The Indian men's hockey team has secured its place at the Paris 2024 Olympics following a dominant victory here at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.

India is the most successful men's hockey nation in Olympic history with eight titles but have not won

 The day began in the water with the women's swimming marathon which saw Wu Shutong take the women's

Xinjiang boxer Tuohetaerbieke Tanglatihan struck gold for China on the concluding night of boxing competition at the Asian Games here where Uzbekistan finished with a flourish of titles.

document that ignores the facts".The Chinese crowd helped Tuohetaerbieke to come from behind to defeat Olympic

Paris.Tuohetaerbieke Tanglatihan, right, delighted the Chinese crowd with his comeback triumph against Filipino Olympic

Taipei and South Korea respectively.Athletics competition came to a close with the men’s and women’s marathon

traffic on the the Seine close to the Paris 2024 Athletes' Village will be halted for the duration of the Olympic

Village will not be as busy.He added that talks are ongoing about stopping boats around the planned Olympic

 The Seine is also due to host triathlon and marathon swimming at Paris 2024 but there are fears

gold medals on offer at the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga, with women’s Olympic

marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir earning a third world half marathon title - but there was a rare

Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu, who took second place in 4:23.06, with the 29-year-old Kenyan world and Olympic

what was her first defeat of the season.Jepchirchir became the fourth woman to win a third world half marathon

won this event in 2016 and 2020, suffered injuries last year but finished third in this year’s London Marathon

Next month I’m going to run the New York City Marathon," she added, before making it clear that she will

then target the retention of her Olympic title."

There are some, perhaps many, in the world of running who believe that the new era of "super shoes" has turned the sport into something more akin to Formula 1, where technology appears to be the trump card in terms of performance.

Adios Pro Evo 1 shoe worn by Tigist Assefa as she took more than two minutes off the women’s world marathon

technology that challenges the boundaries of racing".Tigist Assefa of Ethiopia sets a women's world marathon

Brigid Kosgei of Kenya wore Nike VaporFly shoes in setting a women's world marathon record in Chicago

in 2019 and in winning the following year's London Marathon title ©Getty ImagesAssessing the three most

Geoff Burns, PhD in sports science and physiologist for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

The Olympic Stadium in Greece's capital Athens has been closed until further notice because its roof

athletics and football.It is due to undergo its first renovation since the Games this year, but the Athens Olympic

Velodrome at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex has also been affected by a failed safety test on its

The Olympic Stadium, opened in 1982 in time for the European Athletics Championships, has hosted several

matches this season ©Getty ImagesIt is formerly named after Spyros Louis, who won the first modern Olympic

marathon gold for Greece at Athens 1896.Renovation to the stadium had been planned as part of a €56.3

Faith Kipyegon, the world and Olympic 1500 metres champion who has set world records in three events

Kenya's Olympic marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir will seek a third women's half marathon world title

at the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga tomorrow ©Getty ImagesKenya’s Olympic

marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir will seek to become the fourth woman to win a third world half marathon

42.18sec to win at this season’s Monaco Diamond League meeting.The women’s 5km features a stellar field of Olympic

medallist who won the 5000m at the Brussels Diamond League earlier this month.Meanwhile, Uganda filed the Olympic

The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships that will be held over the weekend in Riga will offer “really important clues and messages about the way our sport has to develop over the coming years”, according to the World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.

Around 340 athletes from 56 countries, including Olympic and world champions and world record holders

women’s global titles in the road mile, 5km and half marathon.The latter event will feature Kenya’s Olympic

marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir seeking to become the fourth woman in history to win three world

titles at the half marathon distance.Kicked off the World Champs weekend with the official pre-race

in Riga this weekend ©Getty Images"We are also able to meld into that mix the 5km and the World Half Marathon

last year's World Athletics Championships, is set to host another major event in the United States' Olympic

Championships, most recently last year.Trials for Paris 2024 have been scheduled for June 21 to 30 next year.US Olympic

Marathon Trials are due to take place earlier in the year on February 3 in Orlando.The start of the

US Olympic and Paralympic Committee chief executive described the announcement as a "major milestone"

It’s a game that's always tempting to play when there is a huge step on in women's running events - that is, matching it against male performance in the past.

the second world record set by her illustrious fellow Ethiopian Abebe Bikila in winning his second Olympic

And actually, Assefa also bettered the world record set at the Polytechnic Marathon in England on June

record bettered the two records set by her illustrious Ethiopian compatriot, the double Olympic champion

Given that she is not yet 30, and that this was only her third marathon, she herself looks capable of

surpassed his best, she will surely never trouble his mark of 2hr 15min 16sec set in winning his first Olympic

Last year's World Triathlon Championship Finals in Abu Dhabi delivered fireworks in the searing November heat.

Yet the sense that history might be about to repeat itself was palpable when Yee and Wilde - Olympic

Coninx who prevailed in a sprint finish and was crowned world champion.Perhaps the only other individual Olympic

Series for the first time in 2009, the year after Spain's Marisol Casado, who became an International Olympic

events I have covered, as I wrote in a blog following last year's Championship Finals.With the mass marathon

proposing this mass participation, maybe they don't recall, but even before the French decided to have a marathon

Tigist Assefa retained her Berlin Marathon title in stupendous fashion today as she shattered the women's

she has set the 13th world record to be witnessed in this race.Not bad for someone who only took up marathon

As for being now a favourite for the Olympic marathon next year, it is up to the national committee to

Assefa's 800 metres career offered no obvious pointers to her potential as a marathon runner.In 2014

had identified this race as an ideal step towards his goal of becoming the first athlete to win three Olympic

For more on why so many world records have been set and broken at the Berlin Marathon, click here.

Eliud Kipchoge, who will seek a record third Olympic marathon title in Paris next year, has chosen tomorrow

’s Berlin Marathon - where he broke his own world record last year - as a key part of his preparation

phenomenon will arrive with doubts to assuage after finishing a troubled sixth at his first Boston Marathon

In view of the Olympic Games next year in Paris, I thought about which race could be the best preparation

He has on the horizon the goal of becoming the first athlete to win three Olympic marathon titles following

1964 titles, and East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski, who won gold at the Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980 Olympic

in impressive style and second-place finisher behind the Olympic champion at the 2018 Berlin Marathon

year's Paris Olympics, this illustrious 38-year-old will seek to become the first athlete to win three marathon

And today he runs in the marathon that he believes will most help him towards that goal - in Berlin,

In view of the Olympic Games next year in Paris, I thought about which race could be the best preparation

again until the London 2020 race…As things stand, in Olympic terms, he shares a podium with two other

capital and recorded a time of 2:21:23, which was faster than the existing Olympic record set in Helsinki

 The fourth-placed finisher in the 1976 Olympic marathon, Shorter’s compatriot Don Kardong, also

and second-place finisher behind the Olympic champion at the 2018 Berlin Marathon, will be ready to

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has travelled to New York City for the United

programme, launched to use sport to prevent violence against girls and women in Brazil from the 2016 Olympic

participants were invited to run, walk or use their assistive device on a four-mile route.National Olympic

Committee Kenya President and IOC member Paul Tergat, a two-time 10,000 metres Olympic silver medallist

and former marathon world record holder, and WHO director general Ayoade Alakija were among those who

López Moreira.Peña and Pérez López Moreira expressed Paraguay's interest in staging the 2030 Youth Olympic