Jamaica could lose a medal won at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing after a high-profile athlete reportedly tested positive following a re-analysis of their sample. 

The eyes of Italy’s athletics followers will be on the high jump competition at tomorrow night’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here in the Stadio Olimpico. 

World indoor high jump champion Gianmarco Tamberi has said that fellow Italian Alex Schwazer, the 2008 Olympic 50 kilometres walk champion, who returned from a four-year doping ban last month to win a gold medal at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Race Walking Team Championships, should not have been allowed to represent his country, calling him “the Shame of Italy.”

Russian race walkers Sergey Kirdyapkin and Olga Kaniskina have each formally returned their London 2012 medals back to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after being found guilty of doping, it has been confirmed here today.

Canadian shot putter Dylan Armstrong has urged his wife Yevgeniya Kolodko to cooperate with an investigation into doping after she was revealed to be one of eight Russian athletes to have tested positive for banned drugs following a re-analysis of samples from the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Fresh accusations of state-sponsored doping by Russia during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi have been "discussed" by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Task Force, they have admitted as they continue their assessment of whether the country has done enough to justify having its ban lifted in time for Rio 2016. 

Hammer throw gold medallist Tatyana Beloborodova has been identified as one of two Russians who have tested positive for doping following re-analysis of their samples at London 2012, it has been reported.

The latest German documentary on doping in Russia will explore the country's willingness to introduce reforms in time for the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has accused United States, Britain, Germany and Kenya of "systematic doping" on another day of Russian attempts to defend their right to send an athletics team to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. 

Two young female athletes went to the brink of world records at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon.

Mo Farah laid down a potent Olympic marker as he produced his third fastest ever 10,000m, 26min 53.71sec, to earn victory on the first of the two days of programmes at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Eugene.

World and Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metre champion Mo Farah gets his Olympic season off and running in Eugene tomorrow night as he runs his first outdoor track race since retaining his world titles in Beijing last summer.

Spanish hurdler Josephine Onyia is reportedly the 15th named athlete to have tested positive after re-analysis of Beijing 2008 doping samples as she becomes implicated in the fifth drugs scandal of her career.

Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva claims the potential ban on all Russian athletics stars competing at Rio 2016 violates her human rights and intends to file a lawsuit if the suspension is not lifted in time.

Russia could lose nine medals won at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games after 14 athletes from the country reportedly tested positive following the re-analysis of samples.