Spanish racewalker Diego García, American sprinter Jasmine Todd and British sprinter Adam Gemili have been elected to the World Athletics Athletes' Commission here, and three members including chair Renaud Lavillenie were re-elected.

Britain’s former European 200 metres champion Adam Gemili has left coach Rana Reider as an investigation into claims of sexual misconduct by the American continues.

British sprinter Adam Gemili, who said after failing to qualify for the World Athletics Championships 200 metres semi-finals that media coverage about his coach Rana Reider had "taken its toll", has since apologised.

Former world relay champion Adam Gemili and Laviai Nielsen have had their lottery funding removed by UK Athletics for continuing to work with a coach who is being investigated after sexual abuse allegations were made against him.

Leading United States athletics coach Rana Reider is to be investigated following sexual abuse allegations made against him.

Sprint rivals Dina Asher-Smith and Sha'Carri Richardson have become the latest high-profile athletes to reject the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) stance against podium protests at Tokyo 2020 and other Games.

The announcement last week of the death of Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400 metres gold medallist, re-focused attention on the athlete protests - by him and several United States team mates - that marked those Games in Mexico.

A first ever "Global Platinum Trophy" is due to be part of the prize pot for the inaugural Athletics World Cup in London in July. 

Fresh security fears have been raised within anti-doping bodies after the publishing of another raft of confidential documents by hacking group Fancy Bears.

Six athletes have been appointed to the British Olympic Association’s (BOA) Athletes’ Commission after voting among their peers.

A stupendous javelin throw of 91.39 metres from Kenya’s Julius Yego and a sub-10 second 100 metres from Britain’s Adam Gemili - albeit at the price of an injured hamstring - offered spectators at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Birmingham value for money, despite the morning’s withdrawal of “an emotionally and physically drained” Mo Farah.

British sprinting star Adam Gemili admits he is “saddened” when people associate athletics with doping, but insists he is unaffected when racing those who have previously failed tests.