The Diamond League has decided to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from all of its track and field meetings for the foreseeable future.

response to Russia and Belarus invading Ukraine, and is in accordance with the stance adopted by the World Athletics

athletes were already unable to compete under their national flag owing to the suspension of the Russian Athletics

recommendation follows the decision by many sports governing bodies and the decision made by the World Athletics

figure is far higher.More than 3.1 million people have fled Ukraine.The RusAF was suspended by World Athletics

neutral flag ever since.Russian and Belarusian athletes have also been barred from competing at the World Athletics

World Athletics President Lord Sebastian Coe has backed a bid from Sir Martin Broughton to buy men's

as head of British American Tobacco.He and Lord Coe are lifelong Chelsea supporters, and the World Athletics

led London's successful bid to stage the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.He has served as World Athletics

the Chelsea Board should Broughton's bid be successful.Broughton welcomed the support from the World Athletics

Twenty Olympic champions have converged in Serbia for the three-day World Athletics Indoor Championships

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 16, 2022But such is the quality of the competition that it

Lasitskene, whose chances of competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete were ended by the latest World Athletics

all the energy there is here to produce the best possible jumps." pic.twitter.com/3gwgFLXaot— World Athletics

Ireland’s official postal service An Post has unveiled a booklet of six stamps celebrating some of the country’s leading sportswomen, including Olympic boxing gold medallists Katie Taylor and Kellie Harrington.

lightweight division.Besides Taylor and Harrington, the stamps feature Sonia O’Sullivan, the 1995 World Athletics

athletes have demanded their federation appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the World Athletics

programme, individuals were allowed to compete as Authorised Neutral Athletes until the latest World Athletics

wake of the Ukraine invasion.Now the joint letter from the athletes has been made known to the World Athletics

I want to note that now the Russian Athletics Federation is working very closely with the Taskforce,

It cannot be ruled out that the Russian Athletics Federation, like other all-Russian federations, will

Meanwhile a World Athletics spokesperson has said that foreign athletes, including those from Belarus

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, speaking on the eve of the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade

in a very cohesive and collective way," Coe responded.Veselin Jevrosimović, President of the Serbian Athletics

Sitting alongside him, Veselin Jevrosimović, President of the Serbian Athletics Federation, said:"I would

Ukraine is sending six athletes - all female - to the three-day World Athletics Indoor Championships,

Olympic and world champion Mariya Lasitskene will be unable to compete following this month’s World Athletics

This is a part of the world that really does understand athletics, it really does understand the importance

Western sanctions imposed in the wake of the Ukraine invasion have shifted the timetable for the Russian Athletics

Federation (RusAF) repayment to World Athletics.

of 2021.These sums relate to costs involved in the reinstatement programme being overseen by World Athletics

March 18 or risk the gains of all recent work on reinstatement being lost.In his report to the World Athletics

World Athletics and I have received assurances from RusAF and the Russian Sports Minister that the two

Should this not happen by Friday (March 18) then World Athletics has made clear to RusAF there will be

no scope for World Athletics to continue to finance the reinstatement process."

Japanese officials have called for athletes with an intellectual disability to be given opportunities to compete at the Winter Paralympics as the nation aims to stage the Games in 2030.

reinstate intellectually disabled athletes into the Paralympic Games.Since then, they have competed in athletics

Not everyone would enthusiastically celebrate a lawn bowls bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games, but the Cook Islands certainly would.

which bodes well for the future.A team of 18 is planned in total - with athletes also set to travel in athletics

Cook Islands ©Getty ImagesThe main island of Rarotonga boasts the outdoor BCI Stadium, which has an athletics

Sport Singapore has officially announced the country’s bid to stage the World Athletics Championships

agency has confirmed that Singapore is aiming to become the first Southeast Asian country to host World Athletics

Singapore will draw on the same innovation and expertise to reimagine the World Athletics Championships

The World Athletics Championships has never been to Southeast Asia," said Lim."

Southeast Asia’s potential for new fans, partnerships, athletes, and heroes to take athletics to the

Singapore Athletics President Lien Choong Luen added: "Singapore25 will give our athletes and those from

On August 20 in 1968, tanks from the Soviet Union rolled into Czechoslovakia and the country woke up to horror and nightmare.

fortunate enough to sit down with Zatopek for more than two hours at the International Association of Athletics

World Athletics has announced decisions in relation to forthcoming competitions, following a meeting

Dates of two World Athletics competitions in 2024 have been finalised - with the World Indoor Championships

Peru, from August 20 to 25.The mile has been added to the programme for the first edition of the World Athletics

held in Riga, Latvia from September 30 to October 1, with the event incorporating the existing World Athletics

Half Marathon Championships, and the first World 5km Championships.World Athletics announced that for

as opposed to the previous system of teams being able to choose the order.Future hosts of the World Athletics

The Munich 2022 European Championships Board has decided to not allow the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials at their events. 

after consulting with the nine participating federations.The participating federations are European Athletics

The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) has announced the relocation of the 2022 IWAS World Games from Sochi in Russia to Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal from November 23 to 29.

athletes of the IWAS Membership to compete over four days of competition in a provisional programme of athletics

Commonwealth Day is an annual celebration observed by people all over the Commonwealth in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Americas, the Pacific and Europe. 

hosted an event on Monday (March 14) at Perry Barr's Alexander Stadium; our international-standard athletics

venue located in the north west of the city that will host all the Games athletics events as well as

touching distance away.They were joined by a range of guests, including athletes from Birchfield Harriers Athletics