Asian shot put champion Manpreet Kaur has once again tested positive for the banned stimulant dimethylbutylamine. 

An appeal by Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the ruling that saw his country's 4x100 metres relay team stripped of their Olympic gold medals at Beijing 2008 will be heard on November 15.

Sir Mo Farah became the first athlete to win four Great North Run titles in a row today as he overtook Jake Robertson with 400 metres remaining to sprint home in 60min 06sec, with the New Zealander, who had tried to get away over the final mile, second in 60:12 and Ethiopia’s Olympic marathon silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa third in 61:32.

Sir Mo Farah’s dedicated road-running career starts tomorrow as he seeks a fourth consecutive win at the Simplyhealth Great North Run - but this will be no victory parade for the 34-year-old Briton given the recent addition to the field of Olympic marathon silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa.

Britain's double Olympian shot putter Paul Edwards, banned for life in 1997 after a second positive doping test, has launched a Facebook page as part of his longstanding efforts to be cleared from charges that took place long before social media existed.

Europe should be chosen ahead of Africa for the 2023 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, it was claimed today.

UK Athletics has announced plans for an exhibition next month in celebration of Black History Month.

On a night when a major power cut in northern Brussels affected operations at the second International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League final of the season at the King Baudouin Stadium, world 1,500 metres champion Faith Kipyegon and Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands lit up the evening with an all-out surge around the final lap that eventually saw the Kenyan edge ahead to claim her first Diamond Trophy.

France’s world 800 metres champion Pierre-Ambroise Bosse has revealed he has sustained "multiple facial fractures" in a "violent assault" by three individuals which has ended his season.

Three Olympic champions arrived here for the concluding International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League final, seeking to finish their seasons on a high after World Championship disappointment.

There were three positive drugs cases at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London, it was revealed today.

Britain’s multiple world and Olympic champion Mo Farah signed off as a track athlete on a winning note in what was perhaps the closest race in his illustrious career at the first of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League finals at the Letzigrund in Zurich.

Britain's Mo Farah will make his final track appearance at tomorrow's meeting in Zurich - the first of the two 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League finals - but the 5,000 metres race will be anything but a victory parade for the 34-year-old Londoner. 

Shalane Flanagan of the United States, who has been upgraded to become the Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medallist in the 10,000 metres, was happy to receive her medal without ceremony after insisting she had "a wonderful moment" at the original award in the Chinese capital.

Former Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) President Valentin Balakhnichev has ruled out appealing against the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to uphold his life ban from athletics.