Sport and politics shouldn’t mix, you say? Well there’s no need to mix them if they’re the same thing…

High jumper Maria Lasitskene has criticised the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) for their failure to make the improvements necessary to have the country's suspension lifted by the world governing body.

Russia's 20-year-old high jumper Danil Lysenko, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA), took his first major gold on the opening day of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Championships at Arena Birmingham, defeating the dominant figure in his event, Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim.

The United States won almost five times more medals than any other country at their home staging of the last International Association of Athletics Federations World Indoor Championships in Portland two years ago, and another medal-table-topping performance looks in prospect as the 2018 edition gets underway at Arena Birmingham tomorrow.

The indignation expressed in some quarters this week over Russian athletes being allowed to compete at Pyeongchang 2018 under the banner of “Olympic Athlete of Russia” is something I don’t understand.

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.

Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov has praised the performances of the 19 athletes from his country who competed as neutrals at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here.

Mariya Lasitskene became the first athlete to win a gold medal competing under a neutral banner as she justified her tag as the pre-event favourite in the women's high jump at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here today.

Usain Bolt rose to the challenge as so often before tonight here at the eleventh International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League meeting of the season as he won the 100 metres in 9.95sec to register his first sub-10 seconds timing of 2017 nicely in time for what will be his final major appearance in London next month.

Usain Bolt, hoping to bow out in a blaze of golden glory at next month's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London, tops the bill in tomorrow night’s 30th anniversary Herculis meeting in Monaco - the 11th IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season. 

A year on from breaking the long-standing 100 metre hurdles world record at London’s Olympic Stadium, Kendra Harrison will return tomorrow for the ninth International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting of the season.

Man-of-the-moment Wayde Van Niekerk duly won his first major 400 metres since setting a world record of in last year’s Olympic final as he came home in 43.62sec at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) eighth Diamond League meeting of the season at the Stade olympique de la Pontaise in Lausanne.

Eight days after eclipsing Usain Bolt’s official world best time for the 300 metres in Ostrava, Wayde van Niekerk will take to the track at the Stade olympique de la Pontaise for the annual Athletissima meeting in Lausanne tomorrow.

Andre De Grasse produced the fastest 100 metres of the season - and his quickest ever - as he took advantage of a huge following wind to win at the sixth International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting of the season here in 9.69sec.

Christian Taylor produced the fourth best triple jump of all time - 18.11 metres - to win on the second day of the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon.