Turkey's four-time European cross country gold medallist Aras Kaya has been banned for three years after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO) at a recent 10 kilometres race, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has reported.

Kaya was born, is in the AIU's high-risk Category A for doping.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

World Athletics plans to launch a new competition for 2026 in order to maintain the profile and earning power of its elite performers.

"We want to continue work on 2026," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe told media in a virtual end-of-year

We are still working on the format, and much is to be discussed and agreed upon," Coe added."

Coe, who was re-elected as President for a second four-year term in 2019, also responded positively to

Ukraine's Youth and Sports Minister and National Olympic Committee (NOC) President Vadym Guttsait has underlined his opposition to Russian and Belarusian participation in international sport. 

who are in full respect of the Olympic Charter and the sanctions".World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

The Olympic Summit, chaired by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, has agreed unanimously to follow up an initiative proposed by the Olympic Council of Asia to enable Russian and Belarus athletes to take part in its competitions.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe was one of the main stakeholders who was not present.Last week

Coe, a member of the IOC, signalled that his sport would not be willing to lift sanctions until Moscow

Representatives of the Olympic Movement including Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov have arrived here for tomorrow's Olympic Summit, where the war in Ukraine is expected to be high on the agenda.

Federation, the International Gymnastics Federation's Morinari Watanabe, World Athletics' Sebastian Coe

Kenyan Sports Minister Ababu Namwamba has said that the country needs to "criminalise doping" in athletics to control and end the multiple cases that has come to light recently.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said that Kenya is facing "a long journey" to regain trust of

©Getty ImagesDuring a World Athletics Council meeting in Rome in November, its President Sebastian Coe

said that Kenya is facing "a long journey" to regain trust of the International Federation.However, Coe

the last seven years, there is no obvious evidence that this is state-sponsored or state-secured," Coe

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today contacted several sports to reinforce the message that Russia and Belarus remain banned, despite qualifying for Paris 2024 due to begin soon in a number of events.

several delegates, although a number were also critical of his words.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

This is fairly simple," double Olympic gold medallist Coe said following a World Athletics Council meeting

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed it would be impossible to lift a ban while Russian

Russia's Stanislav Pozdnyakov is one of only three Presidents of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to be invited to the Olympic Summit in Lausanne later this week, despite his country's invasion of Ukraine, it was announced here today. 

the leading International Federations are also invited.They include Gianni Infantino and Sebastian Coe

Fears over the heat have led Japanese organisers to announce that the 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in September, despite initial plans to stage the event in August.

 Last month, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe had pledged that all the medal events during

The President of the Ukrainian Athletics Association, Yevhen Pronin, has revealed that soldiers on the front line defending their country against the Russia invasion were inspired by news of Yaroslava Mahuchikh’s world indoor high jump victory.

Speaking after he received the World Athletics President’s Award in Rome last week from Sebastian Coe

March 19, 2022. The Stark Arena, Belgrade. And the winner of the women’s high jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships is celebrating with intense, almost fierce joy as she brandishes her national flag - the flag of Ukraine.

challenging year after accepting the 2022 President’s Award from World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

mass media and journalists and tell them what was happening in Ukraine.In introducing Pronin in Rome, Coe

Irina Privalova, Acting President of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF), believes the organisation is "only a small step" away from being reinstated by World Athletics following encouraging reports to the body's Council meeting in Rome.

this was subject to several conditions which he went on to explain.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

World Athletics is looking at taking legal action against the worst offenders after monitoring abusive social media posts sent to competitors at this year's World Championships in Eugene.

can take steps to protect them and prevent future occurrences," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

The 2024 World Relays - which will act as a key qualifier for the Paris 2024 Games - will take place in the venue which held the first three versions of the event, the Bahamian capital of Nassau.

two-day World Athletics Council meeting in Rome, the International Federation's President, Sebastian Coe

Coe added that he had spoken to the team leadership of the other bidder for the event, Lausanne, immediately

Athletic Association President Yevhen Pronin.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Sebastian Coe

(@sebcoeofficial)"I couldn’t think of anyone worthier than this for this year’s award," said Coe."

Athletics Kenya, said to have been facing a lengthy blanket ban from World Athletics competitions if nothing was done to halt its recent spate of doping positives, has evaded severe sanction thanks to prompt and effective action by its Government.

years following soaring numbers of cases over the past year.But World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

from World Athletics over whether a lengthy ban had been mooted as a possible lever for action, but Coe

$5million (£4.17 million/€4.83 million) annually over five years.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe