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Reaction and analysis after Britain's Josh Kerr breaks the men's mile world record and Keely Hodgkinson wins the women's 800m at the London Athletics Meet.

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Doctors failed to spot my hidden condition for so long I was left permanently disabled
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Money

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Anthony Gordon's path from city schoolboy to England star
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100 marathons in 100 days: 'People didn't believe I would actually do it'
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The man who built an international cricket ground in his garden
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Coach recalls 'spectacular' golfer Tommy Fleetwood's talent as a child
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