Sarah mitton

World Athletics Continental Tour: With the 2025 World Athletics Continental Tour set to take place in Beijing on Sunday, some of the athletes lining up for the major event have expressed their hopes of fine-tuning their form ahead of the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

The Beijing stop of the Continental Tour will feature more than 100 participants across the men's 100m, 400m, 800m, 110m hurdles, pole vault, high jump, and long jump, as well as the women's 100m, 1500m, 3000m, 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles, shot put, and javelin. The event will run for just over two hours in the evening.

At a Saturday press conference, Olympic champion Andre De Grasse of Canada said returning to Beijing stirred fond memories, reports Xinhua.