More than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships, with the event now just 200 days away, it was revealed today. 

Ukrainian athlete Volodymyr Androshchuk has been killed fighting in the war against Russia near Bakhmut.

Betty Wilson Lempus is the latest Kenyan to be banned for tampering by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the charge being added to her sanction for testing positive for the banned substance, triamcinolone acetonide.

Australian middle-distance runner Peter Bol, who won the silver medal in the men's 800 metres at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, has took to Twitter to profess his innocence, having tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug erythropoetin, better known as EPO.

Lawyers for Usain Bolt have alleged that more than $12.7 million (£10.3 million/€11.7 million) is missing from an account belonging to the eight-time Olympic gold medallist.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has charged Belarusian coach Yury Maisevich with acting without integrity and in bad faith after the defection of sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but team official Artur Shumak faces no further action.

Ana Lucia José Tima, a Dominican Republic triple jumper who has represented her nation twice at the Olympic Games, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for two banned substances.

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand, best-known in her country for being its first openly gay athlete, has been given a provisional suspension for testing positive for anabolic agents andarine, enobosarm and ligandrol. 

Legendary Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is reportedly missing millions of dollars from an account with an investment firm.

Kimberly García, winner of two gold medals at last year's World Athletics Championships, has unanimously been named her country's best athlete of 2022 at the Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP) awards ceremony.

World Athletics has announced the schedule for athletics at the Paris 2024 Olympics, which will run from August 1 to 11 at the Stade de France and hold all stadium finals in the evenings.

Heartbreaks and "what ifs?" continue to dominate athletics, robbing athletes of the greatest moments of their careers, before they are awarded with a small consolation years later.

Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) director general Veronika Loginova has claimed domestic doping in Russian athletics has dropped, as the country looks to be reinstated into competition this year.

Kenya has revealed plans to bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships after missing out on the 2025 hosting rights last year.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed that there is "no suggestion" of state-sponsored doping in Kenyan athletics despite a spate of positive drug tests.