Wednesday, 3 March 2021
European Athletics will stage the first multi-discipline championships in the sport since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic when the 36
th edition of its Indoor Championships start at the Torun Arena in Poland tomorrow.
Among the world-class athletes who will be taking advantage of this landmark opportunity will be Norway’s 20-year-old European 1500 and 5,000 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who will seek to earn the 1500-3,000m double that just eluded him at these Championships in Glasgow two years ago.
On that occasion, having won the 3,000m title, Ingebrigtsen was tracked and outsprinted to 1,500m gold by Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski, who will contest both events for a host country seeking to top the medal table at the Indoor Championships for a third successive time.
Oh my God, this Irish girl can run : The rise and rise of Nadia Power
An in-depth look at the 23-year-old DCU student, after her incredible few weeks. By Paul Fennessy Wednesday 3 Mar 2021, 8:41 PM Mar 3rd 2021, 8:41 PM 47,088 Views 11 Comments
Updated at 11.05
A COUPLE of years ago, Nadia Power made a decision that looked destined to have a major impact on her career.
A hugely talented athlete as a youngster, the Dubliner’s prowess ensured US colleges were lining up to recruit her on a scholarship.
Villanova University in Pennsylvania has traditionally been home to a number of Irish athletics stars, while Iona College in New York and Providence College in Rhode Island were both strongly considered before Power ultimately chose the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Monday, 1 March 2021
The old insult about fans with typewriters was not coined without reason. As a member of the press - I believe I may still use that term? - you are supposed to report the truth - I believe this concept still exists? - without bias. Or at least to try.
What tests that icy impartiality in the sporting arena is usually nationality, sometimes affinity, sometimes both. So it was understandable that there was a special exultation in the success of British high jumper Dalton Grant at the Paris European Athletics Indoor Championships of 1994.
As European athletes prepare for the 36
Russian athletes ruled out of European Indoor Athletics Championships Thursday, 25 February 2021
The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has confirmed its athletes will not participate at next month s European Indoor Championships in Poland as its restoration plan will not be finished in time for the event.
There had been hope that World Athletics may restore the Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) scheme, which allows Russian competitors who meet certain criteria to take part at elite events, prior to the Championships beginning on March 5.
But World Athletics has said it will not consider the status of the RusAF or the ANA initiative until its next meeting on March 17 and 18.