A group of pro-Ukrainian demonstrators have marched to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne urging it to reconsider its stance on Russia and Belarus.

participation in Europe.The IOC's move has proved divisive, and one major International Federation, World Athletics

World Masters Athletics, whose indoor championships started today at Torun in Poland, has been placed

in a quandary by last World Athletics announcement on transgender athletes.

The World Athletics Council, after taking into account feedback from member federations, coaches and

through male puberty from female World Rankings competition from March 31.The World Masters Indoor Athletics

and has been screened and approved by World Athletics and is therefore eligible to compete."

by World Athletics new rule on transgender ©WMAPetrillo, who is visually impaired and also attempted

World Athletics does not run World Masters events and has confirmed that WMA make their own decisions

The decision by the World Athletics Council last Thursday (March 23) to exclude transgender athletes

provoke unhappiness in one quarter or another.The surprise felt by many who had been advocating for athletics

UK Athletics, meanwhile said it was "fully considering the details of the World Athletics statement on

This direction reflects the submission made by UKA to World Athletics earlier this year."

“I must confess that I'm surprised World Athletics went this way, though.

and has been screened and approved by World Athletics and is therefore eligible to compete."

World Athletics' continued ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes has been welcomed by the United Kingdom

The International Federation on Thursday (March 23) lifted a suspension on the Russian Athletics Federation

would continue "for the foreseeable future".This stance was outlined by the British President of World Athletics

2000 until he retired last year.UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer of the Conservatives commended World Athletics

[The] decision by World Athletics sends a strong message that now is not the time for the International

UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has claimed that the decision by World Athletics to continue to ban

Belarus' Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against 12-year prison sentences handed in absentia to Belarusian Sports Solidarity Fund (BSSF) founders Aliaksandra Herasimenia and Aliaksandr Apeikin.

national team's coaches.Athletics head coach at Tokyo 2020 Yury Maisevich was recently charged by the Athletics

American table tennis player Kanak Jha has been handed a one-year ban for committing three whereabouts doping failures within 12 months.

ran for the country in the heats of the 4x100m of Tokyo 2020, was hit with a three-year ban by the Athletics

Argentine football fans packed into the Estadio Monumental in capital city Buenos Aires to welcome the national team in their first match since winning the FIFA World Cup in Qatar last December.

gesture with the replica trophies.The Estadio Monumental was also the host of the Closing Ceremony and athletics

The Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) has signed a collaboration agreement with the country's French Embassy with the aim of promoting sport.

President Marijose Alcalá and France's Ambassador to Mexico Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian.Both attended the athletics

State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports Dmitry Svishchev has congratulated the Russian Athletics

The World Athletics Council yesterday restored the RusAF's membership for the first time since 2015 following

non-participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes implemented due to the invasion of Ukraine.World Athletics

reinstatement, but wants the RusAF to pursue a return for the country's athletes to competitions.World Athletics

a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes would remain in place for the "foreseeable future" ©World Athletics"Almost

our major international competitions" through the "destruction of Ukraine's sports systems".The World Athletics

The World Athletics Council has today barred transgender athletes from women's competition, altered DSD

athlete regulations, reinstated the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) following seven years of suspension

non-negotiable”.It is also in sympathy, without exactly matching, the stance now adopted by British Athletics

World Athletics conducted a consultation period with various stakeholders in the first two months of

this year, including Member Federations, the Global Athletics Coaches Academy and Athletes' Commission

In terms of DSD regulations, World Athletics has more than ten years of research and evidence of the

in athletics."

When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board gathers in the next few days, it seems likely that one topic will dominate both the meetings and conversations in the corridors.

had been sent by the host city as was then the custom.Brundage was due in Europe for meetings about athletics

after being expelled from her club for being Jewish, and came to London, joining the Polytechnic Ladies Athletics

Toruń has been awarded the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships by the World Athletics Council.

Both Turkey and Poland have established good records as hosts of international athletics events," said

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.Toruń will host the World Athletics Indoor Championships in

Poland is a regular host of World Athletics Series events, having staged the World Athletics Relays in

raising awareness of athletics in Turkey, gaining new athletics fans and increasing the popularity of

athletics," said Fatih Cintimar, President of the Turkish Athletics Federation."

Zane Robertson, a distance runner for New Zealand, has been banned for eight years after testing positive for EPO and submitting false documents in his defence.

Pete Pfitzinger, the chief executive of Athletics New Zealand, added: "We strongly condemn all forms

This case benefitted hugely from the sharing of key information and the invaluable support of the Athletics

ParalympicsGB and Toyota have announced the launch of the "Every Body Moves" initiative, which encourages disabled people to become active.

basketball and table tennis, and took place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.Paralympic athletics

Kéné Ndoye, who won Senegal's first world indoor athletics medal when she earned bronze in the women's

 In Athens she also came 21st in the long jump.Kéné Ndoye made athletics history for Senegal ©Getty

she set the national indoor record of 14.72 metres in winning her world indoor bronze.Ndoye began her athletics

champion, in 2000 and 2004, when she won with an effort of 6.64m.In 2005 she missed a medal at the World Athletics