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Visually-impaired Italian previously won 11 national titles in the men's category as a married father of two

Cockroft was a class above her rivals in the women’s T34 100m final and delivered Great Britain’s first athletics gold of the Paris Games in a time of 16.8 seconds

Thomas Bach, the current IOC president, is stepping down in 2025

The elite runner, originally from South Sudan, has overcome years of adversity to become a decorated sportsman. Ahead of a new documentary ‘To Chase a Dream’, he talks to Ben Bloom about representing stateless migrants and going for the top prize

Ahead of the 2024 games in Paris, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked all Olympic sports to prepare sustainability strategies. Sustainability, it said, was central to the Olympic movement. But some sports didn’t respond at all, and there is a wide gap between the best and worst performers.

Push to break 50-second barrier or move to flat 400m among options

Women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics has highlighted the complexity of drafting and enforcing sex eligibility rules for women's sports and how athletes like Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan are left vulnerable in the fallout

American sprinter has been talking about this for so long, sketching out his legend in plain sight. It took 30 paces to make it real

This photo tells thousands upon thousands of words.