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Chris Thompson ruled out of World Athletics Championships due to US visa delay

World Athletics president Seb Coe promises lessons will be learned after tens of athletes are denied entry to the States

Daily Mirror

On U.S. soil, Ukraine's athletes bring message: 'We protect our country on the track'

LOS ANGELES — The acting president of Ukraine's track and field federation logged into the Zoom meeting from his olive-green tent near the front lines, the country's yellow and blue flag in the background.

Los Angeles Times

US visa issues plague World Athletics meet: All you need to know

Hundreds of athletes, mostly Africans, have faced visa delays in getting to the US to participate in the event.

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Tokyo to Host 2025 World Athletics Championships

The 2025 World Athletics Championships will return to Tokyo, the sport's global governing body announced Thursday. The World Athletics Council confirmed that Tokyo would stage the championships for the second time after beating out competition from Kenya, Poland and Singapore, AFP said. It means Tokyo's Olympic Stadium will get the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Small town, big dreams: USA banks on hosting worlds to boost athletics

The world’s best athletes are heading for a town with a population of 170,000 where track and field still reigns supreme

The Guardian - UK

World Athletics Champs organisers scrambling to fix visa issues

EUGENE, Oregon: Organisers of the World Athletics Championships were desperately trying to clear a visa issuing logjam that threatened to prevent around 100 athletes, coaches and officials from entering the United States for the competition, which starts on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Coe: 'Inconceivable' Russians would be allowed at worlds

The leader of global track and field said it would have been “inconceivable” to have allowed Russians into this week’s world championships given the country’s war against Ukraine

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Tokyo to host World Athletics Championships in 2025

The decision comes on the eve of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene

The Independent UK

Mark Zeigler: Ukraine track team escapes horrors of war at Chula Vista training center

SAN DIEGO — Viktor Bryzhin and Olga Vladykina won Olympic track gold medals for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea. Bryzhin was on the 4x100-meter relay team. Vladykina won the individual 400 meters and got the baton in the anchor leg of the 4x400…

Tribune News Service

World Athletics Championships: Katarina Johnson-Thompson confident of medal chances after injury hell

Katarina Johnson-Thompson believes she can get back into the medal mix at the upcoming World Athletics Championships after ending her injury nightmare.

Evening Standard

Usain Bolt admits World Athletics Championship buzz is 'impossible' to replicate

Exclusive: Track legend on life after athletics as sport's best gather for global showpiece looking to reverse falling ratings

Daily Mirror

Eldhose running around to get visa for Worlds

KOCHI: With just four days to go for the World Athletics Championships in the USA, triple jumper Eld

The Hindu

AFI clears Jeswin Aldrin for World Athletics Championships

This comes after two trials and days of suspense; India will have three long jumpers for the first time ever at the Worlds

The Hindu

Yulimar Rojas to miss long jump at World Championships after using incorrect shoes in qualifying

Rojas is the Olympic champion and world record holder in triple jump

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Belfast Live

Antrim Coast Half Marathon seeks volunteers for race made famous by Mo Farah

Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah holds the course record set in 2020

Evening Standard

World Athletics Championships 2022: Keely Hodgkinson, Laura Muir and Dina Asher-Smith headline British team

Great Britain have named a 64-strong provisional team for this summer’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon, headlined by Olympic silver medalists Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir, and defending world champions Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

The National (Scotland)

Hard decisions need to be taken sooner rather than later on the transgender issue in sport - Susan Egelstaff

FOR years, most sports have considered one subject too hot to handle: the transgender issue.

The Hindu

Badminton federation begins research process for transgender policy

Advocates for transgender inclusion argue that not enough studies have yet been done on the impact of transition on physical performance, and that elite athletes are often physical outliers in any case

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Evening Standard

Transgender athletes in women’s sport: Athletics could follow swimming and rugby league with ban, hints Coe

World Athletics could become the latest sporting governing body to ban transgender women from participating in elite female competition.

The National (Scotland)

Lord Coe hints athletics could follow swimming in banning transgender women

World Athletics could follow swimming in changing its rules.

The Independent UK

Athletics could follow swimming in banning transgender athletes, Sebastian Coe hints

Swimming has voted to stop transgender competitors from competing in women’s elite races if they have gone through part of male puberty

ABC News

World Athletics and FIFA reviewing transgender policies after FINA ruling

World Athletics boss Sebastian Coe praises swimming authorities for their new rules around transgender athletes, adding that the athletics policy will be reviewed at the end of the year.

The Independent UK

Sebastian Coe hints athletics could follow Fina in banning transgender athletes

World Athletics could follow swimming in changing its rules

Daily Mirror

Sebastian Coe to look at athletics transgender rules after praising swimming for ban

Swimming governing body FINA has banned transgender athletes from competing in top women's events and World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe has hinted his sport could go the same way

The Guardian - UK

Coe hints athletics may bar transgender women from female competition

Sebastian Coe suggested his sport may follow swimming’s lead, saying ‘biology trumps gender’ and World Athletics’ policies will reflect this

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