A member of the first Refugee Olympic Team at Rio 2016 has spoken of how being part of the team helped give him direction and establish a new life in Europe.

London’s Olympic Stadium has staged another "Super Saturday" nearly nine years after Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah produced one of the greatest nights in British sporting history, except this time it was not gold medals being handed out but coronavirus vaccines.

clubs across London on Saturday, with Chelsea's Stamford Bridge, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Charlton Athletics

Sha’Carri Richardson booked her place at Tokyo 2020  by winning the women’s 100 metres at the United States Track and Field Olympic trials in Eugene in Oregon in 10.86sec.

10.99 and 11.03 at the newly rebuilt Hayward Field, which is due to host next year’s postponed World Athletics

, effectively sure of contesting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is in eighth place overnight in the World Athletics

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid fulsome tribute to the country’s sprint legend Milkha Singh - known as “The Flying Sikh” - who has died aged 91 after a month-long battle with COVID-19.

Ryan Crouser provided the newly rebuilt Hayward Field in Oregon with a world shot put record of 23.37 metres that felt almost inevitable on the opening day of the United States Track and Field Olympic trials.

arena in Eugene, Oregon that has been re-imagined and reconstructed ahead of staging the delayed World Athletics

But World Athletics issued a statement saying: "All Member Federations must respect CAS decisions under

The Olympic and Paralympic Games are meant to be the ultimate test for competitors from around the world, and so it has proved with the mental strength of would-be Olympians and Paralympians challenged as never before by the incursions of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Sebastian Coe, the President of World Athletics, expressed his concern about athletes being "swept along

South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga, who overcame a crystal meth addiction before going on to win the 2017 long jump world title in London, has received a four-year ban for whereabouts failures.

The usual period of two years has been doubled by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) because this is

Manyonga out of both the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games, plus the next two editions of the World Athletics

Niklas Kaul will seek to confirm his place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as he takes part in the World Athletics

the Tokyo 2020 heptathlon qualifying mark but wants to demonstrate sharpness at this weekend's World Athletics

month.Elsewhere on the continent this weekend sees the First, Second and Third Leagues of the European Athletics

The event will be streamed live through the European Athletics website.

#ETCH2021— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) June 17, 2021Seven other nations are involved - Belgium

The shooting venue for the 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu has been upgraded with electronic targets.

between June 26 and July 7, with the dates avoiding the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and the World Athletics

South Africa's world and Olympic 800 metres gold medallist Caster Semenya has been advised by her former coach to "forget about" trying to make Tokyo 2020 in the 5,000m.

new distance.Semenya has become ineligible for her familiar disciplines following the change in World Athletics

is a strong athlete and was supposed to qualify a long time ago because she was busy fighting World Athletics

country.Seme added that, depending on her training programme, she might still qualify.In 2019, World Athletics

She might not be able to qualify, but she fought for all the female athletes by taking on World Athletics

10,000 metres standard for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with an invitational race being added to the British Athletics

addition of this invitational race in Manchester gives the 38-year-old the chance to do so.The British Athletics

A record number of National Paralympic Committees (NPC) are expected to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) saying 82 per cent of athlete slots have now been awarded for the Games.

Qualification is still ongoing in archery, athletics, judo, powerlifting, shooting and triathlon.The

My first vivid memory of watching athletics on television was at 12 - oddly around two years after I

I participated in Startrack, a children's athletics summer camp, when I was younger and knew the names

encyclopaedia of the sport to an avid viewer of every major competition and meeting on the television.My athletics

Tyson Gay were some of the most high-profile cases, joining the then-banned Justin Gatlin who became athletics

 What has been a positive for the sport is the formation of the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU),

Federations President Lamine Diack to cover up doping in exchange for bribes.In the past few years, athletics

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) is facing another crisis after two Presidents and two Boards

to recognise his vice-president as the leader of the Federation until elections could be held.World Athletics

It is bad for our athletics."

Yusuf Liman was elected the north west representative on the AFN Board.World Athletics told insidethegames

World Athletics is verifying the information we have received following yesterday’s elections in Nigeria

Federations - now World Athletics - in 2019 regarding an overpayment it received from the global body.The