Athletics

Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionised the event with a radically different jumping technique that was eventually named after him, has died aged 76, his agent Ray Schulte…

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said on Saturday that calls from ministers of more than 30 countries to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics were unacceptable, TASS…

Jamaican Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt has reportedly lost $12 million from an account he had with Kingston-based investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited. Bolt was recently told there was only…

The world record set by Tobi Amusan in the women’s 100m hurdles semi-final at the Athletics Championships in Oregon in July of this year has been ratified by the World…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja approved National Honours and cash awards of N200 million for Team Nigeria contingents to the 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Athletics championships. Speaking…

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan clinched the women’s 100 metres hurdles at the Diamond League in Zurich on Thursday. She finished 12.29 seconds to defend her Diamond League title. Tia Jones from…

South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, sentenced to 13 years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, has asked the courts to consider his application for parole, his…

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan on Friday finished second in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Athletissima Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. The world champion and world record holder was beaten…

The Presidential reception for the victorious Team Nigeria athletes to the just concluded Commonwealth Games in Birmingham has been scheduled to hold on Thursday, September 15, 2022 at the Aso…

Italian artistic swimmer Giorgio Minisini won his second solo gold medal on Sunday at the European Championship, the first major competition to allow men-only events. Minisini added the free solo…