Reigning women's Olympic 800 metres champion Athing Mu will not defend her title at next month's Paris Games after suffering a dramatic fall at the US trials in Eugene, Oregon.

unforgiving nature of the US Olympic track and field trials, one of the most competitive meetings in world athletics

In light of the ongoing scandal involving 23 Chinese swimmers being allowed to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Games even after testing positive for trimetazidine, Global Athlete has sent out an open letter to the World Anti-Doping Agency stating their mistrust in the organisation and requesting transparency on the investigations taken on the swimmers’ case and actions to be taken going forward to ensure a fair playing field for all athletes. 

., Athletics Association, Pentathlon United, Global Athlete and BSSF, go on to formally request the testing

The slogan "The Americas, One Team" was used to introduce the Panam Sports team ahead of the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Prominent athletes from across the Americas have come together with a common dream: to achieve American glory at the next Olympic event.

López (Greco-Roman wrestling, Cuba), Rebeca Andrade (artistic gymnastics, Brazil), Marileidy Paulino (athletics

Republic), Margaret McNeil (swimming, Canada), Marcos Moneta (rugby 7s, Argentina), Julien Alfred (athletics

, Saint Lucia), Osmar Olvera (diving, Mexico), Nicolás Jarry (tennis, Chile) and Valarie Allman (athletics

Since Paris launched its bid for the 2024 Olympics and secured it in 2017, the project has undergone numerous changes by its organisers and public administrations. From ticket prices to environmental concerns, saying is one thing, doing is quite another.

One final athletics session costs (at least) 125 euros, which is far from affordable, considering that

Results and qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been announced from the US Athletics Trials

US gold medallist Gil Roberts was handed an eight-year suspension after testing positive for banned substances for a second time, said the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in a press release. 

Movement Testing, the United States Olympic Committee National Anti-Doping Policies, and the World Athletics

The world champion sprinter pounded the track, then her chest in the US Olympic trials in Eugene on Saturday as she won the 100metre race and sealed her ticket for Paris 2024, where she will face stiffer competition from Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah.

Back in the fold and with both eyes set on Paris 2024, the Texan sprinter did not deliver a perfect opening race in Eugene, but still managed to blow away the competition and register a convincing victory with a 10.88secs time, better than her 34 rivals spread over four races.

The Los Angeles 2028 Olympics proposed a series of updates to its venue plan Friday, leveraging Southern California’s abundance of high-quality athletic venues to assign more sports to existing stadiums and fewer temporary ones. Track and field will now be front and centre at the Memorial Coliseum.

traditionally opened the Olympic action, will move over to the second week of the Games in order for Athletics

 The switch was welcomed by World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe, hailing it as a "visionary" change

"This change underscores our commitment to innovation in athletics and elevating the global profile of

Athletics and Para Athletics will remain at the iconic and recently refurbished Los Angeles Memorial

#athsexclusive pic.twitter.com/Ygk8XV1ZON— Athletics Exclusive (@athsexclusive) June 22, 2024Diving

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has banned Para athletics athlete Amir Khosravani for three

International Paralympic Committee is the international governing body for five Para sports: World Para Athletics

The reigning 100m and 4x100m world champion will be hoping to book her ticket to Paris at the trials in Texas on Friday. It will be three years since she was ruled out of Tokyo 2021 following a positive marijuana test. Her comeback came in 2023, when she became world champion again in the 100 metres. It would be a surprise if she failed to qualify.

excluded her from the US team for Tokyo.She is running in her home state of Texas at the US Olympic Athletics

American sprinter Erriyon Knighton, who tested positive in an anti-doping control earlier this year, has been cleared to compete in the upcoming track and field trials following an arbitration decision, according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

Zharnel Hughes and Erriyon Knighton compete in the Men's 200m Semi-Final during World Athletics Championships

The great American athlete Michael Johnson announced on Tuesday the launch of a new track league that will feature the 'best of the best' competing in four elite meetings each year starting next year.

what they bring, and we're doing that,' emphasized Johnson, who had great appearances in international athletics

during the 1990s.The new circuit has received significant support from Carl Lewis, an American athletics

Afghanistan will send a gender-balanced team of three women and three men to the Paris Olympics in a largely symbolic move, while no Taliban officials will be allowed to attend the Games, the International Olympic Committee said. 

The women will compete in athletics and cycling, while their male counterparts will compete in athletics

Five-time Olympic gold medalist Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah will not defend her 200 metre title at the upcoming Olympics in Paris, it has been revealed.

and appointed Reynaldo Walcott, who also coaches her Jamaican teammate Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.The athletics