Hasan Arat, chairman of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) Coordination Commission for the 2023 European Games, has expressed confidence the Host City Contract will be signed by Kraków-Małopolska next month.

sport climbing, table tennis, taekwondo, teqball and triathlon are among confirmed sports.The European Athletics

Organisers have confirmed the cancellation of the Beijing Marathon for the second consecutive year due to COVID-19, highlighting the challenges faced by those in charge of the upcoming Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Almost three-quarters of experiences of violence against children in sport are psychological, with men reporting more past cases of abuse than women, a new survey has revealed.

European Statistics", were presented here in Monte Carlo at an international symposium held at the World Athletics

World Athletics recently launched an overarching safeguarding policy that will guide its 214 members

Safeguarding is about actions, not just words," a statement from World Athletics read."

The Philippines have appointed Edwin C. Fabro as its head of delegation for next year’s re-arranged International University Sports Federation (FISU) Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games in China.

Naples - the second gold medal won by the Philippines ©FISUThe Philippines hopes to compete in archery, athletics

Opening Ceremony ©Agencia.XpressMediaThe Junior Pan American Games torch made was carried around the athletics

meeting since 2019 after being named on the calendar for the 2022 season, it has been announced by World Athletics

England eight days later.Athletes will have the chance to test out the host venue for the 2022 World Athletics

in Norway on June 16, Paris in France on June 18 and Stockholm in Sweden on June 30.After the World Athletics

Former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for buying votes for the Brazilian city's successful bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

) was paid later to Papa Massata Diack, the son of then IOC member and International Association of Athletics

remain the subject of investigations.In September 2020, Lamine Diack, President of what is now World Athletics

during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games overwhelmingly targeted female athletes, research published by World Athletics

cent of the abuse, with 67 per cent directed at just two female athletes who were both black.World Athletics

sports environments should be safe and happy places for those in our sport," World Athletics President

Further research will now be carried out by World Athletics, which has pledged to ensure its own social

Working on this important study with World Athletics and our partners Quest Global has allowed us to

 "We are grateful to World Athletics for taking a lead on this important issue."

Ethiopia's Olympic medallists Haile Gebrselassie and Feyisa Lilesa have pledged that they are willing to join the front line in support of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Government as a year-long conflict with rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces escalates.

Back when it all started, with the inaugural Empire Games at Hamilton, Ontario in 1930, two men who had won Olympic gold on the same day in Amsterdam two years earlier were the focus of attention for media and spectators.

 The number plate of his Rolls Royce was AAA1, and he was a lifelong campaigner for athletics to

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has confirmed athletes from Oceania - who are to compete at the Asian Games for the first time next year - will receive honorary medals if they finish in the top three, following approval at the OCA General Assembly in Dubai.

compete at Hangzhou 2022 from 17 Oceanian National Olympic Committees (NOCs) in five sports - triathlon, athletics

Former European high jump champion Alexander Shustov's appeal against a four-year doping ban has been rejected at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

full, dismissing the appeal", read a CAS statement.Shustov was charged with a doping offence by the Athletics

doping programme, with how banned substances wash out of their systems being monitored.The Russian Athletics

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has made the final five for this year's World Athletics

butterfly.However, Thompson-Herah is included in the five finalists from the initial shortlist of 10 for the World Athletics

was used to whittle down the contenders, featuring a 50 per cent weighting for votes from the World Athletics

Council and 25 per cent for both the "World Athletics Family" and the public.Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas

Tapani Ilkka, who was head of the Finnish Olympic Committee (FOK) for 16 years, has died at the age of 80.

joining the organisation’s Board in 1985.Ilkka was head of the Organising Committee for the 1994 European Athletics

the sport and the federation".Ilkka was a national team level runner in the 1960s and worked as an athletics

University of Jyväskylä in 1966.Tapani Ilkka was chairman of the Organising Committee for the 1994 European Athletics

Crouser and double Olympic medallist Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda are among the five finalists for World Athletics

An initial shortlist of 10 Olympic champions was revealed by World Athletics last month, and a three-way

voting process reduced this by half.The World Athletics Council's votes comprised 50 per cent of the

result, with the "World Athletics Family" and public votes both holding a weighting of 25 per cent.Crouser

overall Diamond League champion.He broke the world record with a 23.37m in June, and won every World Athletics-accredited

make the initial shortlist.The Male World Athlete of the Year will be announced at the online World Athletics