World Athletics Continental Tour
Ziggo locks in Diamond League rights in Netherlands to 2029
Pay-television broadcaster Ziggo Sport has announced it is to remain the home of World Athletics' top-tier Diamond League and associated series in the Netherlands for the remainder of the decade.
Infront takes athletics, handball, ice hockey and skating to Nordic market
The Infront agency is engaged in broadcast rights sales processes in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden for leading athletics, handball, ice hockey and ice skating content
Empty Tokyo Olympic stadium hosts track and field test event
A track and field test event for Tokyo 2020 on Sunday (May 9) saw hundreds of athletes take part inside an empty National Stadium as organisers tested Covid-19 countermeasures
TG4 to return World Athletics meets to Irish free-to-air television
World Athletics’ annual series of meetings will return to television in Ireland for the first time in over two decades after Irish-language broadcaster TG4 agreed a rights deal with the sport’s world gov…
World Athletics: Road Running Championships attract interest from 12 cities
World Athletics has said 12 cities have expressed interest in hosting its inaugural Road Running Championships in 2023, although declined to identify them
Sky Italia lands rights to World Athletics’ Continental Tour
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has agreed a rights deal for the 2021 edition of World Athletics’ Continental Tour series.
Sky Italia will show all 11 Gold stages of the tour next year.
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Nairobi completes calendar for new World Athletics Continental Tour
World Athletics has finalised the schedule for the inaugural running of its Continental Tour with the addition of Nairobi, which will be the first African host city on this year’s calendar.
World Athletics reveals details of 2020 Continental Tour
World Athletics, the global governing body for athletics, has revealed details of its 2020 Continental Tour, a new annual second-tier of one-day meetings that will focus on the disciplines that don’t f…
IAAF revises Diamond League plan, adds new tour and China meet
The International Association of Athletics Federations has revised a plan announced earlier this year to cut the number of Diamond League events in 2020, and will instead launch a new second-tier tour…