The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has announced the initial 15 stadiums in contention to stage FIFA 2030 World Cup matches as a part of its joint bid with Portugal.

venues which may need to increase their capacity ©Getty ImagesLa Cartuja - built for the 1999 World Athletics

including Tokyo 2020 individual silver medallist Marileidy Paulino earned the first track gold of the World Athletics

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/tJb3EWKpid— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 16, 2022"We

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temperatures that reached 30 centigrades ©Getty ImagesToshikazu Yamanishi of Japan retained his World Athletics

Championships men's 20km race walk title ©Getty ImagesThe first World Athletics Championships medal

ImagesThe 36-year-old Allyson Felix ran the last race of her long career and claimed her 18th World Athletics

Championships medal with a bronze ©Getty ImagesThe men's 100m is always the highlight of any World Athletics

ImagesHayward Field in Eugene has undergone a multi-million dollar renovation in time for the World Athletics

As the chief executive of Munich’s Olympic Park, a legacy of the 1972 Olympic Games and now the location for the European Championships Munich 2022, my answer is simple when it comes to the question of why the Bavarian capital is taking over the baton from the inaugural edition in Glasgow and Berlin in 2018 and hosting the second edition of this innovative multi-sport event.

event in Germany since the 1972 Olympics, featuring the European Championships of nine Olympic sports: athletics

First of all, the 2018 edition was divided between two cities in two countries, with athletics taking

We hope that someone who is in the festival will then buy a ticket for gymnastics or for athletics.

Even athletics, which brings the most viewers, will attract more viewers if it is in a multi-sports event

Kimberly Garcia Leon claimed the first gold of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene and her country

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/woapkgOLMj— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 15, 2022The

Jamaica, Libya, Kenya, South Africa, Iran and Britain were still affected by visa hold-ups for the World Athletics

Championships Oregon22 as of yesterday (July 14), World Athletics has confirmed.

Championship debut at the age of 41 due to "significant delays" in the processing of his visa.A World Athletics

We continue to follow up with those outstanding visa issues," World Athletics said in a statement."

It’s been known US entry visa may be one of the most difficult and (World Athletics) and the organising

#WCHOregon22 https://t.co/tl9kBdorAY— Michael Johnson (@MJGold) July 13, 2022UK Athletics confirmed

It added: "UKA had been in close liaison with World Athletics and enlisted help of the UK Government

Canada's co-Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022 believes the country could host both the Winter Olympics and Commonwealth Games in 2030.

bronze during her career.The Commonwealth Games Federation's new blueprint for its Games, which lists athletics

The next edition of the World Athletics Relays, scheduled for 2024, will serve as the Olympic trials,

the World Athletics Council has decided.

Fourteen of the 16 places in the relay fields for the Paris Olympic Games will be filled at the World Athletics

2014 will involve 32 teams in each discipline and 20 races on both days of competition.The next World Athletics

Olympics and the finalists will compete for Olympic seeding as well as prize money.Meanwhile World Athletics

A Competition Manipulation Watchlist has been established by the World Athletics Council to deal with

"During the qualification period for the 2021 Olympic Games, the Athletics Integrity Unit received 17

individual competition referrals for investigation of suspicious Olympic qualification standards," a World Athletics

Once this is established, World Athletics will be able to place federations considered at high risk of

The Athletics Integrity Unit received 17 reports of suspicious Olympic qualification standards last year

which has prompted the establishment of Competition Manipulation Watchlist ©AIUWorld Athletics will

An independent audit on the cultural changes within Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) in terms of

progress towards international reinstatement will be conducted in "mid-to-late October", the World Athletics

The decision at the meeting held in Eugene before the World Athletics Championships gets underway today

the next Council Meeting in November 2022.Russian and Belarusian athletes are banned from the World Athletics

Council earlier this year.An independent review of the Russian Athletics Federation's progress towards

being re-instated to international competition will take place in October, the World Athletics Council

In April, World Athletics confirmed that RusAF was fully up to date with all of its overdue payments

Canada's team at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will be in safe hands - as they will have not one but two Chefs de Mission to lean on.

including the inaugural edition in Hamilton in 1930 after local sports journalist Bobby Robinson, an athletics

The Commonwealth Games Federation's new blueprint for the Games, which lists athletics and swimming as

Tokyo in Japan has been announced as the host of the 2025 World Athletics Championships, with competition

The decision was announced at a World Athletics Council meeting on the eve of the 2022 World Athletics

events.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said he hoped Japan's awarding of the World Athletics

its confidence and trust in Japan to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships."

Together with World Athletics as one team, we will capitalise on this opportunity to showcase the best

The 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships is set to open in Eugene, Oregon tomorrow, with

The World Athletics Council has announced hosts for two forthcoming editions of the World Athletics Cross

 Commenting on Medulin and Pula being named host of the 2024 edition, Croatian Athletics Federation

President Ivan Vestic said: "The great honour was given to Croatia and the Croatian Athletics Federation

We are thankful to World Athletics for the trust shown and now it is up to us in the next 18 months to

meeting, on the eve of the World Athletics Championships, due to begin tomorrow at Hayward Field in

The World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee will rival the largest athletics competitions

Omanyala, Africa’s fastest 100 metres runner, is due to arrive in time - just - to compete at the World Athletics

South Africa's Chef de Mission for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has admitted that Durban being stripped of the event was a "bitter pill to swallow".

replacement host in December 2017, and the CGF has since released its new vision for the Games.This lists athletics