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Ukrainian swimmer laments 'great shame' of allowing Russians at Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Ukrainian swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk on Saturday slammed as a "big shame for the world of sport" the IOC's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part in next year's Paris Olympics under a neutral flag.

Federation (FINA) announced in September that Russians would be reinstated from 2024, unlike World Athletics


Shohei Ohtani, the million-dollar man

  • Baseball and Softball Section Pages

Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani switched sides and will join the Los Angeles Dodgers for $700 million over 10 years, setting a record and surpassing the likes of Leo Messi (MLS), Lebron James (NBA) and Patrick Mahomes (NFL).

Angels holds the 2023 Los Angeles Angels Most Valuable Player trophy before a game against the Oakland Athletics


IOC allows Russian athletes to compete as neutrals at the Games in Paris

  • Paris 2024

Olympic chiefs on Friday gave Russian and Belarusian athletes the green light to compete as neutrals in next year's Paris Games, outside team events and provided they do not actively support the war in Ukraine.

national security services".Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin attends a conference of Russia's Athletics

World athletics president Sebastian Coe, however, insisted there would be no neutral athletes competing

in athletics at the Games.Sebastian Coe, World Athletics (WA) president, speaks during a press conference

to competition under certain conditions.However, Russians and Belarusians have remained banned from athletics

"You may well see some neutral athletes from Russia and Belarus in Paris, it just won't be in athletics


New doping appeal for CAS

  • News

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Tuesday that it has lodged an appeal with the Court of

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) ensures justice in sports, ensuring that practitioners compete cleanly

sampling irregularities, were not sufficient to conclude blood doping had occurred.On behalf of World Athletics

Kazakhstan) did not commit an ADRV.Details here: https://t.co/8iec7AJOtd pic.twitter.com/OQZXDQsXJa— Athletics


Australian athletics success recognized globally

  • News

Australian athletics' sustained growth and subsequent success has been recognized globally, with World

Athletics today announcing Athletics Australia as the recipient of its prestigious 'Member Federation

Athletics Australia is the national governing body for the sport of athletics and is the only organization

recognized as such by World Athletics and the Australian Olympic Committee.

Indeed, World Athletics has recognized and awarded Athletics Australia out of 214 member Federations

Cross Country World Championships in Bathurst, organized in conjunction with Athletics NSW.

We are honored to receive this award from World Athletics.


The UEFA actively works to reduce injuries

  • UEFA

The UEFA has announced a significant initiative aimed at better understanding anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in women's football, one of the most severe injuries a female footballer can experience in her career.

most dreaded injuries for athletes, particularly those in football, basketball, tennis, volleyball, or athletics


2023 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Athletics in Perth this weekend

  • Athletics

The future stars of Australian athletics will take their first steps strides towards greatness in Perth

this weekend as the 2023 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Athletics Championships will unveil

Championships will see more than 1,200 school-age athletes from every state and territory compete as the athletics

 The 2023 Australian All Schools Championships will be the first national athletics meet to hit

After impressing at the U17 level last year, Dodds has since topped the podium at the Australian Athletics

 With the 2024 World U20 Athletics Championships in Lima, Peru, on the horizon, the 17-year-old

families, friends, schools and travellers to see the future stars of Brisbane 2032 in action at the WA Athletics



The Valencia Marathon is on the rise and promises a million euros

  • Athletics

Valencia is becoming one of the great references in long-distance running, as demonstrated by the 10,000m world records set in 2021 by Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and Letensebet Gidey of Ethiopia, in a spectacular event that made headlines around the world.

In fact, after three years away from athletics due to injury and maternity, she returned in 2022 with


Luguelín Santos, Olympic silver medallist, banned and stripped of 2012 world junior title

  • Athletics

the 400m silver medallist at the London 2012 Olympic Games, has been handed a three-year ban by the Athletics

falsifying his age in order to participate at the IAAF World Junior Championships (now known as the World Athletics

uncovered a disturbing level of cheating through age manipulation that has skewed the results of junior athletics

offencesThe AIU stated: "Santos, now 31 years old, was charged with three violations of the 2012-2013 World Athletics

Rule 141 (participating when ineligible); Rule 9.6 (engaging in corrupt practices in connection with athletics

of the IAAF Code of Ethics, effective as of 1 May 2012, by engaging in corrupt practices relating to athletics

His fifth charge related to a breach of the Integrity Standard set out in Clause 3.3.1 of the World Athletics


Sol 2023: Tahiti maintains second place thanks to Kayaking

  • Pacific Games News

Tahitian kayakers once again secured gold and silver medals during the marathon races at the XVII Pacific Games in DC Park, maintaining their lead over Australia by 3 medals (51 to 48). New Caledonia remains in the lead with 77 medals with two days to go.

Dite’e and Lawrence Ale, Pacific Games News ServiceAustralia, as expected, achieved several medals in athletics

and PNG promise a close battle to the end, while New Zealand, with their outstanding performances in athletics


Ex-professional runner Lauren Fleshman wins Best Sports Book of 2023

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Lauren Fleshman's book, 'Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World', has been named the winner of the 2023 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and will receive a £30,000 prize at an official in London. It is the first book about women in sport written by a woman to win the world's most prestigious sports writing prize. 

challenges that women face in sport, but also a moving and informative memoir that will appeal to non-athletics



Sol2023: Tahiti fights for the second position with two golds on the first day of va'a

  • Pacific Games News

Tahiti concluded the seventh day of the Pacific Games Sol2023 with two golds on the first day of va'a and surpassed Australia in the battle for the second place by one gold. New Caledonia doubles their gold count.

him out of the grand final for glory in the Solomon Islands.In another discipline within the exciting athletics

women on the track, and men's pole vault and women's hammer throw.In addition to the continuation of athletics


Santiago 2023: The Grand Celebration of the Pan American Games Concludes with Brazil as Pentacampeão

  • Paralympics Pages

The VII Parapan American Games in Santiago 2023 concluded with great success, featuring a total of 378 champions across 17 sports, 18 disciplines, and 31 competing countries. Brazil secured the win for the fifth time in Santiago 2023: The Grand Celebration of the Pan American Games Concludes with Brazil as five-time champion with 343 medals (156 golds), while the United States surpassed Colombia in the final standings to claim the third position.

Brazil excelled in para swimming, para athletics, and even in football (in both its modalities).Pilar