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Ghana pledges to host first-ever African Paralympic Games in 2023

  • Ghana 2023

Ghana remains committed to staging the first-ever African Paralympic Games in 2023 when it also plays host to the African Games, the President of the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) of Ghana insisted on Tuesday (October 5).

With the Government determined to bring back the glory days of Ghanaian sports, in athletics, boxing,


Sri Lanka Athletics set to implement tough qualifying standards for Hangzhou 2022

  • Hangzhou 2022

Sri Lanka Athletics is set to implement tough qualifying standards for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games

0.03sec off the 45.73 personal best he set in June.Times achieved at competitions organised by Sri Lanka Athletics

and at World Athletics-recognised events between February 2022 and April 2022 will be considered for

qualifying with the deadline for entries for the Games on April 30 2022.Sri Lanka has not won an athletics

February and March before the National Championships, which will be the final selection trial.Sri Lanka Athletics

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which finishes a month before the continental event begins.The last athletics


Philip Barker: Why the Queen's Baton came home for Birmingham 2022

  • Inside the Blogs

The Queen’s Baton will soon fly from Birmingham airport for Cyprus to begin a 294-day journey that ultimately will bring the baton "home".

," Baton Relay head Lisa Hampton said.The original QBR in 1958 may well have been inspired by Welsh athletics

releasing the message.In what was described by the Western Mail as "one of the best kept secrets", athletics


Nigerian sprinter Okagbare charged with three anti-doping offences by AIU

  • Athletics

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has issued three separate charges against Nigerian sprinter Blessing

charges and has requested that each of them be submitted to a hearing before a disciplinary tribunal.The Athletics

⬇️ #AIUNews#MySportMyIntegrity#CleanSport#FairSport pic.twitter.com/dx7QdHxmkd— Athletics Integrity




East African Breweries Limited "honoured" to support Kenyan NOC at Tokyo 2020

  • ANOCA

The East African Breweries Limited's (EABL) head of marketing beers Anne Joy Michira has said its support of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was "an honour," and the company is committed to aiding the progress of sport in the country.

Kenya's 85 athletes at Tokyo 2020 won 10 medals, all in athletics, including golds for Eliud Kipchoge



Fourteen German associations back Weikert for DOSB Presidency

  • EOC

Fourteen member associations of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) have reportedly backed outgoing International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) President Thomas Weikert to become the new head of the organisation.

December.Süddeutsche Zeitung said the signatories include "various core associations in Olympic sport such as athletics


Alan Hubbard: Boxing's smoothest operator in good voice for Tyson's televised trilogy

  • Inside the Blogs

"...And over now to the smooth voice of boxing, John Rawling." Such is the now-familiar introduction to the number one ringside commentator on big fight nights.

Cups and track and field championships.Rawling has commentated or written on a variety of sports, from athletics

down.Rawling started as a local journalist and has worked across a range of sports, including boxing, athletics

whom he still writes occasionally, and won the Sony sports commentator of the year award as BBC athletics



Sports Councils Equality Group guidance claims "the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist"

  • News

A review by the United Kingdom's Sports Councils Equality Group (SCEG) has concluded that "for many sports, the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist in a single competitive model," and suggested that governing bodies could create "open" or "universal" categories of competition.

International Federations have been encouraged to devise their own regulations.In 2019, World Athletics


Tokyo silver medallist Muir among first Scottish athletes named for Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

1500 metres silver medallist Laura Muir is among the first athletes to be named among the Scottish athletics

who won a historic 5,000-10,000m double in Japan.The Scot has now been named as part of her country's athletics

2020 bronze medallist Josh Kerr is also a part of Scotland's first cohort named to the Birmingham 2022 athletics

 "Glasgow and Gold Coast were very successful for athletics and with such a high-calibre line-up

The selection period for teams to name their representatives opened on March 1 2021, with athletics teams



Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium voted Canada's best sports venue

  • Commonwealth Games

Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium, which played host to the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, has been voted Canada's best sporting venue, according to a new study.

third time Canada held them after the inaugural event at Hamilton 1930 and Vancouver 1954.It also held athletics