Introduction

Athletics is a sport practiced in different disciplines these are sprints, middle-distance, and long-distance, route racing, cross country races, relays, jumps, throwing, combined events and racewalking. There in track and field. Athletics is an individual sport except the relays, whick are a small group of four athletes that have to pass the batton to each other with out them dropping it. Athletics is one of the most common sports in the world. Competitions are conducted on two types of tracks.In winter, athletes compete on an indoor 200m track,that makes some races a bit shorter. In the summer the athletes move out onto a 400m track, it's double the length, and the races are also longer.