To say that things had gone smoothly for Oscar Pistorius before he competed in the London 2012 Paralympics would be a nonsense. 

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

Lamine Diack, the disgraced former President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has called for "prayers for justice to be done" in his ongoing case after returning to his native Senegal following house arrest in Paris since 2015.

Former Russian Athletics Federation President Valentin Balakhnichev has claimed he decided not to challenge the three-year prison sentence he received in France because it was a "political decision".

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.

Lawyers for former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack say he should not be made a "scapegoat" at his corruption trial in Paris.

Vin Lananna has been reinstated as President of USA Track & Field (USATF) following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), nearly two years after being put on "temporary administrative leave".

Ethiopian marathon runner Etaferahu Temesgen Wodaj received a provisional suspension from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after allegedly testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. 

The Cross Internacional de Soria is set to make a unique piece of history when it stages the first international event under the banner World Athletics, the new name for the sport's governing body.

World Athletics has been officially adopted as the new name of the sport's international governing body.

Let’s call a spade a spade, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not care about "athlete welfare". While there are enough examples of this to fill a book many volumes over, let’s look at just a couple of examples from the last few months in Tokyo.

Nigeria has refunded in full a payment it mistakenly received from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), ending a long-running saga which sparked a crisis at the country's national governing body.

The men's marathon at next year's Olympics is set to be rescheduled so it will no longer be the last athletics event of the Games after it was controversially relocated from Tokyo to Sapporo, it was revealed today.

Belarus high jumper Dzmitry Nabokau has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, it has been announced by the Athletics Integrity Unit on Twitter.

Market research, consumer surveys and clicks on social media have been used to help choose which events will be part of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League, it was revealed today.