Croatia – As part of the global series of mountaineering events HIGHLANDER Adventure of a Lifetime, the fourth incredible hiking adventure HIGHLANDER Velebit came to an end. The biggest hiking event this year took place from the 12th until the 17th of September in the heart of the amazing Velebit mountain in Croatia. Alongside that, the newest addition to the HIGHLANDER series HIGHLANDER55 had its premier edition. [Read more…]
After finalising the London 2012 re-analysis program on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Testing Agency (ITA) will now take on the further probing of samples that were collected during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The objective is to complete the Sochi re-analysis program, including the handling of the resulting cases, before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. [Read more…]
To make up for missed competition opportunities in 2020 and to capitalise on the reopening of the Olympic qualifying window, the 2021 World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events has been given a head start. [Read more…]
World Triathlon has extended its exclusive partnership with Infront, a Wanda Sports Group company, for another eight years until the end of the 2028 season. [Read more…]
Germany – Sunday afternoon in Hamburg saw 19 teams take to the start line for the 2020 Mixed Relay World Championships, and though they may not have had the previous day’s World Champion Vincent Luis in his customary anchor leg, Dorian Coninx clearly enjoyed stepping up to bring home the gold after Leonie Periault, Leo Bergere and Cassandre Beaugrand had played their parts in another famous French win. [Read more…]
Further to the approval of a series of amendments to the Tokyo 2020 qualification system principles by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Qualification Task Force in April 2020, the review of the International Federation (IF) qualification processes for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and each sport has now been finalised. [Read more…]
South Africa – Northern KZN Regional has a new winner, that of host school Hoërskool Pionier which took the title in a scintillating final of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge on Saturday 29 February. [Read more…]
Armand Duplantis broke the world record in the pole vault, clearing 6.17m at the Orlen Copernicus Cup in Torun, Poland, the fourth stop of the World Athletics Indoor Tour, on Saturday (8).
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Tottenham Hotspur FC, London – Jose Mourinho to Spurs. To say I never saw this coming would be an understatement. However, someone stated the simple practicality that Mourinho’s son is at school in London, and then it all began to make a little sense. [Read more…]
Yokohama, Japan – Rugby World Cup final: By South Africa beating England 32-12 in RWC 2019 Final, the Springboks caused a major upset against the highly fancied and favoured English Roses. [Read more…]
