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Rhine-Ruhr 2025 gain "even better picture" of FISU Games after Chengdu visit

  • Rhine-Ruhr 2025

Organisers of the 2025 International University Sports Federation (FISU) Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr have said that they have an "even better picture" of the running of the multi-sport event after seeing Chengdu play host.

pledged to build no new venues and ensure there is a reliance on public transport and bicycles.Venues for athletics

Stadium which is undergoing a €55 million (£46.9 million/$60 million) redevelopment to be ready to host athletics


Romania enjoy table tennis clean sweep at Francophone Games

  • Francophone Games

a clean sweep of table tennis titles at the Francophone Games in Kinshasa as Morocco delivered more athletics

57.91 and Soukaina Atanane in 16:05.34.Competition is due to continue with medals set to be awarded in athletics

and Para athletics and judo.


More than 1,000 athletes set to compete at return of Commonwealth Youth Games

  • Trinidad and Tobago 2023

The Commonwealth Youth Games are set to make a return tomorrow in Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow with a carnival-style Opening Ceremony for more than 1,000 athletes aged between 14 and 18.

Ready.Trinbago 2023 features the addition of track cycling, fast5 netball and triathlon, while Para athletics

has also been added alongside the athletics programme at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.The Hasely Crawford

Stadium in Port of Spain is set to host the Opening Ceremony as well as athletics and Para athletics

also due to start on Saturday, followed by swimming, rugby sevens and triathlon on Sunday (August 6).Athletics

and Para athletics is scheduled to begin on Monday (August 7), when the cycling road races are also


Sadleir looks forward to Commonwealth Youth Games with "a lot of firsts"

  • Trinidad and Tobago 2023

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive Katie Sadleir has expressed her excitement about the Commonwealth Youth Games here set to feature "a lot of firsts".

postponement.Sadleir, appointed to her role in 2021, believes additions to the Youth Games, including Para athletics

on the programme alongside athletics, provide plenty to look forward to during the seven days of competition



Duncan Mackay: How Sebastian Coe became the first athlete offered an Olympic wildcard by the IOC President

  • Inside the Blogs

Last week's promise extended by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to allow Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan to compete at Paris 2024 even if she does not qualify was largely praised around the world.

Their choices were then ratified by the then British Amateur Athletics Board (BAAB).Such a system had

and led its powerful Olympic Review Committee in one of his first steps into politics, decided that athletics


Four countries win judo golds at Kinshasa 2023 Francophone Games

  • Francophone Games

Canada, France, Armenia, and Cameroon won the first titles in judo at the Kinshasa 2023 Francophone Games.

after waza-ari win against Fernand Nkero of Gabon.Morocco once again managed to win all three medals in athletics

39.66.Maurice settled for bronze, clocking 39.71.Cameroon finished the day with two gold medals in athletics

Lajdoud took silver with 6.55 and bronze went to Veronique Kossendan Rey of Cameroon in 6.42.The Para athletics

 Competition is scheduled to continue tomorrow with medals set to be handed out in athletics, Para

athletics, judo, and table tennis.


Fox appointed as director of communications in changes at World Athletics

  • Athletics

World Athletics has appointed Jamie Fox as its director of communications effective from the last quarter

special projects when Fox joins, while head of communications Nicole Jeffery is set to depart World Athletics

Australia at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, an athlete mentor for the Women's Sports

He has worked in a number of different countries and across a range of sport, including athletics."

He also commended Jeffery for her "enormous contribution to World Athletics over the past five years"

World Athletics has undergone huge transformation over the past eight years with a strong reform and


Somali athletics chief suspended after slow sprinter prompts claims of "nepotism" at Chengdu 2021

  • Chengdu 2021

Somalia's Ministry of Youth and Sports has accused Somali Athletics Federation President Khadija Aden

Youth and Sports firmly declares its intention to pursue legal action against both the chairman of the Athletics

falsification of the Somali University Sports Association".Suspension of the Chairwoman of the Somali Athletics

(@MoysFGS) August 2, 2023Abubakar Ali's time is displayed in Chengdu 2021's results, but not World Athletics



Staging of 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene wasn't ideal, says Coe

  • Athletics

Staging last year's World Athletics Championships in the United States for the first time - at the rebuilt

Hayward Field arena in Eugene, Oregon - "wasn’t ideal", according to World Athletics President Sebastian

The ambitions behind that landmark decision were articulated In May last year by World Athletics chief

in their other programming strands so we connect their huge audience with athletes outside the usual athletics

appear to have a plethora of positive things to say about the wider impact of the 2022 event.World Athletics

The 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene was the most watched in US television history but viewing

It is still the powerhouse of World Athletics."


Coe sticks by World Athletics ban on Russians and Belarusians, insisting "I am not a neutral"

  • Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has strongly defended his federation’s decision not to allow

due to the invasion, a statement that prompted numerous International Federations, including World Athletics

already taking part in international events without raising "security issues", Coe told insidethegames: "Athletics

the metrics that might need to pertain in order to release sanctions and reverse the exclusion.World Athletics

the participation of Russian and Belarusian competitors was made for reasons of "integrity", adding: "Athletics


Poland pull off multi-medal day of athletics at Chengdu 2021

  • Chengdu 2021

Poland enjoyed a prolific day of athletics at the Chengdu 2021 International University Sports Federation

Jai Noel Chang and Algeria's Oussama Khennoussi with 61.82m and 61.33m, respectively.Poland's last athletics

 The 100m races then rounded off the day's athletics programme.Luxembourg's Games of the Small States


Queensland Cricket want venue upgraded prior to Brisbane 2032 Gabba rebuild

  • Brisbane 2032

Queensland Cricket chairman Chris Simpson and chief executive Terry Svenson have called for an overhaul to Allan Border Field before the Gabba undergoes a complete rebuild for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Gabba is due to host Olympic and Paralympic athletics competition, plus the Opening and Closing Ceremonies


Morocco stand out as athletics events continue at Kinshasa 2023 Francophone Games

  • Francophone Games

Morocco were among the dominant nations as medals were handed out in athletics at the Kinshasa 2023 Francophone

prevented another top three for the North African nation as she clocked 33:21.50 for bronze.The third athletics

with a throw of 64.39m, stood on top of the discus throw podium.Medals were also handed out in Para athletics

silver and bronze, respectively.Competition is expected to continue tomorrow with more medal events in athletics

and Para athletics.