Train drivers from eight rail companies are set to go on strike during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, union Aslef has announced today.

swimming and Para swimming, artistic gymnastics, track cycling and Para track cycling and marathons in athletics

The United Kingdom's Royal Mail has unveiled a set of eight stamps to mark the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

in diving, boxing, Para table tennis, Para powerlifting, artistic gymnastics, mountain bike cycling, athletics

The World Athletics Council is set to discuss the ongoing suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation

RusAF has been suspended by World Athletics since November 2015 following revelations of state-sponsored

this has been extended more than 15 times.Russian and Belarusian athletes are banned from the World Athletics

Andersen, as usual, will make a report to the members of the Council at a meeting on July 14," a World Athletics

source told Russian state news agency TASS.In April, World Athletics confirmed that RusAF is fully up

scheduled for September or October to establish the cultural change that has taken place in Russian athletics

South Africa is still eyeing a piece of sporting history at this year's Commonwealth Games, despite losing the opportunity to host them.

turn to what might have been in Durban.However, the CGF's new blueprint for the Games, which lists athletics

The teenage pair demonstrate the young talent South Africa is hoping to promote across its squad.In athletics

injury-hit season.Caster Semenya is also likely to be missing as she continues her fight against World Athletics

distances at Gold Coast 2018 and the double Olympic gold medallist could run in the 5,000m at the World Athletics

supported by South African sport which insists Semenya should simply be treated as a female athlete.World Athletics

among six Team Kenya members for whom visa hold-ups have put in doubt their participation in the World Athletics

air flights.The team was scheduled to leave the country in two batches on July 11 and 12.Reports say Athletics

contacting the US authorities.Visa hold-ups are affecting athletes attempting to travel to the World Athletics

released in response to the cases of visa-related problems:"The Oregon22 organising committee and World Athletics

Commonwealth Games medallist Leon Reid has been refused accreditation for Birmingham 2022, having been convicted of charges related to allowing his flat to be used to produce crack cocaine earlier this year.

In May, Athletics Ireland said it would continue to consider Reid for selection.His 200m personal best

is 20.27sec, recorded in Birmingham in 2018.The athletics and Para athletics events at Birmingham 2022

Queensland Government officials have announced an AUD4 million (£2.27 million/$2.69 million/ €2.68 million) floodlight upgrade for Barlow Park in Cairns as part of preparations for the stadium to stage football during the 2032 Olympics.

facilities.Other improvements will make it possible to use the venue for pre-Games training camps, athletics

A French Senate report has acknowledged that the chaotic scenes which marred the UEFA Champions League final at the Stade de France "seriously questioned France's ability to organise major sporting events", including the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

of pepper spray on supporters as they queued up to enter the Stade de France, which is set to host athletics

The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 that starts tomorrow at the re-built Hayward Field in Eugene

As Jon Ridgeon, the World Athletics chief executive, told insidethegames last week, one of the key factors

in the awarding of these Championships was the hope that they would be "a catalyst to grow athletics

will be realised, and how much of a boost NBC Sports - who have a media rights agreement with World Athletics

from 192 teams will be involved in the Championships, which will conclude on Sunday, July 24.World Athletics

other.Allen’s NFL link could prove a crucial factor in leveraging US airtime and marketing beyond the places athletics

Olympic silver medallist Nijel Amos has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit

The Botswanan middle-distance runner had been set to compete at the World Athletics Championships in

second behind Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi.Amos had been due to compete in the 800m heats at the World Athletics

Double Olympic sailing champion Marcelo Ferreira is among the 2022 inductees to the Brazilian Olympic Hall of Fame.

to 2012 and include a posthumous award to sprinter Melania Luz, one of the first women to compete in athletics

The Victoria Commonwealth Games are to open on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, in 2026, Commonwealth Games Australia has announced.

the beginning of 12 days of competition scheduled to run until March 29.The 2006 Opening Ceremony and athletics

Games Australia and the Commonwealth Games Federation to make a decision on additional sports.Aquatics, athletics

table tennis, triathlon and weightlifting are the 16 sports already on the programme.Six Para sports - athletics

The inclusive combination of able-bodied and Para-sports at the Commonwealth Games is something that has really benefited Nigeria.

record in Africa after South Africa and Kenya.In Birmingham, 100 athletes will represent the country in athletics

and Para-athletics, boxing, judo, powerlifting, table tennis and Para-table tennis, weightlifting and

Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah has revealed that he was illegally trafficked to Britain under the name of another child and subject to forced labour.

Mauritius is aiming to improve on its performance from four years ago at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

among the Mauritius squad in Birmingham.Sixty-one athletes are due to represent Mauritius in all, in athletics