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Archibald and Fachie headline Scottish cycling team for Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist Katie Archibald and Paralympic champion Neil Fachie headline Scotland's cycling team selected for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Another notable name in the Scottish squad is Libby Clegg.She is a two-time Paralympic gold medallist in athletics


Philip Barker: The many "firsts" of the London 1934 Games

  • Inside the Blogs

Next week, the Queen’s Baton is set to visit London as part of celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee.

competitors from 16 nations and territories announced their readiness but women took part only  in athletics

880 yards after leading from the first bend and was never headed.The marathon was the finale of the athletics



Semenya claims she offered to show vagina to IAAF officials in 2009 to prove she was female

  • Athletics

Caster Semenya offered to show her vagina to athletics officials in 2009 when she won her first world

in Berlin by a huge margin, the sport's world governing body – then the International Association of Athletics

to use oxygen.She took medication after an initial ruling in 2011 by the IAAF - which became World Athletics

medallist Caster Semenya has spoken of her mental anguish at being denied the opportunity by World Athletics

World Athletics lawyer Jonathan Taylor, speaking during the HBO Real Sports interview, disagreed with

2019 to be allowed to continue to compete in the 800m without taking medication prescribed by World Athletics







Antigua and Barbuda

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Antigua and Barbuda has never won a medal at the Commonwealth Games, so if they were to break their duck at Birmingham 2022 it would be a momentous occasion.

The twin-island nation is due to send 10 athletes to the English city, in athletics, boxing, cycling

 Last year, Antigua and Barbuda installed a new athletics track at its Yasco Sports Complex."


Jim Peters

  • Commonwealth Sport Legends

Within half an hour of what was then the biggest athletics race in sporting history, a Canadian journalist

and disaster" of Bannister and Peters made it without question the most remarkable single session of athletics


World Athletics representatives to meet Tokyo Governor Koike over 2025 World Championships bid

  • Athletics

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is to meet with World Athletics officials tomorrow as the Japanese capital's

bid to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships steps up a gear.

Koike, who was also Governor during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, is to welcome a World Athletics Evaluation

Panel to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building tomorrow afternoon.Five World Athletics Evaluation

Panel members are set to attend including chairman Antti Pihlakoski.World Athletics vice-president Ximena

' compliance officer, complete the delegation.Tokyo is one of four bidders for the 2025 World Athletics

Championships, with there also interest from Kenya, Singapore and Poland.The World Athletics Evaluation



Tanzania

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

In 1974, Tanzania won its first Commonwealth Games gold medal in truly spectacular style.

the job for last year's rearranged Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where the country fielded a team of three in athletics