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Image: IOC The athletes competing at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games have elected Yunjong Won (KOR, bobsleigh) and Johanna Talihärm (EST, biathlon) to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission (AC), for a term of eight years ending at the Utah 2034 Olympic Winter Games . The new members will contribute to ensuring that the athletes’ voice remains at the heart of the Olympic Movement’s decisions and will support their fellow athletes through

Image: Action Photo After a standout Absa RUN YOUR CITY Series season that delivered three podium finishes, including two victories, Glenrose Xaba  is eager to kick off her 2026 10km campaign  against a world-class field at the Absa RUN YOUR CITY GQEBERHA 10K   on Sunday, 1 March . Xaba, who represented South Africa at the World Cross Country Championships in the United States in January after running only the second marathon of her career in December, admits that while the 2

Image: courtesy of motorpress Nissan Formula E Team's Oliver Rowland clinched his third podium of the season in Round 5 of the 2025/26 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in Jeddah, as the squad bounced back strongly from a tough first race of the double-header the day before. In the opening race of the weekend on Friday, Norman Nato qualified well, reaching the semi-final stage, while teammate Rowland missed out on the Duels. Starting fourth, Nato led for multiple laps ahea

Image; Getty Images New Zealand’s shot put superstar Dame Valerie Adams has been named as the World Athletics ambassador for the  World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze 26 , which will be held from 20-22 March.  A legend of the throws, Adams won two Olympic shot put titles and eight world crowns – four of those at the World Indoor Championships – during a highly successful career that spanned more than two decades.  The last of her world indoor title wins came in

Faith Cherono, Image: courtesy of Absa RUN YOUR CITY SERIES Stillwater Sports , organisers of South Africa’s premier 10km road running series, the Absa RUN YOUR CITY Series , have confirmed that Kenya’s Faith Cherono  will line up alongside Brenda Jepchirchir  at the start of the Absa RUN YOUR CITY GQEBERHA 10K  on Sunday 1 March 2026 - cementing the race as the fastest women’s 10km field ever assembled on African soil.   Cherono, who began her career as a 5000m athlete and c

Image: courtesy of motorpress TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team has locked out the podium places for the second time in as many rounds of the 2026 FIA World Rally Championship, with Elfyn Evans claiming another victory on the snow of Rally Sweden to lead a 1-2-3-4 finish. Following a 1-2-3 finish at last month’s Rallye Monte-Carlo, this is the first time that a manufacturer has filled the podium places on consecutive rounds of the WRC since Citroën did so in 2010. The feat

Image: courtesy of motorpress António Félix da Costa converted third position on the grid into a commanding victory at the Jeddah E-Prix, marking his 13 th career win in Formula E, and Jaguar TCS Racing’s 24 th – becoming the most-winning team in the championship’s history. The win also marks Jaguar TCS Racing’s second victory in the last three races and completes a two‑podium weekend in the first double-header event of the season. Mitch Evans charged from P13 on the grid t

Image: JAAF / Ikumi Kodama Japan's Toshikazu Yamanishi clocked a world record of 1:20:34* at the Japanese Half Marathon Race Walking Championships – a  World Athletics Race Walking Tour Bronze  meeting – in Kobe on Sunday (15). It is the first performance that surpasses the inaugural world record standard of 1:21:30 that was approved by the World Athletics Council in December, following the announcement that the  half marathon and marathon would become the official senior roa

Image: Dan Vernon for World Athletics USA’s Khaleb McRae produced the highlight performance at the Tyson Invitational – a  World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver  meeting – in Fayetteville on Friday (13), clocking a world short track 400m record of 44.52*. The world 4x400m silver medallist sped through the first lap in 21.24 with William Jones close behind. McRae then opened up a significant lead to cross the line in 44.52, 1.11 seconds ahead of Jones. World silver medallist Jere

Image: Action Photo The weekend of 10–12 April 2026  will witness thousands of runners taking on the challenge and celebrating their triumphs at the World’s Most Beautiful Marathon, the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon (TTOM) . Among them will be Blue Number Club  (BNC) members Louis Massyn , who will be aiming for his 48th Totalsports Two Oceans Ultra Marathon finish, as well as Lucille Damon  and Sharon Bosch , both set to run their 33rd Ultra Marathon. Running in the colour

Image: This morning, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry met with skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych from Ukraine. They had a very respectful conversation. Following the meeting, President Coventry spoke to the media and said: “I felt that it was really important to come and talk to him face to face. Athletes asked us to keep certain areas – the field of play, the podium and the Olympic Village – safe zones. How could we keep them safe in order t

Image: SCC EVENTS / Jean-Marc Wiesner International Elite National Elite The GENERALI BERLIN HALF MARATHON will celebrate its 45th anniversary on March 29, 2026. As the event organizer, SCC EVENTS honors an impressive success story that has grown in parallel with Berlin’s development into Germany’s capital, while also setting clear priorities for the future (further details can be found in the press release dated January 29, 2026). In addition to thousands of athletes from m

Image: IOC Having been given one final opportunity, skeleton pilot Vladylsav Heraskevych from Ukraine will not be able to start his race at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games this morning. The decision followed  his refusal to comply with the IOC’s Guidelines on Athlete Expression. It was taken by the jury of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) based on the fact that the helmet he intended to wear was not compliant with the rules. The Interna

Image: IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that beIN MEDIA GROUP (“beIN”), the leading global sports, entertainment and media organisation, has secured exclusive, multi-platform broadcast rights across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the XXV Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 and the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad in Los Angeles 2028 , as well as the Youth Olympic Games in 2026 and 2028. The agreement was signed in Milan and builds on

Image: Action Photo In 2026 the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon’s (TTOM)  Blue Number Club  (BNC) will continue to inspire, with just over 3100 members set to take on the Ultra or Half Marathon.  Even more noteworthy, this number includes 16 Half Marathon BNCs in their 80s, 49 Ultra BNCs in their 70s, and 147 Half Marathon BNCs in their 70s. A further 743 BNC runners aged 60–69 will also be seen in action. "The BNC continues to show that the spirit of running knows no age,” s

Image: courtesy of MotorPress Nissan Formula E Team is looking to bounce back this weekend as Jeddah hosts Rounds 4 and 5 of the 2025/26 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Following a successful maiden trip to Jeddah Corniche Circuit in 2025, which saw Oliver Rowland take a dominant victory in the second race, the championship returns to Saudi Arabia for more action. The Japanese outfit has shown solid pace in the early stages of this campaign, with Rowland scoring podiums

Image: Action Photo After a fruitful 2025 season during which she became the fourth fastest South African 10km female runner of all time, comeback queen Tayla Kavanagh  is relishing the opportunity of taking on the best in SA, Africa and the world at her first road race of the season - the Absa RUN YOUR CITY GQEBERHA 10K   on Sunday, 1 March 2026 . The Hollywood Athletics Club elite athlete who won the SA 10km title in 2021 when the national championships were incorporated in

Image: courtesy of MotorPress Jaguar TCS Racing returns to action on Friday, 13 February as the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship heads to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for its first double‑header of the 2025/26 season. Rounds 4 and 5 will unfold under the lights at the iconic 3.001km Jeddah Corniche Circuit, marking Formula E’s second night race at the venue following last year’s hugely successful debut. Jaguar TCS Racing arrives in Saudi Arabia with renewed momentum following a

Image: courtesy of World Athletics A US quartet of Clay Pender, Luke Houser, Luciano Fiore and Sean Dolan took a second off the world short track 4x800m record* with their winning time of 7:10.29 at the Penn Classic in Philadelphia on Friday (6). Their performance was a 1.01-second improvement on the previous mark of 7:11.30 set by another US squad in 2018 the rarely contested discipline. The race was close in the early stages as the University of Pennsylvania’s home team led

Image: Supplied The foundation is laid. The bloodline from Borgo Panigale, forged in fire and passione , now courses with conviction through the heart of South Africa. 2025 was a year of meticulous planning, integrating Ducati's soul within Volkswagen Group Africa, homologating every model, and establishing support for our community. The result? A decisive 2.6% market share in the 500cc+ segment in just five months and the stage set for 2026.  Now, the first, full-throttle ch