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Sweden’s SVT channel announces evening magazine programme at Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Sweden’s national public TV broadcaster Sverige Television (SVT) will feature a magazine programme every evening including the best of the action from the Paris 2024 Olympics, it has announced.

Sweden has particularly strong Olympic prospects in athletics, where it is due to field the defending


Commonwealth Games Australia makes first payment of Green2Gold2Great scheme

  • Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) is set to invest more than AUD4.7 million (£2.4 million/$2.9 million/€2.8 million) into the 22 sports that that were due to be on the Victoria 2026 programme.

Cycling, athletics, and swimming are the biggest beneficiaries of the first investment as they received


Indian athletics President expecting improvement at Paris 2024 after Asian Games

  • Athletics

Athletics Federation of India (AFI) President Adille Sumariwalla has predicted that his country will

India's athletics medals haul of six golds, 14 silvers, and nine bronzes at the recent Asian Games in

Hangzhou saw them amass a record total of 29 in all colours.An impressive total at this year's Asian Athletics

We won 27 medals at the Asian Athletics Championships in July, despite some of the big names like Neeraj

India won just one athletics medal at Tokyo 2020 which came from Chopra's gold in the men's javelin throw.His

gold medal total to six at Hangzhou 2022.Athletics is set to take place from August 1 to 11 at the Olympics


Okagbare's team-mate Oduduru gets six-year doping ban through new Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act

  • Athletics

Nigerian sprinter Divine Oduduru has been banned for six years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)

prohibited substances - Oduduru, who was provisionally suspended on February 9 this year, must pay World Athletics

, exposing the sinister collusion between athletes and other persons in deliberate plans to corrupt athletics

In our quest to protect the integrity of athletics, we often work closely with other investigative organizations

international sport thanks to the scope of RADA and the commitment of principled organizations like the Athletics


Kenya's Kiptum and Kipyegon contending for World Athlete of the Year titles

  • Athletics

Kelvin Kiptum, who broke the world marathon record in Chicago last Sunday at only his third attempt at the distance, is one of ten nominees for the 2023 Men's World Athlete of the Year.

the men’s award in 2018 and 2019 - is a strong late contender for the award in a list issued by World Athletics

Council and the World Athletics Family will cast their votes by email, while fans can vote online via

the World Athletics social media platforms.Individual graphics for each nominee will be posted on Facebook

Council’s vote will count for 50 per cent of the result, while the World Athletics Family’s votes and

on November 13 to 14.The winners will be revealed on World Athletics’ social media platforms on December



Exclusive: Spectators rate World Athletics Championships in Budapest highly in Nielsen survey

  • Athletics

A new spectator survey published on this year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest has found that

The survey, conducted on behalf of World Athletics by Nielsen, the International Federation’s official

Budapest and World Athletics performed superbly in each of these categories."

We had a festive like celebration of athletics - what more a host city could wish?"

We are honoured the trust World Athletics has given us back in 2018 when awarding Budapest 2023."

Yet, World Athletics have trusted us, and they believed that Budapest would deliver."



Helmut Digel: World sport between nationalisation, privatisation and self-destruction

  • Inside the Blogs

In the world of international sport, dramatic changes have been taking place for a long time, and especially in these days, which have had an impact on their performance, their effects and their scope. 

athletes from New Zealand, Australia and the Caribbean would compete in the indoor arena of  European athletics

It invested in tennis, Formula 1, in the International Handball Federation, athletics, Asian Games and

in swimming, followed by boxing and handball in 2015, cycling in 2016, and artistic gymnastics and athletics

the major federations of world sport such as FIFA, the International Handball Federation (IHF), World Athletics



Azerbaijan target largest Olympic team at Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Sports officials in Azerbaijan are hoping that their team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be the biggest in the nation's history and emulate pre-pandemic levels of performance.

judo and three in wrestling and are also hopeful of further places in taekwondo, gymnastics, fencing, athletics




Los Angeles proposes five new sports for 2028 Olympics programme

  • Los Angeles 2028

Los Angeles has proposed five new sports for the programme for the 2028 Olympic Games - baseball and softball, flag football, cricket, lacrosse and squash.

on the LA 2028 initial sports programme announced by the IOC in February 2022 - aquatics, archery, athletics