The 33rd Olympic Summer Games will capture the world's attention in July and August, but the excitement

It's either the World Cup or the Olympic Games, both of which attract the attention of virtually the

sees the start of the NBA play-offs, the World Team Walking Championships in Turkey and the London Marathon

 May continues with pre-Olympic events such as table tennis and the Roland Garros tournament will

The month will also see intense basketball battles for four Olympic berths, almost an unofficial Olympic

At the end of the month, as mentioned, the 33rd Olympic Summer Games of the modern era will begin in

For the first time in history, it's not been two, but six athletes who have been awarded by World Athletics: Tigist Assefa, Mondo Duplantis, Kelvin Kiptum, Faith Kipyegon, Noah Lyles, and Yulimar Rojas were announced as World Athletes of the Year for 2023 during the ceremony in the Principality of Monaco.

our award winners and all of the athletes nominated for these honors," concluded the British double Olympic

these awards, the Fair Play Award went to Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey (10,000 meters); Abbott World Marathon

The Olympic champion, Eliud Kipchoge, and the world record holder, Kelvin Kiptum, will face off at the

Maraton in Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

all indications point to their first meeting taking place in the most significant event of all: the Olympic

marathon.

Kipchoge aims to become the first athlete to win three Olympic golds in the marathon, following his successes

marathon.

The equally impressive women's team includes defending Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir, Boston and

Valencia is becoming one of the great references in long-distance running, as demonstrated by the 10,000m world records set in 2021 by Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and Letensebet Gidey of Ethiopia, in a spectacular event that made headlines around the world.

This time it was the road race and just a month after the half marathon, the Trinidad Alfonso Valencia

Making his debut at the historic Olympic distance, the three-time World 10,000m champion competed alongside

veteran multi-time World and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele (41), compatriots Dawit Wolde and Sissay

His personal best came at the Berlin Marathon in 2019, when he finished third in 2h:03:36.

Spanish record. © Getty ImagesEthiopia's Almaz Ayana was in her second year as a marathoner after winning Olympic

The 2024 Open Water Swimming World Cup season kicks off in the waters of Soma Bay, Egypt, home to the successful 2023 Open Water Swimming World Cup as part of the Egypt Aquatics Festival. The second stop will be Golfo Aranci, Italy, a coastal town renowned for its warm Sardinian hospitality. "Sardinia is like a second home for many of us who compete in open water swimming. It's always a joy to race there," said German swimmer Leonie Beck.

Estuary Nature Reserve has successfully hosted multiple World Aquatics open water events, including the Olympic

Marathon Swim Qualifier events in 2012, 2016, and 2021, the Marathon Swim World Series 2022, and the

Welcome to insidethegames.biz (ITG), your premier source for sports news, with a particular focus on Olympic

Games, and a wide range of sporting disciplines, including summer and winter sports, as well as non-Olympic

Ciss-Praxis (La Ley) in Barcelona (2001-2005).Contributor and later editor of the athletics magazine Marathon

 Special correspondent at the athletics events of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.Occasional panelist

The iconic New York City Marathon celebrated its 52nd edition on Sunday, an event that has only been

a fifth consecutive victory for Kenya.Tola lifted a heavy weight from his shoulders with this major marathon

 This victory boosted his confidence, especially after his silver medal at the 2016 World Half Marathon

sixth places at the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons, and his third place finishes at last year's Tokyo Marathon

I am grateful for another invitation to run this great marathon and for all the people who support me

in the final kilometre Hellen Obiri showed her impressive finishing skills, as evidenced by her two Olympic

Marathon swimmer Chelsea Gubecka has become the first Australian athlete to be selected for next year's

Olympic Games in Paris.

Mission Anna Meares added: "This is a fantastic milestone for Chelsea and the entire Australian Olympic

selected of an expected team size of 460 to 480 that will represent Australia with pride at the Paris 2024 Olympic

 "Congratulations Chelsea on being selected for your second Australian Olympic Team."

This is also a day to celebrate for all those who have contributed to Chelsea’s Olympic journey - Swimming

Olympic gold medallist Maggie MacNeil won gold and bronze and set a Pan American Games record on the

the men's 200m backstroke title in a Games record 1:56.58.Peru's Cristhian Pacheco defended his men's marathon

previous Pan American Games record by more than three minutes as she won the gold medal in the women's marathon

consecutive edition of the Pan American Games that the event's record had been broken in the women's marathon

, including at Lima 2019 when Peru's Gladys Tejeda had won in 2:30:55.Double Olympic gold medallist Mariana

Belgian marathon runner Aurèle Vandendriessche, who competed at three Olympics and won two Boston titles

Vandendriessche dropped out of the Rome 1960 Olympic marathon after attempting to stay with a fast early

pace in a contest where Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila won the first of his two Olympic titles.Four years later

42.6sec.Aurèle Vandendriessche competed at Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964 ©Getty ImagesHe won the Boston Marathon

Mumbai, the city which has been hosting the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session this past week

The Olympic Games belong to all countries of the world be they hot or cold, wet or dry, in the east,

It cannot be taken into consideration, since it was not submitted to the International Olympic Committee

The Olympic Flame would shine in Buenos Aires in all the clarity of its millennial purity."

marathon champion Abebe Bikila, later made a famous forecast."

Committee will be debarred from entering its teams in the Olympic Games."

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has used his speech at the Opening Ceremony

of the Session here to launch an inaugural Olympic Esports Games.

Esports Commission led by International Cycling Union and French National Olympic and Sports Committee

President David Lappartient to explore the creation of an "Olympic Esports Games"."

This makes our Olympic Agenda 2020 imperative 'change or be changed' even more urgent."

As we did with Olympic Agenda, we can change before we are being changed.

new era" with gender parity in terms of athlete quota places, mass participation events such as the marathon

is claimed, is set to "reshape the landscape of canoe sports in the United States" before the 2028 Olympic

with the ICF and ACA in recent years, with major events such as the ICF Canoe Sprint Super Cup and ICF Marathon

Kelvin Kiptum, who broke the world marathon record in Chicago last Sunday at only his third attempt at

Kiptum, who won the London Marathon earlier this year in a time only Eliud Kipchoge had ever bettered

in London and then set the second fastest time ever in the Chicago Marathon, winning two world track

Berlin by Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, who is on the list.In between her marathons Hassan, who has two Olympic

regaining his world 400m hurdles title, winning a third world gold in total.India’s hugely popular Olympic

likely to figure in a big way having earned his first world title and an Asian Games gold.Greece’s Olympic

Officials believe that the first ten members of the British team named for the Paris 2024 Olympics are capable of continuing a tradition of sailing success.

What's great about this group is that it is a blend of four athletes who have been successful in the Olympic

pretty tough journey," British Chef de Mission Mark England said.Britain has won 30 gold medals in Olympic

Tokyo felt more like a marathon and this has been a sprint, it would have been very easy to view this

In the men's skiff (49er) James Peters and Fynn Sterritt finally make their Olympic debut after they

Flame arrives in the port on May 8.The Olympic sailing regatta is set to begin on July 28 2024.