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Philippine Olympic Committee party inspects Paris 2024 training facilities

  • Paris 2024

Officials from the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), led by its President Bambol Tolentino, have visited France to inspect possible training venues for Filipino athletes taking part in the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Philippines competed in last year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in boxing, weightlifting, gymnastics, athletics


World Athletics Indoor Tour adds 21 more meetings in 2023

  • Athletics

The 2023 World Athletics Indoor Tour will involve more meetings than ever before, with 54 events so far

In its eighth season, the World Athletics Indoor Tour will feature seven Gold meetings, starting in Karlsruhe

Asia.The season also features Silver, Bronze and Challenger meetings.The scoring disciplines on the World Athletics

Gold scoring disciplines are 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump and long jump.The 2023 World Athletics

be awarded a $10,000 (£8,850/€10,100) bonus.They will also be offered a wildcard entry for the World Athletics



Duplantis and Ingebrigtsen named joint European athlete award winners along with Bol

  • Athletics

Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and Norwegian distance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen shared the title of European Men's Athlete of the Year while Dutch hurdler Femke Bol was recognised as the Women's Athlete of the Year, at the Golden Tracks awards ceremony in Tallinn.

Duplantis and Ingebrigtsen both secured gold medals at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene earlier

and set world records indoors and outdoors this season at the European Indoor Championships and World Athletics

I think the only other person to win three gold medals like this at a European Athletics Championships

the women's and men's categories too.Iolanta Khropach of Ukraine was the first winner of the European Athletics

Delic-Selimovic and Estonia's Heiko Vaat won coaching accolades.Nahuel Carabana of Andorra won the European Athletics



Relay world champion Krzewina suspended for 15 months over whereabouts failures

  • Athletics

Polish 400 metres runner Jakub Krzewina has been banned for 15 months for violating whereabouts rules three times in a year.

Krzewina was part of Poland's gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team at the 2018 World Athletics Indoor

also won silver and bronze medals in the discipline at the Amsterdam 2016 and Zurich 2014 European Athletics


Kenya's Kipserem handed three-year ban for doping

  • Athletics

A third pacemaker who was part of Eliud Kipchoge’s team in running the marathon below two hours has been banned for doping.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) handed Marius Kipserem of Kenya a three-year ban after prohibited

DQ results from 17 August 2022.Details here: https://t.co/Ay1S5pVqpt pic.twitter.com/SOaELLH013— Athletics

blood cells and helps improve athletic performances.It is a man-made version of erythropoietin.Kenyan athletics


Ballarat Mayor says hosting Commonwealth Games athletics will be a historic moment

  • Victoria 2026

Ballarat Mayor Daniel Moloney believes hosting athletics during the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games

for 5,000 permanent and 18,000 temporary seats, taking capacity up to nearly 30,000, as well as the athletics

warm-up facility will also be built at Ballarat Showgrounds which will remain after the Games.As well as athletics

, Ballarat will also stage boxing and mountain biking.The stadium in Ballarat will host athletics during


Reigning Paralympic champions among 39 nominated for UK Athletics programme

  • Athletics News

sprinter Sophie Hahn highlight seven reigning Paralympic champions nominated for membership to join the UK Athletics

Athletes are nominated for the WCP to further the aim of UK Athletics to win medals at the 2024 and/or

2028 Paralympic Games," read a UK Athletics statement."

Therefore, UK Athletics must be confident that any athlete nominated for the WCP has the realistic potential

previously been supported on the Futures Academy Programme, continuing their progression along the UK Athletics

strong position as we head towards Paris 2024 and LA 2028," said head of Paralympic performance at UK Athletics



WADA holds landmark Sport Human Intelligence Network meeting in Warsaw

  • Latest

Anti-doping bodies from around the world took part in the first in-person meeting of the Sport Human Intelligence Network (SHIN) in Warsaw as covert strategies in the fight against doping were discussed.

latest meeting was attended by representatives from various members of SHIN - Anti-Doping Norway, the Athletics