China’s women weightlifters lead the ranking list in all five weight categories for the Paris 2024 Olympic

had clearly never dealt with the media; she was so nervous that she could not or would not speak.Four times

What about Om, one of the few men to have lifted three times his own body weight, who was not entered

We all worked very hard."

The testers arrive at any time, the athletes are tested without warning several times, blood and urine

Weightlifting in PRK is like football in Brazil," said Jalood, who was especially impressed by the record-breaking

Kemi Adekoya overcame Salwa Eid Naser to claim the women’s 400 metres title at the Asian Games here just months after the two Nigerian-born Bahraini sprinters returned to the track after serving doping bans.

produced a stunning final leg to win the men’s 10,000m title in a time of 28:13.62.India picked up two medals

, with Kumar Kartik and Gulveer Singh posting personal best times of 28:15.38 and 28:17.21 respectively.China

Incheon 2014.World silver medallist EJ Obiena of the Philippines broke the Asian Games men’s pole vault record

Wang Yidi in the mixed doubles final ©Getty ImagesChina strengthened their position at the top of the medals

table, with nine further gold medals to move to 114 overall.They continued their domination at the Hangzhou

It was at Seoul in 1988 that Anthony Nesty made history when he became the first black swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal, so it was fitting that on the 35th anniversary of that ground-breaking performance it should be announced that he would be the head coach for the United States men’s squad at Paris 2024.

as its nearest rival and more than three times as many golds.Swimming is one of the sports which has

He won a total of seven Olympic medals at Seoul 1988, including five gold.

defence of his title, winning the bronze medal in a race won by Morales, the swimmer whose high school record

There, the US won 45 medals in the pool, surpassing the previous record of 38 by an individual country.Though

swimming is one of the most widely practised of all sports in rich and increasingly multicultural countries

Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) honorary life vice-president Wei Jizhong has claimed that the requirement for athletes to pay up at the Asian Games has contributed to the size and success of the quadrennial event.

Hangzhou 2022 will be the largest Asian Games in history with a record 12,500 athletes from 45 nations

remember during the Beijing Asian Games, the IOC President Mr [Juan Antonio] Samaranch criticised me.A record

The results are important, but the results are not all for Asia."

We try many times to have the country and regions provide sports equipment and coaches but the achievement

sports in especially regional sports to allow more athletes from various countries and regions to get medals

China began their campaign with a one-two finish and two world records on the second day of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here in Riyadh.

her nearest rivals in the simplified list.Hou, who made 95-116-211, had tried to better her own world record

on total a minute earlier but failed on 119kg and has now been beaten by Jiang three times."

Jourdan Delacruz with the medals she has won at her first IWF World Championships ©IWF"Oh yes," said

Delacruz, "because these are my first World Championships medals."

her 77-97-174, which improved her qualifying total by 2kg but leaves her about 20 places below the all-important

Fireworks crackled in the night sky earlier this week as Azerbaijan's FK Qarabağ drew 1-1 against Olimpija Ljubljana from Slovenia to secure a 3-1 aggregate victory in the UEFA Europa League playoffs. 

 Since they have won 49 Olympic medals, seven of them gold.The majority have come in wrestling,

We already have medals from different age group events and we hope that the medals we used to have at

the Olympic Games will come back," Sports Minister Farid Gayibov said after the medals were won.The

"National Leader", some 20 years after his death.He had been a high ranking KGB President in Soviet times

Championships, seemed mostly satisfied with what they had found.In informal conversations and on the record

It was 40 years ago today the first World Athletics Championships concluded in Helsinki with a spectacular glut of finals - many of which are frequently referenced to this day.

treble, taking the men’s 100m and long jump titles and anchoring the 4x100m team to gold in a world record

global women’s marathon in Finland - a year before taking silver in Los Angeles - she was already a four-times

winner of the New York City Marathon and had added the London title on April 17, 1983 in a world record

That cut almost three minutes off Waitz’s London performance – although the time was queried for record

time to complete a victory lap of the 1952 Olympic Stadium before her nearest rivals entered it.For all

Every day at the College of Physics and Sports in Stockholm, visitors walk past an Olympic gold medal winner with scarcely a second glance.

incarnate in the past by the Olympic Games, and which must continue to be represented in our modern times

said almost a century ago.Yet the Olympic art contests in 1948 proved to be the last for which Olympic medals

As a permanent record of the London Olympic Games with which your Museum was so closely associated,"

We do not have any important collection of coins or medals at the Museum," Sir Leigh replied to Burghley

training  centre  awarded the silver medal in the planning section,” said a report in The Times

Last week's promise extended by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to allow Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan to compete at Paris 2024 even if she does not qualify was largely praised around the world.

Italy, although it sticks in the craw to see Bach present himself as the knight in shining armour.After all

, which included winning silver medals at Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 and holding the world record.At

decision was a "great personal disappointment, but I want to wish the best of luck, fitness and form to all

But then, Rodda and his colleagues, including David Miller, then of The Times, warned the BAAB Board

telephoned Coe, who revealed that his biggest supporter had called "to say that he did not feel able, after all

pays tribute to every Olympic medallist from Trinidad and Tobago with outsize reproductions of the medals

4x440 yards relay, this time with Lennox Yearwood.Mottley won individual gold in the 440y in a Games record

become world junior champion.He qualified for the Olympic final in 10th place and threw a national record

for a Test match innings.He was greeted by the previous record holder, Sir Garfield Sobers, who had

ImagesTrinidad and Toago qualified for the FIFA men's World Cup in 2006 in Germany when their captain in all

before another 2-0 defeat in their final match, against Paraguay in Kaiserslautern.Yorke played 72 times

once again this week how much I have in common with Britain's newly established 100 and 200 metres record

And which later lost its medals following a positive doping test returned by one of its number, C J Ujah.I

zharnel_hughes) July 23, 2023Hughes is far from the first athlete to have made bold predictions about times

qualified as group runners-up.Rabio the octupus - no, this is not him in person - correctly predicted all

Japan's 2018 World Cup group match results before being turned into seafood ©Getty Images"I'm glad that all

fisherman, Kimo Abe, told Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shim.Sadly for our soft-bodied mollusc, however, all

Kazan is "70 per cent ready" to host an Olympic Games according to Vitaly Mutko, the former Russian Sports Minister.

director general of DOM.RF, told Russian official state news agency TASS : "Kazan is the closest of all

table with 151 golds, more than five times as many as its nearest challenger China, and a record-breaking

Vladimir Putin was particularly impressed by the results achieved by the home team, who smashed the all-time

record for gold medals won at a Summer World University Games with four days of competition to spare.Home

Summer World University Games ©Getty Images"All the athletes are very good," he said."

This week, the next generation of swimmers have been in action at the European Junior Championships in Belgrade but 50 years ago, the same city was the setting for the inaugural World Championships in aquatic sports.

biggest star in the pool at the Munich 1972 Olympics had been Mark Spitz, the first man to win seven gold medals

performers began to emerge in 1973.Mark Spitz, centre, stood on top of the podium no fewer than seven times

breaststroke double.Ulrike Richter won the 100m backstroke, an event she dominated at world and European level all

silver with Gail Johnson in the duet.Both of them also won gold in the team event.Canada took silver in all

three events and bronze went to Japan each time.Japan won six bronze medals in 1973 but did not win

first European Games badminton titles on the final day of competition which saw Italy finish top of the medals

place above Britain, on 13 golds, with Germany fourth on 20 and France fifth on 17.Marin, who earned a record

Axelsen earned a Paris 2024 quota place for their respective countries.Spain's Carolina Marin, five times

Pelin Kaya and Safiye Temizdemir, and triumphed 6-0 in the final.Germany and Finland shared bronze medals

Daniele Resca and Giovanni Pellielo.Kickboxing, another new sport in the Games, had a programme featuring all

the men's full contact under-75kg gold with a 3-0 victory against Ukraine's Tymur Brykov, with bronze medals

Norway completed a clean sweep in the triathlon event here as Solveig Løvseth, winner of the women’s title, brought them home for a rainswept victory in the mixed relay on the penultimate day of the 3rd European Games.

inexorably towards the finish line, crossing it in 1hr 07min 29sec to spark much joy.Norway 🇳🇴 took all

Bernadette Szocs adorned her already impressive European Games table tennis record as she won the deciding

& EYOF (@The_EOC) July 1, 2023Bulgaria's Gabriela Stoeva and her younger sister Stefani, three-times

a shoot-out against Portugal ©Kraków-Malopolska 2023Poland won bronze after Dominika Dewicka saved all

80IYEXOGM8— European Games 2023 (@eg2023en) July 1, 2023Italy extended their lead at the top of the medals