War in Ukraine raises questions about Russian doping ahead of 2024 Paris Olympics
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Triathlon-Briton Potter claims Paris 2024 test event win
British triathlete Beth Potter outgunned home hopeful Cassandre Beaugrand in a final sprint to win the Paris 2024 triathlon women's test race on Thursday and seal her first victory in an Olympic-distance event.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe Says Return Of Russian Athletes 'Unlikely' Before Paris Olympics
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Thursday it was "unlikely" that track and field athletes from Russia and Belarus would be welcomed back to competition before next year's Paris Olympics. All Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from competition "for the foreseeable future" since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. That includes the option of competing as a neutral. "I don't have a crystal ball, I follow world events in the same way that you all do," Coe told journalists after his re-election as head of track and field's world governing body.
World's top female triathletes swim in Paris' Seine River ahead of next year's Paris Olympics
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Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan disqualified after refusing to shake her opponent's hand
Ukraine's government signaled it will no longer bar its athletes from competing against Russians who are taking part in sporting events as “neutral athletes," a significant easing of its boycott policy a year before the Paris Olympics.
Indian Air Pistol Team Clinches Bronze In World Championship
The Indian men's 10m air pistol team, comprising Shiva Narwal, Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Singh Cheema won the country its first medal -- a bronze -- in the ISSF World Championship, which got underway in Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday. Their aggregate score of 1,734 was nine points adrift of Germany, who clinched the silver medal. China took the gold medal in the event. Narwal shot 579, Sarabjot 578 and Cheema 577 to aggregate 1,734 points.
Surfing-Australia's Robinson wins in Tahiti to book Olympic, championship spots
Australia's Jack Robinson put on a tube-riding clinic to win the Shiseido Tahiti Pro on Wednesday, clinching a spot in surfing's Final Five to decide a world champion and booking a ticket to the Paris Olympics at the same venue next year.
Fast times, big crowds as worlds return to Europe
LONDON : Forty years after its first edition, the world athletics championships get underway in Budapest on Saturday with over 2,000 athletes from 202 countries taking part over nine days of what could be record-breaking action.