Ron Hill could empathise with Basil Fawlty when the angry Torquay hotelier famously started thrashing his broken-down car with a tree branch. In that Fawlty Towers comedy scene, played by John Cleese in 1975 and voted Britain's number one motoring moment in a survey by a car insurance company a quarter of a century later, the victim was an Austin 1100.

held world records at 10 miles, 15 miles and 25 kilometres and he was awarded an MBE for services to athletics

slower than the disputed 1969 run, there was no great clamour for a world record.Only twice has an athletics

Training camps in Australia are offering Fijian athletes the "perfect platform" to perform well at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which are scheduled to start on July 28.

Competitors in triathlon, table tennis, athletics and squash are currently preparing for the Games at

Australia, which are being funded by PacificAus Sports.Track and field athletes are working at the Oceania Athletics

Fiji expects to have a team of 64 athletes across 12 sports, including Para athletics and Para table

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has paid tribute to Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, who has died after being shot while giving a speech in Nara.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe also paid tribute to Abe."

Olympic gold medallist Kirani James will not be part of Grenada's 14-strong squad for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

city.It comes with Commonwealth athletes facing a tough schedule due to the close proximity of the World Athletics

title at Glasgow 2014.But Grenada, home to just 110,000 people, will still be able to call on star athletics

Competition dates for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games have been announced, with the Games set to be held across 11 days, one less than Tokyo 2020.

sports.Wheelchair rugby is anticipated to conclude on September 2 - day five of the multi-sport event.Para athletics

The medals for the Oregon22 World Athletics Championships have been unveiled with only a few days to

imperative that our medals were true to the unique, unmissable, unconventional nature of the first World Athletics

right here in Oregon.The cross-section of a tree is a design feature of the medals for Oregon22 ©World Athletics

Dame Kelly Holmes has carried the Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton at Tonbridge Castle as the Relay made its way through Kent on the fourth day of its journey through England.

Altenor, an England team mate at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games.A double Olympic champion in athletics

at Athens 2004, Dame Kelly went to school in Tonbridge and first took up athletics at the local club.She

Grenada is a country which is used to punching above its weight on the sporting stage.

 Grenada is aiming to take 14 athletes to Birmingham 2022 in athletics, boxing, swimming and cycling

, although James' absence is disappointing amid the close proximity to the World Athletics Championships

rest of his life.His legendary status in Grenada is already confirmed, however, with the country's athletics

success of James, and athletes such as Victor and Peters, have encouraged more to become involved in athletics

In addition to that, the athletics team that we have this year is a nice mixture of athletes at senior

Bosses at the Stade de France in Paris have insisted that work to modernise the stadium before the Paris 2024 Olympics open in two years time is all but complete.

is thought to have cost around €40 million (£34 million/$40.75 million) and is set to include a new athletics

Recently I watched the televised charity match between England and the Rest of the World, featuring celebrities, sports personalities and footballers old and present day.

free competition for all, male, female, openly gay, secretly straight, or simply trans.In which case athletics

Venezuela’s triple jump Olympic champion and world record-holder Yulimar Rojas will be denied the opportunity of chasing a World Championships double in Eugene next month after her qualifying mark for the long jump was declared ineligible due to illegal shoes.

World Athletics have announced that Rojas’ mark of 6.93 metres at the Reunion de Atletismo Ciudad de

intended to compete in the long jump after this event, with approved shoes, to qualify for the World Athletics

Championships Oregon 2022 but injury prevented this," World Athletics said in a statement.The approved

compete in the triple jump in WCH Oregon 2022 and qualifying for both events next year at the World Athletics

The 2022 London Marathon is to give the largest prize purse in wheelchair racing history, with an increase of more than 25 per cent from 2021.

There was no place for Rio 2016 Olympic 400 metres champion Wayde van Niekerk when the final members of the South African team were named for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

 The athletics squad does include Gold Coast 2018 men’s 100m champion Akane Simbine, who won the

The Gambia has hailed the impact of Gina Bass as the country prepares for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

to Birmingham as the reigning African champion over 100 metres.She topped the podium at the African Athletics

 "But because of Gina Bass people are now looking at athletics."

Vanuatu has named its team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham as it bids to build on its historic performance four years ago.

The Pacific nation are set to compete in athletics, beach volleyball, boxing, judo, table tennis and