They may be made of cardboard, but the beds at the athletes' village for this year's Paris Olympics have been chosen for their environmental credentials, not to prevent competitors from having sex, organisers said.

sleep in single beds, two or three to a room, in the village, a newly built complex close to the main athletics

Rodgers Kwemoi, a Kenyan long-distance runner and former world junior 10,000m champion, has been handed a six-year ban for multiple violations of the athlete biological passport (ABP).

The Athletics Integrity Unit described the infractions as "exceptionally severe," with the ban retroactively

GETTY IMAGES"Most of these manipulations occurred in the lead-up to major athletics competitions," the

From the swimming pool to the ever-improving athletics track, from the climbing wall to the basketball

he has been untouchable and is aiming to go even higher in Paris.A long-standing record in women's athletics

recently, athletes such as Jamaica's Shericka Jackson, who clocked 21.41 seconds at the 2023 World Athletics

weightlifting event.Armand Duplantis competes in the Men's Pole Vault Final on Day Three of the World Athletics

Over a decade after Buzunesh Deba crossed the finish line at the 2014 Boston Marathon, she finally received her prize money. But not from race organisers, the Boston Athletic Association, but rather from a businessman and Boston Marathon fan. 

prize money as she is the rightful winner of the 2014 women's race, there are policies held by World Athletics

for justice delayed by the Boston Athletic Association’s decision to adhere to guidelines of world athletics

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has released the first 39 members of the athletes that will be representing Team SA in the Paris 2024 Olympics this summer this Wednesday in Johannesburg.

SA will be represented across a variety of disciplines with the first list including aquatics, athletics

Rebecca Meder (200m IM), Tatjana Smith (100m, 200m breaststroke), Julia Vincent (diving, 3m springboard)ATHLETICS

Marcell Jacobs is confident that he can dip under 10 seconds as he returns to Italy for Sprint Festival: his first European 100 metres race in the build up to his Olympic title defence in Paris this summer, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. 

Jacobs, who stunned the athletics world three years ago with two golds in the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games

The International Olympic Committee and financial management firm Deloitte have jointly launched a global media campaign documenting the impact of historic Olympic ‘firsts’. Debuted 100 days before the Paris 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Games, 'The First Effect' highlights some of the most trailblazing athletes whose achievements didn't make the podium. 

Among them is Sarah Attar, the first female to represent Saudi Arabia in athletics, making her debut

of the celebrations of the Cultural Olympiad of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, World Athletics

Heritage and the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) announced in a press release.

 Athletics meet Art in Paris 👨‍🎨First of three monumental track and field sculptures unveiled.MOWA

news ⬇️— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) May 15, 2024One is  "20 octobre 1968, Mexico" (high

The 2024 Para Athletics World Championships got underway in Kobe, Japan on Friday with 1,000 athletes

The Para Athletics World Championships were due to be held in Kobe in 2021, but the event was postponed

After Paris staged last year's edition, the Para Athletics Worlds have finally arrived in East Asia.There

ParaAthletics) May 17, 2024Arnold's team-mate Hannah Cockroft is seeking to add to her tally of 14 Para Athletics

The records have already started to fall in Kobe with more certain to be broken before the 2024 Para Athletics

Twelve years since he made his last Olympic appearance on the track in London, distance running great Kenenisa Bekele has been selected to run the marathon for Ethiopia at Paris 2024.

three Olympic golds in Athens 2004 and will turn 42 next month 😮‍💨 pic.twitter.com/qu4a9Zos7N— World Athletics

@X pic.twitter.com/I3chLst6jd— Ethiopian Athletics (@eaf_ethio) May 16, 2024World record holder Tigst

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for Chengdu 2025 has unveiled the fresh emblem representing the upcoming 12th edition of The World Games.

Inside The Games, Hugo Catrileo confirmed what he had said on social media, where he described World Athletics

Santiago 2023, despite being on the list of qualifiers according to the strict rankings, accused World Athletics

Olympian Simon Hollingsworth has been appointed by the board as the new Chief Executive Officer of Athletics

 Prior to Athletics Australia, Hollingsworth spent ten years as a CEO of the Australian Sports Commission

 Athletics Australia President, former heptathlon Olympian  Jane Flemming, says she is thrilled

to welcome a CEO of his calibre as Australian Athletics continues its journey towards the Brisbane 2032

in an official capacity,” Flemming said in the official Athletics Australia press release.

since his retirement as an athlete and is a former director of both Athletics Australia and Athletics

In support of the Refugee Olympic Team's journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has unveiled the "1 in 100 Million" initiative.

They are supported by 15 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and will compete in 12 diverse sports: athletics

The Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) revealed the lineup on Wednesday of 10 sports scheduled to be showcased in the upcoming edition of the Asian Youth Para Games, set to occur in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from September to October 2025.

The comprehensive sports program for the event includes Para Athletics, Para-Armwrestling, Para Cycling