The BRICS Games are an annual gathering of the eight-nation BRICS intergovernmental organisation, now in its fifth edition in Kazan, Russia, with participants from 89 countries, after the last one was held in the South African city of Durban in 2023.

full programme with 27 sports modalities in a two-week event until 23 June: Acrobatic Rock and Roll, Athletics

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the most decorated male athlete in the history of the European Championships with six gold medals, is showing remarkable confidence, claiming that if he doesn't get injured, winning the Olympic Games will be "a piece of cake".

have only strengthened that belief.Ingebrigtsen completed his third consecutive double at the European Athletics

But most importantly, the athletics star has to deal with a major family conflict.Both he and his brothers

violence against one of his sons.Ingebrigtsen completed his third consecutive double at the European Athletics

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

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Wednesday accused the Spanish athlete of 'manipulation' and 'tampering

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has accused Spanish athlete Mohamed Katir of manipulation by charging

The body, the highest authority in the fight against doping in athletics, announced on the social media

two years after the publication of his punishment for failing three doping tests within a year.The Athletics

Integrity Unit of World Athletics, the anti-doping body that imposed the sanction, announced on Wednesday

Championships.Mohamed Katir, 26, burst onto the athletics scene in 2021, breaking the Spanish 1,500m

Brittney Reese, the renowned three-time Olympic medallist and seven-time World Long Jump Champion, will host the inaugural "Gold Medal Mixer" series in Eugene, Oregon from 23-28 June.

entertain spectators and athletes, giving them the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of elite athletics

The organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games would like to include para-climbing in the programme of the games. A corresponding proposal has been submitted to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Sport climbing is currently only in the Olympic program. Medals were awarded for the first time in Tokyo 2020.

Competitions are also planned for blind football, bocce, goalball, para-archery, para-athletics, para-badminton

Jakob Ingebrigtsen achieved the title of the most successful male European athlete, alongside Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis securing his third pole vault championship and Marcell Jacobs thrilling the crowd with a second gold as part of the Italian relay team, at the 2024 European Championships in Rome on Wednesday.

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The former American sprinter and Mexico 1968 Olympic champion, famous for his raised fist gesture as an anti-racist protest, claims in an interview with AFP that he has no successors in the fight against discrimination and states that "things couldn't be worse" in his home country.

discrimination, made at the height of his career when he was just 24, earned him a lifetime ban from athletics

After retiring from athletics, Smith spent 35 years as a high school teacher.Smith is not the only one

The Olympic Torch has dropped anchor on the island of Réunion to continue the Ocean Relay in overseas France. The "Intense Island" put its best foot forward, starting with the breathtaking landscapes of the Plaine des Sables and Pointe Langevin.

as committed as ever through her work as a volunteer firefighter and her involvement with her local athletics

 The oldest member of the Réunion Athletics League, the 85-year-old Marie-Thérèse Georget, was in

Estonia celebrated success in combined events at the 2024 European Championships in Rome as world record-holder Kevin Mayer secured Olympic qualification before his home Olympics. 

In his first competition in eight months, the Italian won, first by jumping over 2.31m, then 2.33m and finally a championship record of 2.37m. The 32-year-old Olympic and world champion with an eye for the big stage seems set to star at Paris 2024.

We don’t want to aim for a middle result.”Nothing appears middle of the road for one of World Athletics

Olympic Day, which commemorates the birth of the modern Olympic movement founded by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894, is celebrated by all National Olympic Committees around the world. In Nigeria, they hope this year's celebration will be "different and special" due to the proximity of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

understandably, far from being a national sport.Nigerian athletes have won a total of 23 medals, most in athletics

and Kevin Mayer headed up just some of the star-studded names on show for day five of the European Athletics

GETTY IMAGESThe greatest showman in athletics!

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The Spaniard’s winning distance on Tuesday was the third longest in triple jump history after Jonathan Edward’s 18.29m world record from 1995 and Christian Taylor’s 18.21 from 2015. It was also the Iberian country’s best ever and a phenomenal debut for the Cuban-born athlete in the European Championships.

Fantini upped Italy’s gold medal tally to eight, winning the women’s hammer at the Roma 2024 European Athletics

Fantini was sixth at last year’s World Athletics Championships and had taken home the bronze in Munich

" Tortu said to Raisport.Host country Italy is enjoying their best-ever performance at the European Athletics

currently tops the medal table with 17 medals; eight golds, six silvers and three bronzes.The European Athletics