Two-time reigning world 200m champion Shericka Jackson delivered the fastest time in Saturday's qualifying heats in the event at the Jamaican Olympic trials. A day after winning the 100m crown to qualify for the Paris Olympics, Jackson had the best heat time in season-best 22.67secs (-0.9 m/sec wind) at the national stadium in Kingston. Jackson is a major favourite to win the 200 final on Sunday.

The Paris 2024 Organising Committee has reached the symbolic milestone of allocating or selling one million tickets for the Paralympic Games to be held in the French capital from 28 August to 8 September.

Paralympic Games (@Paralympics) May 19, 2024Tickets are available for all sports from €15, including athletics

this year, and Shericka Jackson dominated the women's 100m final on Friday at the Jamaican Olympic athletics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeals filed by World Athletics and the World

Anti-Doping Agency against the decision of the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal (WADT) of 17 August

(ADRV) under Rule 2.4 following three alleged whereabouts violations within a 12-month period.World Athletics

three occasions within a 12-month period will be banned from competition for two years.However, World Athletics

Budapest in August 2023, where she finished sixth in the 100m hurdles, and CAS was appealed to by the Athletics

instance decision of 17 August 2023 to lift the provisional ban.In their respective appeals to CAS, World Athletics

committed two Filing Failures, but did not confirm the existence of a Missed Test alleged by World Athletics

Three-time world champion Grant Holloway punched his ticket to the Paris Olympics on Friday in the 110m hurdles at the US trials, while Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson cruised into the 200m finals. Holloway won the 110 hurdles final in 12.86secs, the fastest time in the world this year, with Freddie Crittenden second in a personal best 12.93 and Daniel Roberts third in a personal best 12.96.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) authorised six Russians and two more Belarusians to participate in the Paris Olympic Games raising the total count to 47, according to a third list expanded to judo and canoeing. The IOC published the initial list on 15 June and expanded it on Thursday with 39 athletes in tennis, shooting and rowing.

JLT1pHfJCM— Firstpost Sports (@FirstpostSports) June 28, 2024There will be no Russians nor Belarusians in Athletics

since the International Federation (World Athletics) remained firm in its position of total exclusion

400m hurdles queen Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone strolled to an easy victory in heats at the US Olympic athletics

In a one-on-one interview with Inside The Games, the International Boxing Association’s secretary general addresses the federation’s "combative relationship" with the International Olympic Committee and the future of the sport, including its uncertain status for Los Angeles 2028.

background, particularly one of the world’s lead sportsmen, come administrator, come president (of World Athletics

Despite Elaine Thompson Herah’s recent and disappointing announcement that she will not compete in the upcoming Paris Games due to injury, both sprinters showcased their elite speed in the 100 metres at the Caribbean country’s Olympic ramp-up.

medallist Shericka Jackson got off to smooth starts in Thursday's 100m heats at the Jamaican Olympic athletics

It is now official. This Wednesday, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Executive Board ratified the proposal to add Para Climbing to the LA 2028 sports programme. This is the first time a sport has been added to the Paralympic programme by an Organising Committee. It will join the 22 sports already included.

's Paralympic Sports Programme, which includes:Blind Football, Boccia, Goalball, Para Archery, Para Athletics

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will mark a historic milestone, finally achieving gender parity in athlete participation 128 years after the modern era began in Athens in 1896. 

absorbed into what is now the International Olympic Committee (IOC).They were allowed to compete in athletics

We have come a long way in a relatively short space of time," said Sebastian Coe, head of world athletics

It was hello, then goodbye for the stelar and now injured sprinter at the Jamaican trials, as she failed to fully recover from and Achilles tear and was forced to pull out of the competition and renounce her Paris Summer Games bid.

Arbitration for Sport (TAS), based in Lausanne, Switzerland, has overturned the decision of the World Athletics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) has dismissed the appeal brought by World Athletics (WA) against

the decision of the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal dated 27 October 2002 (the "Disputed Decision

Championships and a gold medal at the 2016 African Athletics Championships (representing Kenya) and

the 2021 Diamond League final.Norah Jeruto was suspended by World Athletics (WA) for "use of a prohibited

2023 and missing the last World Championships in Budapest.CAS confirms the decision taken by the World Athletics

ASOIF (Association of Summer Olympic International Federations) has recognised the International Hockey Federation (FIH) transparency and good governance practices, its efforts to consistently deliver and live the Olympic Values and its sustainability efforts, as confirmed by the promotion of the FIH to the higher tier of International Federations in its fifth Governance Review.

Association Football (FIFA), International Tennis Federation (ITF), International Cycling Union (UCI), World Athletics

The Olympic Torch lit up the Doubs département to showcase this green corner of the world, an ideal destination for a break from the daily grind, but also to pay tribute to the athletes who work hard every day to keep the department moving. The highlight was the Para-Triathlon Team Relay with 113 Torchbearers, from the first, Sébastien Loeb, to the last, biathlete Anaïs Bescond, who lit the cauldron in Besançon.

best to spread the passion for Olympism were also present, including Alexandre Pasteur, a cycling and athletics