Two Olympic champions - India’s javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and Canada’s 200 metres runner Andre De Grasse, plus Britain's former world 200m gold medallist Dina Asher-Smith have pulled out of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Chopra, who would have been the defending champion, earned silver at the World Athletics Championships

withdraw from the 2022 Commonwealth Games to properly recover and prepare for the rest of the season," Athletics

be the keenest blow for Birmingham given his status as the first Indian to win an Olympic title in athletics

Following his participation in the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Mr.

2022 believes the impending Commonwealth Games can be a springboard for the country's up and coming athletics

silver medal winning hurdler Britany Anderson will also not compete in England.But Jamaica's 47-strong athletics

proximity of the event to the World Championships, remains to be seen.Other countries have been hit by athletics

competing in 18 sports.He said he was looking forward to some breakthrough names leaving their mark on the athletics

United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to miss the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games here tomorrow.

Games.Boris Johnson had visited Alexander Stadium, the venue for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and athletics

Harriers train at the Stadium which is due to host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well as the athletics

The 2022 Commonwealth Games bears a greater responsibility than any previous edition in terms of affirming "unity and solidarity" in a world, and a country, riven by natural and political pressures, Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, has claimed.

timing of the Games, which, for track and field athletes, sit between the recently concluded World Athletics

Championships in Eugene, Oregon and next month’s European Athletics Championships in Munich, Street

We get a brilliant new venue in the Alexander Stadium that will host other athletics championships going

Saint Lucia’s Richard Peterkin has been named an honorary life member of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) at their General Assembly here.

organised the national island games from 2006.The citation highlighted his work with the New Horizons Athletics

vehicle for advancement.” the citation said.Banks also campaigned to change eligibility rules for World Athletics

Mark England is a man used to success and he wants more of the same at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

England admitted that the packed sporting year, including the World Athletics Championships which concluded

Victoria 2026 chief executive Jeroen Weimar has revealed at the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly here that he expects "three or four additional sports" to be added to the current 16 sports and six Para sports on the initial programme.

its proposal is billed as the first predominantly regional edition of the multi-sport event.Aquatics, athletics

weightlifting are the 16 sports confirmed on the programme for Victoria 2026, joined by six Para sports in athletics

Trailblazing Olympic and Paralympic medallists have been chosen to carry Namibia's flag at Thursday's (July 28) Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony at the Alexander Stadium.

the first Namibian woman to win an Olympic medal, is one of the flagbearers.Mboma missed the World Athletics

pic.twitter.com/hqAxtEtwjz— NAMIBIA NOC (@NamOlympic) July 22, 2022Namibia is set to field competitors in athletics

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Acting President Anil Khanna has revealed that the inclusion of shooting and wrestling at the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games is "heading in the right direction".

2026 Commonwealth Games in April with an initial 16 sports announced.T20 cricket, swimming and diving, athletics

Concern over "challenges" regarding Nairobi’s Moi International Stadium has been cited by World Athletics

Explaining the World Athletics Council decision on July 14 to award the Championships to Tokyo, which

under-20 Championships and has also staged the Kip Keino Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour

Nairobi lost out on the 2025 Championships - which will now coincide with the Japan Association of Athletics

Clearly, one unquestioned asset in Kenya is the love of athletics, the passion for it, and the extraordinary

I have spoken to the Kenyan Athletics Association, and they know that I am fully committed to helping

Nine-time Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis is set to head the athletics programme at the University

Will and Carl are both incredible representatives and products of the University of Houston, Houston Athletics

French President Emmanuel Macron has met with Paris 2024 leaders and International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach, discussing preparations for the next Olympics on the same day a slogan and full schedule were revealed.

France's ability to organise major sporting events".The Stade de France is due to hold rugby sevens, athletics

and Para athletics at Paris 2024.Security was one of the major themes of Macron's meeting with Paris

Sporting competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics is set to begin with football and rugby sevens action on July 24, two days prior to the Opening Ceremony.

judo, with competition at the Champ de Mars Arena scheduled for July 27 until August 3.Swimming and athletics

the road events.The Paris La Defense Arena is due to host swimming events from July 27 until August 4.Athletics

prior ©Paris 2024This marks the first time since Los Angeles 1984 that the women's marathon concludes athletics

opportunity to choose three different sessions of sport, with prices starting at €72 (£61/$74).Tickets for athletics

Picture gallery

©Getty ImagesThe United States comfortably topped the medals table with a total of 33 as the World Athletics

centre of a "racism" storm after he cast doubt over the accuracy of the timing system at the World Athletics

Harrison in 2016 - by 0.08sec and was three-tenths of a second quicker than she had ever run before.World Athletics