The Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) plans to build Olympic centres in Dar es Salaam and Singida after securing land in both locations.

Africa (ANOCA) will help to fund construction.Alphonce Simbu, a bronze medallist at the 2017 World Athletics

Ryan Crouser appeared to have raised his own indoor shot put world record to a massive 23.38 metres at the Millrose Games in New York City - only to hear that there had been a measurement error and his best effort was inside his past mark of 22.82m.

23.37m.pic.twitter.com/k2c37zTRkT— USATF (@usatf) January 29, 2022But shortly after the second of this season’s World Athletics

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/FYTUN3dLQP— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) January 29, 2022Crouser

Ethiopia's Nibret Melak is set to defend his men's Cinque Mulini crown at tomorrow's World Athletics

among Melak's principal challengers.Worku won gold in the 3,000m and silver in the 5,000m at the World Athletics

Janeiro 2016.Fellow Kenyan Lucy Mawia Muli will be aiming for her third podium finish on the World Athletics

Estonia has joined the list of countries that have decided against sending Government officials to the Winter Olympics here.

insignificant" with many European Union nations distancing themselves from joining the US-led move.World Athletics

Mondo Duplantis started 2022 by winning with 6.02 metres in Karlsruhe at the first of this year’s World Athletics

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/D6CaJ8c2s6— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) January 28, 2022France

A delegation from World Athletics has visited Budapest to review plans for the 2023 World Athletics Championships

We believe that athletics is the most accessible and barrier-free sport, making it easy for everyone

to participate in it," World Athletics Chief executive Jon Ridgeon said, having been told of how the

For example, 30 per cent more kids have chosen athletics as their sport of choice and our competitors

Combined with the training and competition opportunities provided by the new National Athletics Centre

, this means a significant development of Hungarian athletics, which can be reflected in the results

Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) leaders have expressed solidarity with the people of Tonga after the country was hit by a deadly volcanic eruption and tsunami.

National Olympic Committee sent six athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, competing in taekwondo, swimming, athletics

Human rights activists believe a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics here will send a "very clear message" to China as more than 200 non-governmental organisations called for further countries to shun the Games.

with many European Union nations distancing themselves from joining the US-led initiative, while World Athletics

A uniquely busy season of athletics gets fully underway tomorrow as Olympic and world champions converge

on Karlsruhe's Messehalle for the first of the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.

in this German venue will be followed by six other Gold meetings as the tour winds up for the World Athletics

because of COVID-19 cancellations and postponements, both the indoor and outdoor versions of the World Athletics

said Duplantis.Berihu Aregawi of Ethiopia will be favourite in the 3,000 metres at the opening World Athletics

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has retained its position as the most followed International Federation on the Burson Cohn & Wolfe Sports (BCW Sports) social media ranking.

Federation.The top four is the same as 2021, with the International Volleyball Federation in fourth.World Athletics

Beijing’s Torch Relay to carry the Olympic Flame to the "Birds Nest" is set to resume on Wednesday (February 2).

thought of building a new stadium but in the end, organisers decided to upgrade Bislett, a world famous athletics

Alfred Foloko has been re-elected President of the National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) after comfortably beating rival candidate Elias Mpondela.

our transformational leadership which is all-inclusive," Foloko wrote.Mpondela, the head of Zambia Athletics

for a Winter and Summer Olympics after being picked for Beijing 2022 - 14 years after she appeared in athletics

All five of New Zealand's Paralympic gold medallists from the Tokyo 2020 Games are among a list of 28 finalists for the Halberg Awards, an event that honours sporting achievements of teams and athletes.

Paralympian from New Zealand.Anna Grimaldi joins her after winning the T47 long jump gold medal, as do fellow athletics

The American Samoa National Olympic Committee (ASNOC) has praised "pioneer" Nathan Crumpton, who is set to become the first athlete to represent the territory at the Winter Olympics for 28 years.

Nathan Crumpton, right, also competed in athletics for American Samoa at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ©Getty