The renovated stadium that will host athletics at the 2019 Pan American and Parapan American Games is the latest venue to stage a test event as it holds the South American Athletics Championships over this weekend.
This coming Saturday will see the start of the 48th CARIFTA Games – the touchstone junior track and field competition for the Caribbean region that has energised and accelerated the careers of generations of athletes. Did anybody mention Usain Bolt? Of course. We’ll get back to him.
Usain Bolt has made his mark on another international arena while touring the renovated stadium that will host athletics at the 2019 Pan American and Parapan American Games in Lima.
Two years later than originally planned, Sarajevo and East Sarajevo are playing host to the Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), which got underway today and is due to run until Friday (February 15).
Sprint legend and eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has hit out on Instagram after being handed a drug testing notice, despite retiring from athletics and having no professional contract as he seeks a football career.
Berlin's historic Olympic Stadium is playing its part this week in the staging of the first multi-event European Championships. While Glasgow is hosting aquatics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon until August 12, the athletics is about to take place in the cavernous arena originally built for the 1936 Olympics.
I got asked the classic athletics question this week.
"He wasn't quite quick enough." These are words I never thought we would hear from a sports commentator about Usain Bolt.
A Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling against Nesta Carter, in a case that saw Jamaica stripped of their Olympic 4x100 metres relay title at Beijing 2008, is expected by Thursday (May 31).
Jamaica is to investigate launching a bid for the Commonwealth Games, it has been revealed.
Retired eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has arrived in the Gold Coast to support Jamaican athletes competing at the Commonwealth Games here.
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) may have portrayed Gold Coast 2018 as an event of firsts but it is an old topic which has been prominent in the build-up to and during the opening days of competition here.
Germany's Olympic gold medal-winning Nordic combined team have invited Usain Bolt to join them at training after the Jamaican sprint king sent them a bottle of champagne for imitating his famous pose following their victory at Pyeongchang 2018.
Usain Bolt will attend next month's Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games as a spectator - his former training partner Yohan Blake has inadvertently revealed.
We are at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in the aftermath of the men's 200 metres final. Mayhem.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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Fifty years ago this week Thomi Keller swept to the head of the body then known as the General Assembly of International Sports Federations, heralding an era of increased influence as sport’s metamorphosis into big business got under way.
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