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Key Birmingham 2022 venue could benefit from a £21 million legacy project

  • West Midlands Growth Company

Alexander Stadium - the focal venue for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games - could benefit from a multi-million-pound investment in a bid to ensure it has "meaningful year-round purpose".

competitions.But City Council leader Ian Ward has expressed his determination to make it the "premier athletics

high-performance centre.Birmingham City Council leader Ian Ward wants Birmingham to be "home to the premier athletics

from this redevelopment is to address that shortcoming and for Birmingham to be home to the premier athletics

and Martial Arts Centre, has already resumed at the site, which is also home to Birchfield Harriers Athletics



Indian Olympic javelin thrower banned until 2025 for doping

  • Athletics

Indian javelin thrower Shivpal Singh who competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been hit with a four-year ban for a doping violation.

2020, where he finished 27th in the men’s javelin competition.He captured silver at the 2019 Asian Athletics


Mike Rowbottom: Thirty years on, Tulu and Meyer return to the Barcelona 1992 Olympic stadium, scene of their historic rivalry - and unity

  • Inside the Blogs

On August 7, 1992, in Barcelona's Montjuic Stadium, two athletes, far ahead of the rest of the field, contended for the women's Olympic 10,000 metres title. 

years later, in the same stadium, South African photographer Roger Sedres, covering the World Junior Athletics

She never had opportunity to run with the flag," he told Anna Legnani’s Love Athletics programme on the

Federations, which became World Athletics in 2019 - who now runs her own online sports show, his idea

The link with athletics is still strong for both.

 Tulu is President of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation.



Swiss Sports Aid Foundation gala raises CHF 510,000 for Brisbane 2032 efforts

  • Brisbane 2032

The Swiss Sports Aid Foundation has raised CHF 510,000 (£466,000/$517,000/€528,000) at its gala in Dübendorf to assist athletes' long-term preparations for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics.

The gala also honoured the careers of Heinz Frei, winner of 42 Paralympic Games medals in athletics,



Yehualaw youngest women's winner at London Marathon as men's title goes to Kipruto

  • Athletics

Ethiopia's 23-year-old Yalemzerf Yehualaw became the youngest-ever winner of the women's race at the London Marathon - despite falling with 10 kilometres to go - with Kenya's Amos Kipruto also earning victory with a late surge on his race debut in an open men's contest.

 Kipruto, the Doha 2019 World Athletics Championships bronze medallist, was one of relatively few






Patience key for EOC as Kraków-Małopolska 2023 receives handover flag

  • Kraków 2023

European Olympic Committees (EOC) officials insist they have "never lost trust" in Polish authorities as organisers of the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games received the handover flag here.

never lost our trust, that’s why I am talking about patience," added Arat, who is also an EOC and World Athletics