Former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack and his son, Papa Massata, have both lodged appeals against convictions they received in a court in Paris last month for corruption, but former Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) head Valentin Balakhnichev has not challenged his sentence.
This month's World Half Marathon Championships is Gdynia in Poland has produced the best air quality of any major event or road race measured since the launch of the World Athletics' Air Quality Project in 2018.
Trophies and race numbers belonging to two of the greatest milers in history, Ireland’s Ron Delany, and Hungary’s late László Tábori, have been donated to the World Athletics Heritage Collection.
The 2020 World Athletics Awards, scheduled for December 5, will be a virtual event this year and streamed live on the World Athletics YouTube channel.
Paralympian Blake Leeper will not be able to compete at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld a World Athletics ban on his prosthetics.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe delivered a keynote speech on the opening day of the European Athletics e-Convention.
On the evening of Friday, July 20, 1990, half-an-hour after the Crystal Palace stadium had emptied of folk and the main lights had been turned off, I walked on the infield with my esteemed colleague Cliff Temple and the man who had just propelled a javelin over it to a world record distance, Steve Backley.
Last week, triathlon became the latest to stir sport’s alphabet soup. In a sport known for rapid changeovers between swim-bike-run, it entered the water as the International Triathlon Union or ITU and finished up as the "World Triathlon."
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is to visit the National Stadium during a trip to the Olympic and Paralympic host city of Tokyo.
World Athletics Heritage Plaques have been awarded to six road races, including the Around the Bay Road Race in Hamilton, the oldest event of its kind in North America.
The lawyer for Caster Semenya has revealed he is preparing to challenge rules which prevent the double Olympic 800 metres champion from competing over certain distances at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Tomorrow’s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi’s newly-renovated Nyayo National Stadium will be the first sporting event to be staged in Kenya since lockdown measures against the COVID-19 pandemic were introduced in March.
World Athletics has announced the launch of the World Athletics Road Running Championships from 2023 with the event billed as a global festival of road running.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has urged British Gymnastics to act on the complaints of abuse made from gymnasts amid criticism of how the organisation has handled the allegations.
World Athletics has hit out at the election of convicted drugs cheat Ivan Tsikhan as the new President of the Belarus Athletic Federation (BFLA).
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
Commonwealth Games Federation - Sport Manager - London, United Kingdom
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the international governing body that oversees the quadrennial Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. The CGF is a small passionate team, wholeheartedly committed to its vision, mission and values. Based in our central London headquarters and reporting to the CGF’s Sports Director, this role will play a key role within the team, providing operational and strategic support across all areas of the sport programme, including bespoke projects and events.
Tributes from across sport have been paid following the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99. Philip Barker recalls the Prince's deep connection to sport and his influence on it.
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