With one year to go until next year’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Eilidh Doyle, one of Scotland’s most successful athletes, has been named as event ambassador.

capacity of 5,000, and and ticket preregistration is now open online.Doyle won 17 major international medals

I know from competing at the Emirates regularly that the atmosphere will be incredible, so I urge all

victory in the long jump and Mondo Duplantis brought the house down by breaking the world pole vault record

Glasgow has a fine record of hosting great athletics events, from the 2014 Commonwealth Games to the

United Kingdom that hosted the World Athletics Indoor Championships following 2003 and 2018, when both times

Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma shattered the 25-year-old world indoor 3,000 metres record at the Pas-de-Calais

Komen at Budapest in 1998.The 22-year-old Ethiopian, who already has one Olympic and two world silver medals

"I was talking about this world record attempt for the past three days.

The pacers and the Wavelight were perfect - it all clicked.

I have raced here several times in this meeting. The atmosphere and the crowd never disappoint.

I hope the record stays for a long time."

World Taekwondo is to make a donation of $30,000 (£25,000/€28,000) to support recovery efforts in Turkey after the devastating earthquake which has left tens of thousands dead.

damage is $84.1 billion (£70 billion/€78 billion).This would make it the fourth costliest earthquake on record

 Turkey has regularly won taekwondo medals at major competitions ©Getty Images"As emergency relief

 "We will continue to provide all the assistance we can and our thoughts and condolences are with

Turkey won two medals at the World Taekwondo Championships in Mexico in November.Some members of the

and emotional support as well and I believe that taekwondo has the power to help in such difficult times

exclusively revealed that 15-year-old Kamila Valieva had tested positive for banned drugs and the gold medals

Valieva's name when we were 100 per cent sure it was her, but not having had anyone actually go on the record

ice dance partner Madison Hubbell remembered what happened as they waited to be presented with their medals

 "So, for all of us the first step was kind of incredulous wonderment," Donohue said.A year on,

the medals are still yet to be presented and, with the case almost certainly heading to the Court of

gold and silver respectively in the women’s singles event at Beijing 2022 after Valieva fell several times

John Coffee, who has died aged 76, was seen by everybody except himself as a pioneer for his role in the development of women's weightlifting in the United States.

Although the famous Coffee's Gym was home to the women responsible for more than half of all the medals

Weightlifting Hall of Fame member led his Coffee's Gym team to the US women's team championship 19 times

and set a senior world record in 1991.He also coached world medallists Colleene Colley, Sibby Flowers

He looked awesome, with his long hair and all decked out in a yellow headband and yellow striped high

He was a humble person, enjoyable to be around, well-read and very knowledgeable about all sorts of things

A Walk of Fame has opened today to celebrate the feats of those who have hurtled down the icy track at St Moritz reaching speeds of more than 135 kilometres an hour.

" on the Cresta Run and had also won the Curzon Cup in the days before Olympic competition, but his times

This is evidenced by the improvement of the track record several times in the last few days."

All our riders were flooded with requests."

Schärer, who won Olympic gold in the two-man bob at Lake Placid 1980 is also honoured.He won four Olympic medals

corner near the top and partly overturned in a cloud of ice and snow," a report for the New York Times

In a debate which seems set to occupy much of this pre-Olympic year, the sporting world remains divided over whether to welcome back athletes from Russia despite the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

accused the IOC of hypocrisy because they did not allow mainland China, Vietnam and East Germany. all

China also won the women’s 4x100 metres relay.Chinese athletes returned home from Jakarta with 65 gold medals

North Korean athletics star Shin Keum-Dan, also known as Sin Kim-Dan after reports of the remarkable times

following day, she recorded 51.4sec for the 400 metres, again a significant improvement on the best times

It may turn out that the Games have been the most disorganised sports event of which history has any record

Latvia claimed victory in the team relay event in a track record at the International Luge Federation

The Latvian quartet posted the fastest times in all three runs - with Elina Ieva Vitola in the women’

Hollander earning a total time of 2:12.948.Latvia coach Martins Rubenis, who has won two Olympic bronze medals

as a competitor both individually and in the team event said: "All athletes, mechanics and support staff

Next week everything starts all over again, but I hope we can repeat the successes."

singles.Aparjods, who won men’s singles gold at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, posted the fastest times

Indian world long jump bronze medallist Anju Bobby George has predicted for her country to see "phenomenal results" at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

training.Bobby George feels that Paris 2024 is too soon for India to achieve anything remarkable but predicts a record

As many junior players are performing exceptionally well on the world stage now, I feel India is all

set to be a sports superpower in the coming years," she wrote for The Economic Times."

We have also identified some sports categories where we can perform better and win medals."

Our sports persons are competing and winning medals at every big sporting event," concluded the Paris

When Harry Tchobanian takes his seat on the jury at the Qatar Cup and West Asian Championships here today it will mark the start of his 75th year in weightlifting as an athlete, coach and technical official.

moved to Iraq when I was five".Tchobanian was the featherweight national champion in Lebanon several times

competed at the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships twice in the 1950s, won medals

favourite lifters, the Soviet Olympic champion Rafael Chimishkyan.Tchobanian pictured setting a national record

I won and he had won some medals too."

But weightlifting has been my life… I had trouble but I had good times, and I still love to see young

Canada's team of 17 athletes was one of the biggest at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships that ended in Bogotá, Colombia on Friday (December 16) - only three short of the maximum 20.

as well as Emma.A busy year of competitions will set her back tens of thousands of dollars.There are times

Brayan was tested six times in two months and he's 16… Emily is 11 and she has been tested."

World Championship medallist ©Ciro IbanezThere is an example of wasted talent in Nick Varbanov, nine times

They’ve been around the world, they know about weightlifting, won World Championships medals."

Our track record over the past few years suggests we are moving in a positive direction in athlete development

Ryan Murphy and Kate Douglass finished with five golds each as the United States topped the medals table

Cooper, Josh Yong, Matthew Temple and Chalmers both clocked 3min 18.98sec, taking 0.18 off the world record

drought, two came in quick succession for South Africa's Chad le Clos as he chases American Ryan Lochte's all-time

the men's 200m butterfly crown, moving his overall gold-medal haul to 12 - just two behind Lochte's record

of 14 individual world short course titles.Canada's Ilya Kharun set a world junior record of 49.03 to

podium places went to Canada's Rebecca Smith and Marrit Steenbergen of The Netherlands who registered times

A century ago, Olympic athletics was exclusively for men but French sportswoman Alice Milliat launched a series of events designed to change the status quo.

recitals broadcast by radio and first took up basketball.Micheline Ostermeyer won her first international medals

distance in the qualification round which was automatically an Olympic best.In the final she improved the record

Ostermeyer gave her first important concert and received a tremendous ovation," a report in the New York Times

bit as gifted," he added.At the French championships of 1950, she ran 11.5sec to equal the national record

I have no regrets because all my life has been in music," Ostermeyer admitted late in life.She was awarded

Chinese opponents to win her second world title and become the only non-Asian holder of a current world record

since she won the Junior world title in 2019.She went up 7kg for two attempts at 147kg, but failed both times

Check out his third attempt (2 kilos short from his own World Record).

He started lifting (176KG/181KG/185KG) when all the Men 96KG had already finished their competition.

successes in October, and there was little doubt that a first world title would follow when Paredes made all

Adiletuly of Kazakhstan, the snatch silver medallist, on 174-209-383.Colombia had a sweep of bronze medals

Mondo Duplantis and 400m hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States, world champions and record-breakers

a few times."

] at the right times, to do it at world indoors and do it at world outdoors."

to third on the all-time list.Eliud Kipchoge was among those beaten to the men's award by Mondo Duplantis

All of my goals were accomplished this year," said McLaughlin-Levrone."

on two occasions and won two gold medals at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.