East African marathon runners are distinguished on our record of the most well-liked web site articles prior to now 12 months however not all the time for the proper causes. Titus Ekiru’s 10-year doping ban was the story you clicked into essentially the most on our web site in 2023 with our protection of Tigist Assefa’s phenomenal ladies’s world document in Berlin being sizzling on Ekiru’s heels.
Readers and followers of AW definitely take pleasure in studying about controversy. Doping tales appear to notably enchantment to you. The information of premature deaths, in-depth occasion previews and options on how prime athletes prepare are additionally in style on our web site.
Curiously, our previews haven’t proved fairly so in style prior to now 12 months. Nonetheless, there have been a lot of previews that fell narrowly exterior the highest 20 record under. Equally, main occasions protection doesn’t determine strongly, however we predict it’s because our stories are drowned out a bit by mass protection from the broader media in relation to occasions just like the World Athletics Championships and London Marathon. On the latter, for instance, our protection from the Mini London Marathon often will get extra hits than our stories from the ‘principal races’ on Sunday.
Nearly all of our web site guests are from the UK however we obtain a number of visitors from the USA. Just a little manner behind, Australia is the ‘bronze medallist’ in relation to guests to our web site adopted by Eire, South Africa, Canada, Kenya, India, Germany and Sweden.
Russia is banned from athletics and naturally English will not be the nation’s first language however they nonetheless place 63rd within the record of nationalities that visited the AW web site in 2023. Elsewhere, we have now seen athletics followers from as far afield as Vanuatu, Cape Verde and the Faroe Islands logging into athleticsweeky.com this 12 months.
Right here is our record of hottest tales in 2023. To learn any of the articles in full, simply click on into the headline.
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1 Kenyan marathon runner Titus Ekiru receives 10-year ban
After operating 2:02:57 to win the Milan Marathon a few years in the past, Ekiru was discovered responsible on two prices of tampering in addition to testing constructive for banned substances on two events. With information of Kenyan drug busts coming seemingly each week in 2023, this notably lengthy ban caught your consideration and ended up being our most seen article of the 12 months.
2 Tigist Assefa smashes ladies’s world marathon document in Berlin with 2:11:53
The Ethiopian shocked the operating world as she took greater than two minutes off Brigid Kosgei’s mark as Eliud Kipchoge received the lads’s race in 2:02:42 and Charlotte Purdue went No.2 on UK all-time rankings.
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3 Jail for runner who as soon as beat Mo Farah
Ricky Stevenson beat Mo Farah amongst others to win the short-course race on the Nice Edinburgh Cross Nation Worldwide in 2010 so that you have been clearly shocked to learn that the now retired runner has been given a two-and-a-half-year sentence for stealing cash from vacation enterprise.
4 Vote to your AW athletes of 2023
Our annual readers’ alternative ballot is all the time in style and this time the article that included the voting type was our fourth most clicked publish of the 12 months.
5 The lights are on however nobody’s at residence
This opinion piece highlighted the very fact there have been no main aggressive alternatives on residence soil for British athletes who had excelled on the World Championships in Budapest. This was in stark distinction to earlier years when end-of-season occasions have been an enormous function of the British athletics scene.
Jarmila Kratochvílová (Mark Shearman)
6 The world 800m document that has stood the check of time
We took a deep dive into Jarmila Kratochvilova’s world 800m document of 1:53.28. The mark has stood for 40 years however is mired in controversy. Like a lot of articles on this record, it additionally appeared in our month-to-month print journal, which meant our paid subscribers have been capable of learn it a number of weeks earlier than it went on-line.
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7 Keely Hodgkinson’s killer session
Athletes and followers take pleasure in studying about how the celebs prepare. Given this, our article concerning the British 800m champion’s “killer session” went down properly in 2023.
8 Younger athletes’ match at Dartford deserted after combat
Not everyone loved studying this text. The membership officers concerned within the fixture – a UK Youth Improvement League match in Dartford – weren’t surprisingly eager to maintain it quiet. Nonetheless lots of you have been to listen to a few brawl which started with two team-mates from Herne Hill Harriers and rapidly spiralled uncontrolled.
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9 Why Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce nonetheless has a degree to show
Being a UK-based journal, articles on British athletes are often our hottest. However after we concentrate on athletes from international locations like Kenya, Ethiopia and on this case Jamaica they will additionally obtain a whole lot of consideration.
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10 Natasha Cockram conquers the warmth and a chilly in World Champs marathon
Of all our stories from Budapest, this proved hottest. Perhaps it was as a result of most of our different protection, akin to Josh Kerr’s and Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s victories, was drowned out by the broader media, whereas this piece on Britain’s sole feminine marathoner on the championships was extra unique.
John Nuttall (Mark Shearman)
11 British distance runner and coach John Nuttall dies aged 56
The stunning information that Liz McColgan’s husband had died at a comparatively younger age led you to click on into the story in your 1000’s to seek out out extra.
12 Josh Kerr assaults British 1500m document in Zurich
Usually the anticipation and hype throughout the build-up to a contest proves extra thrilling than the primary occasion itself. This can be a good instance as Kerr’s plan to run a nationwide document on the Weltklasse assembly just a few days after claiming the world 1500m title forward of Jakob Ingebrigtsen captured your curiosity though the document try finally fell a bit flat.
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13 Dina dodges the curve balls to take 100m title
Certainly one of our stories from the UK Championships in Manchester received a whole lot of clicks as Dina Asher-Smith stormed to gold throughout a busy two days of motion.
14 Seb Coe: “You may even see Russian athletes in Paris. They simply received’t be in athletics”
The World Athletics president’s hardline strategy on Russian and Belarusian athletes continued after we reported his response to the IOC’s determination to permit a few of them to compete on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
15 Amo-Dadzie defeats Omanyala at 100m
Eugene Amo-Dadzie has been one of many British breakthrough athletes of the 12 months and our protection of his victory over the Commonwealth 100m champion in Austria caught your eye. This was additionally one in all our common in-depth outcomes round-up articles that features particulars of a lot of occasions.
16 Ciara Mageean runs fastest-ever parkrun by a girl
Tales about parkrun typically do properly on the AW web site, in all probability as a result of so many individuals can merely relate to the occasions and distance concerned as a result of they’ve in all probability participated in it themselves at some stage. So when Mageean ran 15:13 on December 23 to beat Izzi Batt-Doyle one-year-old ‘document’, it loved a lot of clicks.
17 Boston Marathon cut-off time stricter than ever
Information in September that the Boston Marathon had moved its qualification tips made it into our prime 20 record of in style articles.
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18 Why cross-country operating ought to all the time go forward regardless of the climate
This story divided opinion with one follower on social media calling it “harmful nonsense” however the overwhelming response was one in all settlement because the argument was put ahead for cross-country operating occasions to go forward “regardless of the climate”.
19 UK Athletics choice selections for Budapest are improper
Regardless of the British staff performing brilliantly on the World Championships, the staff choice itself was criticised as a lot of potential squad members have been left at residence. This in-depth piece noticed AW’s Steve Smythe – a veteran of 13 World Athletics Championships – dissecting the choices intimately.
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20 Adelle Tracey smashes long-standing Jamaican 1500m document
The center-distance runner has switched from Britain to Jamaica however our largely British viewers nonetheless take pleasure in following her progress and right here you clicked into this text in your 1000’s because it snuck into our prime 20 record.
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