The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced details of a sanction for Ukrainian long-distance runner Vitaliy Shafar which started from January 2017.

A meeting of the special Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) commission set up to restore its membership of World Athletics that was supposed to take place today was postponed.

World Athletics has revealed it is encouraged by the potential racing conditions in Sapporo next year for the marathon and race walk events at the Olympics following an assessment of environmental and air quality data.

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) is set to avoid expulsion from World Athletics after it paid the outstanding fine owed to the global governing body in full today.

World Athletics has issued a reminder of the rule which reduces the maximum allowable height of soles in spiked track shoes.

Sweden's Daniel Stahl is set to line up against his predecessor as world champion, Andrius Gudzius, in the men's discus in one of the most mouth-watering events of the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku in Finland.

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) Recovery Commission is planning to approve a roadmap for its restoration to send to World Athletics next week. 

The line-up for the men's 100 metres at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix has been announced, with the event due to take place later this month at the Japan National Stadium ahead of the venue's use at Tokyo 2020.

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) Reinstatement Commission is to meet on August 7 after the organisation narrowly avoided expulsion from World Athletics.

World Athletics is working on contingency plans for a 2021 season where competition continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a similar way as 2020.

So news of the Russian Athletics Federation’s demise had been exaggerated.

World Athletics will push for cross country to return to the Olympics in the form of a mixed relay at the 2024 Games in Paris - the city which last hosted it as an Olympic event 100 years earlier.

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has avoided expulsion from World Athletics after Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin made a last-minute "unconditional" guarantee to pay an outstanding fine of $6.31 million (£4.8 million/€5.32 million) by August 15.

Bathurst, in Australia, host of next year’s World Athletics Cross Country Championships, has requested a postponement from the current scheduled date of March 20 because of travel restrictions currently in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.