Noah Lyles says he is not sure to run in next year’s inaugural Ultimate Championship, in a potentially huge blow to World Athletics’ new event that is supposed to showcase the best of the best over three days in Budapest. Fresh from securing his fourth successive world 200 metres title, the 28-year-old Lyles said a…
Olympic 1,500 metres champion Cole Hocker of the United States was disqualified from the event at the world championships on Monday after he barged his way through a crowd on the home straight of his semifinal to earn a qualifying slot. Hocker was boxed in on the inside with nowhere to go – just as…
No Indian athlete could achieve the entry standard for next month’s World Championships at the 64th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships, as the domestic meet, which was the final opportunity for direct qualification to Tokyo, concluded in Chennai on Sunday. Before the competition, Neeraj Chopra (defending men’s javelin throw champion), Parul Chaudhary (women’s 3000m steeplechase),…
Preparations for the World Para Athletics Championships are already underway and on schedule, with the laying of Mondo tracks in both the competition venue and training area set to be completed by September 1, Paralympic Committee of India president Devendra Jhajharia said on Monday. India is hosting the global para-athletics showpiece for the first time…
Transgender and non-binary US distance runner Nikki Hiltz criticized World Athletics’ plans to introduce gene testing for female athletes on Saturday, saying the move would be a “slippery slope.” Hiltz was assigned female at birth and came out as transgender and non-binary in 2021, and uses they/them pronouns. The US runner described the introduction of…