Malcolm Mccausland

Many of the world's top athletes will be completing their Olympic preparations at the London Athletics Meet this weekend

IT was a lucrative third day for Irish athletes at the European Athletics U18 Championships in Slovakia.

TYRONE teenager Nick Griggs broke the Northern Ireland senior and national U23 3000m records for the second time in less than a fortnight at the London Diamond League fixture on Saturday.

THE Paris Olympics have already kicked off and will continue until August 11. We will have to wait until next Friday before the athletics programme gets under way.

IRELAND'S best hope for a medal enters the fray on the fifth day of the athletics programme at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Favourable outcomes for our athletes today and the picture is rosy, while a black day could see the post-mortem ordered almost immediately.

It was an inspiring morning in the Stade de France on the ninth day of the athletics programme at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Earlier it was a wet and windy start for the assembled stellar cast of international performers at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon in Larne - a nightmare scenario for race organiser James McIlroy.

Ireland is celebrating a medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships following javelin thrower Oisin Joyce turning in the performance of his young life to date.

KYLE Doherty will have expended more energy on Sunday morning training runs than he did in defending his title at Sunday's Waterside Half Marathon in Derry.