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USA Track & Field and Nike announced that the Nike Cross Nationals will serve as host to the 2025–2026 USATF Cross Country Championships on December 6–7 in Portland, Oregon. Hosted annually for nearly 20 years and the culmination of eight regional qualifying meets, NXN is a showcase competition for high school cross country stars. The […]
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World Athletics says national track and field federation executive boards must be at least 40% female by 2029 after the governing body of athletics published further details of its three-year gender leadership strategy on Tuesday, having achieved gender parity on its ruling council in 2023 and becoming the first Olympic sport to do so. “This […]
Continue ReadingWorld Athletics has announced that the 2025 World Athletics Road Running Championships will no longer take place in San Diego. San Diego would have been the first U.S. city to host the World Athletics Road Running Championships. The event was scheduled to include distances of one mile, 5km and half marathon. “We would like to […]
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Before Noah Lyles made history in Paris by winning the men’s 100-meter dash in a photo finish, he won a national indoor championship by 0.01 seconds in the 60-meter dash in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The sport itself has seen a variety of new facilities come online in the past few years and off an outdoor […]
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World Athletics has named USA Track & Field as the winner of its Member Federation Award and USATF Chief Operating Officer Renee Washington was awarded Woman of the Year from the international federation. Washington received the honor in recognition of her work to promote the advancement of gender equity in athletics, including new USATF initiatives […]
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The 2025 Diamond League will include its now-traditional stop in Eugene, Oregon, as part of the full schedule of events released this week with the season starting in the Far East. The Diamond League’s first 2025 meet will be in Xiamen, China, on April 26 and will remain in China for the second meeting of […]
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Seven candidates will compete in the election for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee at the 143rd IOC Session held from March 18–21, 2025, in Greece. The seven applicants officially announced their candidacies by the deadline of midnight on September 15. The group includes two former Olympic champions, a prince and the son of […]
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Winning an Olympic gold medal gives an athlete a spot in history, the chance to forever be called a gold medalist and go down in the record books. But in the modern era of the Games, athletes have pointed out repeatedly how those things are intrinsic but do not pay the increasing bills that come […]
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TEAMS Europe attendees were able to hear from experts on a wide range of topics throughout the sports-event industry from this year’s biggest sporting event in the world to what is to come on various continents around the world in the future. The third annual TEAMS Europe was held at the ExCeL in London in […]
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World Athletics will start a new competition featuring a $10 million prize pool for gold medalists called ‘Ultimate Championship’ with its inaugural competition in September 2026 in Budapest. The new event will feature world champions, Olympic champions, Wanda Diamond League winners and the year’s best performing athletes against each other. World Athletics said the event […]
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