Visiting officials have been told by organisers in Kinshasa that they are "working day and night" to ensure everything is ready for the 2023 Francophone Games, set to begin at the end of July.

The group also visited the Stade des Martyrs which is set to stage Opening and Closing Ceremonies and athletics

Femke Bol today shattered the longest standing athletics track record in the book, set in 1982 by Jarmila

time indoors when she ran 49.96 in Metz last weekend and was looking to go even faster at the World Athletics

year in Ostrava she set a world 300m hurdles best of 36.86, and she opened her season at the World Athletics

500m mark of 1:06.31 with a time of 1:05.63.This was Bol’s last race before the Istanbul 2023 European Athletics

Ryan Crouser of the United States raised his own men’s world shot put record to 23.38 metres at the indoor Simplot Games in Pocatello in Idaho.

John Steele will step down as Loughborough University’s director of sport in January next year, it has been announced.

British Paralympic Association and Team England during last year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.World Athletics

having previously been attended by the likes of double Olympic 1500 metres gold medallist and now World Athletics

This Friday (February 24) will mark the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Belarus allowing additional access via its border.

International Federations announced that they would comply with the recommendation, including World Athletics

was taken after consulting with the nine participating federations.Those federations were European Athletics

record holder, collapsed just a few yards short of apparent victory in scorching conditions at the World Athletics

businessman Nasser Al-Khelaifi in relation to alleged corruption in bids for the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics

marketing firm Pamodzi Sports Consulting headed by Papa Massata Diack, the son of late former International Athletics

2015 and an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member from 1999 to 2013, for hosting the 2017 World Athletics

beIN Media Group chief executive Yousef Al-Obaidly.Doha was unsuccessful in its bid for the 2017 World Athletics

in this case," Szpiner told Agence France-Presse.Doha lost to London in its bid for the 2017 World Athletics

for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games by the IOC, the event ultimately awarded to Tokyo.A World Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has revealed that the organisation will deal with Russia's doping

offences were uncovered.The ban has repeatedly been kept in place and only Russians approved by World Athletics

national flag, anthem or colours allowed.Following the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, World Athletics

of the invasion ending.Olympic sports may be expected to follow the IOC's stance but Coe warned that athletics

would not deal with the issue while the doping ban was still in place.A World Athletics Task Force chaired

Charity organisation Level Playing Field (LPF) is set to write to organisers of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris to raise concerns about the safety of disabled visitors following the report into last year's UEFA Champions League final in the French capital.

The independent report into events at the Stade de France, which is due to host athletics, rugby sevens

The 64 American athletes who first first ran the mile in under four minutes last year, or in the case of female athletes 4min 30sec, have been honoured by the planting of 64 trees.

Athletics coach Ron Roddan, who guided Britain's Linford Christie to world, Olympic, European and Commonwealth

Roddan, a much-loved figure in British athletics, also contributed to the coaching of Sydney 2000 Olympic

were capable of… those moments make me feel that it is all worthwhile,” he was quoted as saying by Athletics

Ron Roddan, centre, was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016 when Linford Christie

to help him celebrate ©England AthleticsRoddan won the Ron Pickering Memorial Award for Services to Athletics

and in 2016 he was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame.Announcing his death, Christie’s

After four long years away, the World Cross Country Championships is finally back. Bathurst, a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, and commonly referred to as the "Gold Country" as it was the site of the first gold discovery and where the first gold rush occurred in Australia, will finally get to stage an event it must have feared would never come.

been biennial since 2011, it is a record that is unlikely to be ever approached, let alone beaten.As athletics

could testify having been beaten by him, not only at Atlanta 1996, but also in the last three World Athletics

the Olympic Stadium," Tergat told the Sydney Morning Herald.Now rebranded the Accor Stadium and the athletics

Guernsey have been named Channel Islands Team of the Year for their exploits at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

metres hurdles, Alastair Chalmers, 2017 Commonwealth Games Youth champion, became Guernsey’s first athletics

Games.Earlier in the year, Chalmers had won the British title and also reached the semi finals at the World Athletics

State Secretary for Budapest Balázs Fürjes has decided to step down from his role as a Bureau member for World Aquatics with Olympic champion Sándor Wladár nominated to replace him.

of the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for Budapest.He is also co-chair of Budapest 2023 World Athletics

The 44th edition of the World Athletics Cross Country Championships, set to start today at Bathurst in

record holder Letesenbet Gidey will seek to add gold in Bathurst to the bronze she won at the last World Athletics

Gidey will be seeking a cross country gold to add to the 10,000m title she won at last summer's World Athletics

competition.Eritrea's 21-year-old Rahel Daniel will have strong hopes of reaching the podium having dominated the World Athletics

moment of #WorldCrossCountry action.All the info on how you can watch and follow @WABathurst23 👇— World Athletics