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Youhuu the sheep named as World Athletics Championships mascot as Budapest organisers mark 100 days to

  • Budapest 2023

A sheep named Youhuu has been unveiled as the mascot of this year's World Athletics Championships in

local people ever since their arrival.Many racka sheep used to be found on the site of the National Athletics

Championships to take up sport and loves athletics"."

, rang a bell as Youhuu was unveiled at the National Athletics Centre.The mascot was unveiled at the

new National Athletics Centre with 100 days to go before the World Championships ©Budapest 2023He also

 "However, the World Athletics Championships will be the biggest event in Hungary's history.


Athletics tickets go on sale for Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games

  • Kraków 2023

Athletics tickets for the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games have gone on sale before those for the

There are just 42 days to go until the Games which are set to run from June 21 to July 2.Athletics is

scheduled from June 20 to 25 at the Stadion Śląski in Chorzów and will also serve as the European Athletics

 Athletics events at the 2023 European Games are set to take place at the Stadion Śląski in Chorzów


Amos plans to sell 2012 Olympic medal after drug ban

  • Athletics

Botswana’s first Olympic medallist Nijel Amos has decided to put his silver medal from London 2012 up for sale after he was handed a ban for doping offences.

where we are not given pension or any lump sum insurance payouts," Amos added.He was suspended by the Athletics

Integrity Unit (AIU) last July, after an out of competition test before the World Athletics Championships


Venues

  • EYOF2023 Summer sponsored section

the Summer EYOF programme, as well as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.Ljudski Vrt StadiumPoljane Athletics

[/modal][modal title="Poljane Athletics Stadium" id="poljane-athletics-stadium"]Located in the Tabor

Sports Park, track and field at Maribor 2023 will take place at the Poljane Athletics Stadium.The stadium

has been certified by World Athletics and is dedicated exclusively to the sport.It has a surface area


Trans athlete feels "hounded" by World Athletics after Paris 2024 dream ends

  • Athletics

hounded out of sport after her dream of participating at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games ended when World Athletics

transgender women who have gone through male puberty were not allowed to compete in women's events.World Athletics

those found on average in women who were born as women" he said, as reported by Reuters.Until World Athletics


Sports

  • EYOF2023 Summer sponsored section

[/modal][modal title="Athletics" id="athletics"]Athletics will return to the Summer EYOF in Maribor having


Olympic Committee of Israel launches scholarship in memory of IOC member and television magnate Gilady

  • Olympics

The Olympic Committee of Israel (OCI) is to launch a scholarship with Keshet Broadcasting to honour the memory of television magnate and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Alex Gilady.

led the Israeli television delegation at the Munich Olympics in 1972 and was also a commentator on athletics

Coordination Commission for the Paris 2024 Olympics.Gilady chaired the Television Commission for World Athletics


IOC on course to reach Paris 2024 coach gender equality goal thanks to WISH programme

  • Paris 2024

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is closing in on its goal to increase representation and equity for female coaches prior to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games with "notable strides" made to its Women in Sport high-performance (WISH) pathway programme.

programme aims to increase the percentage of female coaches to match that of female athletes ©World Athletics"Mentoring

At the moment, there are almost 100 coaches in the programme from 17 sports and 53 countries.World Athletics

Increase the number of female coaches at our World Championships to at least 20 per cent by the World Athletics


USADA hail conviction of Texas therapist for supplying athletes with banned drugs under Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act

  • Athletics

United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA) chief executive Travis Tygart has welcomed the guilty plea from Texan therapist Eric Lira for supplying band drugs before the 2020 Olympics as "huge win for all clean athletes" after he became the first person convicted under the controversial Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act (RADA).

from Lira.In February, another Nigerian sprinter Divine Oduduru was provisionally suspended by the Athletics


Ghana Athletics Association rebrands before 2023 African Games

  • Athletics

Ghana Athletics Association has announced major changes in time for this year's African Games in Accra

The Ghana Athletics Association has now become Ghana Athletics with major changes made to the body at

Congress in Kumasi.The changes were applied to streamline and align with the world’s governing body.World Athletics

, previously known as International Association of Athletics Federations, adopted its new name in 2019


Thai sprinter wins dramatic 200m race at Southeast Asian Games

  • Southeast Asian Games

Thailand's Soraoat Dapbang won the men's 200 metres title at the Southeast Asian Games in Phnom Penh as the country moved up to 28 gold medals.

Kieran Tuntivate clinched another athletics gold for Thailand as he triumphed in the men's 1500m ahead


World Athletics Championships organisers plant 40 trees in Budapest as sustainability goals unveiled

  • Budapest 2023

A mini-forest has been planted in Budapest as organisers of this year's World Athletics Championships

Jon Ridgeon, the chief executive of World Athletics, attended the planting and praised the sustainability

Both World Athletics and the local Organising Committee are committed to leaving a sustainable and positive

This year's World Championships are due to take place between August 19 and 27 at the National Athletics

capacity will reduce to 14,000 and the surroundings will turn into a public park in 2024.The National Athletics

Making the event accessible and affordable for all is a crucial component of the World Athletics Championships


Mike Rowbottom: Making it up to Curtis Robb - an athlete you couldn’t make up

  • Inside the Blogs

guest on a podcast this weekend I was asked to name three athletes who had inspired me, and three top athletics

- the year of the Barcelona Olympics - when Robb, an engaging 20-year-old Liverpudlian, emerged to athletics

successful, how much less injury-prone he might have been had he not dedicated himself to balancing athletics

"You can end up being obsessed with athletics and coming back from training saying, 'Why wasn't I point-two

By this point many in athletics were questioning the feasibility of what Robb was attempting."

If I didn't have a medical career I would be entering the twilight years of my athletics and wondering


Top Russian bobsledder dies at 31 of cancer

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Russia’s Junior World Bobsleigh Championships silver medallist Vladimir Zaitsev has died at the age of 31 from cancer.

Vladimir came to bobsleigh from athletics."


Ghana Olympic Committee President urges documents to be filed so funding can be distributed

  • ANOCA

Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) President Ben Nunoo Mensah has called on National Federations to provide spending receipts so Olympic Solidarity funding can be distributed for the coming year prior to the re-arranged African Games in Accra. 

that provided $100,000 to the GOC and Ghana Commonwealth Games Association.A football field with an athletics