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Swift 60m run in Toruń may tempt Thompson-Herah to seek first world indoor title

  • Athletics

Elaine Thompson-Herah, who began her season in Birmingham on Saturday (February 19), will compete over 60 metres in the Polish city of Toruń tomorrow against the home sprinter who tops this year’s world rankings, Ewa Swoboda.

200m titles in Tokyo last summer, clocked 7.08sec at the weekend in the sixth of seven scheduled World Athletics

indoors or out, added that her performance tomorrow would help her decide whether to contest the World Athletics




Kraków councillor hits out at opportunity cost of 2023 European Games funding

  • Kraków 2023

Councillor Łukasz Maślona, a member of the Kraków for Residents group, has launched an attack on the city's hosting of the 2023 European Games, arguing that the money needed to stage the event could be spent on more pressing issues.

aquatics is not on the sports programme as things stand.Maślona also expressed disappointment that athletics

bring more benefits than many others.The track and field programme is set to double as the European Athletics



Maltese Olympic Committee launches 2023 Games of the Small States of Europe

  • EOC

The Maltese Olympic Committee (MOC) has officially launched next year's Games of the Small States of Europe, with its President Julian Pace Bonello aiming for the multi-sport event to "serve as a catalyst to inspire young athletes".

Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro and San Marino are the other countries who take part, with athletics


World Athletics grants Authorised Neutral Athlete status to 33 more Russians

  • Athletics

The World Athletics Doping Review Board (DRB) has allowed 33 more Russian athletes to compete in international

The move comes with the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) still serving a suspension, which has been

within the country.Fifty-five Russian athletes have now been granted ANA status for 2022, under World Athletics

be granted eligibility.No more than 20 ANAs will be allowed to compete across the four senior World Athletics

Team Championships in Omani capital Muscat, the Indoor Championships in Belgrade in Serbia, the World Athletics

a list of 50 athletes who will be subject to regular testing for performance-enhancing drugs.World Athletics


Duplantis misses world record by whisker in Birmingham as Hodgkinson smashes British 800m indoor record

  • Athletics

Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis cleared a season's best of 6.05 metres before coming agonisingly close to a world record of 6.19m in Birmingham, following Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson's smashing of the British indoor 800 metres record.

hopes to contest world indoor and outdoor titles by winning at the fifth of this season's seven World Athletics

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/ZEIRfV6U04— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 19, 2022"I wrote

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/twMqmws5l1— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 19, 2022World


Mumbai to host IOC Session in 2023 as India targets future Olympic Games

  • Olympics

Mumbai has been named as the host of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in 2023, as Indian officials outlined their long-term target to host a future edition of the Olympic Games to the organisation.

sports stadium in the world - has been suggested as a potential venue for the Opening Ceremony and athletics


Thompson-Herah to open season in Birmingham as Duplantis returns to British action

  • Athletics

Elaine Thompson-Herah, who retained her Olympic 100 and 200 metres titles in Tokyo last summer, will open her season in the Arena Birmingham tomorrow at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix, which features two other Tokyo 2020 champions in Mondo Duplantis and Mariya Lasitskene.

second on the respective 100m and 200m all-time lists, competes over 60m at the fifth of seven World Athletics

pic.twitter.com/wikfOuapzt— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 18, 2022His opponents will include



St Helena

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

When the British needed somewhere remote for the exile of Napoleon Bonaparte - a place from where return was impossible - they opted for St Helena.

For Birmingham 2022, St Helena has selected an 11-strong team in athletics, badminton and swimming.Stevens

Tristan da Cunha.Aiden Yon-Stevens, Nick's son, will compete in the 400 metres in Birmingham as the first athletics




Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen sets world indoor 1500m record at Liévin

  • Athletics

senior world record in Liévin tonight as he clocked 3min 30.60sec at the fourth of this season's World Athletics

indoor title in Belgrade next month to add to the three golds he has already earned in the European Athletics

pic.twitter.com/odQszEV97y— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 17, 2022He nipped ahead of his

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/VWOzjU83cn— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 17, 2022He was

clocked 1:58.46 to hold off world champion Halimah Nakaayi, who set a Ugandan record of 1:58.58.The World Athletics