The 800m runner tried to cheat his way through the test at the national trials for the World Championships

and the Commonwealth Games in Nairobi in June 2022.

 One of the best middle-distance runners in the world has been provisionally suspended since January

The athlete will not be able to take part in the next Olympic Games, which will be held in Paris in July

 In April last year, Kenya issued a statement outlining its plan to combat the phenomenon, due to

The European Sambo Championships and the European Youth and Junior Sambo Championships will be held in the Serbian city of Novi Sad from 9 to 12 May. The tournament will be held in the SPENS arena, which is well known to many sambists.

Medals will be awarded in Sport SAMBO for men and women and in Combat SAMBO, also for men and women.

The Continental Combat SAMBO Championships will be a qualifier for the XII World Games in Chengdu 2025

 Women's Combat Sambo has never been an official part of the European Championships.

as a qualification for the 2023 World Combat Games.

 It is not yet known how many weight categories women's combat sambo will have at the 2024 European

After announcing the first Torchbearers, the Team Relay captains, Paris 2024 has had good news for the majority - 80% - of the 11,000 people who will have the unique experience of carrying the Torch on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relay.

As key events marking the start of the Games and the celebrations, the Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relays

apart from any other sporting event in the world.

 Last torchbearer of Day 1, Yoshihide Muroya, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

sportsman who, at the age of 70, cannot get enough of extreme challenges; Marie, 37, who works every day to combat

transmission between individuals, cultures and nations, reinforcing the idea that sport can inspire the world

Chungwon Choue, the president of World Taekwondo talked about the organisation’s humanitarian efforts

“At World Taekwondo, we inspire hopes and dreams through our humanitarian and social development activities

Our commitment to an inclusive world through sport for refugees and displaced persons led to the creation

Second, the Hope and Dreams Sports Festival was recognised as the Combat Sport Initiative of the Year

also recognised 12 refugee athletes for the Olympic Solidarity Programme for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

in a deeply moving documentary, “We Dare to Dream” about their journey to participate in the Olympic Games

The Puerto Rico Olympic Committee celebrated its 75th anniversary with an Olympic Dinner at a luxury hotel in the capital San Juan, where the best athletes from 33 participating federations were honoured. Puerto Rico is an associated state of the United States of America.

also on hand to welcome the crowd and predict a strong performance from her athletes at the Paris 2024 Games

players Nathaly Ceballos and Pablo Montes, and softball players Aleisha Ocasio and Emmanuel Colón.In combat

Carmelo Rivera also received much applause.The event also paid tribute to people associated with the world

bronze medals in San Salvador, and three gold, six silver, and 11 bronze medals at the Pan American Games

The President of the International SAMBO Federation, Vasily Shestakov, summed up the 2023 and talked about the New Year in his speech.

Perhaps their most important feature was the inclusion of a new discipline in the programme - Women's Combat

"The World Beach SAMBO Championships took place in the city of Juan Dolio (Dominican Republic), the World

Combat Games held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 20-21 October can also be considered as one of the major

Competitions were held in Sport SAMBO and Combat SAMBO for both men and women, as well as in SAMBO for

The decision taken this year to return SAMBO to the big stage of the World Games, which will be held

Luis Moreno Garcia of Venezuela had a moment of joy during the World Combat Games this October.

He was the first Para athlete to win the gold medal of the games by defeating Moldova’s Oleg Nemtan 7

take things up a notch by competing for their countries internationally”Asked for a report card on the World

Combat Games, Moreno was complementary: “Everything was just wonderful.

This is the highest level this discipline has reached after the regional Asia-Oceania World Championship

UK Sport has revealed the winners of the PLx 2023 awards, recognizing outstanding achievements and contributions from the Olympic and Paralympic high-performance sports community over the past 12 months. The awardees include athletes, coaches, teams, and support staff.

sector award winners from Olympic and Paralympic sports were celebrated.Among the winners is Skeleton world

and winning silver at the World and Europeans.VI Judoka Daniel Powell earned the Social Impact Award

for his dedication to making combat sport more accessible through his charity, GNR8 Academy.Awards were

With the Olympic and Paralympic Games just around the corner, the past year has been crucial for all

It has been another inspiring sporting year with world-class events taking place in the UK and world-leading

Roy Baker was reelected as the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO) president for the

During his presidency WAKO gained full IOC recognition, and was represented in The World Combat Games

The World Games and European Games in 2022 and 2023.

vision for a strategic and progressive future will propel our sport to its rightful place as the leading combat

The last day of the World Sambo Championships 2023 brought joy and disappointment to the host country

crowd’s biggest hope was 79 kg sport sambist Boris Shatveryan, who earlier this year had won CIS second games

In the final bout of combat sambo’s 98 kg weight category he defeated Armenia’s Avetik Poghosyan.

 Russia’s athletes didn’t make any mistakes in day 3 finals of combat sambo.

Now I am planning to battle in MMA and win another couple of world champion titles in combat sambo”,

Russia’s sport sambo team claimed 5 gold medals from 7, and combat sambo’s team won 6 gold medals from

Russian athletes' dominance was even more stronger on the second day of the World Sambo championships

In the middle of the final bout of combat sambo 64 kg weight category he held a counterattack take down

Earlier this year she won the second CIS Games in Belarus defeating Anzhela Zhylinskaya in the final

“The final bout was the most difficult, I have faced Anzhela in the CIS Games final, she is a European

The latter became a 10 time world champion.

Tomorrow athletes will compete in Men’s Sport Sambo 79 and 98 kg, Women’s Sport Sambo 80 and +80kg and Combat

Total inclusion '100 percent worth it' at the Riyadh 2023 World Combat Games Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, recently

The Riyadh 2023 World Combat Games managed to unite, on one hand, fighters from the 16 martial arts and

combat sports seeking champions with 60 special athletes with physical, intellectual, and visual impairments

competition always aimed for the event's legacy to endure.It was the first major sporting event in the world

"Just being here at the World Combat Games is amazing," said Rustin Hughes, a Ju-Jitsu athlete from the

Riyadh 2023 with a fifth-place finish in June at the Asia-Oceania SAMBO Championships, being crowned World

Combat Games champion felt like redemption for the Venezuelan.

Combat Games, mainly the local organizing committee, the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and

SportAccord President Ivo Ferriani has described Riyadh 2023 as the best edition of the World Combat

Games to ever be held as it reached its conclusion today.

moments in #Riyadh2023 comes to an end 🔚#WorldCombatGames pic.twitter.com/6ujMSn7zjH— Riyadh 2023 World

Combat Games (@WCGRiyadh2023) October 30, 2023The Closing Ceremony featured a light show that illuminated

the sky and included jugglers, light painters, and an "LED battle show" that featured the 16 World Combat

behind with respective scores of 9.04 and 8.80.Organisers have stated that the host city of the next World

Combat Games in 2025 are expected to be announced early next year.

Seung-jin and Song Kyeong-seon combined to take freestyle poomsae pairs taekwondo gold at the Riyadh 2023 World

Combat Games in Saudi Arabia.

𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐬🏅 Men’s Individual🏅 Women's Individual#WorldCombatGames pic.twitter.com/nK5n0lY7TC— Riyadh 2023 World

Combat Games (@WCGRiyadh2023) October 29, 2023South Korean Lee Nam-hun led the men's semi-final with

women's event courtesy of her leading 8.780-point performance.Tomorrow marks taekwondo's final day at the Games

Takahashi before Kenshiro Matsuzaki took the men's crown after getting the better of Keita Hoshiko.The Games

Germany's Nicole Holzmann sealed savate success as the sport experienced its first day at the Riyadh 2023 World

Combat Games.

Holzmann dominated South Korea's Kim Eun-jung in the women's canne de combat final with a 3-0 win.She

emulated Holzmann's triumph as he beat Michal Vrastil of the Czech Republic 3-0 in the men's canne de combat

medal winners 🥇Thomas Dardour defeated Michal Vrastil to be crowned champion of the Men's Canne de Combat

🔥#Riyadh2023 | #WorldCombatGames pic.twitter.com/ywtLmkd7nE— Riyadh 2023 World Combat Games (@WCGRiyadh2023