European Athletics announce broadcast intentions

According to the latest broadcast intentions for the championships received by European Athletics, there will be at least 730 hours of television coverage in Europe alone over the five days of the championships, including more than 710 hours of live coverage. With one...

Thorkildsen aims at Euro hat-trick

Norwegian javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen has won the gold medal in his event at the last two European Athletics Championships. He will go for his third consecutive continental title this summer in Helsinki, a rare feat in any discipline and one that has only been...

Curtain-raiser for Olympic Games

With less than two months before the Helsinki 2012 European Athletics Championships, and barely three months before the London Olympics, European Athletics President Hansjörg Wirz addressed the relationship between the two events. For the first time ever the European...

After Istanbul success, next stop Helsinki

For the vast majority of the European medallists at the World Indoor Championships, their next big competition will be this summer’s European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. Finland’s capital will stage the continent’s showpiece event from 27...