Woody Lawrence will not be unprepared when he takes on the role of Chef de Mission for Dominica at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

1990 but has been ever-present since then.The Birmingham team could potentially include 11 athletes in athletics

Cayman Islands - October 2021The Commonwealth Games can provide smaller nations with their greatest sporting moments - just ask the Cayman Islands.

She's still active, she's part of the athletics association executive," said Janet Sairsingh, the Cayman

Olympics, but with the Games in Japan now been and gone attention can turn to Birmingham.As well as athletics

British Virgin Islands - November 2021The Commonwealth Games often conjures up inspirational sporting stories - take Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands.

Virgin Islands at Birmingham 2022, which would be their biggest party ever.The majority will be in athletics

 "We had tennis, squash and athletics all pretty much happening normally.

Bermuda - November 2021For most people, October 18 this year would have been just another Monday.

Raynor, who recently stepped down as Bermuda National Athletics Association President after 12 years,

Summer Olympics.Bermuda currently has 10 places confirmed for Birmingham 2022, and hopes to compete in athletics

Getty ImagesThis denied Duffy the chance to race on home soil, and the CARIFTA Games, a major regional athletics

Barbados - October 2021The Barbados Chef de Mission for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has said representing the West Indies in the women's cricket tournament would be a "tremendous honour". 

Barbados will hope to be strong in athletics, while the island was buoyed by its squash performance at

Bahamas - March 2022There won't be many Chef de Missions at Birmingham 2022 who have more experience than Roy Colebrook.

Commonwealth Games history - including 10 golds.The vast majority of their podium places have come in athletics

, which has brought the island nation plenty of success.This year, the World Athletics Championships

races.Gardiner added to the world title he won over the distance in Doha in 2019.Despite this track success, athletics

 As well as athletics, Bahamian athletes are set to compete in swimming, cycling and table tennis

Antigua and Barbuda - May 2022Antigua and Barbuda has never won a medal at the Commonwealth Games, so if they were to break their duck at Birmingham 2022 it would be a momentous occasion.

The twin-island nation is due to send 10 athletes to the English city, in athletics, boxing, cycling

 Last year, Antigua and Barbuda installed a new athletics track at its Yasco Sports Complex."

Anguilla - October 2021The expectation of fans at Birmingham 2022 means next year's Commonwealth Games could be particularly special.

Commonwealth Games titles and a European gold during a career which later saw him appointed as head coach of Athletics

Canada's team at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will be in safe hands - as they will have not one but two Chefs de Mission to lean on.

including the inaugural edition in Hamilton in 1930 after local sports journalist Bobby Robinson, an athletics

The Commonwealth Games Federation's new blueprint for the Games, which lists athletics and swimming as

North Korea’s withdrawal from the upcoming Olympics has echoes of the 1964 Games in Tokyo although the reasons behind it are very different.

making.In 1962, Sin Kim-dan recorded a world record of 51.9 seconds for the 400 metres.The late Italian athletics

Athletics and swimming both refused to recognise the event.Brundage later branded GANEFO as "politically

Olympics was a reality.Brundage had the support of the Marquess of Exeter, then head of what is now World Athletics

Committee - now Sri Lanka - complained of "arbitrary actions" and accused Brundage of being "unfair".Soviet athletics

World Para Athletics has updated its 2021 competition calendar following the cancellation of the Grand

Switzerland for the Grand Prix that is set to take place from May 14 to 16.Organisers of the World Para Athletics

the cancellation of the event 2020 Grand Prix series and forced the postponement of the World Para Athletics

.Due to the rescheduling of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and the World Championships, World Para Athletics

Ultimate frisbee and Australian rules football player Cat Phillips has been named as the World Games Athlete of the Month for March.

gender equality.Growing up in Melbourne in Australia, Phillips tried a lot of sports including netball, athletics

As I made my way through the weightlifting ranks, competing as a young athlete in a sport tainted by doping - and with rumours of countries constantly getting away with doping -  it taught me just to focus on my own performance, and controlling the controllable. 

at the IWF if we are to rebuild our sport’s reputation just as other major Olympic sports - such as athletics

This wasn’t an idea that the likes of athletics, biathlon and other sports [that have faced major crises

illegal betting and other threats to other sport - establishing an arm’s length Integrity Unit, just as athletics

The NN Mission Marathon, involving Kenya’s world record holder Eliud Kipchoge and more than 70 other athletes seeking either to secure their Tokyo 2020 place or prepare for the Olympic event, will go ahead this Sunday (April 18) at Enschede in The Netherlands.

The European Weightlifting Championships ended on a high note in Moscow, where the incomparable Lasha Talakhadze broke two world records.

suspended, Campbell is the top European contender for Tokyo 2020.Martina Hrašnová is hoping to compete in athletics

training.She is coached by Rudolf Lukac, twice an Olympian in weightlifting who also specialises in athletics

training-camp coaching from the Turk who coached Halil Mutlu, Cafer Topcu.If she makes it through the athletics