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DOSB stages major policy meeting to improve health and exercise

  • EOC

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has staged a major meeting with around 200 invited guests to shape policy on health with the support of the German Sports Youth and the Conference of Sports Ministers.

rhythm at a young age or learn complex movement sequences such as swimming, gymnastics or the basics of athletics


Vanuatu

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Vanuatu hadn't won a single Commonwealth Games medal when they travelled to Gold Coast 2018, but they left the Australian city with two. 

She's won a few medals at the regional Games," said King.Others to watch for Vanuatu in athletics include


Yangzhou 2022 Half Marathon Championships cancelled due to COVID-19

  • Athletics

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced another premium event to be cancelled in China.

This time, the World Athletics Half Marathon, which was scheduled to be held in Yangzhou in November,

to take place on March 27 but was re-scheduled for November 13.A decision was made after the Chinese Athletics

Championships cannot be held this year after a lengthy discussion.At the same time, the 2027 World Athletics

Road Running Championships was granted to Yangzhou, which is set to be held in March 2027.World Athletics

but our endurance athletes will have the opportunity to compete in Riga next year," Coe said.World Athletics


Aleksandr Averbukh

  • Universiade Legends

  2001 Summer Universiade, Beijing: men's pole vault gold.Thirty years after the terrorist incursion at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games that resulted in the death of 11 Israelis, an Israeli athlete stood on top of the podium in the Olympic Stadium.

Averbukh, born in Russia two years after the traumatic attack, had earned pole vault gold in the European Athletics


African Games stadium to be ready in February 2023

  • Ghana 2023

Ghana's Minister of Youth and Sports Mustapha Ussif has said the stadium in the host district Legon for the African Games is scheduled for completion in February 2023.

Also acting as the athletics arena, the University of Ghana Stadium will have a warm-up track within


The Gambia

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

The Gambia has only won a solitary bronze medal in its Commonwealth Games history but will travel to Birmingham 2022 with Africa's fastest woman.

Twenty-seven-year-old Gina Bass won gold in the 100 metres at the African Athletics Championships in

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


Cuba top medals table at inaugural Caribbean Games

  • Multi-Sport Games

Cuba topped the medals table at the inaugural Caribbean Games in Guadeloupe, with 23 of the 30 territories competing claiming podium finishes.

and the Roger Zami Stadium and the Laura Flessel Sports Complex stepping in at late notice to host athletics


Gourley sets sights on athletics "big four" after World Championships and Birmingham 2022 selection

  • Athletics

British middle-distance runner Neil Gourley is looking to complete athletics' version of the "Majors"

Due to the postponement of the World Athletics Championships from 2021 - now scheduled to run from July

15 to 24 - the four biggest athletics competitions outside of the Olympic Games for British athletes

are to take place within a six-month period.The World Indoor Athletics Championships, where Gourley

11 days.The Commonwealth Games are scheduled for July 28 to August 8; and a week later, the European Athletics

the COVID-19 pandemic, having had to withdraw as one of the favourites at the 2019 European Indoor Athletics



Athletics PNG praises country's NOC after Pacific Mini Games success

  • ONOC

Athletics Papua New Guinea (PNG) has thanked the country's National Olympic Committee after a record-breaking

The country's athletics team picked up 62 medals out of the 80 won by the entire delegation as it topped

golds, 28 silvers, and 19 bronzes.Of that total, 23 gold, 23 silver and 16 bronze medals were won in 47 athletics

events.All 38 athletes and seven support staff members were met by Athletics PNG secretary Philip Rehder

and adoring fans welcoming them back from Saipan.The Federation's President Tony Green said the athletics

training camps and regional and national championships ahead of the Pacific Mini Games," stated an Athletics