Jamaica’s former world 100 metres champion Yohan Blake plans to hang up his spikes after next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, he has revealed.

Blake was the youngest sprinter in history to win the 100m at the World Athletics Championships when,

in history to not win the gold medal.Yohan Blake became the youngest winner of the 100m at the World Athletics

time since Sydney 2000.The 4x100m relay team then finished fifth in the final.At last year's World Athletics

The Commonwealth Games Wales (CGW) Board has begun the search for new members of its Athletes' Commission to mark 200 days to go until Trinidad and Tobago 2023.

history with Fast5 netball, rugby sevens, triathlon, swimming, beach volleyball, track and road cycling, athletics

, and Para athletics on the programme.Para athletics will make its debut at the event, with discus, long

Following the outcome of the Whyte Review, an independent investigation into the abuse allegations in gymnastics, Sport England and UK Sport have outlined new safeguarding measures across all sport.

to the voices of children and young people to help sustain participation.Safeguarding activists in athletics

forced UK Athletics to ban coaches for life ©Getty ImagesUK Sport has promised more input for athletes

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed that he is already doing his "ultimate" job but has

difference has been over their differing stances to the doping crisis involving Russia.Under Coe, World Athletics

have adopted a much harsher stance, banning the Russian Athletics Federation since November 2015, while

second term in 2019.He has already signalled that he will stand for a third and final term when World Athletics

You join an athletics club at 11 and one day have the opportunity to grab leadership of the sport and

Organising Committee at London 2012, chairman of the British Olympic Association and head of World Athletics

For those in sport who believe in such things, yesterday’s fourth-round defeat for sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime at the Australian Open was not a random result but down to a jinx.

years ago ©Getty ImagesI can personally vouch for at least one jinx which occurred at the 2011 World Athletics

World Athletics is considering imposing stricter rules for transgender athletes in the sport, while still

but this does not mean this is the option that will be presented to Council or indeed adopted," World Athletics

said in a statement reported by The Telegraph.The latest proposal by World Athletics would see the maximum

women's events ©Getty ImagesA final decision on the matter is expected in March.In June 2022, World Athletics

of 12 to compete in women's competitions, stating transitioning must occur before male puberty.World Athletics

Los Angeles has announced plans for a new major athletics event that they promise "celebrates and elevates

Illustrated for Women, will be part of the Host Committee for the event.As well as hosting a major athletics

from the LA Grand Prix events will go toward funding for athlete development and youth athletics.World Athletics

meeting.Organisers promise to draw some of the biggest names in the sport, even though it is to clash with a World Athletics

at UCLA, featuring a collection of Los Angeles musical acts.The Legends Jam plans to honour several athletics

Seven-time Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix of the United States has been honoured by the University of Southern California (USC).

retired last year after winning the 4x400 metres mixed relay bronze on the opening day of the World Athletics

young British athlete has turned down the opportunity to represent her country at next month’s World Athletics

Innes FitzGerald, Britain’s leading junior female endurance athlete, has written to UK Athletics to ask

not to be considered for the team for the World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Athletics Weekly

opportunity to compete for Great Britain in Australia is a privilege," FitzGerald wrote in her letter to UK Athletics

AthleticsWeekly) December 11, 2022"My family is as environmentally minded as I am," FitzGerald said, Athletics

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.

investigative consideration that constrain how much we can say, and at this point it would be inappropriate for Athletics

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.

Bolt retired from athletics in 2017, and is one of the highest-earning stars in his sport's history.Widely

because of Nesta Carter's positive doping test.Bolt is the most decorated male athlete at the World Athletics

Robert Hersh, who rose to become the most senior American official in the history of athletics, has died

Hersh was a Council member of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - as World

Athletics was formerly known - from 1999 until 2015, rising to senior vice-president in 2011, the highest

fan for longer than I have been in the sport," Coe, now World Athletics President, said."

He served on Council and a number of World Athletics’ Commissions for over two decades."

The voice of Robert Hersh, right, was familiar to athletics fans as stadium announcer at six Olympic

Millau, Montpellier and Sète in southern France have all agreed to host the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay.

and reigning world champion Kevin Mayer, a member of the Montpellier Athletic Méditerranée Métropole athletics

Publication of the track and field timetable for the Olympics is always a moment when the Games seem to start to become more real as athletes and fans alike begin scrutinising it for the key events to put a circle around.

historic feats in the history of the sport ©Getty ImagesIt is not surprising that under current World Athletics

The physical toll on her, though, was immense and she looked a shadow of herself at last year’s World Athletics

The waving of Russian flags in the stands at the Australian Open in Melbourne this week prompted complaints from Ukrainian spectators and sparked indignation from Russian officials after the flags were removed.

under IOC patronage in the 100m and 400m," the IOC minutes revealed.It was said that international athletics