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

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has hailed the news that parkrun is set to return in more than

return of parkrun, one of the greatest public health initiatives of the 21st century, has been immense," Coe

Parkrun has written to the United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning a further delay to its return is now "likely" and that it is therefore "fearful for our future".

lakes, reservoirs, beaches, promenades, prisons and nature reserves.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

allowed to resume following the COVID-19 pandemic ©Getty ImagesWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe

is among those to have backed parkrun's appeal to Johnson.Double Olympic gold medallist Coe has described

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed Olympic sports need to do more to convince a sceptical

Coe said the volume of work that had been done by International Federations across the Tokyo 2020 programme

Organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), of which Coe is a member, have faced criticism

Sebastian Coe, Uğur Erdener and Nenad Lalovic have been re-elected to the Association of Summer Olympic

It’s the bit in F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night where Dick Diver, trying to impress the younger crowd with his old trick of raising himself on a board tied behind a motorboat with a man on his shoulders, so nearly manages it, and tries again, and a final time, as accomplishment evades him.

Angeles Olympic in the last lap of a 1500m final that was to be won by his keenest rival, Sebastian Coe

the Ovett of old, unbeatable to the point of arrogance, was a memory.In 1990 I was in Auckland when Coe

Coe scratched from the 1500m event, and shortly thereafter announced his retirement from the track.Rare

World Athletics will tomorrow launch the first phase of its Run Smarter City Challenge, part of a broader campaign to raise awareness about air pollution, tying in with World Environment Day.

world who run regularly - is always our primary concern," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Coe, Uğur Erdener and Nenad Lalovic are set to be re-elected to the Association of Summer Olympic

Gymnastics Federation President Morinari Watanabe complete the Council.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Former world record-holder and Edinburgh 1970 Commonwealth Games marathon champion Ron Hill has died at the age of 82.

the run the day before left him believing he was "going to die".World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

turned the art of marathon running into a science and wrote the playbook for generations to come," Coe

The announcement last week of the death of Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400 metres gold medallist, re-focused attention on the athlete protests - by him and several United States team mates - that marked those Games in Mexico.

opinion among athletes and sports administrators alike.Last December, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

The final Coordination Commission meeting for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will begin tomorrow with organisers likely to be seeking to provide reassurances the event can be held safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

cases and have seen athletes separated from the Japanese public.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Dobromir Karamarinov, Interim President of European Athletics (EA), has made clear his support of the International Olympic Committee’s position on athletes involving themselves in podium protests at Tokyo 2020. 

regarding athltetes' protests at the Games, differs from that held by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Athletics position differs from the one recently espoused by the World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

, who does not want to see bans imposed on athlete protests.Last December Coe underlined his support

A majority of the Japanese public want the Olympics and Paralympics to be cancelled and more than 85 per cent are concerned that staging the Games will lead to an influx in coronavirus cases.

weeks and labelled as successes, including in track and field, with World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

attendance.All overseas arrivals will be "hermetically sealed from local people" come the Olympics, Coe

Rakuten chief executive Hiroshi Mikitani has described staging this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo as a "suicide mission" and urged organisers to cancel the event.

in place at Tokyo 2020 in a bid to mitigate the risk of COVID-19.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Games can be held safely after claiming participants will be "hermetically sealed from local people".Coe

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.

2019 amid concerns over the summer heat in the Japanese capital.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe