The new rule follows Tokyo 2020 being moved to 2021 because of the COVID-19 outbreak, and means results achieved before December will not count towards either Olympic places or the world rankings.

While the eyes of the world will soon be upon Paris and the sporting competition, we take a look back at the last summer Olympics, which took place in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, and marked the ...

On March 31, the World Athletics Council approved a decision to reinstate "the Authorized Neutral Athlete (ANA) program for clean athletes from Russia" MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. The world’s governing ...

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Four Russian female weightlifters, including multiple-time world champion Tatiana Kashirina, have qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan, Gennady Anikanov, the ...