France’s 2013 triple jump world champion Teddy Tamgho has announced he will come out of retirement and seek to compete at his home Olympics in Paris next year.

Double world athletics champion Teddy Tamgho has received a one-year retroactive ban for competing while ineligible.

Hugues Fabrice Zango has set a new indoor triple jump world record and become just the seventh man in history to clear the 18-metre barrier.

Twenty years ago this week a “skinny-looking, very ordinary guy” - his own description - hit the take-off board in Gothenburg’s Ullevi stadium at high speed. By the time his effort came to an end he had left a mark in the sand which, while it was soon smoothed away by an official brush, remains to this day in the form of a world triple jump record of 18.29 metres. Jonathan Edwards, ordinary guy, had done something extraordinary.