White have all become members of the Team Visa roster for Britain in the build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic

network of digital payments company, has been a worldwide sponsorship partner of the International Olympic

athletes will be announced later this year at the Team Visa Summit in Paris.Swimmer Peaty is a triple Olympic

2020 by winning bronze in the women's park competition aged just 13.Sky Brown is a world champion and Olympic

British Royal Marines in 2010, resulting in the loss of three limbs.He won a gold medal at the Canoe Marathon

There's no doubt that, in order to compete at the highest level and have any chance of going to the Olympic

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed the Olympic Agenda 2020+5 Midway

March 2021 to guide the organisation through to the end of Bach's Presidency in 2025, following on from Olympic

surfing.It is also claimed next year's Olympics will be "more inclusive" through ideas such as the mass marathon

Refuge Foundation.Increased digitalisation including through the Olympic Virtual Series in 2021 and

Agenda 2020 and Olympic Agenda 2020+5 ©Getty ImagesIncreases in engagement on social media have been

Games of a new era, inspired by Olympic Agenda 2020 and Olympic Agenda 2020+5 from start to finish."

Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum became the first man to break two hours and one minute in an official marathon

In only his third marathon Kiptum, 23, took 34 seconds off the mark set at last year’s Berlin Marathon

by his 38-year-old compatriot Eliud Kipchoge - whose prospects of earning a third consecutive Olympic

by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei as she won in Berlin in 2:11.53.Hassan, 30, who has won two world and two Olympic

track titles for The Netherlands, was running only her second marathon after winning the London race

debut time in Valencia last year - 2:01:53 - and won the London Marathon in 2:01.25, the second fastest

Sifan Hassan and Kelvin Kiptum, respective women’s and men’s winners of this year’s London Marathon,

challenge defending champions Ruth Chepngetich and Benson Kipruto in tomorrow’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon

The women’s race looks particularly captivating in what is set to be the fifth of this season’s World Marathon

Kosgei, is seeking a third consecutive win in the Windy City.The 2019 world champion won the Nagoya Marathon

runners in history.Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich, pictured winning last year's Chicago Marathon title in

Sisson, who finished runner-up last year in 2:18:29, beating the North American record by 43 seconds, Olympic

Chicago in 2021 and runner-up last year - will return for the third consecutive year.Belgium’s world and Olympic

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race prior ©Hangzhou 2022Wu Shutong came from behind to secure a dramatic victory in the women's 10km marathon

swimming event ©Hangzhou 2022India beat Japan 5-1 to win men's hockey gold and secure a Paris 2024 Olympic

The Indian men's hockey team has secured its place at the Paris 2024 Olympics following a dominant victory here at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.

India is the most successful men's hockey nation in Olympic history with eight titles but have not won

 The day began in the water with the women's swimming marathon which saw Wu Shutong take the women's

Xinjiang boxer Tuohetaerbieke Tanglatihan struck gold for China on the concluding night of boxing competition at the Asian Games here where Uzbekistan finished with a flourish of titles.

document that ignores the facts".The Chinese crowd helped Tuohetaerbieke to come from behind to defeat Olympic

Paris.Tuohetaerbieke Tanglatihan, right, delighted the Chinese crowd with his comeback triumph against Filipino Olympic

Taipei and South Korea respectively.Athletics competition came to a close with the men’s and women’s marathon

traffic on the the Seine close to the Paris 2024 Athletes' Village will be halted for the duration of the Olympic

Village will not be as busy.He added that talks are ongoing about stopping boats around the planned Olympic

 The Seine is also due to host triathlon and marathon swimming at Paris 2024 but there are fears

gold medals on offer at the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga, with women’s Olympic

marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir earning a third world half marathon title - but there was a rare

Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu, who took second place in 4:23.06, with the 29-year-old Kenyan world and Olympic

what was her first defeat of the season.Jepchirchir became the fourth woman to win a third world half marathon

won this event in 2016 and 2020, suffered injuries last year but finished third in this year’s London Marathon

Next month I’m going to run the New York City Marathon," she added, before making it clear that she will

then target the retention of her Olympic title."

There are some, perhaps many, in the world of running who believe that the new era of "super shoes" has turned the sport into something more akin to Formula 1, where technology appears to be the trump card in terms of performance.

Adios Pro Evo 1 shoe worn by Tigist Assefa as she took more than two minutes off the women’s world marathon

technology that challenges the boundaries of racing".Tigist Assefa of Ethiopia sets a women's world marathon

Brigid Kosgei of Kenya wore Nike VaporFly shoes in setting a women's world marathon record in Chicago

in 2019 and in winning the following year's London Marathon title ©Getty ImagesAssessing the three most

Geoff Burns, PhD in sports science and physiologist for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

The Olympic Stadium in Greece's capital Athens has been closed until further notice because its roof

athletics and football.It is due to undergo its first renovation since the Games this year, but the Athens Olympic

Velodrome at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex has also been affected by a failed safety test on its

The Olympic Stadium, opened in 1982 in time for the European Athletics Championships, has hosted several

matches this season ©Getty ImagesIt is formerly named after Spyros Louis, who won the first modern Olympic

marathon gold for Greece at Athens 1896.Renovation to the stadium had been planned as part of a €56.3

Faith Kipyegon, the world and Olympic 1500 metres champion who has set world records in three events

Kenya's Olympic marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir will seek a third women's half marathon world title

at the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga tomorrow ©Getty ImagesKenya’s Olympic

marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir will seek to become the fourth woman to win a third world half marathon

42.18sec to win at this season’s Monaco Diamond League meeting.The women’s 5km features a stellar field of Olympic

medallist who won the 5000m at the Brussels Diamond League earlier this month.Meanwhile, Uganda filed the Olympic

The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships that will be held over the weekend in Riga will offer “really important clues and messages about the way our sport has to develop over the coming years”, according to the World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.

Around 340 athletes from 56 countries, including Olympic and world champions and world record holders

women’s global titles in the road mile, 5km and half marathon.The latter event will feature Kenya’s Olympic

marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir seeking to become the fourth woman in history to win three world

titles at the half marathon distance.Kicked off the World Champs weekend with the official pre-race

in Riga this weekend ©Getty Images"We are also able to meld into that mix the 5km and the World Half Marathon

last year's World Athletics Championships, is set to host another major event in the United States' Olympic

Championships, most recently last year.Trials for Paris 2024 have been scheduled for June 21 to 30 next year.US Olympic

Marathon Trials are due to take place earlier in the year on February 3 in Orlando.The start of the

US Olympic and Paralympic Committee chief executive described the announcement as a "major milestone"

It’s a game that's always tempting to play when there is a huge step on in women's running events - that is, matching it against male performance in the past.

the second world record set by her illustrious fellow Ethiopian Abebe Bikila in winning his second Olympic

And actually, Assefa also bettered the world record set at the Polytechnic Marathon in England on June

record bettered the two records set by her illustrious Ethiopian compatriot, the double Olympic champion

Given that she is not yet 30, and that this was only her third marathon, she herself looks capable of

surpassed his best, she will surely never trouble his mark of 2hr 15min 16sec set in winning his first Olympic