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New CGF chief executive optimistic that Commonwealth Games has "special" future

  • Commonwealth Games

New Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive Katie Sadleir has claimed there is a "huge potential to make this special", despite continuing doubts over the future of the event.

possibility of following Birmingham 2022.Among the most eye-catching features of the roadmap is that athletics

co-hosting, not only between cities, but also countries and even regions.For future Commonwealth Games, athletics



Exclusive: Dozens barred from standing - but crucial weightlifting elections set for delay

  • Weightlifting

Dozens of candidates have been barred from standing in the most important elections in the history of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) - but those who have been cleared will have to wait for a chance to be elected.

arbitration tribunal; Tanya Haug, a German attorney with a doctorate in sports science who sits on the World Athletics

legal affairs at World Rugby; and Thomas Murray, an American specialist in ethics who sits on the World Athletics


Jeruto and Kwizera triumph at Cross Internacional de Italica

  • Athletics

Kenya’s Norah Jeruto and Burundi’s Rodrigue Kwizera claimed victories at the Cross Internacional de Italica in Santiponce.

sealed by Chebet, who ended 24:25.Kwizera emerged as the winner of the men’s 10.1km race at the World Athletics

“Winning the Itálica permit is incredible for me.”— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) November 21, 2021Kwizera


Exclusive: Davies hails new FINA desire to "right some serious wrongs from the past"

  • Swimming

Sharron Davies, one of several female swimmers who has sought an upgrade to her Olympic medal having finished behind East German rivals proven to have been involved in doping, has hailed the latest initiatives from the sport's world governing body to look into "historical issues of unfairness".

as the creation of an independent Aquatics Integrity Unit - similar to the one working within World Athletics

Buckner, who won the 5,000m title at the 1986 European Athletics Championships, added: "Husain wants



FINA goes upstream to put things right - but will it go back as far as the GDR?

  • The Big Read

Six years after the fundamental shake-up of athletics as a world sport, aquatics is putting itself through

was the establishment of an independent integrity unit to deal with anti-doping cases, similar to the Athletics

Integrity Unit established within the athletics world governing body since April 2017.It had been reported

Buckner, who won the 5,000 metres title at the 1986 European Athletics Championships, added: "Husain

medallist, has reflected at length upon losing out to athletes shown to have cheated ©Getty ImagesBritish athletics





Paralympic programme for Paris 2024 to include record number of women's events and athletes

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will feature 549 medal events, including a record number of competitions and slots for women athletes, after the programme was approved by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board.

the IPC, hailed the increased opportunities for women Para athletes at Paris 2024 ©Getty ImagesPara athletics



Russian Sports Minister hopes World Athletics ban will be lifted in 2022

  • Athletics

Minister Oleg Matytsin is optimistic that his country will be restored to full membership of World Athletics

The suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF), first imposed in November 2015, was further

Matytsin is confident that the RusAF is making progress towards fulfilling the roadmap set out by World Athletics

We see this as the attention of World Athletics and experts to the situation in athletics."

that the RusAF is making good progress towards fulfilling the requirements to be reinstated by World Athletics

2020.The country - forced to take part under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee - won two athletics


World Plan 2022-2030 and human rights action set in motion by 53rd World Athletics Congress

  • Athletics

The 53rd World Athletics Congress, which concluded today, has set in motion "important initiatives" for

the future of the sport, the World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said at a post-event press conference

"We have approved the new World Plan 2022-2030, which sets clear objectives against World Athletics'

Crucially, the World Plan includes a renewed Kids’ Athletics development programme which will be rolled

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has hailed the "important initiatives" agreed by the 53rd World

Athletics Congress ©World AthleticsCoe added: "This Congress has set the direction of our sport for

It covers the spectrum of athletics from school and recreational athletics through to elite performers


Coe accepts RUSADA status may undermine efforts to bring RusAF back into fold

  • Athletics

Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics, has expressed concern at the length of time it is taking

for the suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF), announced in November 2015, to be lifted

Speaking at a virtual press conference following the second and final day of the 53rd World Athletics

Good progress has been made under the new management at the Russian Athletics Federation which we want

may impact upon the return of the Russian Athletics Federation to full international competition ©World

altogether.RusAF admitted the charges against it and subsequently paid World Athletics a $5 million

Council is preparing to make a decision over who will host the 2025 World Athletics Championships at