A total of 20 world champions - including a Russian athlete forced to compete as a neutral - have been nominated for the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athlete of the Year awards.

Ukraine's International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board member Sergey Bubka has "completely denied any wrongdoing" after reports of links of a financial relationship with officials at the centre of doping and corruption scandals.

Papa Massata Diack has strongly denied the allegations that he was involved in fixing the location of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Rio de Janeiro as "the biggest lie in the history of world sport".

Britain’s multiple world and Olympic champion Mo Farah signed off as a track athlete on a winning note in what was perhaps the closest race in his illustrious career at the first of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League finals at the Letzigrund in Zurich.

Papa Massata Diack, Valentin Balakhnichev and Alexei Melnikov will all remain banned for life from any involvement in athletics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed their appeals against the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Ethics Commission's decision from January of last year.

During the recent International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London, I was sent to cover a press conference concerning the women’s 50 kilometres race walk.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council member Frank Fredericks will remain provisionally suspended after he failed with his appeal to overturn his ban, it was announced today.

One of many stories dominating headlines at the World Athletics Championships which closed here yesterday was the presence of an "Authorised Neutral Team" of Russian athletes.

A lawyer and a former athlete have threatened to continue to pursue legal action against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) if the women’s 50 race walk does not remain on the programme at major events, including the Olympic Games.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe would have hoped for a deluge of eyebrow-raising moments at these World Championships.

European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen was unable to present the 400 metres hurdles gold medal to Norway's Karsten Warholm here this evening after he was among those to be quarantined during an outbreak of the norovirus at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships.

Andrei Krivov is set to be stripped of the 20 kilometres race walk gold medal he won at the 2011 Universiade in Shenzhen after he was given a three-year doping ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Botswana's Isaac Makwala was officially ruled out of tonight's 400 metres World Championships final after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) blocked a late attempt from him to be allowed to compete.

A hotel at the centre of the norovirus outbreak at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here has denied they are the source of the sickness bug as the number of people affected grew to 30.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has pledged not to abandon attempts to introduce lifetime bans for convicted doping cheats following Justin Gatlin's World Championships 100 metres victory here last night.