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Mo Farah returns to road race action at Lisbon Half Marathon

Double Olympic, world and European champion races outdoors for the first time this year in Portugal on Sunday
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Vitality Reading Half Marathon kicks off Run Britain Grand Prix series

Top fields set to include the likes of Susan Partridge, Alyson Dixon, Lily Partridge and Paul Martelletti
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ASICS Greater Manchester Marathon: One month to go

With a month until race day, four AW readers share their pre-marathon preparations through their roles as event ambassadors
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Amantle Montsho handed two-year doping ban

Botswana's 2011 world 400m champion tested positive for methylhexaneamine at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
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Street athletics among ways to galvanise the sport, says Seb Coe

British middle-distance great discusses the need for increased creativity when it comes to delivering athletics as he continues his IAAF presidential campaign
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Jo Pavey: "I'll continue to be a runner forever"

Holding off any retirement plans, the European champion has her eye on a fifth Olympic Games in Rio in 2016
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Race organiser responds to Spen 20 saga

Organiser speaks out after participant Netty Edwards shares story on social media, saying she was asked to drop out of West Yorkshire event for being "too slow"
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Great Newham London Run launches at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Organisers unveil vision for 10km run to become the UK's biggest mass participation running event, with aim of building to 60,000 participants within five years
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Success rings again for Georgia Bell

The former junior prodigy is back on song and AW heard more about her change in coaching set-up and future aims
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Weekly round-up

A round-up of some of the top results from the past week
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Yusuke Suzuki breaks 20km race walk world record

Japanese racewalker clocks 1:16:36 to better Yohann Diniz's week-old mark
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Thomas Ayeko regains Antrim International Cross Country title

Uganda's Ayeko wins senior men's event while Steph Twell finishes behind Ethiopia's Birtukan Fente Alemu in senior women's race at Greenmount
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