London 2012 Olympic high jump champion and drugs cheat Anna Chicherova of Russia has announced her retirement.

not yet decided what exactly I will do in the future, but the fact that I will continue to live in athletics

Rugby league fixtures are set to be played in Birmingham's Alexander Stadium complex, which was the 2022 Commonwealth Games' main venue, after a partnership was agreed by the Midlands Hurricanes and Birmingham City Council.

on February 19.The club will utilise the community pitch adjacent to the main stadium which hosted athletics

The Alexander Stadium in Birmingham hosted the athletics competitions as well as the Opening and Closing

they say has been under-represented in the city.The Hurricanes join Birmingham City University, UK Athletics

, and Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club in the list of partners who are using the stadium."

World Athletics has announced the schedule for athletics at the Paris 2024 Olympics, which will run from

format is substantially different to the one which operated at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where athletics

more than one discipline on any given day.The road events will be contested over four mornings.The athletics

schedule for the Paris 2024 Olympics, released today by World Athletics ©World AthleticsThe schedule

morning through to the men’s and women’s 4x400m finals in the evening.The qualification system for athletics

entry standards and the remaining 50 per cent qualify through world rankings.As part of this, the World Athletics

The Organising Committee of the Trinidad and Tobago 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games is to start work on repairing the Hasely Crawford Stadium, following the nation's carnival celebrations at the venue on February 21.

Gomes Stadiums are being confirmed.Skinner Park is scheduled to be completed by the end of January.With athletics

so they can be used for sport and cultural events.Eight sports are set to take place at the Games: athletics

South Korea is reportedly targeting a return to the top two in the medals table at this year's delayed Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.

big hopes for South Korea include high jumper Woo Sang-hyeok, who claimed silver at last year's World Athletics

Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) director general Veronika Loginova has claimed domestic doping in Russian athletics

Loginova has pointed to the independent audit into anti-doping changes in the Russian Athletics Federation

We have about 20 per cent of the total number of samples taken from athletics," said Loginova to Russian

audit of the RusAF, the question arose about the number of anti-doping rule violations in domestic athletics

Russian athletes who counted as a neutral ©Getty ImagesRusAF is also aiming for reinstatement at World Athletics

Russia Taskforce chair Rune Andersen told the World Athletics Council that there was "a new culture

continue to dominate athletics, robbing athletes of the greatest moments of their careers, before they

Corruption was rife for years in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), now known

as World Athletics, with doping cover-ups tarnishing its legacy - particularly under the reign of Lamine

Diack.A 2015 leak of World Athletics' blood test records showed that between 2001 and 2012, one third

 Sebastian Coe became World Athletics President in 2015 ©Getty ImagesRussian athletics has been

set up the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), an independent body to investigate and oversee integrity

Kenya has revealed plans to bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships after missing out on the 2025

event as the country looks to play host in six years' time.Namwamba's announcement came during World Athletics

We will be banking on the goodwill from World Athletics."We will come up with a much stronger bid."

Nairobi was among four bidders for the 2025 World Athletics Championships with Japanese capital Tokyo

under-20 Championships and has also staged the Kip Keino Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour

Gold meeting, in the past two years.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has spoken of his desire

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed that there is "no suggestion" of state-sponsored

doping in Kenyan athletics despite a spate of positive drug tests.

Athletics Kenya was spared of a lengthy ban by the worldwide governing body after Coe was impressed by

the Kenyan Government's swift action to tackle the doping problem.According to the Athletics Integrity

Federation also remains barred from World Athletics events - a ban that has been in place since November

2015.Speaking a press conference in Kenyan capital Nairobi, Coe said World Athletics was taking a "different

The fact that all these agencies are in alignment and prepared to work alongside World Athletics and

The Campaccio cross country meet in San Giorgio su Legnano has been awarded the World Athletics Heritage

international cross country running calendar, greatly deserves this heritage distinction," said Italy's World Athletics

an outstanding contribution to the worldwide history and development of the sport of track and field athletics

and of out-of-stadia athletics disciplines such as cross country, mountain, road, trail, and ultra-running

It is a location-based recognition which aims to celebrate iconic and historic athletics competitions

The award of the World Athletics Heritage Plaque marks a new milestone for our organisation, which celebrates

A New Year inevitably leads to looking ahead at what is coming up and 2023 offers plenty to get excited about, including, for the first time in the same year, continental Games in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Pan America and a FIFA Women’s World Cup that will highlight female football in a way that has never happened before.

- meaning that events like the World Athletics and World Aquatics Championships will take on even more

Cody Lynch has been appointed as Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA)’s general manager for marketing, communications and community.

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions.Lynch has previously worked with organisations including Athletics

Russian track and field athletes, banned by World Athletics in November 2015 following the revelations

regime, account for almost a quarter of the names on the latest overall list of offenders issued by the Athletics

before the November 2015 ban, but there are numerous infractions detected in the last three years.World Athletics

Integrity Unit ©Getty ImagesAt last November’s World Athletics Council meeting Rune Andersen, chair

on to explain.Asked for his thoughts on the RUSADA situation in an end-of-year media briefing, World Athletics

runners, has been classified since 2016 in category A of the countries under surveillance by World Athletics

The Government will go the extra mile to protect the integrity of athletics."

medallist and five-time European champion Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad has announced his retirement from athletics

of their hand.In 2011, he was given a five-month ban along with compatriot Mehdi Baala by the French Athletics

cross-country champion Varsha Devi, are among the 13 cases newly reported as being sanctioned by the Athletics