Sean Ingle
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‘We crave being in nature and having breaks from the noise in our heads … It’s like a drug that’s a very safe and healthy one.’
What ultrarunners can teach us about life. By @seaningle.bsky.social
What ultrarunners can teach us about life. By @seaningle.bsky.social
‘A drug that’s very safe and healthy‘: what ultrarunners can teach us about life | Sean Ingle
Caitriona Jennings ran 100 miles in just over 12 hours and wants other women to follow her example – ‘it’s not actually that difficult’
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November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
‘We crave being in nature and having breaks from the noise in our heads … It’s like a drug that’s a very safe and healthy one.’
What ultrarunners can teach us about life. By @seaningle.bsky.social
What ultrarunners can teach us about life. By @seaningle.bsky.social
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Why five-million dollar gamble on NRL starlet Joseph Suaalii was no roll of the dice by Australian rugby.
Piece with Wallaby legend George Gregan ahead of England-Australia. @planetrugby.bsky.social
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Piece with Wallaby legend George Gregan ahead of England-Australia. @planetrugby.bsky.social
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Why five-million dollar gamble on NRL starlet was no roll of the dice by Australian rugby, says Wallaby legend George Gregan
🗣️ "People forget that now because he has proved himself to be one of Australian rugby's best investments." #ENGvAUS
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October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Why five-million dollar gamble on NRL starlet Joseph Suaalii was no roll of the dice by Australian rugby.
Piece with Wallaby legend George Gregan ahead of England-Australia. @planetrugby.bsky.social
www.planetrugby.com/news/why-fiv...
Piece with Wallaby legend George Gregan ahead of England-Australia. @planetrugby.bsky.social
www.planetrugby.com/news/why-fiv...
Had a fascinating couple of days at Nike's global HQ in Oregon, talking to their CEO Elliot Hill and other senior figures about their struggles, strategy, and the new innovations - including a motorised running shoe - they hope will help it rise again
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
Just redo it: inside Nike’s plans to put the swoosh back into its sales
The world’s largest sportswear company was wobbling amid complaints that it had become too safe. Armed with a provocative new slogan, the company reveals the innovations and strategy it hopes will tur...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Had a fascinating couple of days at Nike's global HQ in Oregon, talking to their CEO Elliot Hill and other senior figures about their struggles, strategy, and the new innovations - including a motorised running shoe - they hope will help it rise again
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
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Cross-country running, cyclocross and even judo for the Winter Olympics? Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
Cross-country and cyclocross could be added to Winter Olympics by 2030
Cross-country and cyclocross have a good chance of being added to the 2030 Winter Olympics in France, Sebastian Coe has predicted
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October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Cross-country running, cyclocross and even judo for the Winter Olympics? Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
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Andy Young, the coach who guided Laura Muir to Olympic and world championship medals, has been banned for three years for serious misconduct, which included driving at speed with an athlete in his car following a disagreement before abandoning them at the roadside.
Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
Laura Muir’s former athletics coach banned for three years for serious misconduct
Andy Young, the athletics coach who guided Laura Muir to world glory, has been banned for three years by an independent appeal panel
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September 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Andy Young, the coach who guided Laura Muir to Olympic and world championship medals, has been banned for three years for serious misconduct, which included driving at speed with an athlete in his car following a disagreement before abandoning them at the roadside.
Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
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‘After 70 years, 14 prime ministers, and nearly 4,000 articles, Leonard Barden is still going strong. In all that time he has never missed a week – rain or shine, in sickness and in health. And now, officially, he is a record-breaker.’
By @seaningle.bsky.social
By @seaningle.bsky.social
Record-breaker: Leonard Barden’s chess column celebrates 70 years and a place in history
Now 96, this week marks a milestone for our columnist, whose astonishing career has set a Guinness World Record
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September 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
‘After 70 years, 14 prime ministers, and nearly 4,000 articles, Leonard Barden is still going strong. In all that time he has never missed a week – rain or shine, in sickness and in health. And now, officially, he is a record-breaker.’
By @seaningle.bsky.social
By @seaningle.bsky.social
My Guardian column today. Rage against the machines: ignore the fury at Wimbledon, AI in sport works.
One howler this year. But the human eye makes far more errors. In 2024, when a player thought the ball was out and challenged they were wrong 75% of the time
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
One howler this year. But the human eye makes far more errors. In 2024, when a player thought the ball was out and challenged they were wrong 75% of the time
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Rage against the machines: ignore the fury at Wimbledon, AI in sport works | Sean Ingle
In the fevered environments within sporting arenas, anything that can help an official has to be a good thing
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July 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
My Guardian column today. Rage against the machines: ignore the fury at Wimbledon, AI in sport works.
One howler this year. But the human eye makes far more errors. In 2024, when a player thought the ball was out and challenged they were wrong 75% of the time
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
One howler this year. But the human eye makes far more errors. In 2024, when a player thought the ball was out and challenged they were wrong 75% of the time
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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My Guardian column today: The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa’s United Passions
It's the 10-year anniversary of its disastrous launch in the US this week. Sepp was interesting on that and other things ...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
It's the 10-year anniversary of its disastrous launch in the US this week. Sepp was interesting on that and other things ...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa’s United Passions | Sean Ingle
Organisation’s former president has no regrets over what was lowest grossing film in US history when released a decade ago
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June 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My Guardian column today: The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa’s United Passions
It's the 10-year anniversary of its disastrous launch in the US this week. Sepp was interesting on that and other things ...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
It's the 10-year anniversary of its disastrous launch in the US this week. Sepp was interesting on that and other things ...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
My Guardian column today: The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa’s United Passions
It's the 10-year anniversary of its disastrous launch in the US this week. Sepp was interesting on that and other things ...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
It's the 10-year anniversary of its disastrous launch in the US this week. Sepp was interesting on that and other things ...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa’s United Passions | Sean Ingle
Organisation’s former president has no regrets over what was lowest grossing film in US history when released a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My Guardian column today: The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa’s United Passions
It's the 10-year anniversary of its disastrous launch in the US this week. Sepp was interesting on that and other things ...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
It's the 10-year anniversary of its disastrous launch in the US this week. Sepp was interesting on that and other things ...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
My Guardian column today is on the third great running boom, which has sprung up since 2023. Over 1.1m people entered London marathon ballot, double 2 years ago, and big rise in 18-29s. Spoke to smart people about what's driving it. Only wish I had more words!
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
From TikTok to the track: Gen Z are driving running’s third great boom
At the heart of running’s new explosion in popularity is the digitally native generation making the sport fashionable, communal and more diverse than ever
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May 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
My Guardian column today is on the third great running boom, which has sprung up since 2023. Over 1.1m people entered London marathon ballot, double 2 years ago, and big rise in 18-29s. Spoke to smart people about what's driving it. Only wish I had more words!
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
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Last chance today to try out 12 editions of the Guardian Weekly magazine for just 12 of your £/$/€
(I would say this as I’m the editor, but hard to go too far wrong with that offer …)
(I would say this as I’m the editor, but hard to go too far wrong with that offer …)
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Your easily digestible, beautifully designed guide to the world this week.
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Your easily digestible, beautifully designed guide to the world this week.
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February 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Last chance today to try out 12 editions of the Guardian Weekly magazine for just 12 of your £/$/€
(I would say this as I’m the editor, but hard to go too far wrong with that offer …)
(I would say this as I’m the editor, but hard to go too far wrong with that offer …)
Belated plug for my Guardian column today: Au revoir, Eurosport: home of the magnificent, pioneering and strange.
(With a nod to @martinkelner.bsky.social and another legendary Guardian sport old timer, Bob Pryce, in there too)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
(With a nod to @martinkelner.bsky.social and another legendary Guardian sport old timer, Bob Pryce, in there too)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
Au revoir, Eurosport: home of the magnificent, pioneering and strange | Sean Ingle
After 36 glorious years we will miss this defiantly different programming once it has been swallowed up by TNT Sports
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February 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Belated plug for my Guardian column today: Au revoir, Eurosport: home of the magnificent, pioneering and strange.
(With a nod to @martinkelner.bsky.social and another legendary Guardian sport old timer, Bob Pryce, in there too)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
(With a nod to @martinkelner.bsky.social and another legendary Guardian sport old timer, Bob Pryce, in there too)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
Wrote this in-depth read for today’s Guardian. Inside the race for the biggest job in sport – can Sebastian Coe win the IOC presidency? Spoke to a lot of insiders about how they see it going
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Inside the race for the biggest job in sport – can Sebastian Coe win the IOC presidency? | Sean Ingle
Sebastian Coe is a serial winner but faces stiff competition from all sides, as well as opposition from the current president
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Wrote this in-depth read for today’s Guardian. Inside the race for the biggest job in sport – can Sebastian Coe win the IOC presidency? Spoke to a lot of insiders about how they see it going
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Spoke to several very smart people (including @LewisWiltshire, @Scienceofsport, Alan Pascoe and a few others off the record) for today's Guardian column:
A vision of sport in 2050: robot leagues, chips in brains and players in their 50s
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
A vision of sport in 2050: robot leagues, chips in brains and players in their 50s
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
A vision of sport in 2050: robot leagues, chips in brains and players in their 50s | Sean Ingle
Many experts’ predictions for the next 25 years may seem outlandish but so did much of what has happened since 1999
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January 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Spoke to several very smart people (including @LewisWiltshire, @Scienceofsport, Alan Pascoe and a few others off the record) for today's Guardian column:
A vision of sport in 2050: robot leagues, chips in brains and players in their 50s
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
A vision of sport in 2050: robot leagues, chips in brains and players in their 50s
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Enjoyed writing this in the Guardian, looking at how sports predictions for the future made in 2000 ... and how right/wrong they were. Some great forecasts, and some shockers!
A quarter of a century on: what we got right and wrong about sport’s future
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
A quarter of a century on: what we got right and wrong about sport’s future
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A quarter of a century on: what we got right and wrong about sport’s future
From VAR to the rise of women’s sport, the media’s finest were hit and miss in predicting how things would develop
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Enjoyed writing this in the Guardian, looking at how sports predictions for the future made in 2000 ... and how right/wrong they were. Some great forecasts, and some shockers!
A quarter of a century on: what we got right and wrong about sport’s future
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
A quarter of a century on: what we got right and wrong about sport’s future
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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“Enormous & irreparable damage"
RFU financial loss & bonus backlash intensifies as 3 ex chairmen call for mass resignations
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RFU financial loss & bonus backlash intensifies as 3 ex chairmen call for mass resignations
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RFU bonus backlash: Three former chairmen call for resignations
Three former Rugby Football Union chairmen call for the resignations of the governing body's senior leadership.
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December 6, 2024 at 10:57 PM
“Enormous & irreparable damage"
RFU financial loss & bonus backlash intensifies as 3 ex chairmen call for mass resignations
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
RFU financial loss & bonus backlash intensifies as 3 ex chairmen call for mass resignations
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
Really enjoyed chatting to Mondo Duplantis a few months ago about what it feels like to break a world record ("You're freaking out inside...it feels fake!"), playing a bunch of sports as a kid and more. Drew on our interview in writing why he's my athlete of 2024
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/d...
‘You’re freaking out inside’: why Mondo Duplantis is my athlete of the year | Sean Ingle
An astonishing year full of gold medals and world records has left the pole vaulter believing new frontiers are still possible
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December 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Really enjoyed chatting to Mondo Duplantis a few months ago about what it feels like to break a world record ("You're freaking out inside...it feels fake!"), playing a bunch of sports as a kid and more. Drew on our interview in writing why he's my athlete of 2024
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/d...
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Extraordinary. Alisher Usmanov, the sanctioned Russian billionaire, elected to the presidency of the International Fencing Federation. He won't be able to visit his federation's HQ, as he's banned from setting foot in Switzerland. The background to this scandal 👇
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
Money talks as oligarch Alisher Usmanov moves to regain control of fencing | Philippe Auclair
Ethics aside, the Russian’s possible return should be absurd given he cannot set foot in the country where the International Fencing Federation is based
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November 30, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Extraordinary. Alisher Usmanov, the sanctioned Russian billionaire, elected to the presidency of the International Fencing Federation. He won't be able to visit his federation's HQ, as he's banned from setting foot in Switzerland. The background to this scandal 👇
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
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The London 2012 race regarded as one of the dirtiest in history has expunged a fifth name from the record books after Tatyana Tomashova was stripped of her Olympic 1500m silver medal.
Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
Fifth athlete disqualified from one of dirtiest races in Olympic history
Tatyana Tomashova has lost her London 2012 1500m silver medal after she became the fifth finalist to be disqualified for retrospective doping offences
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November 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM
The London 2012 race regarded as one of the dirtiest in history has expunged a fifth name from the record books after Tatyana Tomashova was stripped of her Olympic 1500m silver medal.
Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
Story: @seaningle.bsky.social
Sorting out a few things over the weekend and found I still had this. Not as loved as the original, but had a quirky training element were you earned cans of Lucozade for working out.
(Incidentally, what a list of games Ocean put out in 1988)
(Incidentally, what a list of games Ocean put out in 1988)
November 18, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Sorting out a few things over the weekend and found I still had this. Not as loved as the original, but had a quirky training element were you earned cans of Lucozade for working out.
(Incidentally, what a list of games Ocean put out in 1988)
(Incidentally, what a list of games Ocean put out in 1988)