A man destined to shine at the Olympics. The American sprinter Noah Lyles will compete tomorrow in the Diamond League in his final race before facing the challenge of Paris 2024. Anticipation is at its peak, given that he has already run in 9.83 seconds this season and aims to continue progressing.
The Almaty Marathon 2024 in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 29 September and is expected to attract more than 15,000 runners. Last year it generated over $1.8 million (€1.65 m) for the local economy.
With the Opening Ceremony on 26 July and some competitions starting the day before, athletics will be at the heart of the second week of Paris 2024, with great battles and great moments to prove once again why it is called the 'King Sport' of the Olympic Games.
Rai Benjamin claimed the spoils in a clash of the hurdling titans at Friday's Monaco Diamond League as Djamel Sedjati and Quincy Hall both set world leads in perfect fine-tuning for the Paris Olympics. Another stunning night of track and field in perfect conditions at the Stade Louis II saw Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen set a European record of 3min 26.73sec in the 1500m.
Karsten Warholm insisted on Thursday he would not be using a magic wand in his bid to defend his Olympic 400m hurdles title at the Paris Games in three weeks. Warholm, 28, smashed the world record to win gold in the Tokyo Olympics, clocking a stunning 45.94 seconds to win ahead of American Rai Benjamin (46.17) and Brazil's Alison Dos Santos (46.72).
The American sprinter opted to stay home in order to better prepare his upcoming Olympic assault and will miss out on the Monaco meet, now featuring Norwegian world record holders Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen as headliners.
The 35-year-old marathoner may advance his retirement due to the seven-year punishment from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Wednesday. His case joins other recent ones, such as Mehdi Frère, also revealed this week.
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon delivered a perfect boost for the Paris Olympics by breaking her own world record in the women’s 1500m at the Paris Diamond League on Sunday.
British sprint hurdler Andrew Pozzi has announced "with great sadness" his retirement from athletics following "a serious ankle fracture", meaning he will not compete at the upcoming Olympics in Paris.
Less than three weeks before the start of the Olympic athletics competition, Paris will host the eighth meeting of the Diamond League this Sunday, a competition that, with Sebastian Coe at the helm of world athletics, is losing its old magic with too many meetings and many of the best athletes missing.
Shot putter Amelia Campbell is among the numerous British athletes who have met the World Athletics ranking criteria but were not selected for the Paris Olympics team due to stringent UK Athletics standards.
Neeraj Chopra returned home to India a national hero after winning Olympic javelin gold in 2021 but the farmer's son has never forgotten his humble roots. The 26-year-old will defend his title in Paris, having made history in Tokyo three years ago with India's first Olympic track and field gold ever.
Reigning South African 400m champion Lythe Pillay booked a spot at the Paris Olympic Games last April after dethroning 2023 winner Wayde van Niekerk —the South African that has inspired Pillay to take on the international stage.
Transgender and nonbinary runner Nikki Hiltz qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, clocking in a time of 3:55:33 in the women’s 1500m race at the US Olympic Trials Sunday: breaking Elle St. Pierre’s trials record of 3:58.03, set in 2021. Hiltz is not the first transgender non-binary person to compete at an Olympics —Canadian football player Quinn, who competed at Tokyo 2020, was the first openly transgender and nonbinary athlete to participate and win a medal at the Games.
The last time she raced the 400metres hurdles at Hayward Field in the 2022 championships, the New Jersey native set the world record at 50.68 seconds. On Sunday, she smashed her own mark by clocking three hundredths of a second less in order to book her spot at the Paris 2024 Games.
When British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Olympic gold medal in ice dance at Sarajevo 1984 with 12 perfect 6.0s from every judge, for their interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, an important member of their team was singer-actor Michael Crawford. Crawford, who had played Frank Spencer in British sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and the title role in the musical The Phantom of the Opera, had become a mentor to the pair in 1981 and went on to help them create their Olympic routine. Crawford said he “taught them how to act". He was present with their trainer Betty Callaway at the ringside at Sarajevo as they created one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history.
Reporting to and working closely with the Events Director – Technical Operations, the Head of Technical Officials is responsible for day-to-day management of the Technical Officials programmes within the Events Department, including:
Management of day-to-day technical officials operations including tournament assignments and planning;
Management and development of the professional technical officials workforce including referees, umpires, and tournament doctors;
Technical officials policy development through consultation with key stakeholder groups including commissions, panels, Continental Confederations and working groups;
Innovation initiatives within the technical officials area to enhance officiating accuracy and sport presentation; and
Technical officials pathway development including working with Continental Confederations and Member Associations on recruitment, education, training, and development initiatives.
Pierre de Coubertin once said cricket has "practically no appeal for those who are not British". While he expressed doubts about the Olympic viability of cricket, lacrosse and baseball, Philip Barker wonders how the man who helped revive the modern Games would have reacted to new sports at Los Angeles 2028.
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