson’s arms were already spread in triumph before the race was over, but her Usain Bolt impression didn’t hold. Once she had crossed the finish line, the 23-year-old went from confidence to self-doubt as she searched the stadium scoreboard for her time. And even after her 10.65sec – and her 100m world title – was confirmed , she still couldn’t believe what had happened. Neither could anyone else, frankly.

In Budapest on Monday the American shocked the world, rallying past four of the fastest sprinters in history to win gold on the biggest stage outside the Olympics. This was after she scraped into the final and had to race from the outside lane as a result. Meanwhile, her Jamaican rivals Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – respectively, the world’s top-ranked sprinter and a 10-time world champion – started their races from the middle of the track, much too far to see Richardson coming. As with Bolt, you can’t help wondering how much faster Richardson’s time could have been if she had run all the way through the tape – especially given her 0.07sec margin of victory. But what could have been hardly detracted from what is: a true redemption story.

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• Hudson-Smith breaks Schönlebe’s 1987 European record in semi
• Muir finishes sixth in final as Kipyegon picks up third world title

Most scars eventually heal, but some sting and linger more than others. That is something that Laura Muir and Matthew Hudson-Smith know all about, after a night of contrasting fortunes for two of Britain’s best athletes.

Muir, a 2021 Olympics and 2022 world championships medallist, arrived in Budapest trying to convince herself she was in the best form of her life despite a split from her longstanding coach Andy Young. But, in a stacked women’s 1500m final, she could only finish sixth.

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