According to a World Athletics survey, more than 70 per cent of athletes are seriously concerned about climate change.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has expressed an interest in conducting athletics events outside the Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The dividend from Tokyo 2020 has helped World Athletics to boost cash reserves after a year characterised by President Sebastian Coe as a time when the sport learnt how to dance in the rain.

Aged 78, my old friend Richard Caborn has finally got around to publishing his memoirs.

Next year's World Athletics Championships in Budapest will last for nine days - one less than the last five editions of this event - and will favour athletes seeking double bids.

Ten years ago, a phoenix hovered in the air as the London 2012 Olympic Flame was finally extinguished.

Runners knocked out in the opening round of track events from 200 to 1500 metres at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will get another opportunity to continue in the competition after World Athletics announced they are to introduce a repechage round.

Victory in the final event of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, the women’s 4x400 metres relay, strengthened the home domination of a medals table involving more countries than ever before at an event described by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe as "the greatest show on earth".

Toshikazu Yamanishi, who won the world men’s 20 kilometres race walk title for Japan on Friday (July 22), is one of six new members voted on to the Athletes’ Commission in Eugene.

"Making it big in America" has been an obsession of British pop groups and singers ever since The Beatles became a cultural phenomenon across the Atlantic in the 1960s.

Caster Semenya, who will run at the World Athletics Championships for the first time in five years having had to switch events due to gender eligibility rules, will receive "the same treatment and same services" as any other athlete in Eugene, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has insisted.

A new circuit of athletics meetings designed to help popularise the sport in the build-up to the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles is set to be launched next year in the United States.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced another premium event to be cancelled in China.

On Saturday (May 21), Birmingham’s newly-reconstructed Alexander Stadium, imminent centrepiece of this summer's Commonwealth Games, has its grand opening.

World Athletics President Lord Sebastian Coe has stressed the importance of a quick resolution to Chelsea’s ownership situation to minimise the impact on the English Premier League club.