Throughout 2022 athletics followers from everywhere in the world clicked into the articles on our web site. From Australia to Azerbaijan, Malaysia to Mozambique, Zambia to Zimbabwe, you considered our information tales, interviews, blogs, previews, occasions protection and coaching articles.
However which had been the most well-liked articles based on views? Right here is the highest 12…
1 Eilish McColgan – I’ll get trolled however I don’t care, as I’m right here to run
In an unique interview with AW, McColgan bit again on the critics on social media, saying: “Mo Farah weighs lower than me as a grown man however no person says something about that as a result of it’s a person and sometimes males are simply celebrated for his or her achievements. For girls, it’s about the way in which we glance or my kind is seen as being horrific or I have to get that checked and I have to get this mounted and appear like this.
“It’s at all times to do with look relatively than going ‘Congratulations. That was an incredible run’. I’m not the one girl that has to take care of that. I believe that that’s simply just about females in sport. It’s at all times deemed to be about what we appear like, relatively than what we’re truly doing.”
2 Jacob Fincham-Dukes denied lengthy soar silver
The British athlete appeared to have leapt 8.06m on the European Championships together with his opening effort – a distance which was the identical as Swede Thobias Montler and Frenchman Jules Pommery – however was awarded second spot on countback. He even went by means of his lap of honour, draped within the Union flag, solely to be informed of a French protest attributable to his foot being marginally over the road – and that his finest soar had been dominated a foul and that he had been moved right down to fifth.
Jacob-Fincham-Dukes (Getty)
3 Ato Boldon on tremendous spikes, Flo-Jo’s world file and the primary time he noticed Usain Bolt
As a part of our ‘Ask the Athlete’ sequence, you bought the chance to ask inquiries to the previous world and Commonwealth dash champion who remains to be an in depth observer of athletics as a broadcaster.
4 Melissa Courtney-Bryant units parkrun ‘world file’
Not solely did this end-of-year information story garner an enormous variety of clicks however it generated plenty of debate on social media with individuals criticising the usage of the phrase ‘world file’ within the headline and others being extra relaxed and easily applauding the athlete’s very good 15:31 run in Poole. (Cease press: the file fell on New 12 months’s Eve too!).
5 Ellis Cross takes down Mo Farah
In one of many upsets of the 12 months, Ellis Cross out-kicked Mo Farah to win the Vitality London 10,000. As a mere ‘membership runner’ he even needed to pay his personal entry payment of £37 earlier than defeating the a number of world and Olympic observe champion.
Ellis Cross (Mark Shearman)
6 Quickest and slowest parkruns in 2022
A perennial favorite, this story – which is assisted from stats from Tim Grose at Energy of 10 – confirmed Victoria Dock to be the ‘quickest’ parkrun occasion within the nation with Nice Yarmouth North Seashore being the hardest.
7 Shericka Jackson destroys stellar 200m subject in Rome
Plenty of occasion previews or studies regarding the main feminine sprinters on the planet positioned prominently in our listing of main tales. However the No.1 was the protection of Shericka Jackson clocking 21.91 for 200m in Rome to beat Elaine Thompson-Herah, Dina Asher-Smith and Shaunae Miller-Uibo.
Shericka Jackson wins in Rome (Getty)
8 The artwork of middle-distance working
Each athlete needs to know enhance, so our coaching articles are sometimes well-liked. This one featured Andy Younger, the coach of Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie amongst others, passing on his recommendation on run 800m to 3000m.
9 Andrew Osagie on the best 800m in historical past
Ten years after the London Olympics, the British middle-distance man seemed again on his proud second of working a 1:43.77 PB in an Olympic last that noticed a 1:40.91 world file from David Rudisha. “I used to be on the crest of a very optimistic wave,” Osagie remembered. “I used to be completely happy, content material and assured.”
Andrew Osagie and David Rudisha (Getty)
10 Lashmanova stripped of Olympic and world titles
Doping tales typically rank excessive on the listing of hottest tales and this one centered on Elena Lashmanova, the Russian race walker who received the ladies’s 20km stroll on the London 2012 Olympics and the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, who was banned for 2 years and had these international titles from 2012 and 2013 taken away.
11 Ben Gregory in coma after street accident
The information that the three-time Commonwealth Video games decathlon competitor had been concerned in a life-threatening street accident despatched shockwaves by means of the game. We ran this unique story in August however as 2022 attracts to an in depth we’re completely happy to say there was a optimistic replace this month.
Ben Gregory (Mark Shearman)
12 World Champs girls’s previews
Our complete look forward to the motion in Eugene, with main contenders in every occasion plus our medal predictions, proved well-liked. Usually in 2022 our previews for ladies’s occasions gained extra clicks than these for males’s disciplines too.
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