Rome’s Olympic Stadium on July 14 1998. Hicham El Guerrouj, targeting the world 1500 metres record, has just finished, 50 metres clear of a world-class field. Has he done it?

in a world record, nevertheless believes it is rivalries and personalities that will ultimately sell athletics

s Olympic 800m silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson.Hodgkinson, who turned 20 in March this year, told Athletics

Weekly: "Athletics is such a great sport but I think people need to know what the times mean and get

Athletics has always had a focus on times and distances, -just look at the Olympic motto.

Might athletics be better served if it zoomed in on rivalries rather than times?

Later this week, the official film of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, but memories of another celebrated Olympic film closely identified with Paris 1924 have also been stirred by the passing of composer Vangelis.

Dangerously, a 1982 film starring Mel Gibson, but the theme Chariots of Fire is now instantly synonymous with athletics

Vangelis himself performed a special arrangement of the music at the Opening Ceremony of the 1997 World Athletics

Rotterdam Marathon winner Stella Barsosio is one of the headline performers in Kenya's eight-member marathon team who hope to right the wrongs of Gold Coast 2018 at this year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

in Eldoret where it handed over the marathon team to the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K).Athletics

faced with the challenging predicament selecting teams for both the Commonwealth Games and the World Athletics

confident that they will be able to do well once they line up for the race," Tergat said.The World Athletics

Championships in Oregon are scheduled to be held between July 15 and 24, while athletics competition

Adenegan, Sophie Hahn and Daniel Greaves are among the Paralympic medallists in England’s 21-member Para athletics

promises to be an incredibly exciting Commonwealth Games in Birmingham," Kelly Sotherton, England's athletics

The International School Sport Federation (ISF) has awarded the 2024 Gymnasiade to Bahrain following an official signing, coinciding with the 2022 ISF General Assembly.

their plans to hold the event, with a proposed date of October 2024.The Bahrain Schools and Collegiate Athletics

athletes Dina Asher-Smith, Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir were highlights of a blustery afternoon’s athletics

He wins the men's discus with a sensational 71.27m. pic.twitter.com/AhCg1xn2SK— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has insisted that there is "no one-size-fits-all" solution to transgender participation in sport as he urged organisations to make decisions based on scientific evidence.

You cannot compare an athlete in equestrian with a weightlifter, you cannot even compare in athletics

Organisers of the Pacific Mini Games on the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) have issued a final call for volunteers.

run from June 17 to 25.There are nine sports on the programme - baseball, badminton, golf, triathlon, athletics

honour previously accorded to sporting polymath Babe Zaharias, winner of two golds and a silver in athletics

Birmingham’s re-built Alexander Stadium stands ready to usher in a new era of big-time athletics tomorrow

season and I was heartbroken not to be able to compete to my full potential in Tokyo," she told World Athletics

I know that the UK has a lot of athletics fans so it’s going to be a really, really fun competition.”

Anguilla's Commonwealth Games organisers have renewed a call for help with its team kit for Birmingham 2022.

Birmingham ©Getty ImagesThe island is aiming to take 13 athletes to Birmingham 2022, including six in athletics

Biathlon medals from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are finally set to be reallocated after the Russian team were stripped of silver over Olga Zaitseva's doping violation.

substances ostarine and S-23.Ujah is also facing a ban of up to four years, with the decision resting on the Athletics

Namibia covers a massive part of south-western Africa but there are not many people. This means there is plenty of room for sport.

country's 25-strong team in Birmingham, which will be bolstered by six or seven Para-competitors.As well as athletics

silver medals.The careers of both youngsters have already been hit by controversy, however, as World Athletics

distances between 400m and the mile.The Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC), which described World Athletics

She's also a part of an athletics camp, helping kids."

This year's Commonwealth Games will inevitably provide their fair share of high drama, which is something Birmingham City Council leader Ian Ward knows all about.

The Alexander Stadium, the focal venue of Birmingham 2022, which will host the ceremonies and athletics

 "We now have the best athletics stadium in the country by some measure," said Ward, who sits on

If you think of the stadium we've got, the European Athletics Championships and the World Athletics Championships

We need to make sure there are other international athletics events that take place in that stadium,"

©Getty ImagesBirmingham already hosts regular indoor athletics meetings, and has hosted the World Athletics

Olympic silver medallists Orlando Ortega and Luguelín Santos headline the line-up for the Ibero-American Athletics

for Ukraine, as is European indoor and outdoor bronze medallist Serhiy Nykyforov.The Ibero-American Athletics