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

Australia is set to be represented by a team of 98 athletes at the summer edition of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games in Chengdu.

with 34 athletes travelling to the Chinese capital, slightly down from the squad of 39 announced by Athletics

Almost 2,500 athletes are poised to compete across 11 sports at the Summer European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Maribor.

basketball are the three additions to the 10-strong programme that also features artistic gymnastics, athletics

A record number of athletes is set to take part in this year’s 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.

countries.The sport with the largest number of athletes is football, which is among 11 sports, along with athletics

and fencing, that have more than 300 competitors registered.Tickets for Hangzhou 2022, including the athletics

Faith Kipyegon earned her third world record in less than two months at the Monaco Diamond League meeting as she ran the women’s mile in 4min 07.64sec, obliterating the mark of 4:12.33 set by her long-time rival Sifan Hassan on the same Stade Louis II track in 2019.

best of 4:16.71 with another inexorable performance in the penultimate big meeting before the World Athletics

The French Embassy in Ghana has pledged its support to a project aimed at creating new economic and professional opportunities in sport in the build-up to next year's delayed African Games.

from the French Embassy for Ghana's staging of the African Games.Plans for a collaboration with Ghana Athletics

Registrations have opened for the mass races set to be held on the final day of the World Athletics Championships

receiving a medal, Asics t-shirt and a finishing package.The 10km and 2,023m mass races at the World Athletics

limit has been set yet, although organisers have said they reserve the right to introduce one.The World Athletics

Wednesday (July 19).More than 250,000 tickets have been sold, with the new 36,000-capacity National Athletics

Olympic gold medallist Remigius Valiulis has died at the age of 64, the Lithuanian Athletics Federation

Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Sport and Community Development Shamfa Cudjoe said she doesn't "expect any major problems" despite the late finish to venues for Trinbago 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games.

The 41-year-old also emphasised on how Trinbago 2023 is going to showcase how "athletics and academics

At a special event next week, the giant mechanical bull from last year's Commonwealth Games will be unveiled on July 28, the first anniversary of the Opening Ceremony, at its new permanent home at Birmingham’s New Street Station.

Athletics in London, cricket in Cardiff, cycling in Glasgow and lawn bowls in Belfast, for example.

John Uelses, the first athlete to clear 16 feet in the pole vault, has died at the age of 85, it has been revealed.

John Uelses served as a fighter pilot after giving up athletics ©Elyssa RobertsonUelses won the gold

France’s Minister for People with Disabilities Geneviève Darrieussecq has claimed next year’s Paralympic Games in Paris will be a "catalyst for further progress" in the country and vowed to ensure venues will be fully accessible.

About 100,000 people attended the World Para Athletics Championships over the course of the 10-day event

in Paris ©Getty ImagesParis staged the World Para Athletics Championships from July 8 to Monday (July

average audience of 180,000 people per day.Adrien Balduzzi, director of operation for the World Para Athletics

Athletics is set to be staged at the Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

A week from now the International University Sport Federation (FISU) World University Summer Games are set to begin in Chinese city Chengdu.

 It was to take place in May and include athletics and fencing.𝟛 𝕄𝕒𝕪 𝟙𝟡𝟚𝟛 - Today, World

colleges of Europe, greater interest and more general participation on the part of the students in athletics

public brought several hundred spectators to the stadium," The New York Times reported.French athletics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is set to come under new pressure to further investigate Yelena Isinbayeva’s links to the Russian military after the country’s Sports minister publicly criticised her for claiming they were just "nominal" roles.

Isinbayeva has often been pictured in military uniform, having been promoted as her athletics career