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Birmingham 2022 Board bids to address diversity criticism with two new members

  • Birmingham 2022

Birmingham 2022 chief executive Ian Reid is confident the Organising Committee’s Board - which has faced criticism over a lack of diversity - will be “much more reflective of the region” as it closes in on appointing two new members.

Hyde Peters’ resignation came shortly after she decided against becoming the new chief executive of UK Athletics



Dróżdż wins Polish Paralympic Athlete of the Year

  • Paralympics

Wheelchair Fencing World Cup winner Kinga Dróżdż has been selected as the 2020 Athlete of the Year by the Polish Paralympic Committee (PPC).

were many categories at the PPC awards, including Coach of the Year, won by Zbigniew Lewkowicz, a Para-athletics

Elsewhere, the Event of the Year was the Para-athletics Polish Championships in Krakow.


Panam Sports aiming to blend planned training camp with Tokyo 2020 adaptions

  • PASO

Panam Sports says it is in ongoing dialogue with the City of Tachikawa to ensure its pre-Games training camp "blends seamlessly" to allow athletes to acclimatise and prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Our main sport - the one where we have the biggest representation - is athletics which is in the second


Former World Athletics Council member Al Kamali handed six-month ban for gifting watches

  • Athletics

Former World Athletics Council member Ahmad Al Kamali has been banned for six months and fined €5,000

The President of the UAE Athletics Federation has been sanctioned following a probe by the World Athletics

Ethics Board.He was accused of gifting the watches to officials at the Confederation of African Athletics

an alleged attempt to persuade them to vote for him as a Council member.Al Kamali sat on the World Athletics

Council, previously the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council, between 2011

 "During the African Athletics Association Congress in Addis Ababa, I have offered corporate gestures


Interim President of European Athletics consults IOC over safeguarding athletes

  • Athletics

European Athletics interim President Dobromir Karamarinov has met with International Olympic Committee

between Karamarinov, Prince Feisal and Burrows covered the recent white paper released by European Athletics

I want to thank His Royal Highness for offering European Athletics his words of wisdom and guidance on

how we can best tackle and prevent abuse and harassment in athletics," said Karamarinov to Prince Feisal

European Athletics will conclude its review of its safeguarding policies and procedures with its members

 "I therefore look forward to continuing our discussions with European Athletics and supporting


Olympics precursor Wenlock Olympian Games in search of new volunteers

  • Collecting and Heritage

A sports event which helped inspire Baron Pierre de Coubertin to revive the Olympic Games is seeking volunteers to help secure its future.

certainly shrink that’s no doubt about it, they could certainly shrink down to a core set of activities, athletics

the eye of Coubertin who visited in 1890 and described Much Wenlock as "a page from the history of athletics


Mike Rowbottom: The sound of history - Norman's wife recalls what was heard as well as seen during Mexico 1968 podium protest

  • Inside the Blogs

The image of the black-gloved, raised fists protest by 200 metres medallists Tommie Smith, Peter Norman and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics has assumed iconic status.

said earlier this month, it was destiny.Her comments came in a pre-recorded interview for the World Athletics

I have nothing to add at this moment in time," Bach said.In response, a spokesperson for World Athletics

There is nothing in these rules or the World Athletics Integrity Code of Conduct to prevent athletes

Simply to break his concentration…Tommie Smith spoke during the World Athletics Awards of how readily

Speaking virtually during the World Athletics Awards, Smith recalled: "Peter crossed over into a situation


Infront secures three-year deal to find World Athletics Indoor Tour broadcasters

  • Athletics

Marketing company Infront will be responsible for sourcing broadcasters for the World Athletics Indoor

Infront, a Wanda Sports Group company, has reached a new agreement with World Athletics for the international

media rights to the World Athletics Indoor Tour until the end of the 2023 season.The broadcast package

Continental Tour and a five-year deal for the Wanda Diamond League from 2025.According to World Athletics

the growth of the indoor tour.Sweden's Armand Duplantis was one of the stars of last season's World Athletics

Indoor Tour ©Getty Images"The World Athletics Indoor Tour has grown from strength to strength since


Rwanda NOC President urges Government to prioritise sports with medal potential

  • ANOCA

Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC) President Valens Munyabagisha urged the Government to prioritise sports the country has excelled at.

In 2010, the Rwanda Government decided to prioritise football, basketball, athletics, cycling and Paralympic

basketball, in football at the Olympic Games, and our players are winning medals in cycling, in athletics


Hong Kong athletics officials want special dispensation to host National Championships

  • Athletics

The Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates (HKAAA) has called on the country's Government to grant

The staging of the Hong Kong Athletics Championships, set to take place from December 19 to 20, has been

consideration," HKAAA chairman Kwan Kee said, according to the South China Morning Post.The Hong Kong Athletics

Championships offers qualification points for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ©Getty Images"Also, as a member of World Athletics


Two-time high jump world champion Barshim among athletes to back Doha 2030 Asian Games bid

  • Doha 2030

Two-time high jump world champion Mutaz Essa Barshim is among a group of Qatari athletes to back Doha's bid for the 2030 Asian Games.

Barshim successfully defended his high jump world title in front of a home crowd at the 2019 World Athletics

I have had the privilege of competing in Doha on many occasions, notably last year during the World Athletics

National Olympic Committee President Reza Salehi Amiri and secretary general Keykavous Saeidi, with Asian Athletics



Olympic Summit declaration calls for WADA support with veiled criticism of Rodchenkov Act

  • Olympics

The global anti-doping fight was among the topics discussed at the Olympic Summit, and part of the meeting's declaration reads as a warning to the United States after the Rodchenkov Act came into law earlier this month. 

quantitative survey of athletes from all 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) - is concluded.World Athletics

his support for athletes taking a knee at next year's postponed Olympics by giving the annual World Athletics

Executive Board meeting earlier in the week to suggest Coe's support for podium protests contravenes World Athletics