Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC) President Theogene Uwayo has warned that major changes are going to be needed if the country is to end the 40-year wait at Paris 2024 for its first Olympic medal.

waiting to get on the podium.Rwanda sent a team of six athletes to the Japanese capital - three in athletics

National Olympic Committee of Iraq (NOCI) President Raad Hamoudi has targeted boosting sporting ties with Spain after meeting its Ambassador Pedro Martinez.

election.Talib Faisal finished as the runner-up with 17 votes.Iraq sent three athletes to Tokyo 2020 - one in athletics

A host of Olympic gold medallists will be in attendance at the two-day Wanda Diamond League final which starts in Zürich tomorrow, with 32 champions due to emerge from those who have qualified in the course of this season’s previous 11 meetings.

earn a Diamond Trophy, a $30,000 (£21,700/€25,280) prize and a wildcard entry to next year’s World Athletics

flourish in that event.Since the Olympics, Niyonsaba, who has moved up in distance in line with the World Athletics

Brisbane and South-East Queensland (SEQ) is set to enjoy a decade long property boom following the decision to award it the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been predicted.

Australia’s most famous cricket grounds, will be the jewel in Brisbane's Olympic crown, hosting the athletics

I write this as I watch the men’s wheelchair basketball final at the Ariake Arena between the United States and Japan and this match perfectly summarises what the Paralympics is like to watch live.

an opportunity it is.I might as well have slept at the Olympic Stadium, having visited most days for athletics

Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto hopes Sapporo’s bid to stage the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics can "become a reality" as Japan looks to stage another Games in the "very near future".

Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons said Japan can look forward to staging the World Para Athletics

We have Kobe for the World Para Athletics Championships next year."

10.60sec, the third fastest time ever, returned to action in phenomenal fashion today at the World Athletics

After a year's postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games ended two months of sporting action in the Japanese capital, with the Closing Ceremony at the Olympic Stadium.

Khudadadi - were present for the entry of nations' flags, after arriving during the Games to compete in athletics

Redevelopment of the Perry Barr railway station in the north of Birmingham is on track to be completed by the start of next year’s Commonwealth Games, after a recent visit by Councillor Bob Sleigh, the Deputy Mayor of the West Midlands.

Alexander Stadium, which is due to serve as the venue for the Opening and Closing ceremonies and the athletics

Six-times world champion Andrea Mayr won the vertical nasego in Casto in Italy in the 2021 World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) World Cup, defeating American world champion Grayson Murphy, who was racing in Europe for the first time.

Australia's Madison de Rozario won her second athletics gold at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games by claiming

viewer of the fight for gold, finishing five seconds behind De Rozario.Misato Michishita won the last athletics

An all-Italian podium ended the last day of track and field competition in athletics at the Tokyo 2020

silver medallist and Isaac Jean-Paul of the United States took bronze.Malaysia has a gold medal in athletics

Suitably rested, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will return to action at the World Athletics Continental Tour

Mitchell-Blake.Canada's Olympic 200 metres champion Andre De Grasse will race over that distance tomorrow in the World Athletics

Christine Mboma of Namibia and Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba won big over 200 and 5,000 metres respectively at tonight’s Diamond League meeting in Brussels as Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis set a meeting record of 6.05 metres and got close to the world record.

Mboma, 18, and Niyonsaba have moved respectively down and up in distance due to World Athletics’ ruling

Budapest is continuing with its plans to bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, despite being denied the opportunity to launch a campaign for the 2032 event after it was controversially awarded to Brisbane.

referendum ©Budapest 2024A political row has also broken out over Budapest’s staging of the 2023 World Athletics

meanwhile, has argued that the General Assembly of the capital has no say in the matter, as the Hungarian Athletics