Dominican runner Marileidy Paulino won gold in the women's 400m final on Friday, in a race in which she also broke the Olympic record, a year after being crowned world champion, with a time of 48.17.

her best time of the season, and in third place was Poland's Natalia Kaczmareck, with 48.98.All in a athletics

American sprinter Noah Lyles, the Olympic 100-metre champion, stunned the sporting world by revealing he tested positive for Covid-19 just two days before competing in the 200-metre final, where he finished third. This unexpected turn of events has brought his participation in Paris 2024 to an end.

Lyles, for his part, has once again demonstrated his status as one of the greats of global athletics.

Arshad Nadeem made history in Paris by winning the Olympic men's javelin title, earning Pakistan its first-ever individual gold at the Summer Games. His victory not only brings immense pride to the nation but also serves as an inspiration for future Pakistani athletes on the global stage.

2024Chopra agreed, saying it was good for both countries, and could act as a spur to attract more people to athletics

It was an evening of records and history in athletics: the world record set by Sydiney McLaughlin and

to become the first woman in history to win back-to-back Olympic 400m hurdles titles in Thursday's athletics

The athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have elected four new members to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes’ Commission this week after over 6500 Olympians cast their votes.

 The winners and their sports were USA's Allyson Felix (Athletics), Germany's Kim Bui (Gymnastics

Commission.The athletes competing at the #OlympicGames #Paris2024 have elected:Allyson Felix (USA, Athletics

Hungary's Daniel Gyurta (Swimming), Germany's Britta Heidemann (Fencing), Russia's Yelena Isinbaeva (Athletics

The full-blown media battle rages on in Paris 2024 as the World Anti-Doping Agency and its national counterparts from China and the US keep throwing darts at each other, the latest pointing to the Americans allowing proven dopers to keep competing as undercover agents.

US athletics and USADA's repeated disregard for procedures and standards" yet failed to provide evidence

The Ethiopian had to be removed on a stretcher during the 3,000-metre steeplechase final due to a severe head injury. Fortunately, he is "in good condition" after spending the night under observation at the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.

A Soufiane El Bakkali masterclass showed how to control a final in the 3000m steeplechase, after the Moroccan won his second Olympic gold.

The seventh day of athletics at Paris 2024 was eventful.

If you think competing at The Games is a lot of pressure, imagine being the only athlete carrying the country’s Olympic hopes and dreams on your shoulders. Shaun Gill knows what that weight feels like —the sprinter is Belize’s only representative in the Paris Olympics. 

GETTY IMAGESSomalian Ali Idow Hassan is competing in Athletics just like Gill.

The Paris 2024 men's 5000m heats took place Wednesday with both experiencing bizarre scenes as runners collided in one heat and a clueless cameraman nearly caused chaos in the other. 

Spain won the inaugural marathon race walk mixed relay Olympic title on Wednesday by nearly a minute. Spanish duo Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez clocked in 2hr 50 min 30sec for the event's first-ever gold. 

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen took to social media after losing out on a medal in Day Eleven's 1500-metre race having gone into it overflowing with self-belief. 

express my gratitude and love to them and the rest of the team and to my partners and the Norwegian Athletics

The pole vaulter representing Greece, Eleni-Klaoudia Polak, has been provisionally suspended from competition after testing positive in a doping control, as announced on Tuesday, 6 August, by the Olympic Games organising committee.

tested positive for steroids a day before the start of the Paris event.Polak competes in the World Athletics

first international competition came four years later, in 2017, when she participated in the European Athletics

she managed to secure some significant titles, such as the 2018 Mediterranean Games and the Balkan Athletics

Rana Reider, coach of Italy's Marcell Jacobs and Canada's Andre De Grasse, has been banned from the Olympic Games after being stripped of his accreditation by the Canadian Olympic Committee over allegations of sexual and emotional abuse.

Canadian Olympic Committee (COC).The decision, which takes immediate effect, comes three days after World Athletics

Following discussions with the Canadian Athletics Association, it has been decided that Mr Reider's accreditation

hospitalisation.Marcell Jacobs celebrates after winning in the Men's 100 Metres Final in the 26th European Athletics

The American athlete surprised in the final straight sprinting to gold ahead of many athletes touted to win ahead of him. He also beat the Olympic record set by Ingebrigtsen at Tokyo 2020. The Norwegian missed out on a medal, beaten by Great Britain's Kerr in second and the USA's Nuguse in third.

 Ingebrigtsen was sinking down the straight and finished fourth, to the surprise of any athletics

At the age of 24, she became another of the world's athletics stars.