The news shocked the sporting community in South Africa when the "Golden boy of sport" and former world high jump champion, Jacques Freitag, was found dead in a cemetery in West Pretoria after being missing for 15 days.

Jacques Freitag, once a prominent figure in athletics, was found with multiple gunshot wounds near the

At the Stade de France in Paris, during the IAAF (now World Athletics) World Championships, Freitag cleared

Reigning South African 400m champion Lythe Pillay booked a spot at the Paris Olympic Games last April after dethroning 2023 winner Wayde van Niekerk —the South African that has inspired Pillay to take on the international stage. 

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Transgender and nonbinary runner Nikki Hiltz qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, clocking in a time of 3:55:33 in the women’s 1500m race at the US Olympic Trials Sunday: breaking Elle St. Pierre’s trials record of 3:58.03, set in 2021. Hiltz is not the first transgender non-binary person to compete at an Olympics  —Canadian football player Quinn, who competed at Tokyo 2020, was the first openly transgender and nonbinary athlete to participate and win a medal at the Games. 

World Athletics does not permit transgender women who went through male puberty to compete in women's

The same prize money will be awarded for medals won by athletes from both committees, thanks to a €7.5 million grant approved by the Spanish government. Paralympic athletes will receive 54 per cent more than at Tokyo 2020.

GETTY IMAGESAccompanying athletes (such as athletics and triathlon guides, tandem pilots, etc.) will

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe travelled to Ukraine this weekend to meet with the head of the

Zelensky met Coe in Kiev over the weekend, coinciding with the national athletics championships in Lviv

World Athletics insisted that it would continue its "unwavering support" for the Ukrainian people and

President Coe’s meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of UkraineWorld Athletics President Seb Coe

 The World Athletics President, together with the International Athletics Foundation (IAF) and members

Series events and World Athletics Championships.

After impressing at the recent U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, 16-year-old Quincy Wilson will have the chance to do it again in Paris this summer after being selected for the relay team of the world's leading sporting power.

in the 4x400 relay.Wilson and his coach, Joe Lee, confirmed to US media outlet ESPN that the young athletics

I have never been so happy in athletics in my life.

Only time will tell, but his presence has excited all lovers of American athletics, and he is set to

record-holder confirmed her spot in Paris by clinching victory in the women’s 200 metres at the UK Athletics

More than 30 venues of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are very similar. That’s because most were constructed well before Paris became a candidate to host the upcoming Games, which get underway from 26 July until 11 August.

From the iconic 80,000-seat Stade de France in Saint Denis, which will host athletics, Para athletics

The last time she raced the 400metres hurdles at Hayward Field in the 2022 championships, the New Jersey native set the world record at 50.68 seconds. On Sunday, she smashed her own mark by clocking three hundredths of a second less in order to book her spot at the Paris 2024 Games.

100metre race on Friday, the Jamaican sprinter won the 200m final on Sunday at the Caribbean country’s athletics

There was high drama at the the UK Athletics Championships and Olympic Trials in a very rainy Manchester

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The star pole vaulter who smashed the 21-year-old record by the great Sergey Bubka will miss out on the 2024 Olympics on his home turf after failing to achieve the qualifying height in his final chance at the French championships on Sunday.

A leg injury forced the champion to withdraw from the European Championships in Rome as a precaution. She has already qualified for the Olympics, so she doesn't have the same pressure as some of her teammates. This will be the British athlete's fourth opportunity to win an Olympic medal, having withdrawn from Tokyo 2020 due to injury.

World heptathlon championJohnson-Thompson has called for calm among fans and the athletics world concerned

following concerns about her fitness ahead of the Paris Olympics.A few weeks ago, the 31-year-old British athletics

Johnson-Thompson returned to action at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester on Saturday.

Noah Lyles won the final of the 200-metre dash Saturday, which will allow him to fight for the speed double at the Paris Games, as Sha'Carri Richardson's dreams of an Olympic sprint double ended in disappointment at the US trials. The world champion of the 100m had looked poised to claim at least a top-three finish in the women's 200m after the Texan had shone in the semifinals on Friday with a time of 21.92. 

The Brazilian, who has been suspended for doping but is appealing the decision, had been granted permission by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to compete in his home country this weekend but failed to reach the required 5.82m for Paris 2024, registering a jump of 5.65m.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the anti-doping body that suspended pole vaulter Thiago Braz, announced