You can say what you like about the disqualification of Devon Allen from the world 110 metres hurdles final in Eugene for a false start - and many people have been - but it was certainly the polar opposite of a hometown, or TrackTown, decision.

his ambition was thwarted by a thousandth of a second - the margin by which he infringed the World Athletics

was hardly a flyer.Local hero Devon Allen was disqualified from the 110m hurdles final at the World Athletics

was similar in Eugene, where Allen was on the brink of doing something that would not only be big in athletics

had the previous evening’s clean sweep in the men’s 100m.It would have been the answer to the World Athletics

world governing body - then known as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) -

Barbados is set to be represented by 65 athletes here at Birmingham 2022, including Shane Brathwaite, who was the country's last Commonwealth Games medallist.

Brathwaite won bronze in the men's 110 metres hurdles at Glasgow 2014, and is one of nine set to feature in athletics

The World Games 2022 has donated $54,000 (£45,000/€53,000) to support Ukrainian athletes and sports in response to the destruction wrought by the Russian invasion.

over the world for Ukraine is so huge," Bubka, an International Olympic Committee member and World Athletics

Gold Coast 2018 weightlifting champion Feagaiga Stowers is among Samoa's 38-strong squad for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

silver medallist Don Opeloge also named in the Birmingham team.The Pacific nation will also compete in athletics

Samoan athletes usually pack a punch and that will be no different at Birmingham 2022.

Plodzicki-Faoagali will return after winning light heavyweight silver in Gold Coast.Samoa will also compete in athletics

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran a World Championship record of 10.67sec to retain her women’s 100 metres world title in Eugene, leading a Jamaican clean sweep of medals the day after the hosts had won gold, silver and bronze in the men’s race.

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/g0cflr1dbV— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 18, 2022It

was another stupendous centrepiece of sprinting at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 coming

tantalisingly on the horizon.It is the first clean sweep of medals in the women's 100m at the World Athletics

reaction time coming off the starting block was 0.001sec faster than the 0.1 threshold allowed by World Athletics

a false start by the smallest possible margin of a thousandth of a second on Day Three of the World Athletics

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into top gear to win gold ©Getty ImagesLegend the mascot displays a funny sign at the Oregon22 World Athletics

Hayward Field, taking gold in 27min 27.43sec in the morning session of day three at the Oregon22 World Athletics

Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) President Makarita Lenoa has placed on record the organisation's thanks for Australian Government support in preparing Fijian athletes for the Commonwealth Games.

acts as the Fiji Commonwealth Games Association.Track and field competitors spent time at the Oceania Athletics

The FASANOC has picked judo, boxing, athletics, Para athletics, lawn bowls, rugby sevens, swimming, squash

cautioned by police in Eugene after gaining unauthorised access to the athlete warm-up area at the World Athletics

of numerous world and Olympic champion sprinters and jumpers, had his accreditation blocked by World Athletics

Event security discovered a unaccredited person in the athlete warm up area," World Athletics confirmed

200m champion, and Laviai Nielsen, both competing at Oregon22, had their lottery funding removed by UK Athletics

UK Athletics' position has not changed in that any athlete working directly with Rana Reider, given the

are not now entitled to up to £28,000 ($37,000/€33,000) in lottery funding or medical support from UK Athletics

Fred Kerley led a United States clean sweep of the men’s 100 metres medals on day two of the World Athletics

#WorldAthleticsChamps @usatf pic.twitter.com/tvSf11pbEK— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 17,

Jianan Wang of China won the men's long jump title on day two of the World Athletics Championships with

ImagesDaniel Roberts, the United States 110m hurdles champion, was disqualified for the second World Athletics

Ethiopia’s world 10,000 metres world record holder Letesenbet Gidey earned a World Athletics Championships

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/jEUQKd1NJh— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 16, 2022Her

This is his FIFTH STRAIGHT WORLD TITLE ‼️#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/booxf2FIKM— World Athletics

Olympic gold last summer as part of the United States 4x400 metres relay team, are both out of the World Athletics

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced that Cherono, the eighth fastest marathon runner of

4x400m team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, will miss Oregon22 after being provisionally suspended by the Athletics

In the case of the Ukraine Athletics Federation, the requirements were largely met, and the AIU Board

157 as compared with 26 in 2021, Ukraine 131.Ukraine is among six countries competing at the World Athletics

last year a group of 10 Nigerian athletes were declared ineligible for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by the Athletics

After a long campaign, descendants and supporters of  Jim Thorpe are celebrating an International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to finally recognise him as the sole gold medallist of the 1912 Olympics in pentathlon and decathlon.

World Athletics is also to amend its roll of honour to record him as champion in both events.The decision