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Poland wants no Russian, Belarusian athletes at Olympics

"We wish to stress that it is not athletes’ nationality that determines their role, but the fact that they are sponsored/supported by their governments or businesses backing the Kremlin regime, which continues its war of aggression against Ukraine, or even they are affiliated with the Russian military directly," Jasina said. KIMIMASA MAYAMA/PAP/EPA

Russian and Belarusian athletes should be excluded from the 2024 Summer Olympics, the Polish foreign ministry has argued.

Two Polish women take silver in European indoor athletics championships

Two Polish women, Adrianna Sułek and Ewa Swoboda, have won silver medals at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships being held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Going for gold: Poland scores best international athletics results for 56-years

The national squad bagged 14 podium finishes at the European Athletics Championship in Munich, among them three gold medals leaving the country sixth in the overall rankings.

Pole takes silver in 20-km walk at athletics European Championships

Polish athlete Katarzyna Zdzieblo has won a silver medal in the women's 20-km walking race at the European Championships in Munich.

Polish woman wins first marathon gold at European Championships

Athlete Aleksandra Lisowska has become the first-ever Polish woman to win gold in the European Championship marathon.

Poland's Zdziebło takes silver in 35 km race walk

Katarzyna Zdziebło of Poland finished second in the 35 km race walk on Friday at the World Athletics Championships in the US city of Eugene, Oregon.

Pole wins world hammer throw title

Poland's Paweł Fajdek is the new hammer throw world champion after winning gold at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, while another Pole, Wojciech Nowicki, came away with a silver medal.

Iconic stadium left to wrack and ruin to be ‘saved from oblivion’ with stunning multi-million renovation

Once a calling card for urban rot, this week’s PLN 52 million deal will see Warsaw’s Skra stadium receive a three-pronged makeover, with stage one seeing the development of a rugby pitch, athletics training facilities and green areas.

From a gold-winning triple-jumper dubbed the Silesian Kangaroo through to a gold-smuggling discuss thrower in WWII, a new mural pays homage to 100 years of sporting legends

The medley of household names include gold-winning pole-vaulter Władysław Kozakiewicz whose celebratory ‘up yours’ gesture towards the Russian crowd scandalized the 1980 Moscow Olympics and world-record discus thrower Halina Konopacka who during WWII squirrelled Poland’s gold reserve to France.

Belarusian sprinter joins sports team sponsored by Polish fuel giant

Belarusian runner Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who fled to Warsaw after refusing to fly home from the Tokyo Olympics, has joined Team Orlen, a group of athletes sponsored by the Polish state-owned fuel company PKN Orlen.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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