Optimism is reportedly growing among organisers of next year’s rescheduled Pacific Mini Games thanks to the rollout of coronavirus vaccines in host country the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

staging of next year's rescheduled Pacific Mini Games ©PGCTwenty-four nations are expected to compete in athletics

to play it again in the northern French city of Liévin tomorrow in the third of this season’s World Athletics

Rouen.Pole vault world record holder Mondo Duplantis will take on a strong field at the third World Athletics

athletes but failed to win a medal.They put that right at Hangzhou 2022, winning a silver and a bronze in athletics

receiver Tyreek Hill has once again stated his ambition to compete at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics in athletics

The National Olympic Committee of the Ivory Coast (CNO-CIV) has given funding to eight athletes - two of them taekwondo players - to aid preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

metres at Los Angeles 1984.Twelve Ivorian athletes went to the last Summer Olympics, competing across athletics

Pictograms have been revealed for the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou.

between October 9 and 15 next year.At the Games they will feature at the competition venues.Archery, athletics

Former world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy took the Banskobystrická latka title after defeating defending champion Luis Zayas of Cuba in Banská Bystrica in Slovakia.

victory in the women's event in Banka Bystrica ©Getty ImagesAlthough the Banskobystrická latka is a World Athletics

ahead of fourth placed Elena Vallortigara of Italy, who also finished on 1.93m.The next scheduled World Athletics

It is surely the most agonising Question of Sport ever. Will Tokyo 2020, rescheduled for this summer, go ahead as planned? Or perhaps more pertinently should the Olympic and Paralympic Games now be abandoned as yet another victim of COVID-19?

Bach remain upbeat and sanguine about the prospects, as do some other sporting bigwigs including World Athletics

These would include core sports such as athletics (minus marathons), aquatics (including swimming and

This year’s Los Angeles Marathon has been postponed for the second time due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Iranian Chef de Mission Hadi Rezaei has spoken of his intention to send 50 athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games - more than half the size of the delegation that competed at Rio 2016.

his plans at a webinar hosted by the Iranian National Paralympic Committee.Iran is set to compete in athletics

Eight leaders have been named to start UK Sport’s new initiative to increase female representation in elite coaching within the Olympic and Paralympic field by the time of the Paris 2024 Games.

Jane Figueiredo in diving, Claire Morrison in boccia, Paula Dunn in Para athletics, Kate Howey in judo

programme ⬇️— UK Sport (@uk_sport) January 28, 2021Figueiredo (diving): Christine Bloomfield-Harrison (athletics

Jody Kime (artistic gymnastics), Lisa Letchford (hockey).Howey: Jenny Leeming (diving), Shani Palmer (athletics

Marshall: Leah Crane (climbing), Monica Greenwood (cycling), Sarah Kelleher (hockey), Coral Nourrice (athletics

Katie Arup (fencing), Lysa Jones (golf).Whittaker-Smith: Emma Trott (cycling), Laura Turner-Alleyne (athletics

World heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson says she is still fully focused on competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games despite being unable to resume training until March because of an achilles injury.

points total of 6981 on her way to victory.Johnson-Thompson’s latest competitive action was at the World Athletics

Erica Gavel has been elected vice-chair of the Canadian Paralympic Athletes' Council.

Mike Whitehead were elected to the Athletes' Council in December, with ice hockey's Rob Armstrong, athletics

Cuban high jumper Luis Zayas is set to defend his title at Banskobystrická latka in Banská Bystrica tomorrow.

 The men's competition at the Banskobystrická latka is a gold-level meeting on the World Athletics

Australian Paralympians shared their personal stories and answered questions during online meetings with Japanese schoolchildren.

 Rio 2016 Para-swimming silver medallist Monique Murphy, Para-athletics world silver medallist Eliza

Ault-Connell, Para-athletics world bronze medallist Sarah Walsh and Jaryd Clifford, world champion in