Athletics

With two years to go until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese capital is hoping to use the Games as motivation to improve its environmental sustainability. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, who was previously Japan’s Minister of...

More than 100 survivors who went public with gut-wrenching stories of abuse by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar joined in a show of solidarity on Wednesday as they accepted an award for courage at the...

Former Bangladesh National Bodybuilding champion 2015 and NABBA WFF Amature Asian bodybuilding champion, 2017 Hasib Mohammad Holy is ready for a whole new level of challenge. Holy is going to represent Bangladesh in WFF Mr. Universe...

World champion Justin Gatlin will miss Saturday’s highly anticipated 100 metres showdown with silver medallist Christian Coleman because of a hamstring injury, Gatlin’s manager said on Wednesday. The 36-year-old American experienced tightness in his right hamstring...

Fernando Gaviria claimed the opening stage of the 2018 Tour of California on Sunday, winning the 30th stage of his career and picking up the 30th stage win of the season for his Quick-Step team. The...

The President of Kenya’s Olympic Committee has called for urgent measures to deal with what he described as the “cancer” of doping among athletes in the east African country. Kenya, renowned for its distance running pedigree,...

Athletics chiefs have been compared to apartheid-era South African leaders after announcing new rules governing testosterone levels in female athletes. The changes mean some female runners with naturally high testosterone levels will have to race against...

A 29-year-old chef who collapsed while running in Sunday’s London Marathon has died in hospital, event organizers said on Monday. Matt Campbell went down 22.5 miles into the race and was treated by doctors before being...

A longtime U.S. figure skating coach who trained Tara Lipinski to an Olympic gold medal in 1998 has been suspended and will be investigated by an organization formed to prevent sexual abuse of athletes, the sport’s...

Bannister viewed running as something to be done in his spare time away from the demands of his medical studies at the University of Oxford, but that did not prevent him reaching the biggest stages in...