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Club Paris 2024 offer Olympics public marathon entry initiative to boost fitness

  • Paris 2024

Club Paris 2024 has launched a new initiative for runners, offering race entries for the mass-participation public marathon to run alongside the elite marathon at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Olympics is scheduled to run from July 26 to August 11 2024, with the schedule yet to be announced for athletics


Canadian steeplechasers upgraded to gold and silver at Kazan 2013, U SPORTS claim

  • Kazan 2013

U SPORTS is claiming steeplechasers Chantelle Groenewoud and Jessica Furlan have been upgraded to gold and silver respectively – seven years after missing out on podium places at the International University Sports Federation (FISU) Summer Universiade.

Canada applauds the essential work of both FISU and World Athletics for their diligence in upholding

In August, Mıngır was banned for two years and retrospectively disqualified from London 2012 by the Athletics

According to Athletics Canada, Groenewoud and Furlan are now the first Canadian teammates to share the

top two steps of the podium at a FISU athletics event.??




Olympians and Paralympians join new USOPC Think Tank for college athletics

  • PASO

identify solutions to help sustain Olympic and Paralympic programming opportunities within college athletics

of partnerships, sport economics and regulations.Chaired by Scott Stricklin, University of Florida athletics

variety of stakeholder groups.The 11-member group comprises Greg Byrne (chair), University of Alabama athletics

USRowing national team coach, Martin Jarmond, University of California and Los Angeles director of athletics

athletic director, Sandy Barbour, Pennsylvania State University vice president for intercollegiate athletics

and Jim Knowlton, University of California, Berkeley's director of athletics.


De Grasse disappointed he will not race banned Coleman at Tokyo 2020

  • Athletics

Canada’s Andre De Grasse has said he feels bad for Christian Coleman after the world champion was handed a two-year ban from the sport, but thinks the American sprinter made an "irresponsible mistake."

Coleman was given a two-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit last month.He missed tests on January

last month ©Getty ImagesDe Grasse earned bronze behind Justin Gatlin and Coleman at the 2019 World Athletics

Championships.His personal best over the 100m was set at the World Athletics Championships last year


Dublin to host 2021 European Cross Country Championships after Turin agree to 2022 switch

  • Athletics

Dublin will host next year’s European Cross Country Championships after the original hosts, Turin, agreed to shift to 2022.

organise the 2022 Championships at La Mandria Park following an agreement reached at the 160th European Athletics

thank Torino-La Mandria for their cooperation to allow Dublin to stage next year’s event," European Athletics

to be hosting the European Cross Country Championships for 2021 and we would like to thank European Athletics

and FIDAL (Italian Athletics Federation) for their support in facilitating the event returning to Ireland

- to show our availability towards European Athletics and our friends in Dublin."


Karamarinov confirms plan to run for European Athletics President as organisation reveals secure financial

  • Athletics

European Athletics Interim President Dobromir Karamarinov today confirmed that he plans to stand for

suffered a stroke in March and died in Oslo four months later.Karamarinov, in line with the European Athletics

Svein," the 62-year-old Bulgarian told insidethegames at the conclusion today of the 160th European Athletics

Karamarinov was first elected to the European Athletics Council in 2007.After two terms as a Council

outlined in Hansen's Leading Change document.Dobromir Karamarinov, left, was a close ally of European Athletics

Karamarinov claimed a confidentially clause meant he could not disclose the exact amount that European Athletics


Costa Rican Para-sprinter could be ruled out of Tokyo 2020 for unintentional doping offence

  • Athletics News

Costa Rican Para-sprinter Sherman Guity could miss next year's postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games because of an unintentional doping violation.

clostebol, an anabolic steroid.Guity, a T64 sprinter who won three golds and a silver on the World Para Athletics

Paralympics, which open on August 24, in severe doubt.The ban ruled him out of last year's World Para Athletics


Bach claims IOC is "more and more confident" fans can attend Tokyo 2020 as he prepares for Japan visit

  • Tokyo 2020

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will make his first visit to Tokyo since the coronavirus pandemic hit when he leads a small delegation of officials to inspect preparations for the postponed 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games next week.

the Japanese capital since the coronavirus pandemic ground international travel to a halt, but World Athletics


Climber visits VASANOC to tell story of Everest attempt

  • ONOC

Climber Trevor Johnston visited the Vanuatu Association of Sports And National Olympic Committee (VASANOC) headquarters to speak about his attempt to ascend Mount Everest.

and Paralympic Games next year.Sports represented included rowing, beach volleyball, judo and Para-athletics


Istanbul to host 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships

  • Athletics

Istanbul has been awarded the hosting rights for the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

European Athletics handed Istanbul the competition during its three-day Council meeting, which started

 It is set to be the first time Turkey hosts a major European Athletics event, although the capital

Indoor Championships to Istanbul," said European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov.

Indoor Championships will be held in the Atakoy Athletics Arena, which hosted the 2012 World Indoor

Championships ©Getty ImagesThe 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships are due to be held in the


Paralympic javelin champion Arnold wants I'm A Celebrity appearance not to be about disability

  • Athletics News

Hollie Arnold, Britain’s Rio 2016 Paralympic javelin champion, says she wants her appearance in reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! - which is due to start on on ITV on Sunday (November 15) – to put the focus on achievement rather than disability.

was made a Member Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire - MBE - for her services to field athletics

(@imacelebrity) November 11, 2020UK Athletics chief executive Jo Coates suggested Sir Mo’s appearance

could take athletics to a different audience, but acknowledged there were potential risks for performance