Uganda - January 2022When Joshua Cheptegei crossed the line first to win gold in the 5,000 metres at Tokyo 2020, he confirmed Uganda's best-ever Olympic performance.

could not be caught over half the distance in front of a deserted Olympic Stadium.Cheptegei, the world record

success has whetted the appetite for sport in the country and work is underway to ensure that the good times

 "People are excited so we need to ensure that the building blocks are all in place.

 "We are certainly expectant as far as the medals are concerned.

We are setting our eyes on medals in different sporting disciplines."

Cameroon - March 2022There are not many Commonwealth Games countries where French is the first language.

- all of those things.

, all in weightlifting.They have only claimed one more title since then, and also have 10 silver medals

 Françoise Mbango Etone won two Olympic gold medals for Cameroon in triple jump ©Getty Images"We're

in Italy.Then aged 38, Milla was always named as a substitute but came off the bench to score four times

made a dream run to the quarter-finals.At the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Milla broke his own record

Wales - November 2021Birmingham 2022 will not be a home Commonwealth Games for Wales, but it won't be far off.

 Wales enjoyed their record Commonwealth Games performance at Gold Coast 2018 ©Getty Images"There's

exposure, and to put their sport in the frontline when perhaps they don't get the spotlight at other times

Wales enjoyed their record Commonwealth Games performance in Gold Coast, when Phillips was also Chef

nbsp;"And if they do that, and we have some excellent athletes, some very capable athletes, if they all

go in and perform to their capacity, then some of those medals will fall into place.

Scotland - May 2022Scotland did not need to work hard to convince its top stars to compete at Birmingham 2022.

 "Despite a crowded calendar, there's a real will and a want to compete for Scotland and win medals

freestyle.Kathleen Dawson was part of the British team in Tokyo which won the 4x100m mixed medley relay in a world record

They've all committed and accepted their early pre-selection for the Commonwealth Games."

Gold Coast.Sprinter Allan Wells, the Olympic 100m champion at Moscow 1980, has topped the podium four times

We'll be across all the Villages with the sports we're participating in.

Fencer Astrid Guyart and archer Romain Girouille are the new co-Presidents of the Athletes' Commission of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF).

bronze-medal match that France lost to South Korea.Since then she has won one silver and five bronze medals

also helped France reach the team quarter-finals.The 38-strong commission includes Yohann Diniz, world record

holder for the 50 kilometres race walk, judoka Clarisse Agbegnenou, a Rio 2016 silver medallist and four times

electoral college mean that this year’s commission is even more representative of elite athletes from all

For elite sportsmen and women across the world the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed huge challenges as they have had to forego competition and strive to keep themselves mentally and physically prepared for the day when their events are restored.

professor of emergency medicine for the University of Colorado's School of Medicine in Denver.Despite all

Reflecting upon the times of peak stress in her professional capacity, Yannetsos said: "I think the main

We all know how the virus spreads and how to prevent it. Each of us needs to take responsibility.

Singapore’s 110m hurdles record holder Ang Chen Xiang has been dealing regularly with COVID-19 patients

been working as a nurse one day a week for more than 10 years in a career that has seen her earn gold medals

The distinctive bright pink pages have become familiar across the world and since it first appeared in news kiosks 125 years ago this week, Gazzetta dello Sport has become an institution.

rises once again to proclaim the revival of the famous Olympic Games which were celebrated in former times

Olympic cycle races.It also carried advertisements for a shop run by Carlo Tardy of Turin who promised "all

trophy from the Queen and took his place in the annals of the Olympics.Although Italy did not win any medals

Fausto Coppi, winner of the Giro and Tour de France twice in the same year, but the paper was soon to record

The paper reported 47 deaths - "almost all were Italian".

The second leg of the 2021 World Para Powerlifting World Cup is set to start tomorrow in Manchester in the United Kingdom, with the British team among the favourites to top the medal table.

reaction test must be taken within 72 hours of arriving in England.Face masks will be mandatory at all

times, except for athletes on the competition stage and social distancing is expected to be adhered

in the men's under-54 kilograms category, while Newson goes in the under-41kg.Britain won four gold medals

men's under-72kg ©Getty ImagesOne of the favourites will be Italian junior world champion and world record

All eight of the country’s medals have come in shooting with Asif Hossain clinching three of those including

All nine of their gold medals came in weightlifting with David Matam Matam, Madeleine Yamechi and Tientcheu

He jointly holds the record of the most medals at the Games with Australian shooter Phillip Adams.

All the small western Pacific island nation’s 30 medals have come in weightlifting, with the first three

Since then, Tanzania have appeared at every edition except 1986 with all their medals coming between

As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs have prepared for today's meeting in the 55th Super Bowl in Florida, much of the attention has focused on the still-shining superstar who will run Tampa's game from the quarterback position - Tom Brady. That is, 43-year-old Tom Brady.

Stanley Matthews by the time he retired from the top class game in 1965, aged 50.Matthews played 54 times

Torres did more than that, taking home three silver medals and setting a US record in the 50 metres freestyle.The

Having won the Australian Open four times, and the French and US Opens twice, he had a Wimbledon record

titles.Michael Jordan maintained his incomparable career in basketball at the highest level until, six-times

played for 20 seasons in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers - and was voted six times

The Oceania Weightlifting Federation (OWF) has responded to claims of "unethical behaviour" by dropping a proposal to involve a candidate for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections in voting procedures at regional level.

Another from Samoa said there was a "risk of mistrust and questionable practices" at a time when "we all

The OWF has a brilliant record in promoting the sport, in anti-doping - 14 years without any violations

Lifters from Oceania won six of the 16 weightlifting medals on offer at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth

spent 26 years of my life developing weightlifting in the Pacific and their lifters have won many, many medals

We have experienced this quite a few times, with our online tournaments and even our own executive board

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has made substantial changes to its anti-doping rules, leading to complaints from some nations of a lack of transparency and of "loosening when it should be tightening" the policing of multiple offenders.

doping problems, and wanted to give them a chance to recover.The IWF has handed over responsibility for all

alarms me is the loosening rather than the tightening of anti-doping rules in a sport that has a track record

through which Ilya Ilyin escaped a lengthy suspension has been closed.Ilyin, the now-retired world record

Four times a world champion, Ilya Ilyin was stripped of two Olympic gold medals but only had to serve

This way fairness and the right to be heard will be well respected by all federations who have doping

Back in the day, as they say today - it was the late 1980s as I recall - a young lad of about 10 approached me in the street and asked for my autograph. I was somewhat taken aback, as I was hardly on the A-list. 

And our birthdays, in February, were only a couple of days apart.I lost count of the number of times

Jimmy Greaves remains' Tottenham Hotspur's all-time leading scorer ©Getty ImagesGoing through security

the supreme entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth.Moreover, back in 1956 two British amateur boxers won gold medals

Yet Greaves is still Tottenham’s record goalscorer, with 266 goals in 379 matches.

He scored 44 times in 57 matches for England, including six hat-tricks.

When Geoff Capes - who, surprisingly, has been the official British shot put record holder for the last

Wimbledon crown.In between matches I had bumped into Greg Rusedski and chatted briefly about his life and times

for the Barcelona Olympics at a decathlon in Trondheim.In the process of collecting 100 metres gold medals

All I needed was there and I didn’t need my phone at all."It’s much better like this.

In Kosovo I was famous before the Rio Olympics because I had been two times world champion and people

All I had, and all I still have now, is just my coach and my team-mates.

Athletics has had a lousy 2020. Not that any sport has had a great 12 months, but the absence of a major championships after the postponement of Tokyo 2020, coupled with a severe lack of cash in the World Athletics coffers, has left the sport trailing those that have been able to keep their shows on the road in bubbles for sofa-bound audiences. Shoe wars and drug scandals have hardly helped either. Thankfully, redemption may be but eight months away, if only athletics’ leaders can seize their quadrennial moment when the world drops everything to watch its greatest runners, jumpers...

If commentators put an asterisk against every Olympic record set next year then they will be doing the

Better to simply acknowledge that its leaders have decided that a reset of its record book is part of

And Tokyo could and should be that reboot, a reminder of all that athletics can be, and all the more

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the governance battles that continue to rage - The Times last month

disappointing year for athletics ©Getty ImagesThankfully, Britain’s athletes seem well placed to deliver medals