The role public leaders can play in improving the resilience of their communities in the current coronavirus pandemic through new sport and exercise initiatives has been highlighted on the opening day of the seventh Smart Cities & Sport Summit.
The coronavirus pandemic means the seventh Smart Cities & Sport Summit - the annual two-day event that begins tomorrow - will be held virtually; and the pressing topic of COVID-19 will be a key area of discussion.
Russia’s former National Basketball Association star Andrei Kirilenko has warned the proposed four-year package of sanctions against which his country is appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) next week would punish many innocent athletes.
The men’s title at the World Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia went to Uganda today - but it was 19-year-old Jacob Kiplimo rather than the three-time 2020 world-record breaker Joshua Cheptegei who took gold, after Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir had beaten her own women-only world record to win a dramatic women’s race.
Joshua Cheptegei, whose three appearances in this COVID-disrupted year have seen him break three world records, wants to complete a special hat-trick of world titles tomorrow at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, where he will be making his debut at the distance.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has insisted that he has "no problems" with the pacing light system officially introduced this season and used to support a slew of recent track world records.
Vladimir Lisin, President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), has warned that the absence of shooting from the 2026 Commonwealth Games programme of prospective hosts Hamilton, would "negatively affect" a significant number of nations, including Canada.
The NN Valencia World Record Day lived up to its billing tonight as Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda set a men's 10,000 metres world record of 26min 11.00sec shortly after Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey had broken the women’s world 5,000m record with a time of 14:06.62.
Newly established men’s London Marathon champion Shura Kitata paid fulsome tribute to race favourite Eliud Kipchoge today – and revealed that his own coach had tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before he was due to travel with him.
In perhaps the biggest shock in the history of the London Marathon, the overwhelming men's favourite, Eliud Kipchoge, was soundly beaten as Ethiopia's Shura Kitata sprinted home to win in 2 hours 5min 41sec amidst the wind and rain of the looped, closed 1.3 miles course around St James's Park.
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge will aim to complete a hat-trick of consecutive London Marathon victories in a race which will not include his expected main rival Kenenisa Bekele, who withdrew with a calf injury yesterday.
World champion and women's 3,000 metres steeplechase world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech produced a winning final flourish at the inaugural Kip Keino Classic meeting in Nairobi as Kenya marked its return to hosting top class sport post-lockdown.
Shooting events will not be included in the Commonwealth Games if Hamilton’s bid to stage the 2026 edition proves successful in its current form.
Tomorrow’s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi’s newly-renovated Nyayo National Stadium will be the first sporting event to be staged in Kenya since lockdown measures against the COVID-19 pandemic were introduced in March.
Kenenisa Bekele, who had been set to go up against defending champion Eliud Kipchoge in an eagerly-anticipated clash at the 40th London Marathon on Sunday (October 4), has withdrawn because of a calf injury.
The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam saw a number of important milestones, but one we still all benefit from today is revolutionising car parking. Like other cities around Europe in the late 1920s, the streets of Amsterdam were filling up fast with cars, and during the Games this issue was more pressing than ever, so organisers were forced to rack their brains in search of a solution. The allotted parking area next to the Olympic Stadium had room for a maximum of 2,000 vehicles, nowhere near enough to meet the demand during Games time. In response, the City Council provided a number of other sites that took parking capacity up to 3,500 vehicles and 2,000 bicycles. However, no sooner had one problem been solved than another was created: how were drivers and cyclists supposed to find their way to the new car parks? A solution was found in the shape of small blue panels with a white capital "P" in the middle. So it was that the international traffic sign for parking was born.
Football Association - UEFA Women's EURO 2022 Digital Marketing Manager - London, United Kingdom
UEFA EURO 2020 is now taking place across June-July 2021 and will be hosted by 12 cities in Europe for the first time ever. London is one of these cities and Wembley Stadium will welcome over 600,000 fans when it hosts seven matches, including both semi-finals and the showpiece final. This key role will support the development and implementation of integrated marketing and communications strategies for UEFA EURO 2020 (in 2021) and UEFA Women's EURO 2022. You will have a particular focus on maximising digital engagement and delivering an exceptional digital customer experience for every fan. You'll lead the delivery of the digital strategy and campaigns including website content, social media and CRM; developing engaging content across all channels.
As the Court of arbitration for Sport prepares to hear Russia’s appeal against the four-year package of sanctions from the World Anti-Doping Agency, the head of the country’s basketball federation has spoken out against collective punishment. Mike Rowbottom reports.
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