Amid surge in Covid-19 cases in Japan and the host city, Tokyo now under state of emergency; therefore US Athletics Team’s Pre-Olympics training in the Japanese city of Chiba has been cancelled. American athletes were due to train in Tokyo nearby city, Chiba and their local government said “concerns for their athletes’ safety” led to […]
The New Zealand team for this summer’s Tokyo 2020 Games and next year’s Beijing 2022 Winter Games have already plan to use non-invasive saliva polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 for it’s team before departure. The new saliva testing option will be fast, accurate and more comfortable for athletes as more than 1,000 required […]
The Canadian relay squad that has been training in Baton Rouge in Louisiana in the US over the past week will no longer be going to world relays. Canada now joins Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Australia and US in missing the event. Athletics Canada made the decision in the light of the COVID-19 situation in […]
Despite the enthusiasm raised by the Australia athletes to attend 2021 World Athletics Relays coming up in May in Poland, Athletics Australia has announced it’s withdrawal from the event because of coronavirus concerns. The decision to pull out of the event, due to be staged in Silesia from May 1 to 2, was made in […]
Sport will provide extra funding to 10 British National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to help mitigate the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on the organisations. The agency said it would distribute a total of £1.38 million ($1.8 million/€1.5 million) to NGBs which applied for a share of its continuity fund. British Cycling is in line to […]
This is not a good time for Paris Saint Germain football club as three of her football stars are positive to covid-19. As the players involved are expected to go on quarantine, the other players and coaching will also go for test in the next few days. The poser now is their opening match on […]
The Ukraine Football Association has announced the painful demise of it’s national team doctor, Anton Khudaev who died of cardiac arrest at the age of 48 after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Khudaev was on ventilator when he died of a heart attack, the Ukrainian Football Association added. “The doctor of the national team of Ukraine […]
The five-time Olympic Japanese diver, Terauchi Ken has tested positive to covid-19, making him the first Japanese Tokyo Olympics bound athletes to be covid-19 positive. According to Miki House, Terauchi’s sponsoring company, after training at a club in Osaka on July 24, he had close contact with an acquaintance who was infected with the virus. […]
Although he had been tested on numerous occasions while in quarantine since he arrived Italy but a final Covid-19 test on Friday came back positive. Van Niekerk’s management team asked for a second test to be taken which has now confirmed that the star athlete was Covid-19 negative, according to Times Live After a positive Covid-19 […]
In a serious move to fill the Usain Bolt’s shoe, the World Champion, Jamaica Yohan Blake has employed the services of another Jamaica great and World silver medalist, Michael Frater to join his coach crew expecially to help with his starting. Blake has been conditioned by Gregory Little since January 2019, after he parted ways […]
Wayde van Niekerk, the Olympics Champion and world record holder was gutted early today when he tested positve to covid-19. He will be the first high athletics personality to have tested positive to covid-19. The South Africa sprinter was billed to run later today, Saturday in both 100 and 400, at the Trieste meeting in […]
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) is set to resume anti-doping tests with supplemental safety measures on July 13. As athletes and sports return to training and provincial health restrictions are lifted, CCES has developed supplemental doping control procedures to allow the resumption of urine sample collection under the Canadian Anti-Doping Program. All […]
The South Africa Athletics are really bemoaning lack of insurance cover for athletes during this covid-19 pandemic; a prerequisite it deem fit for athletics resumption. Although the ‘permitted athletes’ are allowed to go ahead to resume training expecially in private facility. But the criteria for the chosen ‘permitted athletes’ are somehow confusing. Athletics SA president […]
The Athletics South Africa has vehemently rejected the decision by the South Africa Government given nod for the start of Athletics; felt it’s still premature. That was confirmed by ASA president Aleck Skhosana on Saturday as the organisation sent out a statement explaining its position. “We are not convinced as ASA that we should put […]
Most national football association will heave a sign of relief as FIFA announced $1.5 billion covid-19 relief fund for all it’s national association. The relief fund of $1.5 billion will be made available as grants and loans as a relief fund to help associations impacted by the coronavirus, world football’s governing body announced on Thursday. […]
The World and European Volleyball bronze medalist, Polish men Volleyball team feel the time is now right to get Olympics medal, according to their Belgian Coach. Poland aims to win the men’s volleyball gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games, coach Vital Heynen said in an interview on Tuesday. The Belgian coach has led his […]
Ghana 2014 World Cup coach, Kwesi Appiah has threatened to report Ghana to FIFA over unpaid salary if he’s accumulated salary arrear is not paid soon. Coach Appiah has said he is being treated in a way no white coach in Africa would be as he awaits salary arrears totalling nearly $200,000 from his time […]
With daily growing of athletics meets around the world, from virtual to empty stadium and sizable spectators; today the World Athletics took a responsible bold step to roll out guidelines to host a meet because of covid-19. The guidelines, drafted by World Athletics’ Health and Science Department, also address the post-peak period, as described by […]
Weightlifting has been given approval by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to extend its Tokyo 2020 qualifying period by a year, until the end of April 2021. Every athlete, including those who already have enough points to qualify, will be compelled to compete at least one more time in the period between October 1 this […]
The former Olympics badminton Silver Medalist and Badminton World Champion in the mixed doubles, Gail Emms; has turned covid-19 tester. After completing and passing an NHS training programme. A former badminton world champion is joining NHS key workers at a drive-in Covid-19 testing station in Milton Keynes. Miss Emms will now work eight-hour, four-day stints […]
The 23 times American Olympics Swimming Champion, Michael Phelps who has confessed in the past about his struggle with depression; has again admitted on Monday that covid-19 induced lockdown is taking a big toll on his mental health. “The pandemic has been a challenge I never expected,” he told ESPN in article published on Monday. “All […]
The UK athletes starved of training and competition due to covid-19 pandemic induced lockdown will have a sigh of relief, as UK government gave them go-ahead to resume training yesterday. The approval for professional sportsmen and women to resume training is with immediate effect but with must to undergo ” a 1:1 check-in” with medical […]
More criticism is mounted on South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympics Commitee, first by Sport minister and later by the parliament. Now the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has also raised concerns with the crisis-ridden SASCOC holding a virtual Presidential election, following a troubled nomination process. SASCOC confirmed it was considering the possibility of staging its […]
The 400m world record holder Wayde Van Niekerk said he was well prepared for the challenge brought by the pandemic. “I am blessed and privileged to have equipment around me and a gym setup at home. So I was well-prepared before even the pandemic… but you do miss the track but this pandemic is something […]
A total of 293 succesful athletes from various sporting codes have received their share of R150m in Covid-19 relief funding, according to sport, arts and culture minister Nathi Mthethwa. Mthethwa said on Monday that a total of 473 applications were received from 25 sporting federations including boxing, canoeing, football, golf, surfing, fencing, gymnastics, athletics, and […]
In what looks like ‘putting house in order’ by Kenya Athletics authority and put to stop the recent unabated doping infringement involving Kenyan athletes. The president of Athletics Kenya, Jack Tuwei has hinted of a new regulations that will impose bans on unauthorised individuals visiting athletes’ training camps, some of whom have been suspected of […]
The former England International and Chairman of the World Rugby Sir Bill Beaumont has won his second term after seeing off the challenge of Agustín Pichot. The former England international won by a margin of 28 votes to 23. He was standing for re-election against Pichot, who served as his vice-chairman before announcing his intention […]
World Athletics, together with the International Athletics Foundation (IAF), has set-up a support fund worth $500,000 (£400,000/€459,000) to help athletes through the financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. IAF was established in 1986 to support charity in athletics and founded by Honorary President Prince Albert II of Monaco, the IAF has allocated resources from […]
In other to support its members to respond in ways that are appropriate to their specific circumstances during this coronavirus pandemic; the UEFA has come forward to release €236.5 million (£206.2 million/$256.1 million) . The money comes from UEFA’s HatTrick fund, an assistance programme usually used for the development of the sport and to help […]