England Athletics

Women's sport, athletics

England Athletics defends itself over 5,000m sexism claims

England Athletics has been forced to deny it is planning for men to be able to run 5,000m races but not women.

Current government guidelines only allow groups to train or compete in close contact under two metres for a period of less than 15 minutes. Athletes had raised concerns about this affecting the 5,000m, where elite men can run the event within that time but the current...