Dr. Patrick Tellei has been unanimously endorsed as chair of the Organising Committee for the 2025 Pacific Mini Games, which are due to be held in Palau.

the Organising Committee, when the appointment was made ©islandtimesThe sports proposed in 2025 are athletics

Nine years after being voted Women's World Athlete of the Year, 35-year-old Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is in line for a possible repeat of the honour, while world champion pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis of Sweden and Kenyan marathon star Eliud Kipchoge have made the cut among men.

over the longer sprint in the Wanda Diamond League final.In a particularly strong year for women's athletics

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Council and the World Athletics Family will cast their votes by email, while fans can vote online via

the World Athletics social media platforms.

Council's vote will count for 50 per cent of the result, while the World Athletics Family’s votes and

Angelo Dundee, the fistic guru who helped mould Muhammad Ali into The Greatest was once asked whether the three-times world heavyweight champion had ever used drugs. "No," he replied. "He only ever gets high on himself."

ignoble art it is bottom of the league among major sports in wrongdoing which embraces drug-taking (athletics

The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) has published a provisional sports programme for the IWAS World Games in Vila Real de Santo Antonio, with wheelchair slalom added as a demonstration event.

athletes navigate through obstacles, was once a Paralympic discipline, but not since Seoul 1988.Para athletics

Middle-distance runner Peter Bol, who escaped civil war in Sudan before going on to represent Australia at two Olympics and claim a Commonwealth Games medal, has been recognised for his charitable work.

Bol has been named as the winner of this year’s Peter Norman Humanitarian Award by Athletics Australia.Over

the past 18 months, Bol competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, World Athletics Championships in Oregon

We’re incredibly proud to have Peter as part of the Australian athletics community, and we couldn’t think

My work comes from a combination of my upbringing and my family values, but I got my start in athletics

My teacher introduced me to athletics, introduced me to a coach and it took me a long time to get to

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) President Paul Tergat met with the Cuban Ambassador to Kenya Juan Vazquez in the hopes of forming a sporting partnership between the two countries.

to learn from that.The main focus of the partnership will be to help Ghana's athletes in boxing and athletics

Kenyan marathon runner Philemon Kacheran Lokedi has been banned for three years by the Athletics Integrity

missed the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.He had faced a four-year ban for his offence under World Athletics

the Valencia Marathon last December.Lawrence Cherono is one of several Kenyan runners banned by the Athletics

prohibited substances norandrosterone and triamcinolone acetonide, although he has not competed in a World Athletics-sanctioned

Sir Robert McAlpine, a construction company, has raised £56,000 ($62,000/€‎64,000) for ParalympicsGB after hosting a charity event at London's Science Museum to support athletes on their path to Paris 2024.

Seven-time Paralympic gold medallist in athletics Hannah Cockroft, three-time Boccia champion David Smith

Ghana's National Sports Authority director general Peter Twumasi has claimed that the country's existing facilities would be "more than enough" to stage the Accra 2023 African Games, even if construction work on the main stadium is not completed in time.

Talk about the Accra Sports Stadium, Baba Yara, here can do almost all the athletics."

Britain's Chijindu Ujah has been banned for 22 months for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)

The announcement today from the Athletics Integrity Unit marks another sad chapter in this case, and

Thinking back, it was probably just his way. We were sitting in his semi-detached on a modern Cannock Chase housing estate, in a front room sparse and neat as a show home, with only the gaudy ribbons and glinting medal, slung carelessly on a coffee table, out of place.

the 1989 Chicago Marathon, and plumber, was also an Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechaser for Britain ©Athletics

The European Games flag is set to go on public display in Poland for the first time later this month at the European Congress of Sport and Tourism in Zakopane.

diving considered most likely, while organisers are making a late attempt to include wrestling.Archery, athletics

Auditors working on behalf of World Athletics have begun reviewing the implementation of the Russian

Athletics Federation (RusAF) strategic recovery plan.

A World Athletics spokesperson confirmed to insidethegames that the independent audit, which will

seek to assess the cultural change that has taken place in Russian athletics with regards to anti-doping

Taskforce to discuss before they (the Taskforce) present an update on the reinstatement plan to the World Athletics

“A meeting was held at World Athletics, which attracted an international team of auditors,” Pakhnotskaya

“The working group wants to make sure that the anti-doping culture has really changed in Russian athletics

Ruth Chepngetich retained her Chicago Marathon title in 2 hours 14min 18sec, the second fastest women’s marathon time ever and missing the world record set by fellow Kenyan Brigid Kosgei in the 2019 edition of this race by just 14sec.

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) is facing criticism for "flirting" with a possible merger with World Obstacle little more than five years before obstacle racing was put forward as a replacement for horse riding - but President Klaus Schormann has dismissed it was ever close to happening.

We’ve explored those possibilities, so talked to pentathlon, triathlon, athletics, all sorts of International