On Thursday, London mayor Sadiq Khan unveiled his strategy to "fully cement London’s reputation as the undisputed sports capital of the world." He outlined his intentions to pursue additional prestigious events, contingent on his re-election next week.

EURO 2020 and UEFA Women's EURO 2022, official NBA games, the Laver Cup, NFL games, Diamond League Athletics

Sports Centre, making it Britain’s first zero-carbon sports facility, and restore the Crystal Palace athletics

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has announced that the 2025 Track Cycling World Championships will be held in Santiago, Chile, instead of San Juan, Argentina.

The World Athletics Championships are the oldest of the disciplines, with the first edition taking place

Bosse announced he was quitting athletics late last year due to recurrent injuries.

Organisers are planning a large-scale running event to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister's historic achievement of running a mile in under four minutes.

sub-four-minute mile at the age of just 25, it was arguably the most iconic moment in the history of athletics

 However, by the end of 1954, he retired from athletics to pursue his medical studies, focusing

Sir Roger passed away in March 2018, at the age of 88.To mark the 70th anniversary, Museum of World Athletics

GETTY IMAGESThe Oxford University Athletics Club's plaque, to be awarded on May 6, 2024, falls under

At the time of OUAC's establishment in 1860, track and field athletics were in their nascent stages,

For those who don’t follow American television, one of the best shows in recent years is called Yellowstone. A spinoff, also hugely popular, is called 1923 – it features Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, and purports to trace the backstory of the Dutton family in Montana roughly 100 years ago.

This bit comes to mind in assessing the recent announcement by World Athletics that it will pay $50,000

World Athletics does. This is what they don’t want to acknowledge.

 Since 2015, when he was first elected World Athletics president, Coe has promoted change.

Women are mandated to be in senior positions.The 2017 introduction of the Athletics Integrity Unit?

 That’s why Coe, and World Athletics, did what they did.

The Ugandan Olympic Committee (UOC) says it is ready for this summer's Olympic Games with a record medal haul expected. The UOC launched its road map to Paris 2024 last week in an event attended by France's ambassador to Uganda, Xavier Sticker.

UGANDA | CGA UGANDA (@Official_UOC) April 18, 2024Uganda tallied four medals at Tokyo 2020, all in athletics

With four Sportsman of the Year awards, Novak Djokovic is one behind the record held by his former rival Roger Federer. The Serbian is on a shortlist of six alongside the likes of Armand Duplantis, Lionel Messi and Max Verstappen, while fellow tennis player Faith Kipyegon and Aitana Bonmati head the women's nominations.

Cup and Champions League, and American sprinter Noah Lyles after his three golds at last year's World Athletics

Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa was the main headliner as she eyed her first London Marathon win, but Peres Jepchirchir stole the show on Sunday by breaking the seven-year-old women's only world record. The Olympic champion surged clear in the closing stages to win in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds.

repugnant", with international federation chiefs angry they weren't consulted by Sebastian Coe's World Athletics

the modern Olympic Games, in an unprecedented move among sports federations, the president of World Athletics

GETTY IMAGESIn a statement on Friday responding to the fallout, World Athletics said paying prize money

From the Acropolis, Greece's most emblematic monument, the Olympic flame sends its timeless messages of peace and truce to the entire planet. The altar was lit by Olympic athlete Periklis Iakovakis, who received the light in the Propylaea from swimming champion Andreas Vazaios, as reported the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC).

be found and all this will stop," added the bronze medallist in the 400m hurdles at the 2003 World Athletics

The Spanish city of Valencia was awarded the 2027 European Athletics Indoor Championships on Friday at

the 173rd meeting of the European Athletics Council in Rome.

Valencia, a city where its marathon grows every year, will host the European Athletics Indoor Championships

for the second time, having previously organised the event in 1998 and the World Indoor Athletics Championships

The ability of the Roral Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) to organise outstanding continental and

global athletics events is beyond question and Valencia has hosted several major championships in the

On behalf of European Athletics, I can say with absolute confidence that Valencia will be a wonderful

A further 14 medals were won by the UAE disabled athletics team.

silver medals and one bronze.The United Arab Emirates continued to strengthen their medal tally in athletics

God willing, it will be a resounding success," he highlighted.On the third day, the UAE Athletics Team

Meanwhile, the UAE Athletics Team for Persons with Disabilities dominated the competition on the first

Germany will be sporting an unfamiliar look to the world's football fans come 2027, when the national team is due to switch kits from local and long-tenured Adidas to US-based Nike. An "inexplicable" deal, according to Bjorn Gulden, CEO of the brand whose iconic three stripes became a global fashion trend.

former footballer turned CEO is set on expanding the company’s focus to other sporting disciplines like athletics

For me, it's always about athletics.

The 20-year-old athlete is aiming to become the first African to win Olympic gold in the top speed events. After winning gold and bronze medals at the World Championships in Budapest, Tebogo is determined to emulate his idol, Usain Bolt, "the person I admire most," the African pointed out.

The world may see him as a rising star in athletics, but when he comes back to Botswana, he's my humble

backlash, the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa has expressed its disapproval of World Athletics

ANOCA reiterates its disapproval of the recent decision by World Athletics to offer prize money to gold

association stated in a press release.African Olympic officials aren't the only ones opposed to what World Athletics

president Sebastian Coe had glowingly described as "a pivotal moment for World Athletics and the sport

of athletics as a whole".