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Fans to vote for favourite Para athletes to feature in IPC online sticker album

  • Paralympics

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has launched an online sticker album in a bid to engage its social-media audience with the top athletes going for gold at this year’s Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/libp5TRmv6— Paralympic Games (@Paralympics) May 19, 2021Para archery and Para athletics

archery vote.Cuban sprinter Omara Durand and German long jumper Markus Rehm racked up the most Para athletics


World Athletics grants 23 more Russian athletes ANA status

  • Athletics

The World Athletics Doping Review Board has given another 23 Russian athletes Authorised Neutral Athlete

ANA status allows individual athletes to compete while the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) remains

been suspended since November 2015 in relation doping cover-ups.The RusAF faced expulsion from World Athletics

Danil Lysenko and failing to pay outstanding fines.However it was not expelled, and in March the World Athletics

reinstatement of the ANA programme, following the unanimous approval of a RusAF reinstatement plan.The World Athletics

to compete under the ANA label at any major meeting including the Olympics and the European Under-23 Athletics



Death of Evans and Gemili defiance re-focus sporting gaze on IOC's Rule 50 ban on podium protests

  • The Big Read

The announcement last week of the death of Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400 metres gold medallist, re-focused attention on the athlete protests - by him and several United States team mates - that marked those Games in Mexico.

murder.The issue has polarised opinion among athletes and sports administrators alike.Last December, World Athletics

own organisation’s rules on political and religious marketing.In response, a spokesperson for World Athletics

political or religious marketing".Earlier this month Dobromir Karamarinov, Interim President of European Athletics




UAB becomes official venue and partner of Birmingham 2022 World Games

  • Birmingham 2022

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will play a major part in the hosting of the 2022 World Games, the local Organising Committee has announced after signing a large-scale cooperation agreement.

residence halls for athletes, coaches and officials.UAB Medicine will be the presenting sponsor for athletics



Taylor’s Olympic triple jump triple bid shattered by ruptured Achilles tendon, fiancée reveals

  • Athletics

Christian Taylor’s hopes of earning a third successive Olympic triple jump title in Tokyo have been shattered by a ruptured Achilles tendon sustained in yesterday’s competition in Ostrava.

on July 23 success at a third Games looks a step too far for the man who last year established The Athletics

independent group advocating for track and field competitors.Taylor exited the competition in the World Athletics


Sichuan Airlines unveils jet dedicated to Chengdu 2021

  • Chengdu 2021

Chengdu 2021 sponsor Sichuan Airlines has unveiled another plane which has been decked out in livery dedicated to the Summer World University Games.

between June 26 and July 7, with the dates avoiding the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and the World Athletics


Olympic 400m champion and anti-racism activist Evans dies age 74

  • Athletics

American 400 metres Olympic champion and anti-racism activist Lee Evans has died at the age of 74 after suffering a stroke.

African-American he did not believe the words of the US anthem to be true.Evans later coached and directed athletics


Cheptegei contributes one of five 2021 world bests on chilly night in Ostrava

  • Athletics

25-year-old 3,000m world record of 7min 20.67sec set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen beyond him at the World Athletics

world list.Two teenage British 800m runners produced outstanding victories as 19-year-old European Athletics

of 54.74 from Ukraine’s Anna Ryzhykova, who clocked 55.09.All in all it was a fascinating night of athletics

, setting up the opening World Athletics Diamond League meeting of the season at Gateshead this Sunday



Cuba suspends all sport competition due to rise in COVID-19 cases

  • PASO

Cuba has suspended all national and international sports competitions in the country until July 31 as COVID-19 cases in the country continue to rise.

news agency Prensa Latina.Additionally, the statement revealed that domestic competitions approved for athletics