Norway’s 20-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen earned a landmark 5,000 metres victory at the Diamond League meeting in Florence over a field including Uganda’s world record-holder Joshua Cheptegei as he set a European record of 12min 48.45sec, the fastest run this year.
Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands will return to the home track in Hengelo where she set a European 10,000 metres record of 29min 36.67sec last year and will again contest the 25-lap discipline at tomorrow's World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting.
Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith coped best in driving wind and rain to beat a stellar 100 metres field including United States rival Sha’Carri Richardson as England’s north-east town of Gateshead hosted the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season.
Sprint rivals Dina Asher-Smith and Sha'Carri Richardson have become the latest high-profile athletes to reject the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) stance against podium protests at Tokyo 2020 and other Games.
The announcement last week of the death of Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400 metres gold medallist, re-focused attention on the athlete protests - by him and several United States team mates - that marked those Games in Mexico.
A convergence of three top women sprinters will ensure that tomorrow's opening Diamond League meeting of the season at Gateshead International Stadium is a must-watch.
A little under three weeks from now the Gateshead International Stadium will live up to its name as of old when it hosts the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season.
Britain’s world 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith equalled her British record of 7.08sec in winning the 60 metres at the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the year in Karlsruhe on a night when France’s former world pole vault record holder Renaud Lavillenie looked back to his lofty best.
A high-quality line-up featuring several former world and Olympic champions has been assembled for the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2021 at Karlsruhe in Germany.
The plethora of comment, support, celebration and information marking yesterday’s International Women’s Day included, as one would expect, a huge amount of material in the sporting realm.
This time last year I was covering the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter World University Games, which meant I spent International Women’s Day (IWD) in Russia.
World champion sprinter Dina Asher-Smith has been made into a Barbie doll to mark International Women’s Day.
The 2019 World Athletics 200 metres champion Dina Asher-Smith has advised competitors at Lausanne 2020 to "be authentic" on social media.
Last year British sport witnessed high drama on the cricket pitch, rugby field, athletics track and in the boxing ring, while embattled football went to VAR.
Nelson Mandela had it. So did Bill Clinton. Muhammad Ali had it in bucketloads. George Best, Paul Gascoigne and Denis Law also had it, as did boxers Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Ricky Hatton, Naseem Hamed and David Haye. Frank Bruno still has it.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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Formed in 1921, the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) is the governing body for all international events in Jumping, Dressage and Para Dressage, Eventing, Driving and Para Driving, Endurance, Vaulting and Reining. It establishes the regulations and approves equestrian programmes for Championships, Continental and Regional Games as well as the Olympic & Paralympic Games. The FEI is looking for a Sports Content & Social Media Manager with 100% rate of activity for its Digital and Content Department. The position is based in Lausanne and is available immediately.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are not the first to be impacted by quarantine rules. Philip Barker tells the story of the Melbourne 1956 Games, where the equestrian events were held in Stockholm.
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