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Around 600 participants take part in NOC of Zambia's Norway-backed Inclusive Sports Festival

  • ANOCA

The National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) has again hosted the Inclusive Sports Festival, with around 600 participants taking part in this year's Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF)-funded event.

Alfred Foloko credited it with providing opportunities and making sport safe and inclusive for all.Kids athletics

Several of Zambia's National Federations, including for athletics, judo and netball, collaborated with


Chepngetich eyeing world record as she plans defence of her Chicago Marathon title

  • Athletics

Kenya’s 2019 world champion Ruth Chepngetich will defend her women’s title in the 44th running of the Chicago Marathon tomorrow - and with good weather forecast she has not ruled out a world record.

at last year’s Milan Marathon, where he finished fourth.Earlier this year he was sixth at the World Athletics



Ukrainian high jumpers in the running for CIFP Fair Play Award

  • Athletics

Ukrainian high jumpers Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Andriy Protsenko have been jointly put forward to win World Athletics

after she recorded three fouls in the long jump.Katie Nageotte is among the nominees for the World Athletics

am extremely proud that, once again, our athletes are being recognised for a Fair Play Award," World Athletics



British base for Paris 2024 opens new athletics track

  • Paris 2024

A new athletics track has been opened at the Stade Municipal Georges-Lefèvre Stadium, which is where

Loga and Aurel Manga.Péricard called it a "symbolic moment" for the region as it now has a complete athletics


Paris 2024 not expecting records to be broken on challenging marathon course where strategy is in focus

  • Athletics

Paris 2024 has moved away from the idea of setting Olympic records and personal bests for the marathon, instead opting for climbs on a challenging route to and from Versailles.

Esplanade des Invalides, having started at the Hôtel de Ville.Speaking to insidethegames, Paris 2024 athletics

and Para athletics sport manager Alain Blondel distanced the course from running fast times, looking

men's marathon is scheduled for August 10 followed by the women's marathon on August 11 - the last athletics



Paris 2024 pays tribute to Women's March on Versailles with marathon course for Olympics

  • Athletics

Paris 2024 has unveiled its marathon route for the Olympic Games, paying tribute to the Women's March on Versailles, while moving away from the prospect of records being broken due to the challenging course that awaits the runners.

the abolition of the monarchy.Coinciding with this theme, the women's marathon is set to be the last athletics


UK Athletics appoints Simpson head of field and combined events

  • Athletics

and Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw, has been named head of field and combined events for UK Athletics

Stephen Maguire, endurance head Steve Vernon; sprints, hurdles and relay head Darren Campbell and Para athletics

and the Russian Olympic Committee's Anzhelika Sidorova, will not be impacted.It was agreed with UK Athletics

Former sprinter Christian Malcolm oversaw Britain's athletics team at Tokyo 2020, where Britain won five


Golf and coastal rowing among sports added to Victoria 2026 programme as shooting returns

  • Victoria 2026

Golf and coastal rowing are to make their Commonwealth Games debuts at Victoria in 2026, while shooting will return after a long campaign, it was announced today.

Delivery Jacinta Allan said.The new sports join a programme that already included swimming, diving, athletics

table tennis, triathlon and weightlifting.Para sports that had already been announced were swimming, athletics


Russia and Syria sign joint sports agreement for next two years

  • Latest

Russia and Syria have agreed to jointly conduct training and events in 10 sports in an accord signed by the Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin and the President of Syria's General Sports Federation, Feras Mouala.

and swimming together, with plans to also hold training and events in tennis, basketball, wrestling, athletics



Royal approval for centenary celebrations of Chariots of Fire Liddell

  • Paris 2024

The 100th anniversary of Eric Liddell's Olympic 400 metres gold medal in Paris is to be commemorated by a special celebration in 2024 led by British Olympic Association President the Princess Royal, who has been named as patron for an event to be known as "The Eric Liddell 100".

tribute to the "fantastic support from Eric Liddell’s family".The Scottish Rugby Union and Scottish Athletics

equally dedicated to his degree studies in pure science, and the pursuit of sporting excellence in both athletics

British Olympic team was presented with a copy of Running the Race, a biography written by Scottish athletics

historian John Keddie.The name of the author was used in the film for one of the officials in the athletics


QOC champions President and secretary general being appointed to IOC bodies

  • OCA

The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) is celebrating after President Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al-Thani and secretary general Jassim Rashid Al-Buenain were named on International Olympic Committee (IOC) commissions.

vice-president unopposed.He previously oversaw the delivery of the 2019 ANOC World Beach Games, the 2018 World Athletics