Last year's World Triathlon Championship Finals in Abu Dhabi delivered fireworks in the searing November heat.

Yet the sense that history might be about to repeat itself was palpable when Yee and Wilde - Olympic

Coninx who prevailed in a sprint finish and was crowned world champion.Perhaps the only other individual Olympic

Series for the first time in 2009, the year after Spain's Marisol Casado, who became an International Olympic

events I have covered, as I wrote in a blog following last year's Championship Finals.With the mass marathon

proposing this mass participation, maybe they don't recall, but even before the French decided to have a marathon

Tigist Assefa retained her Berlin Marathon title in stupendous fashion today as she shattered the women's

she has set the 13th world record to be witnessed in this race.Not bad for someone who only took up marathon

As for being now a favourite for the Olympic marathon next year, it is up to the national committee to

Assefa's 800 metres career offered no obvious pointers to her potential as a marathon runner.In 2014

had identified this race as an ideal step towards his goal of becoming the first athlete to win three Olympic

For more on why so many world records have been set and broken at the Berlin Marathon, click here.

Eliud Kipchoge, who will seek a record third Olympic marathon title in Paris next year, has chosen tomorrow

’s Berlin Marathon - where he broke his own world record last year - as a key part of his preparation

phenomenon will arrive with doubts to assuage after finishing a troubled sixth at his first Boston Marathon

In view of the Olympic Games next year in Paris, I thought about which race could be the best preparation

He has on the horizon the goal of becoming the first athlete to win three Olympic marathon titles following

1964 titles, and East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski, who won gold at the Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980 Olympic

in impressive style and second-place finisher behind the Olympic champion at the 2018 Berlin Marathon

year's Paris Olympics, this illustrious 38-year-old will seek to become the first athlete to win three marathon

And today he runs in the marathon that he believes will most help him towards that goal - in Berlin,

In view of the Olympic Games next year in Paris, I thought about which race could be the best preparation

again until the London 2020 race…As things stand, in Olympic terms, he shares a podium with two other

capital and recorded a time of 2:21:23, which was faster than the existing Olympic record set in Helsinki

 The fourth-placed finisher in the 1976 Olympic marathon, Shorter’s compatriot Don Kardong, also

and second-place finisher behind the Olympic champion at the 2018 Berlin Marathon, will be ready to

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has travelled to New York City for the United

programme, launched to use sport to prevent violence against girls and women in Brazil from the 2016 Olympic

participants were invited to run, walk or use their assistive device on a four-mile route.National Olympic

Committee Kenya President and IOC member Paul Tergat, a two-time 10,000 metres Olympic silver medallist

and former marathon world record holder, and WHO director general Ayoade Alakija were among those who

López Moreira.Peña and Pérez López Moreira expressed Paraguay's interest in staging the 2030 Youth Olympic

Former junior world champions Mona Mitterwallner of Austria and Frenchman Victor Koretzky took golds following a pair of thrilling races at the Mountain Bike World Cup in Haute-Savoie.

Mitterwallner, who won the cross-country marathon at the Cycling World Championships earlier this year

points to her name.Her compatriot Koretzky clinched his first title of the season ahead of Rio 2016 Olympic

Schurter of Switzerland in the men's cross-country.He finished 17 seconds clear of Schurter, who also has Olympic

made to ban Iran from next year’s Olympics in Paris after claims that the country is violating the Olympic

for Iran’s exclusion from Paris 2024.A letter was reportedly issued by the group to the International Olympic

are banned under the Islamic regime.French lawyer Frédéric Thiriez has claimed that Iran has violated Olympic

welfare of athletes and discrimination in sports in the Middle East nation.Bach summoned the National Olympic

Islamic Republic of Iran President Hashem Siami quit in May after photos showed women running in a marathon

in Shiraz without hijabs.Iran has previously been accused of breaching the Olympic Charter through Government

In a statement after this year's Mexico City Marathon, organisers insisted that the annual event represents

Your programme should know that not everyone who signs up for a marathon intends to finish it; many take

It was Madrazo’s participation in one particular marathon, the Berlin marathon of 2007, which earned

continued.The Mexico course dodgers - however many they may turn out to be - were following in a great Olympic

nine-mile mark and covered the next 11 miles in his manager’s car before making his way back on foot to the Olympic

Let’s go with the flow on this and promote it as a new strand within the marathon day.

billion (£765 million/$955 million/€892 million) is to be invested into the development of the Tianfu Olympic

The Tianfu Olympic Sports Park is situated in the Eastern New District of the Chinese city and is set

exceed CNY¥7 billion, according to a report by Chinese website Sohu.Among those include the Tianfu Olympic

of global sporting organisations.Another large chunk of the investment is due to go until the Tianfu Olympic

investments include CNY¥220 million (£24 million/$30 million/€28 million) into the Sancha Lake International Marathon

Track and CNY¥200 million (£22 million/$27 million/€25 million) into the Olympic Sports Cultural Tourism

Earlier this week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board announced there would be

"Due to ongoing discussions between the IOC and the Organising Committee, the Olympic Programme Commission

Angeles almost 40 years ago,In 1984, then the major programme changes were the inclusion of a women’s marathon

road race.As many sports have been added, there remains the suspicion that not all of them regard an Olympic

goal as the highest peak.The women's marathon was included for the first time at an Olympic Games the

gold and is now one of very few in the men’s game to possess both an Olympic and World Cup winner’s

Arriving back at Paris Orly airport from the World Athletics Championships in Budapest I felt almost guilty speaking to some of my friends from L’Equipe.

Stuttgart ©Getty ImagesMaybe next year there will be one glorious finale for Mayer, who has won two Olympic

Not many people in Britain really expected that Jake Wightman would beat Norway’s Olympic champion Jakob

©Getty ImagesAs a 40-year-old Sir Mo Farah, with six world and four Olympic golds to his name over 5,000

in the United States on October 14 seeking the Olympic qualifying mark of 2:26:50.Her victory came thirty

While training earlier in the year at altitude in Albuquerque in preparation for the London Marathon

Hungary’s Vanda Kiszli captured her second gold of the International Canoe Federation Canoe Marathon

in the women's K2 race as the country topped the overall standings ©Svend-Erik Boysen/2023 ICF Canoe Marathon

medal went to Poland’s Mateusz Zuchora and Mateusz Borgiel who clocked a time of 1:38:05.63.Double Olympic

of drama on the final day of competition at Lake Jels in Denmark ©Svend-Erik Boysen/2023 ICF Canoe Marathon

excited over the "great potential" of portages in canoe sprint with a view to possible inclusion at the Olympic

Konietzko visited Lake Jels in Denmark yesterday to watch the penultimate day of competition at the Canoe Marathon

Denmark’s Mads Pedersen overcame double Olympic medallist Fernando Pimenta of Portugal to win men’s K1

As you can see from the canoe marathon, portages bring some action-packed moments and could bring in

I don’t think we should sell out the history but hopefully with the Olympic community and ICF we can

we have a highlight here with this year’s World Championships in marathon."

International Canoe Federation (ICF) President Thomas Konietzko has insisted that "we do not force" organisers to permit Russian and Belarusian athletes after they were refused entry into major events due to a lack of assurances over security.

Belarus was cited by the Danish Canoe Federation as the reason for their omission at the ICF Canoe Marathon

not affiliated with the military.But they have yet to return to major events and face missing another Olympic

The International Canoe Federation (ICF) is working to establish a Paracanoe Marathon World Championships

Para athletes were invited to the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships for the first time to compete

over the long distance.A total of 14 Paracanoe marathon categories were added to the programme, with

We want to have a Paracanoe Marathon World Championships."

Ruud Heijselaar, chair of the ICF Canoe Marathon Committee, wants the Paracanoe marathon to be a medal

There are not too many Para athletes here but that’s because we have the test event for the Olympic and