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Lasitskene and Sidorova among 22 Russian athletes granted ANA status for 2022

  • Athletics

Olympic high jump champion Mariya Lasitskene and two-time pole vault world champion Anzhelika Sidorova are among 22 Russian athletes to have been granted permission to compete internationally in 2022.

The Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) scheme was established in 2016, after the Russian Athletics Federation

Council.World Athletics confirmed in December that the number of Russian athletes granted ANA status

would increase from a cap of 10 to 20 at major events.The World Athletics Doping Review Board has now

Race Walking Team Championship, World Athletics Indoor Championships and the World Athletics Championships.The

European Championships, World Athletics Half Marathon Championships and European Cross Country Championships





Maldives

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Maldives are perhaps looking forward to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games a little more than most.

2014 ©Getty ImagesMaldives are hoping to select 17 athletes for Birmingham 2022, in sports including athletics

aerial photographs of capital city Malé showing there is nowhere left to build.There are two synthetic athletics


Ghana Athletics Association lifts ban on Youth Olympic gold medallist Bissah

  • Athletics

The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) has lifted the ban on Youth Olympic gold medallist Martha Bissah

I wish to humbly express my sincerest apology and utmost regret for my behaviour towards the Ghana Athletics

particular sometime in 2015," wrote Bissah to GAA President Francis Dodoo, who also chairs the World Athletics

Governance Commission.Happy to announce that our athlete Martha Bissah has been pardoned.Ghana Athletics

minister Mustapha Ussif @ussif_mustapha for the respective roles played. pic.twitter.com/aLS4MvNJT9— Ghana Athletics

been pardoned following an Executive Committee meeting and would be "warmly welcomed back into the athletics


World Para Athletics confirms postponement of Kobe 2022 World Championships

  • Athletics News

World Para Athletics has agreed to postpone this year's World Championships in Kobe because of COVID-

foreseeable restrictions associated to the delivery of the World Championships in Japan, both World Para Athletics

an understanding that the competition will not take place in 2022," read a statement from World Para Athletics

Games.The Universiade Memorial Stadium was intended to act as the main venue for the Kobe 2022 World Para Athletics


Rome 1960 Olympic discus silver medallist dies at age of 85

  • Athletics

The United States' Olympic discus silver medallist and former world record holder Rink Babka has died at the age of 85, it has been announced.

Wyoming, the talented sportsman also starred in American football, basketball and baseball in addition to athletics

Gary Carlsen.Rink Babka owned a beverage distributorship in California following his retirement from athletics


Medical experts criticise new IOC framework on participation of transgender athletes

  • Olympics

A group of medical experts have criticised the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) framework for transgender and differences in sex development (DSD) athletes, claiming it ignores the science and focuses on inclusion.

biological or medical aspects are not considered," the position paper states.The head of the World Athletics


Disgraced Salazar received bonus despite ending consultancy role with UK Athletics, reports claim

  • Athletics

Banned athletics coach Alberto Salazar reportedly received a £125,000 ($170,000/€150,000) bonus for helping

Olympic gold medals and major titles between 2012 and 2016, despite being dropped as a consultant by UK Athletics

facilitating prohibited doping conduct" while head of the now-disbanded Nike Oregon Project (NOP).UK Athletics

according to the Mail on Sunday.The newspaper also reported UK Sport had sent several emails to UK Athletics

removed Salazar's name from a building at its Beaverton headquarters in Oregon.A spokesperson for UK Athletics


A to Z of Sport

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Athletics and Alexander StadiumUK Athletics is based at the Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr, which will

stadium has hosted Diamond League meetings, while Utilita Arena Birmingham staged the World Indoor Athletics

features 14 outdoor pitches, including a replica of the Wembley Stadium pitch in London.Wolverhampton Athletics

tennis.Tessa SandersonTessa Sanderson grew up in Wednesfield and was a member of Wolverhampton and Bilston Athletics



When sport took tea with Mussolini

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The sporting year of 2022 seems destined to be defined by events which will bring both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA under intense scrutiny over their relationships with host nations.

women's sport remained ambivalent.A few weeks after the Student Games, the grandees of what is now World Athletics

President Sigfrid Edstrom announced the introduction of a European Athletics Championships in 1934.