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St Lucia NOC distributes additional funding to five National Federations

  • PASO

The St Lucia Olympic Committee (SLOC) has announced five National Federations has received a new batch of funding totalling EC$73,716.95 (£21,000/€25,000/$27,000) following a presentation ceremony at the SLOC House in La Clery in Castries.

The money has been distributed between the St Lucia Athletics Association (SLAA), St Lucia Aquatics Federation

Cycling Association (SLCA).The largest chunk of the money, EC$21,054.40 (£6,000/€7,200/$7,800), went to athletics


Olympic Solidarity grants to aid New Zealand athletes on path to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

The Olympic Solidarity funding programme has awarded ten New Zealand athletes with grants to aid them as they look to reach the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Connor Bell of athletics, Elliott Connolly of judo, and sailors Justina Kitchen and Molly Meech are on

are expected to receive $15,000 (£11,500/€13,800) over the 18 months.Rowing’s Georgia Nugent-O’Leary, athletics


Jesolo in Italy to host World Para Athletics Grand Prix in May

  • Athletics News

Jesolo in Italy has been confirmed as one of the venues for the 2022 World Para Athletics Grand Prix

Prix last year with with 275 athletes from 33 nations competing.Paris, which is set to host the Para Athletics

Stadium ©Getty ImagesParis is the fourth confirmed stop in the 2022 season.For the first time, World Para Athletics

scheduled from September 15 to 17.Two more GPs are likely to be held in May in Europe, with World Para Athletics

yet to decide the venue.World Para Athletics will announce new additions to the Grand Prix season soon



Trinidad and Tobago

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Lovie Santana, the Trinidad and Tobago Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022, experienced the full range of British weather when attending last month's open days for this year's Commonwealth Games.

confirmed.The total team size, including athletes, coaches and officials, will likely be over 100 in athletics

Trinidad and Tobago's proud athletics history includes the likes of Ato Boldon, the world 200m champion

and field athletes from all Commonwealth Games nations must cope with a congested schedule.The World Athletics




Victoria officially confirmed as host of 2026 Commonwealth Games as new regional model unveiled

  • Victoria 2026

A total of five cities and regions are set to play a role in the 2026 Commonwealth Games after Australian state Victoria was today officially confirmed as the host.

when the final programme is announced at the end of this year.Along with cricket, swimming and diving, athletics

weightlifting are the first group of sports to be confirmed on the programme for Victoria 2026.Swimming, athletics

tournament.Ballarat, where gold was discovered in 1851, sparking a massive boom in the city’s fortunes, will stage athletics




Holloway pulls out amid high winds at Bermuda Games but Camacho-Quinn flies

  • Athletics

Gusting winds at the USATF Bermuda Games caused world 110 metres champion Grant Holloway to pull out of what should have been his outdoor season opener after asking organisers in vain for the track to be "flipped".

Camacho-Quinn setting the fastest time of 2022 so far as she won in 12.67sec.Shortly before the opening World Athletics

who would go on to take second and fourth place at the Tokyo 2020 Games.But Etiang, who told World Athletics


Badminton World Federation tops #SportOnSocial ranking for 2022

  • Badminton

Badminton World Federation (BWF) has risen to the number one ranked International Federation (IF) in sports marketing agency Redtorch’s #SportOnSocial league table after knocking off Volleyball World.

experienced substantial growth across Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook in 2021 ©RedtorchWorld Athletics


WADA publishes study to confirm Schwazer sample was not manipulated

  • Athletics

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published results of additional investigations into the case involving Italian race walker Alex Schwazer, which the organisation says confirm a sample collected in 2016 was not subject to any form of manipulation.

doping case against Schwazer, with the investigating judge making a series of accusations against World Athletics

Tribunal rejected a petition from Schwazer to overturn his eight-year ban last May.The WADA and the Athletics