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BOC secretary general among guests at children at risk event

  • EOC

Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC) secretary general Belcho Goranov was among the official guests at the 26th edition of the country's National Championship for Children and Youth At Risk.

Parental Care (BSFDLRG).More than 400 youngsters took part with competition taking place in six sports: athletics


Athletics Kenya President calls on Britain to reconsider decision to pull out of 2017 IAAF World Under

  • Athletics

Athletics Kenya President Jackson Tuwei has called on British Athletics to reconsider its decision to

not send a team to the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Under-18

In a statement posted on its website last week, British Athletics indicated that its athletes will be

opportunities at area-level competition for the youth age group are being further developed," British Athletics

its statement.The statement came less than two weeks after IAAF President Sebastian Coe and British Athletics

reportedly said they would send a team to Nairobi.According to the Daily Nation, Coe and British Athletics

officials met Tuwei on the sidelines of the 2016 IAAF Athletics Awards in Monte Carlo, where they pledged


CGF unveils team sport line-up for 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in The Bahamas

  • Bahamas 2017

The 48 international sides invited to compete at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games have been unveiled today as The Bahamas braces itself to host the event’s largest-ever programme of team sports.

participate.The nation’s first-ever international multi-sport event will see 94 medals contested across athletics


Alan Hubbard: What Russian sport needs is another revolution

  • Inside the Blogs

What is it with those dopey Russians? Vilified for an alleged cynical and systematic programme of mass cheating by drug use on an unprecedented scale, you would think they might have got the message that they have become the pariahs in a world of sport which they may have tainted forever.

Bach, had decided not to ban Russia from the Rio Games even though the International Association of Athletics


Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee organise Children's Sports Day

  • ANOCA

The Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC) has organised the country's first Children's Sports Day.

including swimming Olympian Alphonisine Agahozo, while several workshops were offered by the Rwanda Athletics

never won a medal.At Rio 2016 in August, the country sent a team of seven athletes who competed in athletics



Deba named 2014 Boston Marathon winner as organisers take steps to recover prize money from disgraced Jeptoo

  • Athletics

Ethiopia’s Buzunesh Deba has been named the winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon following the disqualification of Kenya's Rita Jeptoo from the event for doping.

after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an appeal.She was handed a two-year suspension by Athletics

 An appeal was filed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) calling for

if she wants to resume competition after the end of her ban in October 2018," an spokesperson from athletics



Giraud elected to replace Amsalem as President of French Athletics Federation

  • Athletics

André Giraud has been elected President of the French Athletics Federation (FFA) to replace Bernard Amsalem

 "Our goal is to continue to develop athletics in the interests of athletes and clubs."

European Championships.Amsalem will remain on the ruling Council of the International Association of Athletics



PNGOC helps 11 attend Gold Coast 2018 scheme

  • ONOC

The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) has helped 11 people attend the GAPS programme in 2018 Commonwealth Games host city Gold Coast.

Commonwealth Games ©Getty ImagesThe Papua New Guinea delegation featured representatives from boxing, athletics


Soviet Olympic discus gold medallist dies at age of 71

  • Athletics

The 1972 Olympic women's discus gold medallist Faina Melnik has died at the age of 71, the Russian Athletic Federation has announced. 

graduated from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry and later worked as a dentist and athletics



Alan Hubbard: Murray simply the best in 2016 - but of all time? Not in my book

  • Inside the Blogs

Barring a massive computer cock-up or a questionable slice of rank injustice, Andy Murray will be crowned the BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday (December 18) for the third time, and rightly so. It is a no-brainer after the fabulous year he has had.

heads the world’s largest sporting body in terms of global membership, the International Association of Athletics

total of 12 sporting Blues for representing his university, and in one year he captained the football, athletics