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The seven candidates running for International Olympic Committee president had their manifestos published on Thursday, and one is offering to take just half of the eight-year mandate on offer and stand again in 2029. Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics president who turned 68 this year, pledged to embed “transformative change over the next four years” then seek re-election ahead of schedule. Coe was among several candidates offering to give back to IOC members — who elect their president at a March 18-21 meeting near the site of Ancient Olympia in Greece — a decisive choice in picking future host cities.

Hodgkinson pipped darts sensation Luke Littler and England’s record Test run-scorer Joe Root to the prestigious prize after winning 800m gold in Paris this summer

Ticket sales to Indiana Fever games were up 182% in 2024 from the previous season. The Fever also shattered the attendance record of 13,398 set by the Liberty in 1998 with around 16,084 tickets sold per game.

The 22-year-old is favourite to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year at Tuesday night’s ceremony after storming to Olympic glory in Paris this summer

Alex Yee will become the latest triathlon star to run a marathon.

UK Sport says it will invest a record £330m in Britain's Olympic and Paralympic sports for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.

Both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting failed an unspecified gender eligibility test in 2023 and were disqualified from the world championships, which has sparked a controversy in Paris.

Lashinda Demus and Erik Kynard Jr. were profiled in short films following their 2012 Olympic gold medal reallocation ceremonies.

Gout Gout ran 20.04 seconds, breaking the Australian record held by 1968 Olympic silver medalist Peter Norman.

Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia won the 400m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics.

IOC president Thomas Bach has put pressure on the national boxing federations to meet certain criteria if the sport is to be included in the Los Angeles programme in four years’ time

A video of six-time Olympic medallist Dujardin whipping a horse at least 24 times in a minute was leaked ahead of the Paris Olympics leaving the future of equestrian sports at the Games under threat

Three-time Olympic equestrian gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin was suspended from all competition for one year on Thursday following a horse-whipping scandal that saw her withdraw from the Paris Games in July. Dujardin was provisionally suspended by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports on July 23 as the governing body launched an investigation into a video from four years ago showing her repeatedly whipping a horse while coaching another rider. A complaint was made to the FEI by Dutch equine lawyer Stephan Wensing on behalf of an unnamed client.

Gjert Ingebrigtsen strenuously denies the allegations, which surfaced last year

Michael Johnson's Grand Slam Track is set for its inaugural season in 2025 - but what is it all about, what does it mean for athletics and will it come to the UK?

Emma McKeon, Australia's most decorated Olympian, announced her retirement from competitive swimming on Monday. McKeon holds the Australian record of 14 Olympic medals — six of them gold — won over three Summer Olympics, while her seven-medal haul at Tokyo 2020 is the most ever by a female swimmer at a single Games and equal most for any female athlete from any sport at a single Olympics. The 30-year-old McKeon had previously hinted that the 2024 Paris Games — where she won gold in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay — would be her final Olympics, but she had not said whether she would continue to swim competitively.

Emma McKeon, a 14-time Olympic swimming medalist, retired at age 30.

The World Athletics Ultimate Championship, which debuts in 2026, will include 28 total events.

A positive year for ParalympicsGB, in which they won 124 medals at Paris 2024, ended on a sour note. Should it and Team GB operate as one unit?

Aquatics athletes from Russia and Belarus, if approved to compete as neutrals, can now compete in swimming relays and synchronized diving events.

Jane Figueiredo was named an International Olympic Committee Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

Gable Steveson plans to compete for the University of Minnesota wrestling team.

Griggs broke the record set by Team GB Olympian Andrew Butchart in June 2023 by one second

The U.S. went one-two in ice dance at a Grand Prix other than Skate America for the first time.

The track star won the gold medal in the women’s 200-meter final at the Paris Summer Olympics

Madison Chock and Evan Bates seek a record-extending 25th Grand Prix podium at NHK Trophy.

The United States Nordic combined program has been salvaged for the upcoming World Cup season, receiving desperately needed financial help from the International Ski and Snowboard Federation. FIS gave Nordic Combined USA a grant last week, a contingency the Steamboat Springs, Colorado-based nonprofit needed to enter a new partnership with its Norwegian counterpart. Americans who compete internationally in Nordic combined, which encompasses ski jumping and cross-country skiing, lost funding for training and coaching from USA Nordic Sport last June.

The Algerian won gold in Paris, a year after being disqualified at the IBA’s World Championship

Imane Khelif, the gold medal-winning boxer at the centre of the Olympic gender controversy at Paris 2024, is taking legal action over reports in France that leaked medical documents claim she has male XY chromosomes.

Tokyo Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Alix Klineman announced on social media on Monday she is retiring from the sport, about three weeks after her “A-Team” partner April Ross said she is moving on. Ross, 42, led Southern California to back-to-back NCAA championships in indoor volleyball before switching to the beach.

Olympic gold medalist Alix Klineman plans to retire from beach volleyball after this AVP season.

Abdi Nageeye and Sheila Chepkirui were surprise winners of the New York City Marathon.

Sydney will be the seventh annual World Marathon Major.

Abdi Nageeye outlasted 2022 champion Evans Chebet to win the men's 2024 New York City Marathon. Sheila Chepkirui won the women's race.

Olympic silver medalist race walker Koki Ikeda of Japan has been provisionally banned for suspected blood doping, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said on Friday. Ikeda was second in the 20-kilometer event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and placed seventh at the Paris Olympics three months ago.

A combined five Olympics between them, friends and gymnasts Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles are learning from each other, and inspiring the next generation – just by being themselves.

Jenny Simpson, arguably the best female miler in U.S. history, plans to retire after the New York City Marathon.

U.S. champions Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea eye rare international success for a U.S. pairs' team.

USA Track and Field will manage Para track and field, which has been managed by the USOPC.

Olympic gold medalist David Taylor is competing in the final wrestling tournament of his career.

Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic funding from the Government is expected to increase by £9 million per year for Los Angeles 2028 in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget.

The 10 athletes nominated are road and cross country runners and race walkers.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles speaks to USA TODAY about her philanthropic work and a wide range of other topics.

Karch Kiraly, who coached the U.S. women's volleyball team at the last three Olympics, will now coach the men.

The Algerian won gold in Paris, a year after being disqualified at the World Championship

David Taylor hopes to wrestle Abdulrashid Sadulayev at the world championships in his last tournament.

Manteo Mitchell is bidding to make the Winter Olympics, 14 years after he ran in the Summer Olympics.

Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the Russian Olympic Committee president since 2018, will be replaced after upcoming elections.

The president of the suspended Russian Olympic Committee said Tuesday he plans to step down after six years in charge. Stanislav Pozdnyakov's statement comes just over two months after a delegation of 15 Russians competed at the Paris Olympics as “Individual Neutral Athletes” without the national flag or anthem as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The athletes did not represent the ROC, whose IOC recognition was suspended last year, and Pozdnyakov had been sharply critical of the neutral rules.

"I'm glad I can say I lived it to the fullest and that it was an absolute BLAST," said Ross while reflecting on her career