Switzerland's Anja Grossmann and the Czech Republic's Krystof Bazant won the cross-country mountain biking races as the sport made its European Youth Olympic Festival debut in Maribor in Slovenia today.

Hueckmann of Germany in 55:26, and bronze to Austrian Valentin Hofer in 55:59.The 400 metres were among the athletics

finals as action continued at the Poljane Athletics Stadium.In the girls race Anastazja Kus of Poland

47.55, with the bronze medal going to Daniel Isaias Artigas of Spain in 47.86.There was also double athletics

in second in the standings with four golds and a total of six.Medals are due to be won tomorrow in athletics

Brooke Henderson is set to defend her title when golf’s fourth women’s Major of the year, the Evian Championship, begins at the Evian Resort Golf Club in France, featuring 19 of the top 20 female players in the world.

Women’s Amateur Asia Pacific 2022, and Rachel Kuehn of the US, a winner at the 2022 National Collegiate Athletics

The twice postponed Francophone Games are at last set to open today in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid heightened security in the host city.

Madagascar,A group of 19 nations and territories were invited to compete in a programme comprising of athletics

The Federal Government of Australia has announced extra funding to support athletes preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

direct one-off grant payment to 32 eligible sports.Archery Australia, Artistic Swimming Australia, Athletics

Dutch athletes claimed golds in the boys and girls road cycling time trials at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia.

podium spot, winning silver in 14:27.42.The boys and girls 100 metres titles were also decided today, as athletics

action continued at the Poljane Athletics Stadium.Miia Ott of Estonia took the girls title in 11.80sec

the medal standings with nine, featuring three of each colour.Medals are due to be won tomorrow in athletics

Hours after revealing the design of the Olympic Torch, Paris 2024 organisers, always keen on surprises, unveiled an unexpected guest of honour here for its first public appearance on a stretch of the River Seine that will be used for the Opening Ceremony in exactly a year’s time - Usain Bolt.

silver medallist Sarah Ourahmoune, Arnaud Assoumani, who has won Paralympic gold, silver and bronze in athletics

On the waterfront in Port of Spain, not far from where many of the officials and teams for are set to stay during the Commonwealth Youth Games, which are due to open on Friday (August 4), there is a frieze which pays tribute to every Olympic medallist from Trinidad and Tobago with outsize reproductions of the medals won.

Crawford eventually had his wish and the stadium which bears his name is to stage athletics at the Commonwealth

200m at the 1996 Centennial Games in Atlanta and claimed silver and bronze in Sydney.At the 1997 World Athletics

In the last 70 years the majority of Trinidad and Tobago's Olympic medals have come in athletics but

World champion and double Olympic relay medallist Dina Asher-Smith has admitted that she considers Paris 2024 "like a home Olympics" after she was revealed as the new Olympic ambassador for Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) Sports with exactly a year to go until Paris 2024.

Asher-Smith won 200 metres gold at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha and has twice won Olympic

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has held a meeting with the leadership of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) after inviting them to the organisation’s headquarters in Lausanne.

Paris 2024.Doping continues to be an issue in Kenya with a total of 64 of the country’s athletes on the Athletics

Integrity Unit banned list.Athletics Kenya was spared of a lengthy ban by World Athletics at the beginning

country’s Government committed $25 million (£20.3 million/€23 million) to the fight against doping in athletics

Hungarian swimmer Vivien Jackl earned the first gold medal of the Summer European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in the Slovenian city of Maribor.

Türkiye… pic.twitter.com/dFL6AHnYTC— TMOK | #TeamTürkiye 🇹🇷 (@TMOK_Olimpiyat) July 24, 2023The first athletics

gold of Maribor 2023 went to Czech Republic's Jana Johanová at the Poljane Athletics Stadium.Johanová

Maribor tomorrow, with medals available in road cycling, artistic gymnastics and judo in addition to athletics

African Paralympic Committee (AfPC) President Samson Deen has insisted that Ghana is "very ready" to host the African Para Games despite being hit by a series of withdrawals.

basketball, while sitting volleyball is poised to be held at the Bukom Emporium.There had been plans for athletics

Le Coq Sportif, an official supplier for Paris 2024 and France at its home Olympic and Paralympic Games, is seeking €30 million (£25.9 million/$33.3 million) in equity this year.

are set to be produced by Arena and triathlon suits by Zerod, and National Federations for football, athletics

It struck me once again this week how much I have in common with Britain's newly established 100 and 200 metres record holder Zharnel Hughes.

the London Diamond League meeting in front of a sell-out 50,000 crowd in the stadium which had hosted athletics

The summer edition of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) has officially begun in Maribor, with Slovenian athlete Tim Marovt lighting the Cauldron with the Flame of Peace and the host nation's President Nataša Pirc Musar in attendance at the Opening Ceremony.

and Ziga Sesko overcame Finland's Lukas Korsstrom 6-2, 6-0.Medal events are due to start tomorrow in athletics

Noah Lyles, who will seek a third consecutive world 200 metres title this summer, warmed up in ideal fashion by setting the world’s fastest time of the year, 19.47sec, in winning at the London Diamond League meeting.

In front of a sell-out 50,000 crowd in the stadium that hosted the London 2012 Olympic athletics, Femke

2023.Bol, who finished a distant second to home runner Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone at last year's World Athletics

have derived huge confidence from his performance in the last Diamond League meeting before the World Athletics