The sea of long tables scattered with pint glasses, someone's dad dressed up like Geri Halliwell in her Spice Girls days, a bunch of boys looking like they have taken a wrong turn at Aintree, all dressed up as jockeys for a stag do.

I can tell you as a runner - and athletics is a universal sport - that I need to replace my running trainers

The finalists from the women's park skateboarding event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been recognised with a fair play award, after lifting the reigning world champion, Misugu Okamoto, following her crash at the Games.

to her feet after the pair fell during the women's 100 metres hurdles semi-finals.Also recognised in athletics

each other during the men's javelin throw final, which saw the Indian claim the gold medal.Away from athletics

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) will discuss its participation in the upcoming Asian Indoor Athletics

international events might be challenging.It has since said it will discuss its plans for the Asian Indoor Athletics

coaches in January and take a call on whether to send athletes to compete at the 2022 Asian Indoor Athletics

said AFI President Adille Sumariwalla.The Championships will act as a qualifier for the 2022 World Athletics

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in the summer, the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in China and the World Athletics

Morinari Watanabe, newly re-elected as President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), believes the computer scoring system being developed for the sport may one day take over from human judges.

In athletics and swimming, the results are time-based."

Unlike so many other recent International Federation elections, the one which saw Morinari Watanabe re-elected as President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) last month involved a proper contest. 

In athletics and swimming, the results are time-based.

in Global Sports rankings where the top three were, in order, football, basketball and tennis, with athletics

World Athletics has amended its rules to cap the thickness of track shoe soles at 20 millimetres.

externally on our shoe rules since the inception of the Working Group on Athletic Shoes in June 2020," World Athletics

margin in a one-lap race - and warned that shoe technology was hurting athletes' credibility.World Athletics

World Athletics' Doping Review Board has updated its procedures for the applications of athletes from

the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) to compete as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANAs) at international

earlier this month that the number of eligible ANAs from RusAF at major events including the World Athletics

Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March and the World Athletics Championships in Oregon in July would

President Sebastian Coe last month said "good progress" was being made at the Russian Athletics Federation

with an official letter, and provide an updated list of affiliated athletes to be published by World Athletics

competitions.In total, 151 athletes received ANA status in 2021, with six applications rejected.World Athletics

Twenty winners have been selected after more than 50,000 entries were submitted to a Chengdu 2021 video contest.

between June 26 and July 7, with the dates avoiding the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and the World Athletics

Alberto Salazar's lifetime ban from involvement in any Olympic or Paralympic sport in the United States has been upheld in the latest legal blow for the disgraced coach.

Permanent Ineligibility", indicating that the appeal has been rejected.It may well signal the end of an athletics

At the start of 2021, I identified seven non-Tokyo 2020 areas to keep an eye on throughout the duration of the year: Thomas Bach, Protests and activism, Athlete representation, athlete welfare, the European Olympic Committees, the Commonwealth Games and increased female representation.

criticism of both athlete bodies by independent groups, a claim which will undoubtedly continue.World Athletics

notably granted Athletes' Commission members voting membership of the World Athletics Council, while

Lise Cosimi has been appointed as general manager of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), arriving with a strong background in broadcast media.

host the next edition of the Olympic Games in 2024 ©Getty ImagesShe served as TV manager for the World Athletics

Shenzhen has been confirmed as the second Chinese leg of the 2022 Diamond League calendar after Shanghai, with the country scheduled to host events on the circuit for the first time since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

schedule since 2010 ©Getty ImagesThese are to be the first Diamond League events after the 2022 World Athletics

cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19.The Shenzhen Organising Committee is led by experienced athletics

Poland President Andrzej Duda has signed an act of support for the Kraków 2023 European Games, introducing legal solutions to allow the organisers to conduct operations effectively in preparation for the event.

firm date for a host city contract signing.There are to be 24 sports on the programme: 3x3 basketball, athletics

Athletics Australia has appointed Peter Bromley chief executive on a permanent basis, having held the

Bromley led Australian athletics through the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, as well as playing

number of opportunities to grow our sport on our journey to Brisbane 2032, including ahead of the World Athletics

Our focus will remain on developing our business for the benefit of the Australian athletics community

Championships, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and the World Para Athletics Championships."

Australia won one silver medal and two bronze medals in athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where the

Ethiopia's Nibret Melak in an exciting finish to the men's race to win his seventh of the 2021-2022 World Athletics