British Athletics coach Leon Baptiste, 41, has not been heard from since visiting Morocco two months ago, raising concerns among athletes and UK Athletics officials.
Neeraj Chopra praised India's young athletes after the country secured three medals—two silver and one bronze—at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Oregon, USA.
India achieved its most successful day at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, securing 16 medals, including a record 10 in boxing (7 gold, 3 silver), and additional podium finishes in para athletics, athletics, and judo. This brought their total to 39 medals, placing them fourth overall.
Country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under threatIt was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. In the final strait, Collen Kebinatshipi surged past South Africa’s Zakithi Nene to win the men’s 4x400m relay for Botswana. The home crowd, a sea of light blue, went wild.“It means so many things to us,” Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards. “Not just the team … but for the people that always cheer for us behind the TV. Now they had that experience to see first-hand how much effort, how much pressure, how much we give for them.” Continue reading...
