A new athletics track has been opened at the Stade Municipal Georges-Lefèvre Stadium, which is where Britain plan to be based for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Paris 2024 has moved away from the idea of setting Olympic records and personal bests for the marathon, instead opting for climbs on a challenging route to and from Versailles.

Paris 2024 has unveiled its marathon route for the Olympic Games, paying tribute to the Women's March on Versailles, while moving away from the prospect of records being broken due to the challenging course that awaits the runners.

Scott Simpson, the coach of British pole vaulter and Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw, has been named head of field and combined events for UK Athletics as part of its world-class programme approaching the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Derek Redmond's father, Jim, whose intervention to help his stricken son across the finish line at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona has become an iconic moment in sport, has died at the age of 81.

Indian javelin thrower Shivpal Singh who competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been hit with a four-year ban for a doping violation.

Ethiopia's 23-year-old Yalemzerf Yehualaw became the youngest-ever winner of the women's race at the London Marathon - despite falling with 10 kilometres to go - with Kenya's Amos Kipruto also earning victory with a late surge on his race debut in an open men's contest.

Such is the strength in depth of the field for tomorrow’s 42nd London Marathon - sponsored for the first time by TCS - that the races retain compelling elements of uncertainty despite a spate of recent withdrawals.

Serbia’s rising star Angelina Topić has set her sights on become "one of the greatest ever" high jumpers after winning the European Olympic Committees’ (EOC) Summer Piotr Nurowski European Young Athlete Prize here.

Sir Mo Farah, who has been obliged to withdraw from the TCS London Marathon on Sunday (October 2) because of a hip injury, has set his sights on returning for next year’s event, scheduled to return to its traditional spring timing on April 23.

Joyciline Jepkosgei, who will defend her women's title in the TCS London Marathon on Sunday, is hopeful she will be able to improve upon her 2021 winning time of 2hours 17min 43sec, which was the fastest recorded last year.

Kenyan marathon runners Felix Kipchumba Korir and Emmanuel Saina have both received three-year bans after testing positive for norandrosterone.

Women's world record-holder Bridit Kosgei has withdrawn from this Sunday's (October 2) London Marathon - an event she has won twice - due to a minor hamstring injury.

Kenyan long-distance runner Lilian Kasait Rengeruk has been sentenced to a 10-month period of ineligibility by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for letrozole.

Eliud Kipchoge, who yesterday took 30 seconds off his own world marathon record in running 2 hours 1min 9sec in Berlin, will now be setting his sights on either the New York City or Boston titles.