Rhine-Ruhr 2025 chief executive Stefan Kürten believes preparations for the International University Sports Federation (FISU) Summer World University Games have "crossed the first hurdle" following the final round of venue inspections.

to be used at Rhine-Ruhr 2025.During the four-day visit, the FISU delegation ran the rule over the athletics

Baster and Hrehorowicz were part of the FISU delegation that also included the ITC chairs for archery, athletics

The redevelopment of the main Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games venue, the Alexander Stadium, has been crowned the construction project of the year at the Insider West Midlands Property Awards.

Birmingham 2022 and enabled the Perry Barr venue to stage the Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as athletics

Double world athletics champion Teddy Tamgho has received a one-year retroactive ban for competing while

Kenya is one of six nominees for the World Athletics Member Federations Award this year, despite a flurry

Athletics Kenya are being recognised for becoming the first National Federation to sign the Sport for

Climate Action Framework, in line with World Athletics' position.The organisation has since then installed

Continental Tour Bronze meeting.It also secured two sponsorship deals to help grassroots athletics in

Diamond League circuit have been recognised too.The Korea Association of Athletics Federations found

a breakthrough in athletics this year when high jumper Woo Sang-hyeok won South Korea's first indoor

Turkish Para sprinter Sevda Kılınç Çırakoğlu has been suspended for three years by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) due to an anti-doping rule violation.

visually-impaired athlete had set a new national record earlier in the season, winning gold at the IPC Para Athletics

Australia's most successful male Olympian Ian Thorpe has criticised the International Swimming Federation (FINA) for its ruling on transgender athletes which in effect prevents them from competing in women's events.

testosterone levels for trans women and increased the transition period, limiting opportunities.FIFA and World Athletics

As Johnny Nash sang: "There are more questions than answers." And here is a question that many people have been struggling with over the weekend:

I didn’t feel that when I was in Doha covering Diamond League meetings or the 2019 World Athletics Championships.FIFA's

Garrett Scantling of the United States, the world's top-ranked decathlete this year, has accepted a three-year suspension for whereabouts and tampering anti-doping rule violations.

finished fourth at last year’s Olympics, was provisionally suspended shortly before this year's World Athletics

paramount that truthful, open, and complete cooperation happens with organisations like USADA and the Athletics

My athletics training group often echoed motivation to each other on Tuesday night sessions when in the

where we had many successes, regarded as one of the finest eras in the young history of Inverclyde Athletics

Although facilities are gradually improving, it is rarely used for athletics competitions and is overshadowed

United States' Olympic gold medallist Aries Merritt and former Jamaican long jumper Damar Forbes have accepted coaching positions at Brown University in Rhode Island.

the medal events, including the marathon and race walks, when the Japanese capital hosts the World Athletics

events were relocated to Sapporo due to concerns over the extreme summer heat.The move surprised World Athletics

Excited to hear about World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 plans for a stadium full of fans, mass

school initiatives from Tokyo Governor, Yuriko Koike, @jaaf_official and my good friend @KojiMurofushi #athletics

The decision to award Tokyo the 2025 World Athletics Championships was largely motivated by the fact

during the Olympic Games because of COVID-19 ©Getty ImagesIt will be the third time that the World Athletics

The Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) has claimed that more 6,000 children have signed on to its campaign to teach swimming since the initiative was launched four months ago.

medal in the sport.The country has won four Olympic medals, with two gold and two silver, all coming in athletics

Denise Lewis is to remain President of Commonwealth Games England up to and including Victoria 2026.

sport is a huge asset to Commonwealth Games England and our athletes," Steele said.Lewis began her athletics

career with Birchfield Harriers in BirminghamShe was inducted into the England Athletics Hall Of Fame

in 2011 and also won two silver medals at the World Athletics Championships, on top of the Olympic and

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second left, shared the Finnish city of Tampere's experience of hosting events ©Rob LindbladeWorld Athletics

Birmingham City Council Leader Ian Ward has claimed here that the English city's staging of the Commonwealth Games earlier this year is "just the start".

and up 21 percentage points for those from India, two key target markets.Last week, the 2026 European Athletics