The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Latvian capital Riga will take place from

September 30 to October 1 in 2023, the 226th meeting of the World Athletics Council decided today.

This new event will incorporate the existing World Athletics Half Marathon Championships and also feature

global festival of road running.The Council has also confirmed that the sixth edition of the World Athletics

be held in Asia and the first time in China.It will serve as a qualifying event for the 2023 World Athletics

Championships in Budapest.The 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, originally scheduled for

Relays in Guangzhou will take place from May 13 to 14, the World Athletics Council decided today ©Getty

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CGFCGF President Dame Louise Martin picks up a handful of rubber crumb which will be used for the new athletics

Birmingham 2022Dame Louise and Sadleir check out the venue for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and athletics

A flame tower built for the 2021 International University Sports Federation (FISU) Summer World University Games in Chengdu has been lit up as part of a trial phase.

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

Birmingham 2022 has revealed plans to use a Diamond League meeting as a test event for the Commonwealth Games here in the English city.

hold around 30,000 spectators.It will play host to the Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as the athletics

Alexander Stadium.A new west stand has been built while work is currently underway to lay a striking blue athletics

bowl in place and the track going down it really gives you a sense of what the Opening Ceremony and athletics

Staging major sporting events in the United Kingdom could deliver up to £4 billion ($5.34 billion/€4.69 billion) in soft power, trade and investment, a report commissioned by UK Sport and the City of London Corporation has found.

ambitions to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup as well as more than 40 World Championships in sports including athletics

The UK hosted the London 2012 Olympics and since has held major events such as the World Athletics Championships

South Africa's disgraced Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has been moved to a jail closer to the parents of Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he murdered in 2013, in preparation for a meeting with them that could secure his release from prison.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is hoping that the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will be the perfect showcase for the country's young athletes.

Saint Kitts and Nevis plans to take between 10 and 12 athletes to Birmingham 2022, in athletics, beach

Emmit King, a member of the United States 4x100 metres relay team alongside Carl Lewis that won gold medals at the 1983 World Championships, has been shot dead.

finishing behind Cuba's Silvio Leonard and another American, Harvey Glance.Last month, Ecuador's 2019 World Athletics

The World Athletics Council, which will meet tomorrow and Wednesday, will hear of what further progress

has been made by the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) in its quest to be restored to full international

).Initial approval of a plan for reinstatement was approved by the Council in March, although World Athletics

Federation would be re-admitted to World Athletics in 2022 ©Getty Images"We see this as the attention

of World Athletics and experts to the situation in athletics."

The Russia Taskforce confirmed to the World Athletics Council meeting in July that "satisfactory progress

Indoor Championships and 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted

Dynamic New Athletics (DNA), developed specially for the 2019 European Games in Minsk, is set to make

Dynamic New Athletics Indoor, described as a "mixed-gender, fast-paced, short and compact team athletics

 The winner of that race will be crowned the overall winner.Dynamic New Athletics finishes with

to develop Dynamic New Athletics for the next generation of young athletes," he said."

Glasgow and Scotland have a proud history in hosting athletics events, including the highly successful

European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2019, and we cannot wait to welcome athletics back to the

Burundi's Rodrigue Kwizera claimed his fourth victory of the season on the World Athletics Cross Country

Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) secretary general Francis Mutuku has called on National Olympic Committees (NOCs) from Africa to focus their development across numerous sports on the Los Angeles 2028 Games, with an aim of getting the continent's medal tally above 50.

stature in athletics.Francis Mutuku called on African nations to diversify sport instead of relying on athletics

Another lesson drawn was that there is an over-dependence on one sport, athletics.

could help increase participation and possibly medal tally - 22 of the 37 medals came from the sport of athletics

Apart from athletics, he pointed out African success in boxing, taekwondo, swimming, wrestling, karate

Should you need quiet diplomacy with an upcoming Olympic host to ascertain whether an athlete is safe?

Joe Biden has confirmed a diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022 is being considered ©Getty ImagesWorld Athletics

Honorary International Olympic Committee (IOC) member and World Baseball Softball Confederation vice-president Beatrice Allen has been elected President of The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC).

secretary.Bakebba BKS Susso - representing taekwondo - judo official Timothy Colley and Pa Assan Sylva from the athletics

A former Olympic gymnast who experienced sexual abuse as a child has called for a worldwide study into violence against children in sport.

globally.Viseras was speaking at the international symposium on child abuse in sport held at World Athletics

An international symposium on child abuse in sport was staged at the World Athletics headquarters in