ALEX Walmsley is glad he had to make the phone call saying he could not take a job as a quantity surveyor – he would have been nowhere near the England squad. And had St Helens decided to wait just one more week before signing him, he would have been no more than a fan […]
THIS is the dramatic moment former Manchester United star Quinton Fortune was carried off on a stretcher after being helped over the London Marathon finish line. The former Atletico Madrid and Bolton midfielder appeared barely conscious as four medics rushed to his aid after completing the 26.2mile race. He had earlier collapsed just 600m away […]
DAVID WEIR notched up a record SEVEN London Marathon wins in the wheelchair event – and then revealed he had battled with depression since his Rio nightmare. The six-time Paralympic gold medallist had been bidding for five years to beat Tanni Grey-Thompson’s haul of six and finally achieved it on his 18th outing over the […]
RUGBY star Petrus du Plessis posts innocent good luck message to wife running the London Marathon – while being photobombed by their POOING pooch. The Saracens star was just proud of his other half Lisa who was off to take part in the famous race through the streets of the capital today. Off to the […]
MARY KEITANY only just missed the chance to break Paula Radcliffe’s world record as she trounced the field at the London Marathon. The Kenyan set a time of 2 hours 17min 01sec as she missed out on the Briton’s sensational all-time best by just 96sec. Keitany, 35, in fact broke Radcliffe’s ‘womens only’ world record […]