World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed curbing the development of high-tech footwear would

 In an interview with The Guardian, Coe rejected the idea that the footwear was undermining athletics

 The debate surrounding shoes in athletics was sparked by the Nike Vaporfly, which has been approved

 The Kenyan ran an unrecognised 1:59:40 in Vienna.In April, World Athletics introduced a number

 Last month World Athletics approved the use of development shoes in international competitions,

Organisers of this year's Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Para Games have revealed the proposed sports programme for the event in Hanoi.

Athletics, badminton, swimming, table tennis, chess, powerlifting, boccia, judo, goalball, wheelchair

Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei could be set to contest the 5,000 metres and the 10,000m on the track at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with the new world record holder in both events fancied to do the double.

record in the 10,000m.Cheptegei also won the world title in the 10,000m in Doha in 2019 at the World Athletics

Championships that same year, over a 10 kilometre distance.He finished with a silver medal at the 2017 World Athletics

Paralympian Melissa Stockwell and University of Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens have been selected to serve on a Congressional commission which will examine the United States Olympic and Paralympic Movement.

The United States should always lead the world by example, and athletics is no exception."

Olympic race walking medallist Paul Nihill has died at the age of 81 after falling ill with COVID-19.

 "My great reward in athletics was not financial, but it was seeing the world," Nihill once said

, according to Athletics Weekly."

Maria Emma Gaviria, the President of World Archery Americas has said the organisation is "ecstatic" at the sport's return to the Parapan American Games at Santiago in 2023.

finalised.Alongside archery, the 17 sports that make up the Santiago 2023 Parapan American Games programme are athletics

A crowd of more than 86,000 spectators cheering on a sporting event is almost unimaginable now.

for women’s sport this year, however.Competition has taken place in some form for female athletes in athletics

This coming Saturday (January 9), a remarkable woman - and significant sporting figure - is due to reach the landmark of her 100th birthday.

team bronze with the United States at the Helsinki 1952 Games ©Team USAAlnevik took up track and field athletics

pentathlete at the London 1948 Olympics, Marko Racic, who competed for Yugoslavia at the London Games in athletics

A Grenadian sprinter who is serving a four-year ban for avoiding a drugs test has been suspended for another three years for whereabouts failures.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said Bralon Taplin, given a four-year ban in 2019, missed three tests

Arbitration for Sport (CAS) last year.He had been banned after an incident at the Grenada Invitational Athletics

A bust of seven-time Paralympic medallist Mokhtar Nourafshan has been unveiled at Iran's Hall of Fame.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed an amendment to the country's anti-doping bill to bring it in line with World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) regulations.

medallist Asbel Kiprop is also banned, as is Elijah Manangoi, who succeeded him in 2017.Kenya is in the Athletics

The Boston leg of the World Athletics Indoor Tour next month has been pushed back a week following the

the Millrose Games in New York City were called off.The Millrose Games had been added to the World Athletics

States has recorded the highest number of cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus in the world.World Athletics

Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s New Year Honours List, while former rugby league player Rob Burrow, who is battling motor neurone disease, was among the recipients of the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) distinction.

diversity in the workplace.The Olympic 400-metre finalist, who came fourth at Sydney 2000, has been UK Athletics

Next Saturday (January 9) marks one year since the opening of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne.

athletes and other officials.Lamine Diack, the disgraced former head of the International Association of Athletics

A new series of athletics meets in the United States is set for 2021, giving the nation's best more opportunities

the best athletes over the series.It has also been created to offer an alternative to the European athletics

of the 2021 Diamond League, set to be held on August 21.The city is also set to host the 2022 World Athletics