France’s matches in next year’s rugby union Six Nations tournament will take place in Marseille, Lille and Lyon following the re-location from Paris due to the 2024 Olympic Games, it has been announced.

21, only five days before the Olympics are set to open on July 26.The Stade de France is set to host athletics

Closing Ceremony during next year's Olympic Games in Paris ©Paris 2024The Stade de France is due to stage athletics

Mary Theisen Lappen’s remarkable weightlifting journey continues at the Olympic qualifier in Cuba that is due to start this week, where she will finally compete against athletes from beyond the Americas.

silver medallist at the re-arranged 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.Both come from a throwing background in athletics

level before she took up weightlifting, while Theisen Lappen had already moved into college coaching in athletics

- hence her nickname - after a decorated career as a shot putter at National Collegiate Athletics Association

as Theisen Lappen and Robles.Mary Theisen Lappen's coach Wil Fleming, left, also has a background in athletics

education, and already coaches 20 weightlifters remotely.Her coach Wil Fleming also has a background in athletics

A remarkable 13-gold surge saw hosts Malta run away with the medals table victory on the final day of the Games of the Small States of Europe.

 Athletics podiums featured more Maltese competitors as the country won six of 12 gold medals on

The first table tennis qualification event for next year's Paralympic Games in Paris is set to begin with the Virtus Global Games in Vichy in France.

tennis, taekwondo, karate judo, handball, futsal, equestrian, cycling, basketball, rowing, swimming, athletics

Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) President Francesco Ricci Bitti has warned Russia against any "very contentious" plans to stage rebel events outside of the Olympic Movement.

skateboarding, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, weightlifting and wrestling have lifted blanked bans, but athletics

Faith Kipyegon, twice Olympic and twice world 1500 metres champion, became world record holder also in Florence tonight as she clocked 3min 49.11sec in the third Diamond League meeting of the season.

.📸 @matthewquine #DiamondLeague pic.twitter.com/BPnYegWrzq— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) June

Andorra prevented host nation Malta from topping the medals table at the Games of the Small States of Europe with rugby sevens glory.

Molinaro and compatriot Alex Knaff 2-1.The Games are set to continue tomorrow with medals to be won in athletics

More than 9,000 schoolchildren have been given the opportunity to watch the Budapest 2023 World Athletics

The programme is the largest athletics education initiative in Hungary and has seen students from more

than 400 schools participate.It made athletics the primary focus of physical education lessons for seven

The upcoming World Athletics Championships presents a remarkable opportunity for the country," said Ádám

Schmidt, State Secretary for Sport and Government Commissioner for the World Athletics Championships

sports engagement among tens of thousands of Hungarians, both young and old, fostering an interest in athletics

Cyprus secured another six gold medals to protect their lead in the standings at the Malta 2023 Games of the Small States of Europe.

him on the podium with scores of 7.28m and 6.86m, respectively.Natalia Christofi then sealed another athletics

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has reiterated that he is "really saddened" by Ukraine's absence from the World Championships here, but defended the governing body's support for athletes from the country.

Ukraine and are not affiliated to the military to compete as individual neutrals.Some sports including athletics

Yeah Baby! "A weekend unlike any other!" Hype for the first Los Angeles Grand Prix at the University of California's Drake Stadium last Saturday (May 27) was predictably Hollywood.

The meeting, which promised an "incomparable elite field", was marketed as the relaunch of top-class athletics

the table Major League Soccer team LA Galaxy's match against Charlotte FC.Most of the crowd at the athletics

 Sport is built on rivalries, but in athletics, most of the top competitors seem to do as much as

Coe, right, avoided each other outside the Olympics but their rivalry still helped raise interest in athletics

©Getty ImagesThe next day, nearly 6,000 miles away, the latest meeting in the World Athletics Diamond

The Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) has met in Tehran to discuss final preparations for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games which are due to take place from October 22 to 28 this year.

The National Athletics Championship for People with Impairments was successfully held this week."

More than 2,000 hours of television coverage is set to be broadcast for the Santiago 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games for an estimated audience of 200 million people.

Football matches know how to do it, but something more complex such as athletics, artistic gymnastics

Tributes have been paid in athletics to Britain's Olympic silver medallist and Commonwealth champion

Everyone at UK Athletics is saddened to hear of the passing of Mike McFarlane, the Olympic silver medallist

brilliance" acted as a "catalyst for the revival of British sprinting in the 1980s".He ran for Haringey Athletics

assistant with the British women's relay squad before London 2012.This saw him return to a UK Athletics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed that "naysayers" are being proven wrong over the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes as neutrals in global sporting competition.

tennis, taekwondo, triathlon,weightlifting and wrestling have all adhered to those recommendations, but athletics