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Serenity in the Paris 2024 organising committee

  • Paris 2024

The chief organiser of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, former canoeist Tony Estanguet, remains "serene" and confident amid the recent political turmoil in France.

600,000 spectators, later reduced by half), which will avoid the usual parade and fireworks at the athletics


Rai Benjamin wins clash of titans in Monaco Diamond League

  • Athletics

Rai Benjamin claimed the spoils in a clash of the hurdling titans at Friday's Monaco Diamond League as Djamel Sedjati and Quincy Hall both set world leads in perfect fine-tuning for the Paris Olympics. Another stunning night of track and field in perfect conditions at the Stade Louis II saw Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen set a European record of 3min 26.73sec in the 1500m.


Athletes from 200 teams seeking glory in Paris

  • Paris 2024

World Athletics has released the entry list for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, featuring 36 Tokyo 2020

World Athletics has officially confirmed the entry list for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with many big

greets fans after competing in the men's pole vault event during the "Meeting de Paris" Diamond League athletics

Olympic Games.Anita Wlodarczyk of Team Poland during the Women's Hammer Throw Final of the 26th European Athletics

GETTY IMAGESAmong the competitors will be the great hope of US athletics for decades to come, Quincy

youngest athlete in history from the world's leading sporting power to qualify for an Olympic Games.The athletics


Ukraine sends 140 athletes to the Olympic Games, a historic low

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The figure marks a negative record: Ukraine will be represented at the Paris Olympic Games by a total of 140 athletes. This is the lowest number of athletes the country has presented in its history at the Olympics and in international sporting competitions.

developments: Ukrainians will be represented in breaking and climbing, something unprecedented until now, and athletics


Paris 2024: Karsten Warholm aims for hurdling consistency

  • Athletics

Karsten Warholm insisted on Thursday he would not be using a magic wand in his bid to defend his Olympic 400m hurdles title at the Paris Games in three weeks. Warholm, 28, smashed the world record to win gold in the Tokyo Olympics, clocking a stunning 45.94 seconds to win ahead of American Rai Benjamin (46.17) and Brazil's Alison Dos Santos (46.72).


Paris 2024 achieves its first record with 8.6 million tickets sold

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 According to data provided by the organising committee to the AFP news agency, over 8.6 million tickets have already been sold for the Olympic Games. This figure surpasses the record of 8.3 million tickets sold for the Atlanta Games, which until now had held the highest number.

Thus, it is not surprising that it is more expensive to attend athletics, swimming, and basketball events


Pan American training camp to prepare for Paris

  • Pan American Games

Several Olympic, World and Pan-American medallists from the American continent are rigorously preparing for Paris 2024 and will gather in Mulhouse (Alsace, France) from Sunday.

 A total of 15 disciplines will be represented: Athletics, badminton, boxing, artistic gymnastics


Diamond League lacking shine with Noah Lyles out

  • Athletics

The American sprinter opted to stay home in order to better prepare his upcoming Olympic assault and will miss out on the Monaco meet, now featuring Norwegian world record holders Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen as headliners.


75% of Team USA comes from the NCAA

  • University Sport

The foundation of 21 teams is made up of athletes with past, present and future ties to the NCAA. Fourteen of these teams are made up entirely of athletes who have been developed through the sport at the collegiate level. The three leading NCAA schools represented on Team USA are Stanford, UCLA and USC.

, athletic associations and sports organizations dedicated to the administration of intercollegiate athletics


Team Belgium will take 165 athletes to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Their best hopes lie in their traditional strengths: cycling, athletics, and field hockey.

undoubtedly aim to continue in the French capital starting 26 July, participating in 21 disciplines: athletics


Kenyan runner Lawrence Cherono suspended for doping

  • Athletics

The 35-year-old marathoner may advance his retirement due to the seven-year punishment from the Athletics

Lawrence Cherono is a prominent name in athletics, particularly in marathons, where he has shown his

DQ results from 23 May 2022Details here: https://t.co/jTdIJLKxpv pic.twitter.com/F8hy3y2eDJ— Athletics

dismissed by the AIU, leading to the process that culminated in one of the harshest announcements for athletics


Antetokounmpo and Drisbioti - Greece's flag bearers at Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

The plenary session of the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) has decided that Giannis Antetokounmpo and Antigoni Drisbioti will be the flag bearers for Greece at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

35km European Championships at Munich 2022 at the age of 38 and the 35km bronze at last year's World Athletics


Star marathoner Kosgei pulls out of Games due to injury

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The Kenyan Olympic silver medallist will not be able to compete in the marathon on 11 August and will be replaced by Sharon Lokedi, the 2022 New York Marathon winner. The exact nature of the injury has not been revealed. However, it will prevent her from competing in her second Games. 

men and women have been preparing for the Olympic event for the past two months at the Rift Valley Athletics


Paris 2024: Only 16 Russian athletes to participate in Olympics

  • Paris 2024

A total of just 16 Russians and 17 Belarusians have accepted invitations to compete under a neutral flag at the Paris Olympics, according to the latest count on Tuesday.

previously announced their intention not to attend, and track and field athletes are all banned by World Athletics


Shericka Jackson apparently injured three weeks before Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

finished the 200 metres in Szakesfehervar, Hungary, just 65km from Budapest, where she stunned the athletics

Almost a year ago, Shericka Jackson stunned the athletics world when she won the gold medal at the World

Athletics Championships on the evening of 25 August by running the second-fastest 200 metres ever in

 The Jamaican star crowned herself on the banks of the Danube at the National Athletics Centre in

 Shericka Jackson's stunning victory in the 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest

with a brace on her left knee, causing concern just three weeks and three days before the start of the athletics