Global Sports Week (GSW) Paris has been postponed by two months because of COVID-19 restrictions, with World Athletics and the International Cycling Union (UCI) the latest sporting organisations to sign on.

Performances by three athletes in 2021 have been officially recognised as the inaugural 50 kilometres world records by World Athletics.

Ethiopia dominated the Campaccio leg of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour, winning both the men's and women's races in San Giorgio su Legnano.

World Athletics will ensure Russian athletes can travel to the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon in the United States next year, President Sebastian Coe claimed.

World Athletics has said it does not "anticipate any issues" at its World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, following an International Olympic Committee (IOC) warning that Serbia must not prevent athletes from certain other nations from competing at major events it hosts.

World Athletics has amended its rules to cap the thickness of track shoe soles at 20 millimetres.

World Athletics' Doping Review Board has updated its procedures for the applications of athletes from the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) to compete as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANAs) at international events.

Cross-country running, last held in the Olympics in 1924, could return for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe believes.

Almost 40 years after successfully defending the Olympic 1500 metres title at the Los Angeles Coliseum, Sebastian Coe flew back to that city having attended the Tokyo 2020 Games.

A stellar line-up of sporting leaders within worldwide governing bodies and Organising Committees as well as members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are set to speak at this year’s Host City conference.

Lamine Diack, the disgraced former chief of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), now known as World Athletics, has died aged 88.

The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Latvian capital Riga will take place from September 30 to October 1 in 2023, the 226^th meeting of the World Athletics Council decided today.

Almost three-quarters of experiences of violence against children in sport are psychological, with men reporting more past cases of abuse than women, a new survey has revealed.

China is set to stage its first Wanda Diamond League meeting since 2019 after being named on the calendar for the 2022 season, it has been announced by World Athletics here.