France have been retrospectively disqualified from the men's 4x400 metres relay event at the 2017 World Championships in London after Teddy Atine-Venel tested positive for a banned substance.

team's disqualification ©Getty ImagesAtine-Venel was first notified of the positive test by the French Athletics

World Athletics Air Quality Project featured as part of an event at COP26, the United Nations Climate

The World Athletics Air Quality Project was launched in 2018 as part of a broader campaign to raise awareness

and recreational runners.During the Sport@COP event, Paolo Emilio Adami, the medical manager at World Athletics

quality monitoring would continue at events throughout 2022.Adami said it would be in place at each World Athletics

Series event, several World Athletics Indoor Tour meetings, each stop on the Wanda Diamond League circuit

ImagesCombatting air pollution and working to improve air quality is one of six key pillars in the World Athletics

Knighton, who narrowly missed winning an Olympic medal at Tokyo 2020, heads the nominations for World Athletics

the legendary Edwin Moses at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.Both US runners missed the World Athletics

America did not attend the event.A total of five athletes, including three gold medallists from the World Athletics

shortlist for the Male Rising Star Award.France’s Sasha Zhoya, winner of the 110m hurdles at the World Athletics

will be selected by an international panel of experts and is due to be announced live at the World Athletics

Agnes Tirop’s husband Ibrahim Rotich has to undergo a mental assessment before he can be officially charged with her murder, a High Court in Kenya ordered today.

2015 World Cross Country Championships in Guiyang in China.International Olympic Committee and World Athletics

New Zealand has named weightlifting gold medallist Nigel Avery as the country's Chef de Mission for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Ceremony.A multi-sport athlete, Avery started out in shot put and triple jump before injury ended his athletics

For most people, October 18 this year would have been just another Monday.

Raynor, who recently stepped down as Bermuda National Athletics Association President after 12 years,

Summer Olympics.Bermuda currently has 10 places confirmed for Birmingham 2022, and hopes to compete in athletics

Getty ImagesThis denied Duffy the chance to race on home soil, and the CARIFTA Games, a major regional athletics

Birmingham 2022 will not be a home Commonwealth Games for Wales, but it won't be far off.

October, the Commonwealth Games Federation announced that their event would become more flexible, with athletics

A new name will be announced when the countries and territories are introduced at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony - that of Eswatini.

its Commonwealth Games history.The country is currently hoping to send 12 athletes to Birmingham - in athletics

 "We've not been that good in athletics but we now have a top 20 athlete in the world [Matsenjwa

As a nation of 115 islands which are scattered about the Indian Ocean, it is perhaps unsurprising that Seychelles has one of the best swimmers in Africa.

Mostly we are thinking about athletics and swimming," said Norbert Dogley, the Seychelles Chef de Mission

which relies heavily on its National Sports Council, has also reached the podium in weightlifting and athletics

The Commonwealth Games can provide smaller nations with their greatest sporting moments - just ask the Cayman Islands.

She's still active, she's part of the athletics association executive," said Janet Sairsingh, the Cayman

Olympics, but with the Games in Japan now been and gone attention can turn to Birmingham.As well as athletics

The expectation of fans at Birmingham 2022 means next year's Commonwealth Games could be particularly special.

Commonwealth Games titles and a European gold during a career which later saw him appointed as head coach of Athletics

Football dominates the sporting agenda in many countries but in landlocked Malawi the beautiful game has a rival.

other sports and could have a team size of around 30.Sakala said the country is hoping to compete in athletics

 "For example, athletics just had their championships.

The Barbados Chef de Mission for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has said representing the West Indies in the women's cricket tournament would be a "tremendous honour". 

Barbados will hope to be strong in athletics, while the island was buoyed by its squash performance at

Sport is faced with "many threats" and has to be credible “both on and off the field" if it is to survive, Francesco Ricci Bitti, President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Sports Federations (ASOIF), has warned.

doping and large-scale cover-ups by Russian authorities, and the then International Association of Athletics

Federations, under the new Presidency of Sebastian Coe, suspended the Russian Athletics Federation.Weightlifting

For Charlene Attard, Malta's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022, next year's Commonwealth Games cannot come soon enough.

athletes but this could increase if more qualify.The Mediterranean country is aiming to compete in athletics