World Athletics Heritage and Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) is celebrating Paris 2024 by showcasing a selection of competition artefacts from the MOWA Olympic Athletics Collection, which have been worn or used in the Olympic Games. The “Paris 1924 to Paris 2024” collection will be on display during the fortnight of the Games in the centre of Paris a the Westin Paris – Vendome.

Britain’s Dorothy Manley, the silver medallist behind Fanny Blankers-Koen in the 100 metres at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, has died at the age of 94, it has been announced.

For a man who has devoted so many of his 90 years to statistics - in the beloved sphere of athletics - it must go against the grain not to be exact about this. But Stan Greenberg reckons he has possibly, probably, seen more world records than anybody. Ever.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Heritage Legends Reception that took place in Monaco on Sunday (December 2) evening was, essentially, a devotional event.

Legendary track and field performers Paavo Nurmi, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Emil Zatopek are among a dozen athletes being honoured here as the first recipients of a scheme to mark their deeds with commemorative plaques.

I had tended to think of Dutch athlete, Fanny Blankers-Koen, simply in terms of considerable athleticism and her four gold medals at the London 1948 Olympic Games. But she was much more. She was a game-change in world athletics and, more importantly, for all women athletes.