A few days after Roman Abramovich announced that he is "giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable foundation the stewardship and care of Chelsea FC", the Russian oligarch has put out a statement saying that the club is for sale.  

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is a senior adviser at the clubAmong the six trustees named on

The two-day 2022 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships, moved from Minsk in Belarus last June

Speaking at the pre-event press conference, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe welcomed the

due to COVID-19 concerns and re-awarded to Oman - for whom this will be the first hosting of a World Athletics

championship event after the new distance was controversially included in the programme for this year’s World Athletics

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 3, 2022Spain will also call upon Marc Tur, who missed bronze

@PersKarlstrom— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 3, 2022Meanwhile in the women’s 35km, Ecuador

George Orwell, author of the prophetic novel 1984, once opined that sport is a substitute for war. Ironically, in the reality of 2022, it is now the other way around. At least, as far as Vladimir Putin is concerned.

sporting sanctions has been that imposed on Russia’s athletes by Lord Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics

Olympic and world triple jump champion Yulimar Rojas, with her hair dyed purple, provided the final World Athletics

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/lySzC6FIsq— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 2, 2022Olympic

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/Z7H5ukeX8l— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 2, 2022Later in

The International Luge Federation (FIL) has banned all Russian athletes, coaches and officials from its events in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

be expelled from sports competitions, following yesterday's confirmation from bodies including World Athletics

The Munich 2022 European Championships Organising Committee is set to let its sport's International Federations make a decision on Russian and Belarusian participation at this summer's event.

International Canoe Federation, International Volleyball Federation, International Cycling Union, World Athletics

New Zealand's four-times Olympic shot put medallist and deputy chair of the World Athletics Athletes'

In 2019, Adams and France's Renaud Lavillenie became the first active athletes to join the World Athletics

Two Russian International Olympic Committee (IOC) members and two honorary members are set to retain their positions, with their roles unaffected by yesterday's recommended sporting measures against Russia and Belarus in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

A growing list of International Federations, including World Athletics and FIFA, have followed the IOC's

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has suspended the membership of the Russian MMA Union (RMMAU), and the Federation of Hand-to-Hand Fighting and MMA of Belarus following the countries invasion of Ukraine.

ban Russia and Belarus from competing internationally include the International Skating Union, World Athletics

The official mascot for this year’s European Championships in Munich will be announced at the end of the month.

Berlino the Bear returned after he became enormously popular during the 2009 International Association of Athletics

expected to take place between August 11 and 21 and are set to feature competition across nine sports - athletics

Russian and Belarus athletes have been excluded "for the foreseeable future" from World Athletics competition

the Ukraine invasion, and with "immediate effect" - meaning none will take part in this month’s World Athletics

With the Russian Athletics Federation already banned since 2015 over the ongoing doping scandal, the

sport’s international governing body is now planning to suspend the Belarus Athletics Federation.The

The World Athletics statement read: "The World Athletics Council has today agreed to impose sanctions

Upcoming events include the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, the World Athletics Indoor Championships

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has been suspended from World Athletics since 2015, due to doping

Olympic and world triple jump champion Yulimar Rojas, who has already demonstrated brilliance in the long jump this season, will contest her specialist event for the first time this year in Madrid tomorrow as she returns to the arena where she set a world indoor record of 15.43 metres in 2020.

to perform at the Centro Deportivo Municipal Gallur in the seventh and last of this season’s World Athletics

Indoor Tour Gold meetings, with the World Athletics Indoor Championships due to be held in Belgrade

Toruń.Spain's Adam Mechaal will be hoping to produce a home win over 3,000 metres at tomorrow's final World Athletics

Gibraltar's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022 Chris Walker believes hosting the Island Games has resulted in the territory's best-ever Commonwealth Games team.

Gibraltar's facilities include a new 50 metres pool which can be split into two 25m pools, and a 400m athletics

Gibraltar is hoping to take 22 athletes to Birmingham 2022 in sports including athletics, road cycling

Ayad Lamdassem is aiming to win his first major gold medal at the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships

pic.twitter.com/9uQQQfaMwT— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) February 20, 2022He also claimed a silver

medal at the 2016 European Athletics Championships.Nevertheless, he has run in marathons for the last

bronze in 1946.In 2010, José Manuel Martinez, aged 38, became Spain’s oldest medallist at the European Athletics

he won silver - a potential record Lamdassem could smash when he runs on August 15.The 2022 European Athletics

Eight-time Olympian Jesús Ángel García has been appointed as the official ambassador for the upcoming World Athletics

Walking Team Championships, earning gold in 1997, and triumphed in the men's 50km event at the World Athletics

scheduled across this Friday (March 4) and Saturday (March 5).His role also includes taking part in World Athletics

to strengthen the place of the 35km race walk in this new sporting stage that starts with the World Athletics

Team Championships Muscat 22 and continues with the individual events at the World Athletics Championships

originally due to be held in Minsk, but Belarus' capital was removed as host in June last year, with World Athletics