Tag: Athletics
Athletics: Track and field athlete Oskar Edlund was convicted of drug offenses – now he will run in the Olympics
It was in December last year that Edlund was sentenced to a day’s fine for minor drug offenses after a night out in Stockholm where he was caught with cocaine…
2024 Olympics: Noah Lyles, from a difficult childhood to an athletics “showman”
He is one of the announced stars of the Paris Olympic Games, and Noah Lyles intends to take advantage of these Games to fully assume his status as the new…
Athletics: Thobias Montler after the first 8-meter jump of the season: “Incredibly nice”
Injury concerns caused 28-year-old Montler to miss the EC. But last week, the Swedish long jump star received a welcome notice of form. At a competition in Celle Ligure, Italy,…
Ferdinand Omanyala, a Kenyan at full throttle
In a country, Kenya, where long-distance running is a religion, Ferdinand Omanyala is an apostate by choosing sprinting. But he has established himself as the fastest man on the African…
The great promise of Finnish athletics is fighting for the gold medal today | Sports in a nutshell
Enni Virjonen is in the medal fight in the 7th match of the under-18 European Championships. The four-day European Under-18 Athletics Championships started in Slovakia on Thursday. From a Finnish…
Letsile Tebogo, Botswana’s sprint diamond on track for gold in Paris
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, the first African sprinter in history to win a medal in the 100 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, is also the African record holder in…
French Federation takes legal action following accusations of violence against Wilfried Happio
The French Athletics Federation (FFA) has taken legal action following accusations of domestic violence against Olympic athlete Wilfried Happio, reported in a testimony by the newspaper Le Monde, it announced…
The athletics GP series continues – vote for the athlete of the day and you can win a prize | Sport
The winner of the vote will be awarded live at the end of the evening. The domestic GP series of athletics continues today, Wednesday, in Lappeenranta. The live broadcast in…
In Monaco’s athletics night, a world record – Ingebrigtsen’s European record | Sports in a nutshell
Jessica Hull has run the women’s 2000 meters with a new world record of 5:19.70. 12.7. 22:02•Updated 12.7. 22:48 Australian Jessica Hull, 27, has run a new world record of…
Injured decathlete Kevin Mayer in desperate race against time
Twice Olympic decathlon vice-champion Kevin Mayer saw his dreams of gold this summer seriously compromised on July 7. During the Paris meeting, the Frenchman injured his left hamstring. Bad luck…