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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Stockholm Diamond League schedule and start times including Mondo Duplantis
The athletics party isn't stopping yet and Stockholm is the next stop on the Diamond League circuit this week. This time, the world's best will be travelling to Sweden for the seventh meet of the 2025 calendar. With Paris 800m Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson hit by another injury setback, her hopes of making her first outdoor appearance of the season this weekend have vanished. Now, the field is wide open and anyone's for the taking. Hodgkinson's British compatriots, Jemma Reekie and Georgia Hunter Bell, will be on the start line on Sunday night and hoping to make their mark in their first 800m appearances of the season. Reekie finished fourth in the 1500m in Doha meet last month. The Scot will be looking for a repeat here after storming home to an 800m victory at the 2024 Stockholm meet. Hunter Bell makes her first appearance at the Diamond League this year, and following her dazzling 1500m bronze medal in Paris last year, the 31-year-old is looking stronger than ever to become a serious contender for the win this weekend. Dutch star Femke Bol is back in action this weekend in the 400m hurdles, looking to better the season's best she set in Rabat last month. The 25-year-old has dominated the event since her breakthrough in 2020, winning 25 individual wins and four consecutive Diamond League titles. Swedish fans will be hooked as their golden boy, Mondo Duplantis, attempts to produce another masterclass in the pole vault. After his performance in Oslo, it will be more of a question of how high his vaulting prowess can propel him, rather than where the 25-year old will place. Paris Olympic high jump champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh comes into the Stockholm event as one of only two women to have jumped over two metres this season. The other being Australia's Nicola Olyslagers, who is sure to be hot on her heels, finishing just behind the Ukrainian for the silver medal in Paris. Great Britain's Amber Anning lines up in the 400m yet again after a third place run and season's best in Oslo last night. She is up against Last night's winner, Isabella Whittaker from the USA, and Norway's Henriette Jaeger, who took skin off her elbow to thrust herself over the finish line for second place in a personal best time in front of her home crowd last night. After a spectacular new world best in the men's 300m hurdles last night, Norway's Karsten Warholm will return to his familiar format of the 400m hurdles. He will be taking on some of the same faces he left in the dust on Thursday evening, including rivals Rai Benjamin and Alison dos Santos. The Stockholm Diamond League meeting will be held on Sunday 12 June 2025 at the historic Olympic Stadium. UK coverage of the Stockholm Diamond League will be available to watch on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, with the broadcast and live stream beginning at 5pm. (All times BST) 5:14 pm - high jump women 5:17pm - pole vault men 6:04pm - 400m hurdles women 6:13pm - 200m men 6:20pm - 3000m women 6:23pm - long jump women 6:39pm - 100m hurdles women 6:48pm - 800m men 6:55pm - discus men 7:00pm - 400m women 7:09pm - 5000m men 7:31 - 800m women 7:42 - 100m women 7:52 - 400m hurdles men
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
When could Keely Hodgkinson return to track after latest injury setback?
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson will not compete at the Stockholm Diamond League on Sunday after another injury setback. The 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year has been suffering with a hamstring injury since February. The injury forced her to pull out of her own event, the Keely Klassic, where she was due to attempt to break the 800m indoor world record. The middle-distance runner suspected her recovery would take up to six weeks and was due to return to the track for the seventh Diamond League event of 2025, her first competitive outdoor appearance of the year. However, this setback only further delays her return. But what does this mean for the 23-year-old and how will this impact the rest of her season? Although no official time scale has been placed upon her comeback, there is now serious doubt over whether she will be fit enough to race in several major upcoming events. Hodgkinson was next due to race in the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon at the start of July, but she will also want to be the start line at the sold out London Diamond League meet two weeks later. The main target for the British star, though, is to race at the World Championships in Tokyo in September, where she will bid to become victorious at this event for the first time. The Stockholm meet would have seen her face fierce rivals from Paris: silver medalist Tsige Duguma from Ethiopia, who currently sits at the top of the DL standings, and bronze medalist Mary Moraa from Kenya, who currently holds the World Championship title And Hodgkinson could be lacking the same formal race experience heading into her pursuit to clinch the world title she would desperately love to attach her name to.
Spectator
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
The pretentiousness of the pop critics
Pop music criticism, said Frank Zappa, was the work of people who can't write, about people who can't talk, for people who can't read. Half a century later and he's still right. Although pop is essentially a juvenile art form – its clearest strength and most obvious weakness – that doesn't stop reviewers pumping up performers as though Johann Sebastian Bach had decided to form an all-star band with Beethoven and Brahms. The Three Bs! Sign 'em up! The current pop reviewers for the Times and the Telegraph, Will Hodgkinson and Neil McCormick, clearly think they bear witness to giants. Like Pinky and Perky, these mature teenagers can trill 'we belong together', batting balls over the net in a contest of perfumed superlatives. Should Hodgkinson open with a 'sublime', his oppo will almost certainly return serve with an 'achingly beautiful'. 'Perfectly formed'. 'Apocalyptic opus'. 'Emotional depth'. 'Kaleidoscopic riches'. It can be difficult for readers to swivel their heads swiftly enough to follow these rallies. Pity the poor umpire, longing for a change of ends – and a restorative glass of Robinson's Barley Water. In recent years, the tousle-haired Hodgkinson has delivered his share of forehand smashes. He's fond of 'art music', which less credulous listeners call 'pretentious drivel', but it never hurts to take the folk they write about at their own estimation. McCormick can certainly smack 'em back from the baseline. Selecting 25 'albums that rocked the world' – those long-players which 'shaped the soundtrack of our times' – he came up with some scorching winners. 'New template… transformative power… cynical political epic… profoundly sincere… creative synergy… towering, symphonic wonder… new vistas of self-expression'. As weary copy-takers used to ask journalists in the good old days: 'Much more of this?' Plenty. McCormick can keep it up for five sets – without a banana. Nevermind by Nirvana, he said, 'recalibrated a genre that had become fatuous and overblown'. How they love their genres – and oh, the recalibration! Dark Side of the Moon, meanwhile, Pink Floyd's multi-million copy seller, offers 'perhaps the most epic conclusion to any album in rock history'. What, pray, is that history? Sixty years, tops. Pop became rock in the summer of 1966, when Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker formed Cream, Jeff Beck left the Yardbirds, and Chas Chandler persuaded Jimi Hendrix to leave New York for London. Beck, Clapton and Hendrix changed the sound of the electric guitar – and what has followed is essentially a footnote. There is a paradox here. Although pop writers care little for longer-established forms, like opera and orchestral music – which are deemed to be snooty – they love to coat the music they like with a patina of significance, if only to convince themselves they are not wasting their time. Hence those empty words. The list of 'essentials' is bog-standard: Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, U2 McCormick's attachment to jargon is truly impressive, so it was no surprise to see 'template' appearing once more in his choice of the No. 1 album, Abbey Road. There was also a 'sublime summation' – the sort of alliterative guff Leonard Sachs gave punters as he banged his gavel on The Good Old Days. Abbey Road at No. 1, and Rubber Soul nowhere! What kind of judge is that? If a critic can't get the Beatles lined up properly, he ought to find a kitchen that needs a pot washer. Nor did McCormick find room for Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys – though there was space for the ghastly Bitches Brew by Miles Davis, which is not a pop record at all. As for Joni Mitchell, the Alpha and Omega of Californian self-absorption, she is 'lyrically… on a plane where Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are her only serious rivals'. Clearly this chronicler of popular music has never heard of Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Burke, Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim and Hal David. Paul Simon should also be there. To borrow from the late football writer Brian Glanville: 'Mitchell, me no Mitchell. Simon towers above her in sheer class.' The list of 'essentials' is bog-standard: Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, U2. There is (gulp) no Pet Sounds or Music from Big Pink – and Revolver limps in at No. 11. Even the dogs in the street know that was the best record the Fab Four made. You may not be surprised to learn, however, that Revolver established yet another 'template'. So it's game, set and match to Master McCormick. The centre court rises.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Yahoo
Deputies arrest Ohio man for drug trafficking in parking lot of Daniel Island stadium
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – An Ohio man was arrested for trafficking drugs in the parking lot of Credit One Stadium, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office announced Friday. Russell Hodgkinson, 51, was charged with possession with intent to distribute Methamphetamine, possession of a scheduled narcotic, and trafficking LSD 1000 dosage units or more. Deputies noticed a nitrous oxide tank being used at the stadium while conducting foot patrols and went to investigate further. They met with Hodgkinson, who smelled like marijuana, and did a probable cause search of his person and the wagon that was with him. During the search, they found Two bags of small, printed strips (1,070 total tabs), identified as LSD• One bag of green and white flaky material, identified as psilocybin mushrooms• One bag of white pills, later identified as Methamphetamine • A small dropper tube containing a liquid, identified as LSD He was taken to the Hill-Finklea Detention Center, where he remains in custody. Hodgkinson was granted a $130,000 surety bond for all three charges. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Daily Mirror
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Keely Hodgkinson makes generous offer to Prince William after meeting with royal
Keely Hodgkinson, who won gold in the women's 800m at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, was presented with an MBE by the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle on Tuesday Keely Hodgkinson graciously extended an offer to provide athletics guidance to Prince William and his children if they ever desired it. The Team GB athlete was bestowed with an MBE by the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle on Tuesday, a moment she deemed a "real honour." Given her recognition for her contributions to athletics, she didn't hesitate to propose sharing her expertise with the younger royals should they wish to pursue a similar path. Recounting her conversation with Prince William during the ceremony, Hodgkinson told BBC Sport: "He [Prince William] said he remembered me winning last summer, and then my coach said that his kids are into athletics so I said that if he needed any tips he knows where to go." The gesture underscores the 23-year-old's kindness and humility, as she thought of others even on a day dedicated to celebrating her own accomplishments. After joining Leigh Harriers at just nine years old, Hodgkinson clinched numerous county championships in the 800m, 1200m, 1500m, and cross-country events, all while balancing middle-distance running with swimming for the Howe Bridge Aces. However, she soon committed fully to track events, a decision that has yielded impressive results. Fast-forward to 2025, and Hodgkinson boasts an enviable collection of medals - gold at the European Championships, European Indoor Championships, and Diamond League 800m events, alongside silver medals from the 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Championships in 2022 and 2023, reports Aberdeen Live. Yet, none of these achievements compares to the ultimate prize: Olympic gold. Hodgkinson claimed the medal at the 2024 Games in Paris. Building on her silver medal in the 800m at Tokyo 2020, she delivered a showstopping performance in the French capital, crossing the finish line in 1:56.72 - a hair's breadth ahead of Ethiopia's Tsige Duguma. Post-race, Hodgkinson said: "Yeah, I was just so focused on getting to that line, and I knew I'd be strong in the last 100m. I knew they'd be coming, I knew they'd be close because they are really talented and great girls, so it's great to compete with them. "The stadium was incredible. The crowd was awesome. I felt like it was a home champs for me, so it was just great to experience it. "So many GB flags, the crowd literally was incredible. And I saw people I knew on every corner, so many friends and family that had come out here, so really special." Hodgkinson has been out of the racing scene since her triumphant Olympic victory last year, having suffered a hamstring injury in February during preparations for her Keely Klassic event in Birmingham. Yet, she's set to make a comeback at the Diamond League meet in Stockholm this June. The women's 800m race is expected to be a star-studded affair with all eight of the world's top-ranked runners lining up, including Duguma, who was narrowly defeated by Hodgkinson for the Olympic gold. Reflecting on her time away from competition, Hodgkinson said: "I feel out of practice in a way, because by the time I do race, it will be 10 months. "But it's nothing we haven't coped with before. It will be a challenge, the first race will be a nerve-wracking one because my last race I literally became Olympic champion. But I'm excited for it."
