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NBC Olympics to use outdoor studio for Tokyo 2020 primetime show

  • Tokyo 2020

In a first for the United States Olympic broadcaster, NBC Olympics' primetime coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Games will be anchored from an outdoor location.

Sports Emmy winner has previously served as lead producer for two of the Games' most-watched sports - athletics


Esports programme launched at University of Michigan

  • Universiade

The chief executive of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, has assisted with the establishment of a multi-disciplinary esports programme at the University of Michigan School of Information.

University of Michigan combines world-class instruction, research and athletics, making them the perfect


World 400m champion Naser set for two-day CAS hearing in whereabouts case

  • Athletics

Women’s 400 metres world champion Salwa Eid Naser is set to attend a two-day appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which could result in her being banned from this year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

the Associated Press, the hearing was due to start today after the World Anti-Doping Agency and World Athletics

instead of her apartment.The 22-year-old was charged with four alleged whereabouts failures by the Athletics

of a doping failure and Naser had been provisionally banned after the charges were brought.The World Athletics

inside the 12-month window.Salwa Eid Naser was charged with four alleged whereabouts failures by the Athletics

case.Naser ran the third quickest 400m time in history, 48.14sec, on her way to gold at the Doha World Athletics


Modahl and Steele appointed to Commonwealth Games England Board

  • Commonwealth Games

Diane Modahl, who was sent home from the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria following a doping charge of which she was belatedly and completely cleared, has been named as one of two new members of the Commonwealth Games England Board.

the papers after her high-profile return from Canada in 1994 and after being banned by the British Athletics

authorities in 1995 and by sport’s international governing body, the IInternational Association of Athletics

Since retiring from international athletics, I have dedicated my career and Board appointments to championing


Main stadium and aquatics centre for Hangzhou 2022 given final approval

  • Hangzhou 2022

The centerpiece venue built for next year's Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games has been given final approval by Chinese authorities, the Organising Committee has said, along with the aquatics centre. 

Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium - which has the nickname "Big Lotus" - is due to play host to athletics


Derek Boosey: World Athletics should revive the school pentathlon

  • Inside the Blogs

In the 1960s and 1970s the US President's Council on Physical Fitness focused on rigorous fitness with less of an emphasis on general physical activity. 

The objective is to make athletics the number one participation sport in schools and also attract and

That same year I was appointed as the high performance director of Indian Athletics.

 During that time, the IAAF became World Athletics.

World Athletics were too busy at that time with a new President and a new agenda.

 As in all sports, competition is the lifeblood of athletics.



Tokyo 2020 set to postpone decision on fans to June amid spike in COVID-19 cases

  • Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto has conceded a decision on whether Japanese fans can attend the rescheduled Olympic and Paralympic Games might not be made until June amid a spike in COVID-19 cases in the host country.

will be swaying public opinion in their favour in the weeks before the Opening Ceremony.The Tokyo 2020 athletics

Tokyo 2020 organisers have also reportedly decided to stage the athletics test event at the new National


Philip Barker: Forty years since Chariots of Fire, the quintessential Olympic film

  • Inside the Blogs

It won four Oscars, grossed more than $59 million (£42 million/€49 million) and is considered by some to be the greatest sports film ever made.

Ben Cross was cast as Abrahams.The eminent athletics coach and sports historian Tom McNab had been recruited

as "athletics consultant" and also played an important role in selecting the cast.

time the film was conceived, Abrahams was 79-years-old and very much an elder statesman of British athletics

hurdles gold in 1928.By the time the film was made, Exeter had just resigned as the head of global athletics


UK Athletics and Diamond League reject request to shift Anniversary Games from London Stadium

  • Athletics

UK Athletics (UKA) and the Diamond League maintain that the Anniversary Games will take place as planned

built to host the London 2012 Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as the Olympic and Paralympic athletics

, and ultimately the taxpayer, to face costs of around £3million to prepare for just one evening of athletics

It would be a travesty for the sport after such a long wait for world-class athletics to return to the


Commonwealth Games Federation announces formation of Ethics Commission

  • Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has announced the creation of its new independent Ethics Commission, with Northern Ireland's Brian Speers appointed as chair.

Fowlie is the commissioner of Athletics Canada and recognised as a leading authority on ombudsman evaluation


Eleven sports confirmed for ASEAN Para Games in Hanoi

  • Paralympics

Eleven sports have been confirmed for this year's ASEAN Para Games in Vietnam's capital city Hanoi.

not be contested because of "economic reasons and difficulties in preparing venues and facilities".Athletics


IPC appoints Wrenn as new Paralympic Games chief of delivery

  • Paralympics

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has appointed Colleen Wrenn in the newly-created role of chief Paralympic Games delivery officer. 

2019.In addition to working at multi-sport events, Wrenn has worked on preparations for the World Para Athletics

and World Athletics Championships in London in 2017, the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham


Araujo overcomes injury to claim victory on final day of World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Jesolo

  • Athletics News

produced a heroic performance to claim victory in the men’s 200m T47 on the final day of the World Para Athletics

#ParaAthletics #GrandPrix #Jesolo2021 @Paralympics pic.twitter.com/1nSp6A9WQo— Para Athletics (@ParaAthletics

Stadium took place behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.It was the first World Para Athletics

year’s edition was cancelled as the pandemic developed.In a tweet after the meeting ended World Para Athletics