AW - Athletics Weekly Magazine

AW has been the bible of the sport since the 1940s and is still the No.1 choice for the true running and athletics fan, designed to keep you informed about all the best news, comment, event reports and results from Britain and around the world. In the summer AW offers the very best in-depth coverage of the track and field season focusing not only on the major championships, such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Commonwealth Games and World Championships, but also the best in schools and grassroots club athletics. The spring and autumn seasons concentrate on road racing, including the big events such as the Great North Run and Virgin Money London Marathon, while the long winter campaign looks toward the cross country season and the exciting indoor scene. Alongside our unrivalled coverage of all the top events, AW also offers a sharp and detailed news service focusing on elite and up-and-coming athletes and the issues which rage within the sport. We provide all the important fixtures as well as the most comprehensive service of results from around Britain and the rest of the world. AW provides detailed features focusing on the top names in the sport as well as its highly regarded coaching, performance and nutritional advice, product reviews and plenty of debate and opinions via our popular letters column and web forum. Make sure you get AW to keep up-to-date with the sport’s latest.

LONDON FALLING? • With UKA's lease at the Olympic Stadium potentially about to end, there are calls for the resurrection of an old favourite in the British capital

FEELING RIGHT AT HOME • Verity Ockenden takes us behind the scenes of her first Diamond League competition experience - and a first taste of the newly revamped Alexander Stadium in Birmingham

ASK THE ATHLETE WITH SPECIAL GUEST PAULA RADCLIFFE • You ask the questions, the athletics star provides the answers. This month we hear from the former women's marathon world record-holder who is witnessing the landscape of distance running changing markedly before her eyes

KIRSTY WADE MY GREATEST RACE • Women's AAA Under-15 Championships 800m, Crystal Palace – August 21, 1976 There would be three Commonwealth golds and a British 800m record to come but, for a girl from the Welsh countryside, facing Britain's best in London proved she could live in the fast line

The Tipping Point? • The future of women's sport seems to be heading towards a critical juncture where the stakes are incredibly high. Over the next 24 pages we look at some of the biggest issues facing females in athletics today – from the controversial debate around transgender inclusion, to learning to live with the online haters, trying to progress as a coach and the African athletes who are no longer willing to live in fear

Women are having to face more barriers than ever before • New AW columnist, Olympic medallist and broadcaster Katharine Merry on the challenges facing female athletes

The Gathering Storm • The transgender debate has been creating headlines across the world and has some fearing for the very future of women's sport as we know it. Euan Crumley gets the athletes' view of the current situation

Inclusion Through Fairness • Cathy Devine looks at the criteria which she believes any future transgender regulations should be based on

“If you want change to happen, you have to be the change” • Former sprinter Laura Turner-Alleyne talks to Katy Barden about trying to change attitudes when it comes to female coaches

HOW TO UNLOCK SPEED • Olympic medal-winning sprinter and SPIRE Academy coach Kerron Stewart shares the fundamentals which hold the key to running fast and avoiding injury

THE APPLIANCE OF SPORTS SCIENCE • In the first of a new series, coach and former international athlete John Shepherd looks at how you can use the array of information out there to help your...