A sheep named Youhuu will be the mascot of this year's World Athletics Championships in Budapest.Youhuu

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

used for the World Championships.Youhuu is described as "an everyday hero who is inspired by the World Athletics

Championships to take up sport and loves athletics".The racka sheep is a breed native to Hungary ©Budapest

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

Volunteer programmeA workforce of 2,500 volunteers will be essential to powering the 2023 World Athletics

 The volunteers will be the lifeblood of the World Athletics Championships ©Budapest 2023Training

 "The World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 can only become the best World Championships of

National Athletics CentreMarathon and Race Walking routesNational Athletics CentreThe brand new National

Athletics Centre (NAC) will be the showpiece stadium for the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships.Around

the removal of mobile stands on the second level.The NAC is designed specifically for international athletics

Centre, the central venue for the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 ©Getty ImagesFürjes now

Series events, will also join World Athletics' Air Quality project.

The 19th World Athletics Championships is due to take place in Budapest over nine days of competition

, from August 19 to 27, in the 35,000-capacity National Athletics Centre that has been newly built on

won the last two world titles and the Olympic gold, although she missed a medal at the 2023 European Athletics

March 2023 she underlined her standing as she shattered the world pentathlon record at the European Athletics

Ukraine’s 1960 Olympic long jump gold medallist Vira Krepkina has died at the age of 90, it has been announced.

100m relay in 1952, 1960 and 1965, and the 4×200m relay in 1952.Vira Krepkina worked as a children's athletics

look after orphaned children ©Ukrainian Athletic FederationIn retirement she worked as a children's athletics

French men's football champions Paris Saint-Germain have reportedly applied to take over Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics main venue the Stade de France.

year.Athletics and rugby sevens are due to be held at the Stade de France at next year's Olympics, and Para athletics

at the Paralympics.An athletics track needs to be installed for Paris 2024 which would reduce the capacity

World Cup, 2016 UEFA European Championship and 2007 Rugby World Cup finals, as well as the 2003 World Athletics

The competition track for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August has been completed

the fact that nearly 400,000 people will witness the events in the newly built 35,000 seater National Athletics

people.Budapest 2023 deputy general manager Márton Gyulai, who is also secretary general of the Hungarian Athletics

get a first look at the newly-finished six-lane indoor track which has been completed at the National Athletics

Centre, which will stage this summer's World Athletics Championships ©Budapest 2023In addition to the

the middle of June as part of a family day, and that the first competition is set to be the Hungarian Athletics

The 19th World Athletics Championships, due to take place in Budapest from August 19 to 27 in the 35,000

-capacity National Athletics Centre, newly built on the banks of the River Danube, will be unique.It

Four straight years of top-class global athletics competition.And it means that Budapest, and the watching

But this staging of an outdoor World Athletics Championships will be a first.The Hungarian capital has

Championships and a brand new venue makes the pinnacle event of athletics all the more exciting.

Over the last week, Pope Francis has insisted that the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games "may offer the opportunity, through sport, to bear witness to an authentic expression of fraternity, which the world greatly needs."

lasting contribution to the philosophy of the Olympics whilst encouraging pupils who had formed an athletics

gold medallist, and a double Olympic pole vault champion, has died aged 97https://t.co/Jf5E2VAOwn #Athletics

Sarah Massey has been appointed as managing director for the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup in England.

Massey was chief executive of last year's World Athletics Championships in Oregon, following on from

Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) President Francesco Ricci Bitti has revealed that Russian and Belarusian athletes will have to sign a declaration of neutrality to be able to return to competition but insisted they will not be asked to say they are against the war in Ukraine.

triathlon and wrestling have opted to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to return as neutrals, while athletics

Tara Davis-Woodhall, sixth in the long jump at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, has become the latest top American athlete to be banned by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

Australian clothing brand Valour has been appointed as the country's official sports apparel partner for the Trinbago 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games set to take place from August 4 to 11.

It is set to provide a collection of more than 5,000 items for cycling, rugby sevens, triathlon, and athletics

Albanian Athletics Federation (AAF) President Gjergj Ruli and general secretary Nikolin Dionisi have

been banned for five and four years, respectively, by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).

The decisions confirm violations of the World Athletics' Integrity Code of Conduct between May and July

These sanctions are very important for the future of the sport - athletics - and are a warning for those

who govern athletics globally," said AIU chair David Howman."

They carry a weighty significance, signalling the Athletics Integrity Unit is serious about prosecuting

Code.His period of ineligibility runs from April 6 2023 to April 5 2028.Albania is among seven World Athletics

Chefs de Mission of countries set to compete at the delayed Asian Games in Hangzhou were given a venue tour during their visit to the Chinese city.

the main stadium for the Games, that is set to stage the Opening and Closing Ceremony as well as the athletics