A panel set up to investigate the circumstances around how ten Nigerian athletes ended up being ruled ineligible to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has started in-person meetings.

Nigerian athletes were part of a group of 20 from seven countries that were ruled out of Tokyo 2020 by the Athletics

cases of the Nigerian athletes is headed by Professor Ken Anugweje.Former secretary general of the Athletics

Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Maria Worphil has been appointed as secretary.Nigeria won one athletics

meaning they are deemed most at-risk when it comes to doping.Despite the ruling, Nigeria still earned one athletics

Thirty-three years ago today an unscheduled Olympic occurrence in South Korea jolted a generation of sports writers out of their beds.

year-old from Falmouth, Jamaica had embraced another landmark in becoming the first man to lose an Olympic athletics

was working on the sports desk at The Guardian, and we were soon fielding the admirable responses of athletics

The Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) Chef de Mission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, John Paul Wilson, and Board member Teariki Puni, have provided assistance with vaccinations against COVID-19 in Auckland, as they wait to return home from the New Zealand mainland.

Zealand are fully-vaccinated.At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Cook Islands took six athletes, with one in athletics

Ethiopians Guye Adola and Gotytom Gebreslase won the men's and women's races at the Berlin Marathon, as legendary compatriot Kenenisa Bekele was unable to threaten the world record despite a fast first half.

Tuesday (September 28) is a very special 40th anniversary for the Olympic Games and all its athletes.

time.They were delivered by individuals - including the current IOC President Thomas Bach and World Athletics

The New York City Marathon is set to have extensive COVID-19 countermeasures in place, with organisers eager for the race to run on November 7 after the 2020 edition was cancelled because of the pandemic.

Swingeing cuts to event, development and marketing spending enabled World Rowing to report a surplus of almost CHF1 million (£790,000/$1.1 million/€920,000) in 2020, in spite of what President Jean-Christophe Rolland referred to as a "quasi-inexistent racing programme", except for Indoor Championships in February and the European Rowing Championships in October.

by the IOC to various Summer Olympic International Federations (IFs) has now been identified.World Athletics

The law firm Irwin Mitchell has extended its support of Cerebral Palsy Sport (CP Sport) in Britain to include virtual events held up until next summer.

CP Sport's in-person activities resumed this month, including its National Athletics Championships and

"Have a go athletics day" held in Coventry last weekend (September 18 and 19).Around 160,000 people

Next month, the Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou is set to join International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach for the lighting of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame.

Athletics is viewed by us Germans as a means of fortifying and solidifying the national strength", he

The first edition of the competition schedule for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games has been officially unveiled by organisers.

@19thAGofficial) September 22, 2021Gold medals are set to be handed out on every competition day in athletics

Later this year, Hangzhou 2022 is expected to organise test events for athletics, basketball, sailing

Double Olympic hammer throw bronze medallist Jüri Tamm has died in Estonia at the age of 64, it has been announced.

Universiade in Edmonton.Jüri Tamm had a successful spell as a politician in Estonia after retiring from athletics

Barcelona after Estonia regained its independence following the break-up of the Soviet Union.Following his athletics

UK Athletics (UKA) has appointed Ian Beattie as its new chairman after several British athletes appealed

Appointment Panel and the approval of the UKA Board.Beattie, the former chairman of Scottish Athletics

and a committee member at a variety of athletics clubs, including Portobello, Strathearn Harriers, Central

of all the athletics’ bodies in the UK working together, with each of us performing our roles to the

proud to be part of the athletics family in the UK.

role, and the UK Athletics ‘Age of the Athlete’ operational plan."

Kenya’s marathon world record holder Mary Keitany has announced her retirement from athletics at the

World Athletics has borrowed $7.5 million (£5.5 million/€6.4 million) from the International Olympic

also benefited significantly from receipt of $6.8 million (£5 million/€5.8 million) from the Russian Athletics

Federation (RusAF).This equated to some 15 per cent of the Monaco-based body’s annual revenue.World Athletics

explained: "In March 2020, RusAF admitted breaching the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules by its senior

Prior to 2020, World Athletics had posted two consecutive years of substantial losses, amounting to $17.4

dipped from $18 million (£13.2 million/€15.4 million) to $13 million (£9.5 million/€11.1 million).World Athletics

During her visit to inspect the progress on renovations at the Alexander Stadium, Olympic women's 1500 metres silver medallist Laura Muir confirmed that next year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham will rank highly in her priorities during a congested summer schedule.

development of sport in this area, and hopefully lots of youngsters will be inspired to get involved in athletics

Next summer sees the World Athletics Championships scheduled to take place in Oregon in the United States

Tokyo.That is due to be followed soon after by the Commonwealth Games from July 28 to August 8.The European Athletics

The Alexander Stadium in the Perry Barr area of Birmingham is due to play host to the athletics events