The National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) has welcomed officials from the Japanese embassy to discuss preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

will take place successfully to the NOCZ officials.Zambia have qualified athletes for the Games in athletics

Athletics Australia has withdrawn its team from the 2021 World Athletics Relays in Poland in May because

Silesia from May 1 to 2, was made in light of the COVID-19 situation in Poland and greater Europe, Athletics

We acknowledge the work World Athletics is doing in attempting to hold a safe event ahead of the Tokyo

Games, scheduled for this July.Last month the staging of the European Athletics Indoor Championships

team tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from the Polish city, and British Athletics wrote

to European Athletics to express its concerns over the implementation of the COVID-19 counter-measures

The many tributes from the world of sport have already demonstrated what an important part it had played in the life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday aged 99. 

"I see no way I can go," he said gloomily.Those who did go to Moscow included the now World Athletics

India scored an equaliser with just six seconds remaining and then beat Olympic champions Argentina in a shootout to cap a successful return to Hockey Pro League action.

better off than Los Leones.The teams are due to play again at the National Center of High Performance Athletics

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President Narinder Batra has insisted Lalit Bhanot will remain a key individual in the organisation, despite an Ethics Commission decision going against him last month.

Bhanot also serves as an official at the Athletics Federation of India.He chairs the AFI’s Planning Commission

Jean Baptiste Murema has been elected to lead the National Paralympic Committee of Rwanda (NPC-Rwanda) for a second four-year term.

different Federations because we have many games including wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, athletics

The Bislett Games in Oslo on June 10 - the fourth event in this year’s World Athletics Wanda Diamond

Rabat in Morocco, with Doha hosting the second meeting on May 28 and Rome the third on June 4.World Athletics

The Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (SASNOC) has partnered with the National Bank of Samoa (NBS) to support elite athletes' preparations for multi-sport events such as the Olympic Games.

least eight athletes to Tokyo 2020, across five sports..Discus thrower Alex Rose is set to compete in athletics

India's men are set to make their International Hockey Federation Hockey Pro League return after a 14-month absence with a double header against Argentina in Buenos Aires this weekend.

standings, a place ahead of Argentina prior to their encounters at the National Centre of High Performance Athletics

Tokyo 2020 qualification events in artistic swimming and diving will now be held in May, it has been announced, following reports they had been cancelled.

planned to take place in April.The May schedule includes volleyball, artistic swimming, gymnastics, athletics

shooting.Tokyo 2020 will be in charge of 14 of the test events.FINA will oversee its events, while World Athletics

is in charge of the marathon event in Sapporo.Domestic fans are expected to be present at the athletics

Obi Igbokwe, who helped the United States win a 400 metres mixed relay gold medal at the 2019 World Athletics

since then have been disqualified.The 24-year-old will miss the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the next World Athletics

Former Olympic champions Natalya Antyukh and Andrei Silnov are among four Russian athletes who have been given doping bans by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being named in the McLaren Report, but they will not lose their medals.

retired, so the bans mean very little in practice, although Silnov was forced to step down as Russian Athletics

extended far beyond the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, and contributed to the RusAF being suspended by World Athletics

Olympic gold medallist and former Tokyo 2020 sports director Koji Murofushi is reportedly receiving treatment for brain lymphoma.

Getty ImagesMurofushi, who won the gold medal in the hammer event at Athens 2004 and the 2011 World Athletics

Togo National Olympic Committee President Edem Akpaki was among those to attend the beginning of work at the country's second OlympAfrica Centre.

authorities were also in attendance.Once complete, the new centre will include a football pitch, an athletics

The Organising Committee of the Banská Bystrica 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) has held a meeting with representatives of 11 National Federations in Slovakia to discuss preparations for the event.

Representatives from the national bodies for athletics, swimming, triathlon, tennis, basketball, badminton

accommodation and transport projects.Six sports are set to take place at the sports park in Štiavničky - athletics