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UEFA issues sincere apology to fans for Champions League security chaos at Paris 2024 venue

  • Football

UEFA has issued an apology to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans for the chaotic issues they faced before the UEFA Champions League final between the two sides last week.

to stop people from entering the Stade de France - a key Paris 2024 venue - which is set to host the athletics

, rugby sevens and Para athletics events during the Summer Olympic Games in two years."


Paralympic champion Heir to make competitive comeback at age 60

  • Summer Paralympic Sports

Three-time Paralympic champion Douglas Heir has announced his comeback to competitive sport at the age of 60, as he bids to compete in table tennis.

The American, who competed at five Paralympic Games from 1984 until Sydney 2000 in athletics, is to pick




Flowers to be planted under latest Munich 2022 fan-engagement project

  • European Championships

Organisers of this year’s multi-sport European Championships are promising to plant potentially thousands of flowers in Munich’s Olympic Park as part of a fan-engagement project.

in Uganda and a sports festival for Ukrainian refugees.European Championships across nine sports - athletics


Duncan Mackay: World Athletics Championships in Oregon will cement the legend and myth of "Pre"

  • Inside the Blogs

Steve Prefontaine was an American distance runner who competed nearly half-a-century ago and whose career was cut tragically short at the age of only 24 when he was killed in a car crash.

running world's imagination is unparalleled.Only last Saturday (May 28), the US hosted its annual World Athletics

This is set to be just the beginning of this Prefontaine nostalgia-fest as next month’s World Athletics

second sportsman to endorse and wear Nikes once the amateur rules that he so rallied against during his athletics



Indian Para athlete banned for two years for intentional misrepresentation at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar has been suspended for two years by World Para Athletics for violating

World Para Athletics' Board of Appeal of Classification (BAC) ruled that Kumar "intentionally misrepresented

elbow and wrist mobility but lack finger flexor and extensor strength.It was determined by World Para Athletics

was promoted to bronze-medal position after Vinod Kumar's disqualification ©Getty ImagesWorld Para Athletics

degree or nature of their impairment.Following the breach, Kumar will be ineligible to compete in Para athletics

classification system is crucial to ensure fair competition and this case shows how committed World Para Athletics



Tanzania Olympic Committee hosts course for sports officials

  • ANOCA

The Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) has organised a course for sports officials, as part of its initial preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Judo Association of Tanzania and Zanzibar Judo Association, Boxing Federation of Tanzania, Tanzanian Athletics

not able to pay them.Tanzania's last Olympic medals came at Moscow 1980, when they won two silvers in athletics

Tanzania’s last Olympic medals came at Moscow 1980, when they won two silvers in athletics, courtesy

Filbert Bayi in the men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase.Tanzania’s last Commonwealth Games medals came in athletics


Bol shatters 300m hurdles world best at Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava

  • Athletics

Olympic 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist Femke Bol of The Netherlands shattered the world best time for the rarely-run 300m hurdles by more than a second as she clocked 36.86 seconds at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.

retirement, double world 400m hurdles champion Zuzana Hejnova - who was honoured earlier in this World Athletics

It augurs well for this year's World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.INSANE?


Sierra Leone

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

For Sierra Leone, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games could not just be about the sport.

 Sierra Leone is planning to take a team of 30 athletes to Birmingham 2022 in athletics, badminton


Botswana look to Makwala's solo run for Birmingham 2022 inspiration

  • Birmingham 2022

Botswana is hoping to channel the mental strength of Isaac Makwala's famous solo run when the country competes at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Makwala ran a 200 metres heat on his own at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, after initially


David Owen: Why Olympicland’s "Thou Shalt Not Build" mentality may be shifting again

  • Inside the Blogs

I'm confused: I was just about getting used to the received wisdom that the building of new, permanent Olympic-related sports infrastructure was nearly always Bad with a capital B when two things contrive to bring my old doubts rushing back to the surface.

suggesting for a moment that this was linked to the design of the Stade de France, which will host athletics


Rangooni appointed as Paralympics New Zealand chair for another four years

  • Paralympics

Jana Rangooni has been reappointed as the chair of Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) Board for another four-year term, while Mark Elliott joins her as a Board member too.

coached athletes to Olympic and World Championship medals.He now coaches young athletes in football, athletics