The chairman of the Philippines House of Representatives Committee on Youth and Sports Development, Eric Martinez, has called the Tokyo 2020 Olympics the best opportunity to win the country's first gold medal and has outlined weightlifting and boxing as two of the nation's strongest sports.

among the favourites for the gold.Obiena would have to upset the world record holder, Sweden's Mondo Duplantis

World record performances on the track, in my experience, have involved jubilant figures crossing a line, frozen digital figures on the infield clock and a swift confluence of those bearing flowers, cameras and microphones.

Some – young Mondo Duplantis included – made ironic play of this circumstance.Another anomaly.

Tomorrow's Golden Spike meeting in the Czech city of Ostrava features a fresh world record holder in Sifan Hassan, but the keener focus will be on two athletes teetering on the brink of setting new global marks – Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser.

the 6.02m heights he reached in Lausanne last week as the American pushed world record holder Armand Duplantis

Johannes Vetter produced a stunning effort at World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Chorzow tonight as he threw the javelin out to 97.76 metres, the second farthest mark ever behind the 1996 world record of 98.48m by the Czech Republic’s Jan Zelezny.

himself to a 6.02m clearance last Wednesday in Lausanne, where Sweden’s world record holder Armand Duplantis

Olympic shot put champion Ryan Crouser, whose performances have reached new levels this season, will be eagerly watched in Chorzow in Poland tomorrow night as he takes part in the latest stop on the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series.

second-best height ever, in a contest eventually won by Sweden’s 20-year-old world record holder Armand Duplantis

Sir Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands set respective men’s and women’s world one-hour records at the Wanda Diamond League exhibition meeting here tonight.

Brussels the competition took on familiar shape as Sweden’s 20-year-old world record holder Armand Duplantis

Three world records are in the sights of Diamond League athletes who have gathered here to compete in an empty King Baudouin Stadium tomorrow evening, with the marks for the men's and women's one-hour race and the women's 1000 metres under threat.

vault performances, much will be expected of Sweden's 20-year-old world record holder Armand "Mondo" Duplantis

World pole vault record holder Armand Duplantis needed an outdoor personal best of 6.07 metres to earn

The American, who beat Duplantis to the world title in Doha on countback, went over at 6.02m, the second

Pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis will seek his 12th consecutive victory of 2020 tomorrow

Duplantis faces a formidable field including double world champion Sam Kendricks of the US, Brazil’s

Thiago Braz, and Renaud Lavillenie of France, whos world record the Swede broke.Kendricks, who beat Duplantis

so far this year.And making a late entry to the event is a US vaulter who has experience of beating Duplantis

5.95m last year in beating his younger rival to the National Collegiate Athletic Association title.Like Duplantis

The Colombian city of Cali has been selected as the host of the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships.

competed in 2015 at the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, with stars including pole vaulter Armand Duplantis

Karsten Warholm came agonisingly close to breaking the world 400 metres hurdles world record of 46.78 seconds at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, clocking 46.87 in a race where he had done everything right apart from knocking over the last hurdle.

drawing away to win in 1:59.68, with the American second in 2:01.02.Home pole vaulter Armand "Mondo" Duplantis

But failure at 5.83 left Duplantis as the winner and the bar was then moved up to 6.01 which he also

Timothy Cheruiyot and Jakob Ingebrigtsen - the respective world and European 1500 metres champions - will resume their intense rivalry at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm tomorrow following their epic race at the opening of the series in Monaco eight days ago.

Monaco, seems to have met with general approval.Sweden’s pole vault world record holder Armand "Mondo" Duplantis

Many sports have taken up the challenge of re-inventing their events in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

As viewers watched online, world record holder Armand Duplantis of Sweden, American two-time world champion

Lavillenie and Duplantis both achieved 36 clearances.Three weeks later, Rio 2016 Olympic champion Katerina

was a figure skating who won gold at the 1948 St Moritz Winter Olympics whilst still a teenager.Mondo Duplantis

Uganda’s 23-year-old Joshua Cheptegei, world 10,000 metres champion and world cross country champion last year, added another indelible achievement to his CV in Monaco tonight as he marked the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season with a world 5,000m record of 12min 35.36sec.

to make the journey with him.That improved the odds for Sweden’s world record holder Armand "Mondo" Duplantis

A last-minute deal signed by the BBC means viewers in Britain will be able to watch Diamond League athletics streamed live on television – and also on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube – starting with tomorrow's opening meeting in Monaco.

in Oslo at Bislett's 'Impossible Games' in June.In the men's pole vault, world record-holder Armand Duplantis