Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) anti-doping coordinator Robert Popov has been placed under house

arrest marks the latest crisis for the scandal-hit RusAF, which has been suspended as a member of World Athletics

since November 2015 following allegations of state-sponsored doping.Russian athletics received a boost

in March when World Athletics reinstated the programme which allows competitors from the country to

Sir Mo Farah’s chances of defending his Olympic 10,000m title for a second time in Tokyo took a heavy blow at the European 10,000m Cup in Birmingham tonight as he endured his first ever defeat over the distance by a fellow Briton, Marc Scott, and missed the Olympic qualifying time of 27min 28sec.

The last kilometre was an absolute blur," McColgan told Athletics Weekly."

as Verity Ockendon clocked a personal best of 31:43.57 and Amy-Eloise Markovc, who won the European Athletics

The European Para Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz produced a final world record today as Hungary

pic.twitter.com/TPZWDujOuB— Para Athletics (@ParaAthletics) June 5, 2021The final session in the Zdistaw

https://t.co/t7zfoIgDZP #ParaAthletics #Bydgoszcz2021 @Paralympics pic.twitter.com/mWQiB7DpfL— Para Athletics

Entries have closed for the competition to design a mascot for next year’s European Championships in Munich with a juror admitting the pressure is on to find a worthy successor to Waldi.

popular Berlino was reborn.Berlino had become a cult figure during the 2009 International Association of Athletics

Munich are due to take place between August 11 and 21 and are due to feature nine sports, including athletics

Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion (£706 million/€822 billion) American Rescue Plan Act for COVID-19 relief funding has been credited with helping organisers of next year’s Pacific Mini Games in Saipan being able increase the number of sports from six to nine.

They will join baseball, badminton, athletics, beach volleyball, triathlon and golf on the programme

The Ukrainian weightlifter Dmytro Chumak has been suspended on three charges after he and his coach allegedly tried to evade and bribe doping control officers.

This doping wave swept around the world - athletics, swimming, wrestling and other sports," said Chumak

record of 29min 36.67sec last year and will again contest the 25-lap discipline at tomorrow's World Athletics

women's 800m title in Doha two years ago, is due to make her 2021 outdoor debut tomorrow in the World Athletics

last month - and Daniel Rowden.Tony van Diepen, one of The Netherlands’ top performers at the World Athletics

will be her first outdoor race over barriers this year.All three medallists from this year’s European Athletics

phenomenon Fleur Jong produced successive world records in the women’s long jump T64 at the European Para Athletics

ParaAthletics #Bydgoszcz2021 @Paralympics @Atletiekunie @Paralympisch pic.twitter.com/yrveotBjxq— Para Athletics

Reigning Olympic women’s 100 metres hurdles champion Brianna McNeal has been handed a five-year ban, but will be able to compete at the US Olympic trials with her case subject to appeal.

McNeal was charged by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) in January over the alleged tampering of doping

August 2020, for tampering within the results management process, her second violation of the World Athletics

stayed the DT decision to allow her to compete until the end of the USATF Olympic Trials on 27 June.3/3— Athletics

she would be ineligible for the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as well as the 2022 World Athletics

World Athletics will tomorrow launch the first phase of its Run Smarter City Challenge, part of a broader

quality.Switzerland's European marathon silver medallist Tadesse Abraham will participate as an ambassador in the World Athletics

1.4 billion people around the world who run regularly - is always our primary concern," said World Athletics

It gives the runners a direct opportunity to provide tangible support to the World Athletics Air Quality

Britain’s multiple Olympic and world champion Sir Mo Farah will contest his first track 10,000 metres in almost three years when he lines up in the European 10,000m Cup, incorporating the British Tokyo 2020 trials, in Birmingham tomorrow evening.

Highgate that was cancelled in January, but in March it was announced that the University of Birmingham athletics

track would step in to host European Athletics’ annual showcase.Now 38, Sir Mo plans to seek a third

and Bashir Abdi from Belgium, the 10,000m gold and silver medallists from the Berlin 2018 European Athletics

Nigeria has withdrawn its offer to stage the African Athletics Championships from June 23 to 27 less

willing to host the event later this year, coronavirus permitting.But the Confederation of African Athletics

standards for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ahead of the June 29 deadline.Meanwhile the President of the Athletics

Nigeria’s refusal to host the CAA event.Kalkaba Malboum, President of the Confederation of African Athletics

pressing problem following reports that Nigeria has withdrawn its late offer to host this year's African Athletics

Fleur Jong and Italian long jumper Martina Caironi set world records on day three of the European Para Athletics

photo-finish with Poland’s Alicja Jeromin, who clocked 25.57.Britain’s Andre Fabienne got her first major Para athletics

China Mobile Zhejiang has verified a pilot 5G network in the Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium which will be the centrepiece to next year’s Asian Games.

venue, nicknamed the "Big Lotus", is set to stage the Opening and Closing Ceremony as well as host the athletics

UK Athletics has suspended heptathlon coach Toni Minichiello, who oversaw Jessica Ennis-Hill's gold medal

warning from the governing body in 2017 after being accused of verbally abusing a female athlete.UK Athletics

months until the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.Minichiello has also recently worked as a BBC pundit during its athletics

heptathlete, long-distance runner Mo Farah and long jumper Greg Rutherford won three gold medals in athletics

sport.Minichiello was named Coach of the Year at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2012.UK Athletics