The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has welcomed the Swiss Federal Tribunal decision to reject a petition by race walker Alex Schwazer to suspend his eight-year ban from the sport.

investigating judge in Bolzano, Judge Walter Pelino, had made a series of accusations against World Athletics

concentration of synthetic testosterone in the (combined) sample".The WADA said the organisation, "nor World Athletics

Seventeen of Mongolia’s most promising athletes received their final Olympic Solidarity grants at Olympic House in Ulaanbaatar.

two years to assist them in preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Games.The sports represented are archery, athletics

Sapporo, host of the marathon and race walk events at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has been brought into an expanded state of emergency in Japan.

marathon, moved to the city in 2019 amid concerns over the summer heat in the Japanese capital.World Athletics

women's long jump F62 world record by 81 centimetres on the second day of competition at the World Para Athletics

@Paralympics @SwissParalympic #ParaAthletics pic.twitter.com/9THZYesWbH— Para Athletics (@ParaAthletics

The Tokyo Paralympic Games scheduled to start on August 24 this year are the "most important" in the event’s history - precisely because of the pandemic in which they take place.

With qualification ongoing in sports such as Para-athletics, Para-canoe and Para-badminton, Parsons believes

classification opportunities not being available.The ten sports which will be able to classify in Tokyo are athletics

In the last few weeks we have some good numbers when it comes to two big sports, athletics and swimming

Home favourite Peter Pal Kiss claimed the victory in the men's KL1 200 metres at the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Paracanoe World Cup in Szeged in Hungary.

and Nataliia Lahutenko of Ukraine won the silver and bronze medals.Laura Sugar represented Britain in athletics

at the Rio 2016 Paralympics ©Getty ImagesBritain's Laura Sugar, who is best known for her time in athletics

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has participated in the ground-breaking ceremony for the 2023 Pacific Games stadiums project in Honiara.

a 50-metre competition pool, as well as a 25m training pool.A six-court tennis centre, a track for athletics

triple jump champion Omar Craddock will miss the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and next year's World Athletics

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) confirmed Craddock had committed an anti-doping rule violation for

Britain’s Hannah Cockroft set a women’s 800 metres T34 world record at the World Para Athletics Grand

I trained very hard in lockdown," she told World Para Athletics."

*Record subject to ratification by World Para Athletics#Nottwil2021 @ParalympicsGB @BritAthletics

@Paralympics pic.twitter.com/roeye4H6Mc— Para Athletics (@ParaAthletics) May 14, 2021A total of 272

#ParaAthletics @SwissParalympic @TeamUSA @SwissParalympic pic.twitter.com/QV9pj2XeAk— Para Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has expressed confidence that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic

concerns over the summer heat in the Japanese capital.Coe then travelled to Tokyo for the Ready Steady Go athletics

Paralympic Games can go ahead.Coe, a member of the Tokyo 2020 Coordination Commission, said the World Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe was present at test events in Tokyo and Sapporo earlier this

yesterday.Coe admitted more could have been done to reassure the public about the safety of the Games.The World Athletics

The African Athletics Championships in Algeria have been postponed for a third time due to the COVID-

Algiers.Now the event’s date and venue are uncertain, with no word yet from the Confederation of African Athletics

of new arrangements.World Athletics has set June 29 as the deadline for reaching the qualifying mark

 "The MJS called on the Algerian Athletics Federation (FAA) to make the necessary arrangements to

inform the officials of the Confederation of African Athletics in order to agree new dates for the holding

of these championships as soon as the health situation improves," it added.The African Athletics Championships

The Olympic Torch will not now visit the hometown of Mikio Oda, Japan’s first Olympic champion, after a decision to "change the format of the Relay given the current status of COVID-19" in Hiroshima Prefecture.

It was not just in athletics.

Olympics along with Germany, but Oda helped rebuild bridges and helped organise the first post war athletics

Association.He also served as a council member for World Athletics, then known as the International

Amateur Athletics Federation.In 1980, he was angered by the Japanese Olympic boycott."

"It isn’t possible to talk about sports history in Japan without recognising Oda’s contribution to athletics

Birmingham has submitted an expression of interest for the World Athletics Road Running Championships

million/€1.7 million) to be set aside for the event, which is set for its inaugural edition in 2023.World Athletics

planned for the host city.Potential hosts have until June 1 to submit a formal bid for 2023 and the World Athletics

This is an opportunity to deliver one of the highest profile global Championships in athletics, creating

major track and field competitions and hosted the World Half Marathon Championships in 2009.The World Athletics

Our rich and proud history with athletics means staging the World Athletics Road Running Championships

Seven-time Paralympic champion Tatyana McFadden of the United States is set to make her first World Para Athletics

Dozens of Japanese towns have scrapped plans to host Olympic athletes prior to the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Games due to growing concerns over COVID-19 and local medical resources during the fourth wave of infections.

is set to expire at the end of the month.The prefecture of Chiba was set to host the United States athletics