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Ciss-Praxis (La Ley) in Barcelona (2001-2005).Contributor and later editor of the athletics magazine Marathon

 Special correspondent at the athletics events of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.Occasional panelist

The iconic New York City Marathon celebrated its 52nd edition on Sunday, an event that has only been

a fifth consecutive victory for Kenya.Tola lifted a heavy weight from his shoulders with this major marathon

 This victory boosted his confidence, especially after his silver medal at the 2016 World Half Marathon

sixth places at the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons, and his third place finishes at last year's Tokyo Marathon

I am grateful for another invitation to run this great marathon and for all the people who support me

in the final kilometre Hellen Obiri showed her impressive finishing skills, as evidenced by her two Olympic

Marathon swimmer Chelsea Gubecka has become the first Australian athlete to be selected for next year's

Olympic Games in Paris.

Mission Anna Meares added: "This is a fantastic milestone for Chelsea and the entire Australian Olympic

selected of an expected team size of 460 to 480 that will represent Australia with pride at the Paris 2024 Olympic

 "Congratulations Chelsea on being selected for your second Australian Olympic Team."

This is also a day to celebrate for all those who have contributed to Chelsea’s Olympic journey - Swimming

Olympic gold medallist Maggie MacNeil won gold and bronze and set a Pan American Games record on the

the men's 200m backstroke title in a Games record 1:56.58.Peru's Cristhian Pacheco defended his men's marathon

previous Pan American Games record by more than three minutes as she won the gold medal in the women's marathon

consecutive edition of the Pan American Games that the event's record had been broken in the women's marathon

, including at Lima 2019 when Peru's Gladys Tejeda had won in 2:30:55.Double Olympic gold medallist Mariana

Belgian marathon runner Aurèle Vandendriessche, who competed at three Olympics and won two Boston titles

Vandendriessche dropped out of the Rome 1960 Olympic marathon after attempting to stay with a fast early

pace in a contest where Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila won the first of his two Olympic titles.Four years later

42.6sec.Aurèle Vandendriessche competed at Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964 ©Getty ImagesHe won the Boston Marathon

Mumbai, the city which has been hosting the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session this past week

The Olympic Games belong to all countries of the world be they hot or cold, wet or dry, in the east,

It cannot be taken into consideration, since it was not submitted to the International Olympic Committee

The Olympic Flame would shine in Buenos Aires in all the clarity of its millennial purity."

marathon champion Abebe Bikila, later made a famous forecast."

Committee will be debarred from entering its teams in the Olympic Games."

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has used his speech at the Opening Ceremony

of the Session here to launch an inaugural Olympic Esports Games.

Esports Commission led by International Cycling Union and French National Olympic and Sports Committee

President David Lappartient to explore the creation of an "Olympic Esports Games"."

This makes our Olympic Agenda 2020 imperative 'change or be changed' even more urgent."

As we did with Olympic Agenda, we can change before we are being changed.

new era" with gender parity in terms of athlete quota places, mass participation events such as the marathon

is claimed, is set to "reshape the landscape of canoe sports in the United States" before the 2028 Olympic

with the ICF and ACA in recent years, with major events such as the ICF Canoe Sprint Super Cup and ICF Marathon

Kelvin Kiptum, who broke the world marathon record in Chicago last Sunday at only his third attempt at

Kiptum, who won the London Marathon earlier this year in a time only Eliud Kipchoge had ever bettered

in London and then set the second fastest time ever in the Chicago Marathon, winning two world track

Berlin by Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, who is on the list.In between her marathons Hassan, who has two Olympic

regaining his world 400m hurdles title, winning a third world gold in total.India’s hugely popular Olympic

likely to figure in a big way having earned his first world title and an Asian Games gold.Greece’s Olympic

Officials believe that the first ten members of the British team named for the Paris 2024 Olympics are capable of continuing a tradition of sailing success.

What's great about this group is that it is a blend of four athletes who have been successful in the Olympic

pretty tough journey," British Chef de Mission Mark England said.Britain has won 30 gold medals in Olympic

Tokyo felt more like a marathon and this has been a sprint, it would have been very easy to view this

In the men's skiff (49er) James Peters and Fynn Sterritt finally make their Olympic debut after they

Flame arrives in the port on May 8.The Olympic sailing regatta is set to begin on July 28 2024.

White have all become members of the Team Visa roster for Britain in the build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic

network of digital payments company, has been a worldwide sponsorship partner of the International Olympic

athletes will be announced later this year at the Team Visa Summit in Paris.Swimmer Peaty is a triple Olympic

2020 by winning bronze in the women's park competition aged just 13.Sky Brown is a world champion and Olympic

British Royal Marines in 2010, resulting in the loss of three limbs.He won a gold medal at the Canoe Marathon

There's no doubt that, in order to compete at the highest level and have any chance of going to the Olympic

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed the Olympic Agenda 2020+5 Midway

March 2021 to guide the organisation through to the end of Bach's Presidency in 2025, following on from Olympic

surfing.It is also claimed next year's Olympics will be "more inclusive" through ideas such as the mass marathon

Refuge Foundation.Increased digitalisation including through the Olympic Virtual Series in 2021 and

Agenda 2020 and Olympic Agenda 2020+5 ©Getty ImagesIncreases in engagement on social media have been

Games of a new era, inspired by Olympic Agenda 2020 and Olympic Agenda 2020+5 from start to finish."

Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum became the first man to break two hours and one minute in an official marathon

In only his third marathon Kiptum, 23, took 34 seconds off the mark set at last year’s Berlin Marathon

by his 38-year-old compatriot Eliud Kipchoge - whose prospects of earning a third consecutive Olympic

by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei as she won in Berlin in 2:11.53.Hassan, 30, who has won two world and two Olympic

track titles for The Netherlands, was running only her second marathon after winning the London race

debut time in Valencia last year - 2:01:53 - and won the London Marathon in 2:01.25, the second fastest

Sifan Hassan and Kelvin Kiptum, respective women’s and men’s winners of this year’s London Marathon,

challenge defending champions Ruth Chepngetich and Benson Kipruto in tomorrow’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon

The women’s race looks particularly captivating in what is set to be the fifth of this season’s World Marathon

Kosgei, is seeking a third consecutive win in the Windy City.The 2019 world champion won the Nagoya Marathon

runners in history.Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich, pictured winning last year's Chicago Marathon title in

Sisson, who finished runner-up last year in 2:18:29, beating the North American record by 43 seconds, Olympic

Chicago in 2021 and runner-up last year - will return for the third consecutive year.Belgium’s world and Olympic

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race prior ©Hangzhou 2022Wu Shutong came from behind to secure a dramatic victory in the women's 10km marathon

swimming event ©Hangzhou 2022India beat Japan 5-1 to win men's hockey gold and secure a Paris 2024 Olympic