World Athletics partner Asics has become official sponsor of the Athlete Refugee Team (ART) in a deal due to run until 2026.

Tachlowini Gabriyesos, 16th in the Tokyo 2020 men's marathon, is among those who will benefit from the

support its work with refugees.The team made its first competitive appearance as part of the Refugee Olympic

team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero."

2022 World Athletics Championships, the 2017 World U19 Championships, the 2018 and 2021 World Half Marathon

Athletes from Kenya will be donning new kits for Paris 2024 after the honeycomb pattern controversy at Tokyo 2020.

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) secretary general Francis Mutuku announced that sports

country's national flag.However, the kit did receive the backing of NOC-K officials and athletes, with Olympic

marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge saying it resonated well with the new generation.The new kit is expected

in Africa on dollar value," Mutuku said, as quoted by Nation.Mutuku also said those participating in Olympic

to economic pressures and delays in preparations.Kenya has won a total of 113 medals at the Summer Olympic

The twice postponed Francophone Games are at last set to open today in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid heightened security in the host city.

in the Ivory Coast hosted the 2017 event.Back in February, Association of Francophone National Olympic

bronze medal in the 200m in a race where Italy’s Livio Berutti broke the world record.Abebe Bikila's marathon

They were held in the best Olympic imbued of the rural jovial spirit pervading in the tropics, where

everything is of relative importance," declared the Olympic Review."

been put in charge of a new IOC "commission for aid to new countries", a forerunner of Olympic

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has held a meeting with the leadership of

the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) after inviting them to the organisation’s headquarters

well as speak with various heads of departments and the organisation’s leadership.Tergat, a former marathon

world record holder and double Olympic silver medallist, was first elected as the head of the NOC-K

in 2017.The NOC-K executives were invited to the International Olympic body headquarters to familiarize

Noah Lyles, who will seek a third consecutive world 200 metres title this summer, warmed up in ideal fashion by setting the world’s fastest time of the year, 19.47sec, in winning at the London Diamond League meeting.

In front of a sell-out 50,000 crowd in the stadium that hosted the London 2012 Olympic athletics, Femke

setting personal bests as Kenya’s Commonwealth champion Beatrice Chebet finished second in 14:12.92 and Olympic

The Netherlands - whose last competitive outing in the British capital involved winning the London Marathon

his best of 23.07m.The concluding women’s 800m appeared to have been set up as a finale for Britain's Olympic

Norway, second in 3:30.58, and home runner Neil Gourley, third in a personal best of 3:30.60.Joint Olympic

An Olympic Torch, one of only 33 manufactured for the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, has sold for $187,500

Technique d'Equipement et de Fournitures Industrielle, this Torch was instrumental in lighting the Olympic

French President Charles de Gaulle along with 500 invited guests of honour, including International Olympic

over Mount Olympus to Athens before being flown to Paris where it was met by Jean Vuarnet, the 1960 Olympic

downhill gold medallist.He handed it on to the first Torchbearer Alain Mimoun, the 1956 Olympic marathon

Torch, from Sapporo 1972, sold for $18,750 (£14,600/€16,850).Olympic Torches from a number of other

who perform well at international competitions are to be awarded cash prize by the Lesotho National Olympic

M45,000 (£1,950/$2,520/€2,250).Makatisi bagged the silver medal after completing the women's beach marathon

African Beach Games ©LNOC"Let's congratulate them for their endeavour preparation for upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic

LNOC read.The African Beach Games was supposed to be a warm-up event for the Association of National Olympic

Bali.Originally scheduled to be held from August 5 to 12, it was cancelled on July 4.The Indonesian Olympic

Paris 2024 Olympic works delivery company Solideo has taken on five new projects prior to the Games scheduled

half of the €800,000 (£693,500/$895,000) total required for the project.Following the approval of the marathon

out by Solideo although a price has not been placed on this.International Cycling Union and French Olympic

Germany's Leonie Beck and Florian Wellbrock have both completed the long distance open water double at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka.

kilometres in 59min 31.70sec, from Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands who clocked 59:32.70 and Tokyo Olympic

In the men’s race, Olympic gold medallist Florian Wellbrock also completed the double.He won in 53:58.00

Kenya has set itself a target of broadening the number of sports it competes in the Olympic Games at

country is known for its distance runners, which are among the strongest in the world, but the National Olympic

We will have missed the train by a wide margin if we wait until 2030 to begin planning for the 2032 Olympic

circumstances, such as Alexandra Ndolo, the first Kenyan scheduled to compete in fencing at the 2024 Olympic

Boxer Robert Wangila is the only Kenyan to win an Olympic gold medal in a sport other than athletics

gold medallists, Beijing 2008 1500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop and Rio 2016 marathon winner Jemima

The Asian Athletics Championships is set for its return after a four-year absence from tomorrow in Thailand's capital Bangkok.

the 50th anniversary of the Asian Athletics Association.World Athletics President and International Olympic

September 23 to October 8.All 45 medal events are due to be staged on the track and in the field, with no marathon

Games men's long jump silver medallist Murali Sreeshankar headlines India's team of 54 athletes, with Olympic

One way or another, the shadow of war looks set to hang over Paris 2024. The only question is whether the conflict will still be ongoing, or whether Olympicland will be attempting to navigate its aftermath.

The latter scenario is where the Movement found itself 99 years ago, the last time the Olympic Games

How Thomas Bach, the present International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, would love to be reading

first to the last the national idea predominated”, adding that it was only rarely - as when Finland's marathon

winner Albin Stenroos entered the Olympic stadium - that spectators "touched the real Olympic moment

to that which the revival of the games has sought to create," the newspaper said.The victory in the marathon

Bras Marie, Bras de Grenelle, and Bercy have been named as the three sites on the River Seine in Paris that are due to be open for public swimming by the summer of 2025.

Hidalgo revealed the locations for swimming in the Seine, a key legacy ambition of the city hosting Olympic

due to play a central part at Paris 2024 as it is planned to host part of the Opening Ceremony, the marathon

wastewater collection networks for the 260 boats moored in Paris.Of the 160 boats that are upstream of the Olympic

Marathon matches were the theme of day seven of tennis's Wimbledon Championships in London, as the men

On the women’s side, top seed Iga Świątek of Poland was given a big scare by Olympic champion Belinda

decider 6-3 and claim victory in three hours and three minutes on Centre Court.At the same time, another marathon

Stayed and waited" {at the net}.There was also a marathon men’s match to start the day on Centre Court

Poor air quality in London means the capital may not be considered for big athletics events in future, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has warned.

World Athletics Championships in the foreseeable future where we’re going to say our race walking, marathon

Maybe with one of the big marathon majors, a London or Chicago or New York, at a slightly more equitable

Paris next year, we’ve got an Olympic Games there."

If those Olympic Games were taking place three years ago, Paris was off-the-graph hot."