International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical and scientific director Richard Budgett has acknowledged current guidelines around transgender athletes are no longer fit for purpose, with the organisation set to publish an updated framework to guide International Federations in devising their own rules.

after a workshop, but some national federations have elected not to implement them ©World RugbyWorld Athletics

Birmingham 2022 chief executive Ian Reid has praised his team's work during the COVID-19 pandemic, citing digital recruitment as an example of how the hurdles of the health crisis have been cleared.

pandemic also forced the Games to be pushed back by 24 hours in a bid to avoid clashes with the World Athletics

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Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the first athletics gold of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the men's 10,000

Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo to the Olympic men's 10,000 metres title in the opening athletics

Burundi's Rio 2016 800m silver medallist Francine Niyonsaba, who had to move up in distance after the World Athletics

Tokyo has reported a record number of COVID-19 cases for the third straight day as Japan's total swelled to beyond 10,000 for the first time.

Everyone has to abide by the very strict rules," he added.Members of the Australian athletics team were

Achieving a world record at the Olympic Games is the ultimate track and field achievement, but as the athletics

title.Johnson-Thompson has returned to competition but is making up for lost time.Also getting underway on day one of athletics

Christopher Samuda, newly re-elected President of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), says one of his main objectives during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is to strengthen agreements with other organisations and establish new ones, with a particular focus on developing local minor sports.

We have a heritage, history and legacy of athletics prowess, and we need to continue that, to solidify

can't use that as an excuse, but I am very hopeful and very optimistic that we will demonstrate our athletics

World pole vault champion Sam Kendricks of the United States has been ruled out of the postponed Olympic Games here after testing positive for COVID-19.

and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) later confirmed he would miss the Games.Members of the Australian athletics

Swiss sprinter Alex Wilson has been ruled out of Tokyo 2020 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reinstated a provisional suspension.

disciplinary chamber of Swiss Olympic, and succeeded in having the decision lifted on July 2.But the Athletics

distance at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin.He has reached semi-finals at the past two World Athletics

Even if it means that Swiss Olympic and Swiss Athletics will be confronted with the negative aspects

A group of 10 Nigerian athletes have been declared ineligible for the Olympics by the Athletics Integrity

Belarus have also been struck off the entry lists.Two Kenyan athletes were deemed non-eligible, but Athletics

With exactly a year to go until the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, organisers held a day of celebration in Centenary Square, which was filled with activities for the public.

events took over the space in the city centre, featuring sports on the Birmingham 2022 programme such as athletics

Well, are you being gripped by the Games? Viewed from afar, so far so good!

and entertained these past few days notably on the aquatic front but it is an essential truth that athletics

The Russia Taskforce confirmed to the World Athletics Council today that "satisfactory progress" is still

being made in the negotiations to end the long-running suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation

and state-supported doping networks within Russia, could once again face expulsion at the 53rd World Athletics

in the quarter ending March 31.A World Athletics release said: "The Taskforce is hopeful that, under

 The Russian Athletics Federation narrowly avoided being expelled from World Athletics for good

A total of 99 countries have won Olympic medals in athletics," he said."

To read the full report of the World Athletics Taskforce click here. 

The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships 2023 will be held in the Latvian capital of

The World Athletics Council, meeting today here in Tokyo, has also agreed on host cities for the World

Athletics Relays 2023, which will be held in Guangzhou, China, and the World Athletics Race Walking

Team Championships 2022, which will be held in Muscat, Oman.The World Athletics Road Running Championships

The World Athletics Relays 2023 will be held in Guangzhou, China, the World Athletics Council has decided

is a great opportunity to enhance athletics in Oman."

Alberto Salazar, the banned track coach associated with the now defunct Nike Oregon Project, has been ruled permanently ineligible by the United States Center for SafeSport for sexual misconduct and emotional misconduct violations.