IOC LAMINE DIACK’S SON PAID $370,000 BY TOKYO OLYMPICS CONSULTING FIRM

Highlights –

• IOC Lamine Diack’s son paid $370,000 by Tokyo Olympics consulting firm.
• Black Tidings Co. received a total of $2 million from the bid committee.
• Papa Massata was a marketing consultant for the International Associa...

PARIS: EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

Highlights

• The event which was scheduled in the month of August is now scrapped by the LOC and FFA

• Cancellation of this event raises doubt over the future of Tour de France and French Open

Coronavirus outbreak has resulted into cancellation of several s...

Kenya is hosting the U-20 World Athletics Championships

NAIROBI— Kenya is still on track to host the World U-20 Athletics Championships in July in Nairobi.

Sports Cabinet Secretary Sports Amina Mohamed allayed any concerns regarding the major event which is about to take place in the upcoming July that the country would fall behind say...

World Athletics Indoor Tour hosts indoor competitors for the New Balance Grand Prix

The World Athletics Indoor Tour this year starts in Boston on Saturday (January 25) as the Reggie Lewis Arena hosts indoor competitors for the New Balance Grand Prix.

The USA's Sydney McLaughlin, Nia Ali and Donavan Brazier, along with the likes of Britain's Jake Wightman, Chris...

The world of athletics mourns the loss of Maurie Plant

It is a sad day for the world of sports and athletics as people from all over the world grieve the loss of Maurie Plant, an iconic figure who sadly passed away in the hospital on Sunday. Today, countless will remember him for his significant contributions to athletics.

Maurie was one of...

Plymouth is set to gain new athletics running track

The Plymouth City Council had just recently approved an allocation of almost £600,000 for a brand-new track for running to be made at Brickfields. The track, which is about 400 m long, has been severely impacted by recent years, evident by the fresh cracks appearing around it.

It ...

Tom Kleinlein Steps Down as Athletics Director

STATESBORO–Georgia Southern athletics director Tom Kleinlein resigned from his position as a department head of athletics to seek another career opportunity, effective January 21.

"Tom has had a tremendous impact on Eagle Athletics ' growth and success," said Kyle Ma...

SA sports shook by claimed doping by top race-walker

Games are an assortment of games that include aggressive running, hopping, tossing, and walking. The most well-known kinds of game rivalries are Olympic style events, street running, cross-country running, and race strolling. The consequences of dashing occasions are chosen by completing position...

Faring of Lehigh athletics over the winter break

Fall semester classes may have finished on Dec. 6 for Lehigh understudies, however numerous Lehigh competitors have kept on playing for their groups all through the winter break. Make up for lost time with the people's ball groups and the men's wrestling crew with a recap underneath.

The president of World Athletics wishes to entice more young athletes

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe claims that track and field are well on course to become one of the top world four sports over the next few years on the basis of this year's slew of "advances" and enhanced financial security.

Taking stock of the year that saw the s...

US punters previously taking wagers connected with VIP sports couple heading for separation

They've been locked in just two weeks, yet one-time Golf Channel moderator Holly Sonders and expert card shark Vegas Dave is the subject of separation expectations. Various online games wagering locales are have begun taking wagers on parts of their relationship. Sonders, 32, was a cultivated...

Continental Tour 2020

The World Athletics announced on Saturday the dates for the new gold level Continental Tour 2020. This will contain a series of the top ten best non-Diamond-League one-day meets, which will include 200m and 3,000m steeplechase as the main events. The first meet of the Tour will take place on 10th...

New controversy over the shoes

Athletics have been seeing a rise in popularity, and this is due to the records that are being made in the athletics world that are garnering world attention as these seemingly impossible records are being broken by some fantastic names in the athletics world

As the sport is gaining pop...

New athletic center causing waves of disruption

Athletics is a growing sport but does not have that much popularity as much it should have given the intense nature of the sport. The athletes of the sport have to work really hard to achieve excellence and stay at the top of their game.

The United States has given many good athletes, a...

Spring-like-shoes legal for marathons?

On a level course in Vienna, accompanied by a revolution of 41 world-class pacemakers, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge extended the breaking points of human undertaking by turning into the first individual to run a long-distance race in less than two hours.

After a day in Chicago, Radcliffe watch...

A new group of athletic leaders making itself known over Harvard

Another gathering of athletic pioneers is making itself known over Harvard's playing fields and campus, as Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise plans to step down. A gathering of seniors established Women of Harvard Athletics. This club is planned for fighting what its authors describe as ...

New regulation sparks outrage

As a woman made the record for being the fastest on track even faster than Usain bolt just after a year of delivering a baby has sparked some mixed reactions from the people all over the globe and what we are expecting is that this happened just because she is a woman. May it is true and maybe it...

The glory of Athletics club

One of West Dunbartonshire’s longest-established sporting clubs is marking its centenary as it aims to build for the future. Dumbarton Amateur Athletics Club was formed in February 1919 as Dumbarton Harriers and, over the past century, has been a regular on the Scottish competition scene. D...

Nike shuts down its athletics training

Nike said it will shut down the Oregon Project, the athletics training programme funded by the US sportswear giant, following a doping scandal that has engulfed the company. Earlier this month, Oregon Project head coach Alberto Salazar, who has trained some of the world’s best long-distance...

India in Open Athletics 2019

With the national Open Athletics going  on India, there's a lot to catch up on the athletics in the nation. And here are some highlights of the event.

Annu rani, setting the national record at 62.43m to enter the women's javelin throw final at the World Championships in Doh...