Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay secured a breakthrough global victory in the women’s 5000 metres at the World Athletics

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crashed out in the women's 100 metres hurdles in the opening session of the penultimate day at the World Athletics

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Banská Bystrica is set to welcome approximately 3,600 athletes aged 14 to 18 from 48 countries to the 2022 Summer European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), set to run from tomorrow until July 30, making it the biggest multi-sport event in Slovakia since the 2015 Winter University Games.

majority of it with a €12.2 million (£10.3 million/$12.4 million) investment.A programme of 10 sports - athletics

Security worries continue to cast a shadow over preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, with concerns expressed over a lack of available police officers for the Opening Ceremony.

private security agents would be part of the Games.The Stade de France is due to stage rugby sevens, athletics

and Para athletics events at Paris 2024.Concerns over a shortage of private security staff were also

announced her retirement after winning 4x400 metres mixed relay bronze on the opening day of the World Athletics

Hangzhou 2022 organisers have lit up venues to celebrate new dates being announced for the delayed Asian Games.

video footage shared by the Organising Committee.The football stadium in Xiaoshan also features an athletics

Around 1,000 members of the British armed forces have been deployed here to help ensure the safe running of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and give organisers "peace of mind".

officials from the armed forces are also due to either coach or compete for medals in boxing, judo and athletics

Home athlete Sydney McLaughlin broke the 400 metres hurdles world record for the fourth time as she won her first world title amid frenzy at Hayward Field, becoming the first woman to break 51 seconds with an unearthly clocking of 50.68sec.

medallist, Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic, who clocked 49.60.Earlier on day eight of the World Athletics

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has promised a new block of funding for sports development in the British capital at the lighting of the Anniversary Flame, held to mark the 10th anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

, with West Ham United's leasing of the London Stadium being one of the most controversial for both athletics

Leon secured a historic double in Eugene as she won the inaugural 35 kilometres race walk at the World Athletics

events at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.Before last week’s race, Peru had never won a medal at the World Athletics

record of 2:40:37.Peru's Kimberly Garcia Leon won the first 35km race walk event to be held at a World Athletics

Sunday (July 24).The new distance was controversially included in the programme for this year’s World Athletics

the accompaniment to the 20km race walk for men and women, was showcased at the two-day 2022 World Athletics

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Toshikazu Yamanishi, who won the world men’s 20 kilometres race walk title for Japan on Friday (July 22), is one of six new members voted on to the Athletes’ Commission in Eugene.

Yamanishi, a 26-year-old student of physics at Kyoto University, joined the World Athletics body with

Willis.Dame Valerie Adams, the four-times world shot put champion who is now deputy chair of World Athletics

champion Dame Valerie Adams, respective chair and deputy chair, who both have positions on the World Athletics

one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and further elections will be held next year during the World Athletics

Council to bring the number back to its intended 18.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said: "The

America’s Garrett Scantling, the world’s top ranked decathlete this year, has been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping violation, it has been revealed.

It means the 29-year-old from Florida will not take part in this year’s World Athletics Championships

suspension, Scantling is prohibited from competing in any competitions under the jurisdiction of World Athletics

As such, he will not compete in the decathlon event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene

summer as part of the United States 4x400 metres relay team, was prevented from taking part after the Athletics

Fiji has won three gold medals in its Commonwealth Games history but titles in rugby sevens are what the country really wants.

titles ©Getty ImagesSorovaki will oversee a team of 64 athletes in Birmingham, with rugby joined by athletics