The Ecuador Olympic Committee (COE) has started its support programme for athletes preparing for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

by funds provided by Panam Sports and Olympic Solidarity, the scheme is set to benefit athletes in athletics

A host city agreement has been signed between the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) and Bahrain Paralympic Committee for this year's edition of the Asian Youth Para Games.

with 800 athletes under the age of 20 expected to take part.They are due to compete in nine sports - athletics

For the second consecutive month a long-running investigation has concluded with a real page-turner.

prostitutes.In return, Besseberg was seen to have remained on Russia’s side.Only a matter of weeks later and the Athletics

disturbing episode, as its long-running investigation has concluded with sanctions against five Russian Athletics

the incident had actually occurred on July 18.The long-running episode, which was central to World Athletics

This alone offers justification for World Athletics’ strong stance against RusAF in recent years, with

Three heads of department have been added to the team organising the 2023 International Cycling Union (UCI) Cycling World Championships in Glasgow.

including at the World Rowing Championships, International Ski Federation Snowboard World Cups, 2017 World Athletics

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has rebuffed claims from an Italian court that former Olympic race walk champion Alex Schwazer's urine samples were tapered with.

test results.Italian news agency ANSA also reported that the ruling criticised WADA and World Athletics

Britain’s Elliot Giles produced one of the outstanding performances of the 2021 indoor athletics season

1:44.68, had indicated his ability to achieve such a time by winning the 800m at the opening World Athletics

Watch #WorldIndoorTour: https://t.co/WixGBYbXJI pic.twitter.com/KklXk1YM9C— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/DfxZsText5— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 17, 2021Greece

Ireland’s five-time Paralympic sprinting champion Jason Smyth, who turns 34 this summer, is intent on competing at the Tokyo 2020 Games - and believes he can run faster than ever before.

championship outing saw him take an eighth world title in the 100 metres T13 event at the 2019 World Para Athletics

clocked 10.22sec in 2011, a year after becoming the first Paralympic athlete to compete at the European Athletics

Jason Smyth, pictured winning his most recent global title in the T13 100m final at the 2019 World Para Athletics

Former Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) President Dmitry Shlyakhtin has been given a four-year ban

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) charged Shlyakhtin, former RusAF Board member Artur Karamyan and executive

to the Danil Lysenko whereabouts case ©Getty Images"These are important decisions for the sport of athletics

⬇️https://t.co/6YlhDEdAYx#AIUNews pic.twitter.com/XaQ6D3Pirg— Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics

These are offences of the utmost seriousness committed by persons right at the top of RusAF, a World Athletics

again as he competes tomorrow in the Polish venue  of Torun in the fifth of this season’s World Athletics

and currently leads the World Indoor Tour standings, in the arena that is due to stage the European Athletics

Northeastern University has been selected to represent the United States in the men and women's ice hockey contests at the Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade. 

Northeastern University director of athletics and recreation Jeff Konya announced the news.

One of the bad things about Twitter… sorry, let me start again. One of the good things about Twitter - depending on what you think it’s for - is how you can be looking for one thing and get distracted by others.

executive Peter Dawson said.Perhaps the most famous example of freelance innovation in sport occurred in athletics

Disgraced former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack could

given a further two-year suspended sentence.Due to his age, the former leader of the IAAF - now World Athletics

Lamine Diack led what is now World Athletics for 15 years ©Getty ImagesDiack's son Papa Massata was also

to be extradited from Senegal.Both Lamine and Papa Massata Diack were further ordered to pay World Athletics

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness is among the officials to have paid tribute to Olympic gold medallist Leslie Laing, who has died at the age of 95.

Association President Christopher Samuda also paid tribute to Laing, who he said left a lasting legacy on athletics

Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech has set a 5 kilometres world record in Monaco, taking a second off the previous best time.

The resignation of Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori two days ago was inevitable after his derogatory comments about women made his position at the helm untenable.

At the 1926 IOC session in Lisbon, Sigfrid Edström, also president of World Athletics, advised members

Agreement was reached that women’s athletics would come under IAAF jurisdiction and women would be allowed

When the IAAF met, there was a call for women’s athletics to be removed altogether.

Later in the decade, Didrikson proved an outstanding golfer after being disbarred from athletics when

The "admission of Women was asked for" by the federations for athletics, swimming, fencing, gymnastics