heading to Athens, but the Lighting Ceremony here was interrupted by protests over China's human rights record

Free Hong Kong - Revolution" from the Acropolis monument.Banners protesting about China's human rights record

Tibetans now live in a world of constant surveillance, where their land, culture and religion are all

Truce the previous evening in Olympia, insisted: "This peace mission, handed down to us since ancient times

that the Olympic Games can stand above and beyond the political differences that existed in ancient times

protests are expected.China's freestyle skier Li Nina, a four-time Olympian and winner of aerials silver medals

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today approved the candidatures of 17 athletes for the IOC Athletes' Commission (AC) election that is set to take place at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

The record number of candidates and global representation are a strong sign that athletes want to play

All these candidates bring great value to the athlete community, and will add a new set of skills and

Five-times Olympic champion Martin Fourcade of France is one of the candidates.The biathlete won two

gold medals at Sochi 2014 in the 20 kilometre individual event and the 12.5km pursuit.Five-times Olympic

skiers - Jaqueline Mourão of Brazil, Greece's Maria Ntanou and Togo's Mathilde Amivi Petitjean - have all

Russia topped the medals table and Thailand won two golds on its return to international competition

I welcome strong athletes from other countries, the fight for medals is going on at the highest level

two golds in total, the others being Colombia, Thailand and Kazakhstan.Kazakhstan had a 100 per cent record

on 123kg.But the American pulled well clear in the clean and jerk, lifting more than two and a half times

for the Indonesian Adi Nugroho with 111kg in the men’s 55kg.Nugroho then failed with all three clean

with an impressive 153-189-342 at 96kg - more than Pliev in the super-heavyweights.Iran also picked up medals

The Guardian described it as an "almost incredible" performance and the man who gave it, Gert Potgieter, rated it the highlight of his athletics career - but there could have been so much more to come from the South African had he not suffered career-ending injuries in a car crash two years later.

the one-lap hurdles at the Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958.Pogieter broke the world record

hospitality, warm applause and encouragement by the spectators, the condition of the track, my world record

friends made, the outstanding atmosphere in and around the stadium, meeting Prince Philip, excellent all-round

Games organisation, my personal best times, two gold medals...

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has teamed up with former London 2012 chief executive Sir Keith Mills at the Czech Republic company trying to win the franchise to run the National Lottery in the United Kingdom.

67 medals, including 27 golds.At Tokyo 2020, Britain finished fourth, with 65 medals, 22 of them gold

, maintaining its record of having come in the top four at every Olympics since Beijing 2008.Sazka runs

s KKCG group, which has interests in eastern European oil and gas assets.Komarek told The Financial Times

strength to our international perspective as we strive to maximise the raising of funds for good causes in all

chairman of Camelot, which is bidding to be awarded the contract again.Coe, 64, told The Financial Times

Britain’s outstanding performances in the Olympic and Paralympic Games at Tokyo 2020 has been commemorated by the Royal Mail with a special postmark.

Team GB finished fourth on the Olympic medals table with a total of 65 medals, including 22 gold, their

, 41 gold.It maintained Britain’s record of having finished among the top five countries in the medals

Paralympic Games since they were first held at Rome 1960.The postmark, which read "Congratulations to all

our Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes Tokyo 2020", appeared on all mail sent in the United Kingdom

plus one each on Sark and the Isle of Man, were re-painted gold.It marked the first occasion in modern times

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a reception for the country’s Paralympians today to mark their best ever medal haul at Tokyo 2020.

members of the country’s Tokyo 2020 Paralympic team and shared words of motivation, as reported by Times

Now.Anurag Thakur said a new era of Paralympic sports had begun following the country's record medal

You have shown us that the human spirit is the most powerful of all!

Our medal tally has increased by about five times."

For the first time, we have won medals in table tennis, won multiple medals in archery and competed for

Twenty years ago this week, a global multi-sport event was reaching its conclusion in the 2032 Olympic host city, Brisbane. The 2001 Goodwill Games attracted competitors from over 50 countries and featured many stars who had graced at Sydney 2000. Among them were swimmers Ian Thorpe and Michael Klim, javelin champion Jan Zelezny and 10,000 metres gold medallist Derartu Tulu. 

into making the Goodwill Games the showcase the 1980 Olympics was meant to be," reported the New York Times

 Not all were convinced.

He cleared 6.01 metres, a world record.

historic Peter and Paul fortress, while water in the swimming pool had turned to what the New York Times

Jones later lost all her Olympic medals after being found guilty of doping violations and her 100m victory

American rap star Nicki Minaj for helping him to win his first Paralympic gold after he stunned five-times

race.Israfilov overtook Fedyna in the final 25m to touch first in 1min 4.86sec - breaking the Paralympic record

by two seconds.The Azerbaijani teenager said he looked up to Britain’s three-times Olympic champion

I listen to her all day. I've been listening to her before the race. I cannot live without her."

announced themselves on the Paralympic stage, Brazilian great Daniel de Faria Dias bid farewell.The 14-times

in 1:16.97.Maksym Krypak produced a stunning sub-four minute showing to complete a hat-trick of gold medals

Venezuela won their first two Paralympic Games gold medals of Tokyo 2020 here tonight, thanks to the

hundredth in front of Poland's Alicja Jeromin.Hmm, after allowing Ziyad Zolkefli to participate in all

in a time of 55.18 for the women's T20 400m gold, finishing in front of new European record holder,

title of his career having won the T36 800m at Rio 2016.Three-times Paralympic champion Evgenii Shvetsov

in the men's T38 400m final, clocking a time of 49.99, as he held off veteran two-times Paralympic champion

with a best of 12.97m, while the RPC's Aleksei Churkin was second with a new European record Mohammed

Dame Sarah Storey rewrote the record books today at the Fuji International Speedway to become the most

She now holds 16 gold medals, as well as eight silvers and three bronzes.Dame Sarah is level on golds

with swimmer Mike Kenny, who also won two silver medals in the pool and has held the record gold tally

front of Jozef Metelka.George Peasgood of Britain was marginally off the silver medal position, but all

Keith of the US was two seconds separated from the Russian and Michael Teuber, who could have won a record

Loic Vergnaud of France, while Ireland got a bronze medal through the efforts of Gary O'Reilly.Two-times

Olympic champions Armand Duplantis, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Hansle Parchment, all beaten in Lausanne

I know everybody is thinking I am targeting the world record," Thompson-Herah said."

I have been second and third so many times this season so I am glad that it is finally the win," McDermott

, returned to winning form as she showed the nerve of a true champion against a field that included all

was announced and the camera arrived in front of the 35-year-old American athlete who has 11 Olympic medals

metres that proved sufficient to push Germany’s 2017 world champion Johannes Vetter, second on the all-time

Britain enjoyed a stunning final day of Para-cycling track events at Tokyo 2020 by securing all three

gold medals at the Izu Velodrome, with the Fachie family starring.

following gold at London 2012 and silver at Rio 2016.Fachie and pilot Matthew Rotherham achieved a world record

François Pervis.Pervis was a bronze medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympics in the team sprint event and a six times

the women’s B 3,000m individual pursuit event, alongside guide Corrine Hall.The duo produced a world record

All the world titles we won we've only been able to hold onto for a year."

Lai Shanzhang early in the race, but clawed back the deficit to win the Paralympic title in a world record

Irish sprinter Jason Smyth is targeting another title at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games to tie the record

of six visually-impaired gold medals, as athletics competition gets ready to start tomorrow at the Olympic

star Libby Clegg.China will be aiming for another dominant display in the Stadium, having won 32 gold medals

well as China and Britain, the US have plenty of medal hopes - the most famous of these being seven-times

Townsend-Roberts is to again go in the men's T47 long jump and high jump, defending both Paralympic titles.Five-times

Australian colours for the Games to defend her title, after gaining her citizenship in 2017.A quarter of all

The International Floorball Federation (IFF) Men’s Under-19s World Floorball Championships begins tomorrow, featuring 15 teams across four groups at the Vodova Arena in Brno in the Czech Republic.

competition but seeking their first since a silver in 2015, face Denmark.That is followed by Sweden, record

five-times winners of the Under-19s World Championships but not since 2013, looking to build on two

successive silver medals as they start their campaign against Germany.In Group C, Belgium play Estonia

We appreciate the extra effort from all the countries involved as well as the Organising Committee in

transport options for the teams, and have in place strong protocols for putting on a safe event for all