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Four-time Olympic gold medallist Richards-Ross appointed to Oregon 2022 Board

  • Athletics

Olympic gold medallist Sanya Richards-Ross has been appointed to the Board for the Oregon 2022 World Athletics

Richards-Ross, a former 400 metres world champion, was the World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year

 The 36-year-old American joins the Board for the the next edition of the World Athletics Championships

create the best track and field experience for athletes and fans. pic.twitter.com/ofkBQwt5gg— World Athletics

 World Athletics launched the campaign #WeGrowAthletics to mark the occasion and called on its partners


Silesia to join Kraków and Małopolska in staging 2023 European Games

  • Kraków 2023

Silesia is to help organise the 2023 European Games and athletics poised to be added to the programme

Andrzej Krasnicki, President of the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOI), said he was "hopeful" of including athletics

The Silesian Stadium - one of the venues for UEFA Euro 2012 - is penciled in to host athletics at the

The EOC delegation also visited the European Athletics Indoor Championships, which took place in Torun

over the weekend.Potential partnerships for the Games were discussed with European Athletics and the

I am hopeful that in the near future we could manage to agree on the conditions to include athletics


Berings questions COVID-19 testing system at European Athletics Indoor Championships after false positive

  • Athletics

Berings claims she was forced to withdraw from the semi-finals of the 60 metres hurdles at the European Athletics

European Athletics said Berings was tested as part of the mandatory sanitary and medical protocol agreed

Eline took a RT-PCR test on Saturday as part of the standard procedure," a statement from European Athletics

tested positive ahead of the event, meaning she was unable to defend the women’s 60m title.The European Athletics


Statue to women’s sports pioneer Alice Milliat unveiled in Paris

  • News

A striking statue of women’s sports pioneer Alice Milliat has been unveiled, to the strains of the Olympic Anthem, at the House of Sport in Paris.

Olympics in the world" open at Stade Pershing in Paris.Much of her efforts were focused on getting women’s athletics

establishment, including Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics.Eventually, five women’s athletics


IRL completes consultation on transgender participation with inclusion policy due in 2022

  • Non-Olympic Sports

International Rugby League (IRL) has completed a consultation on transgender participation, with the organisation saying it will use the upcoming Women’s Rugby League World Cup to inform policy development and will adopt a comprehensive inclusion policy in 2022.

physiological differences".However, it does allow transgender men to compete in men's rugby union.World Athletics

Federation among the participants.The International Cycling Union introduced similar guidelines to World Athletics


World Athletics launches #WeGrowAthletics campaign to advance gender equality

  • Athletics

World Athletics has launched the "#WeGrowAthletics" campaign to help the sport achieve gender equality

 As part of the launch, World Athletics is making a number of pledges to further advance the role

 World Athletics will continue its work to grow the number of women in leadership positions across

 World Athletics has already committed to ending the 2022 World Championships in Oregon with a women's

 Finally, World Athletics has pledged to ensure a platform for women's voices and tackle online

Gender equality should no longer be a theoretical discussion in any organisation," said World Athletics



African Cross Country Championships in Togo postponed due to COVID-19 concerns

  • Athletics

This weekend's African Cross Country Championships in Togo were postponed due to concerns surrounding COVID-19.

 According to a statement from the Confederation of African Athletics, the event was postponed on

 Athletics Kenya (AK) President Jackson Tuwei told The Standard he was disappointed by the postponement



Thomas Bach - the unlucky IOC President

  • The Big Read

On Wednesday afternoon (March 10), a freshly-barbered Thomas Bach will be reinstalled as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for four more years.

Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the International Paralympic Committee, the International Association of Athletics

Federations - now World Athletics - and the CAS.When Olympic Athletes from Russia won a gold medal at


Husillos earns 400 metres gold in Torun three years after Birmingham disqualification

  • Athletics

Spain’s Oscar Husillos earned European indoor 400 metres gold in Poland tonight - three years after he had seen victory in a European indoor record of 44.92sec disappear through disqualification for lane infringement at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

2021 best time by 0.01 second as she clocked a personal best of 50.63.Day three of the 36th European Athletics

Femke Bol of The Netherlands was a dominant winner of the 400 metres on day three of the European Athletics


Qatar Olympic Committee reiterates commitment to remain in dialogue with IOC over 2032 Olympics

  • OCA

The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) has confirmed it will remain in dialogue with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as it reiterated its commitment to hosting the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, despite the naming of Brisbane as the preferred host last month. 

per cent of venues used would already be existing, and would include those used for the 2019 World Athletics


Four Federations opt out of French kit agreement with Le Coq Sportif for Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Four French National Federations have reportedly agreed solidarity contributions to opt out of wearing Le Coq Sportif kit at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

According to French newspaper L’Équipe, the French Football Federation (FFF), French Athletics Federation

FFBB set to be allowed to use Nike Jordan Brand kits for their basketball teams.French athletes in athletics


Ingebrigtsen reinstated to European Indoors 1500m title in Torun as Thiam lays down golden Tokyo 2020 marker

  • Athletics

On a night when Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam won the European Athletics indoor pentathlon

crossed first.Then things got complicated.Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen runs for home in tonight's European Athletics

least wanted to hear arrived.Reacting to his apparent disqualification, Ingebrigtsen told European Athletics

#Torun2021— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) March 5, 2021Thiam, who had to miss her national indoor

#Torun2021 pic.twitter.com/Aqd3nR4LDG— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) March 5, 2021Britain’s Stockport-born


Inaugural Virtus Americas Regional Games to be held in 2022

  • Paralympics

Intellectual disability sports organisation Virtus is set to host its inaugural Americas Regional Games in 2022 in the Brazilian city of São Paulo.

additional impairment; and II3, a trial group for athletes with autism who are not eligible in II1.Athletics