Millau, Montpellier and Sète in southern France have all agreed to host the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay.

Bridgestone has recruited five French athletes as brand ambassadors for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Like the final burst of a fireworks display, the last day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene produced a spectacular showing that included world records for Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis and Nigeria’s 100 metres hurdler Tobi Amusan of, respectively, 6.21 metres and 12.12sec.

Two home hopefuls crashed out in the women's 100 metres hurdles in the opening session of the penultimate day at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Spain’s Oscar Husillos earned European indoor 400 metres gold in Poland tonight - three years after he had seen victory in a European indoor record of 44.92sec disappear through disqualification for lane infringement at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

France's decathlon world record holder Kevin Mayer has secured the qualification standard for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after two days of competition at the Meeting de la Réunion.

Olympic silver medallist and world decathlon record-holder Kevin Mayer will be aiming to hit the Tokyo 2020 qualification mark of 8,350 points at the Meeting de la Réunion.

France’s world decathlon record holder Kevin Mayer won the third and latest of the World Athletics Ultimate Garden Clash events involving pole vault, shot put and a gruelling shuttle run.

The three top-ranked decathletes of the moment will step up to action on Sunday (June 7) in the third of the Ultimate Garden Clash events staged by World Athletics.

Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain became the third fastest woman in history over 400 metres, leaving a shattered Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas in her wake, clocking 48.14sec - the fastest time run in 34 years - at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here. 

Never had I seen Kevin Mayer, France's decathlon world record holder and champion, so dementedly happy as he was halfway through Saturday's (August 24) International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Paris.

If I was a betting man - and my bank manager, among others, should be duly grateful I am not - I would put money on Eliud Kipchoge stepping up to the stage at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco next Tuesday (December 4) to take possession of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athlete of the Year award.

World decathlon record-holder Kevin Mayer of France and European 100 metres, 200m and 4x100m champion Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain were awarded the men's and women's European Athlete of the Year prizes.

World record breakers Eliud Kipchoge and Kevin Mayer are among the 10 nominations for Male World Athlete of the Year released today by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).