Olympic 200-metre champion, Letsile Tebogo, is aiming for another triumph on the tracks, this time at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on Saturday, September 14. The Botswana sprinter has been in top form of late securing victories in Lausanne, Silesia, Zurich, and Brescia, as well as a 100m win in Rome. The 21-year-old has seemingly switched his attention to Brussels, where he will face...
The 2024 Paris Olympics is the 33rd edition of the prestigious Games which brings athletes from various countries together for a common goal of earning a podium finish. Over the years, established athletes have shone on the biggest of stages as expected, while the Games have also served up numerous emerging talents along the way. With the much-anticipated Paris Games already on the way, Afrosport highlights...
Marileidy Paulino stated she had been working hard towards winning her first World Athletics Championships gold medal which she finally did in the women's 400 metres final in Budapest on Wednesday. The 26-year-old Dominican was a silver medalist from last year's championships in Eugene likewise at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo that included silver in the Women's 4×400 metres relay. Paulino was however a class apart...
On Wednesday, the host city of the upcoming World Athletics Championship, Budapest, continued final preparations for the biggest athletics event of the summer. The brand-new National Athletics Center in the nation’s capital, gears up to host the 19th edition of the Championships in a few days. The centre, which is built on the eastern bank of the Danube River, will have a capacity of 35,000 for...
Ahead of the 19th edition of the World Athletics Championships, American track star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has announced that she will not be competing at the event, which kicks off in a week's time, due to a "minor" knee injury. The 24-year-old, who is the reigning Olympic and world champion in the women's 400m hurdles and also holds the world record in the event, revealed the news...
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