The majority of Para athletes who took part in a consultation process have signalled their desire for protests on the podium or the field of play at the Paralympic Games to remain banned, according to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council chairperson Chelsey Gotell.

Olympics should not be "a marketplace of demonstrations" but other leading figures, including World Athletics

Sebastiana Lopez, a Para-javelin thrower from the United States, has been handed a four-year ban by the International Paralympic Committee for an anti-doping violation.

A test event for the Olympic marathon in Sapporo is now due to take place during the Hokkaido-Sapporo Marathon Festival on May 5.

Hokkaido-Sapporo Marathon Festival Committee.This race on May 5 will test the course for the Games.World Athletics

stress, temperature and relative humidity were all measured as the officials cycled the route, and World Athletics

said it was encouraged by the results.A Para-athletics test event is scheduled in the Olympic stadium

in May ©Getty ImagesA Para-athletics test event for track and field has also been given a date, and

The proposed aquatics centre and rugby training stadium for the Yekaterinburg 2023 World University Games have passed a state examination, giving plans to construct the facilities the green light.

230,000m².A training stadium for rugby for the Games was also given approval.This rugby facility has an athletics

Olympic 1500 metres gold medallist Sir John Walker has been named as the Patron of Athletics New Zealand

The Montreal 1976 champion was announced in the new role at the 133rd Athletics New Zealand Annual General

It’s a great honour to be named Patron of Athletics NZ and to follow in the esteemed footsteps of a legend

I am excited by the strategic direction of Athletics NZ as the organisation looks to ensure all New Zealanders

have the chance to take part in athletics in a safe and enjoyable environment."

that he has accepted this role," Pfitzinger said.In addition to naming Sir John as Patron, the 2020 Athletics

Birmingham City Council has chosen names inspired by Commonwealth Games values for six new roads being built as part of a major development project in Perry Barr.

Sport Movement have been unveiled ©Birmingham City CouncilPerry Barr is home to Alexander Stadium, the athletics

The World Athletics Indoor Championships in Chinese city Nanjing have been postponed for a second time

World Athletics said it had taken the decision alongside organisers "with regret" as a result of the

is now set for 2023 as Serbian capital Belgrade has already been named as the host of the 2022 World Athletics

It is with regret that we have agreed with the organisers of the World Athletics Indoor Championships

in Nanjing to postpone the event to March 2023," World Athletics said.The flagship indoor athletics

The indoor season for athletics falls within a narrow calendar window (up to the end of March) so it

The Moroccan National Olympic Committee (CNOM) held a virtual meeting for athletes who have been awarded a scholarship to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

 This included athletes from athletics, boxing, fencing, golf, judo, surfing, taekwondo and triathlon

The former chairman of the World Athletics Athletes' Commission has criticised the International Olympic

walk from the Olympic programme and said it would be replaced with a mixed-gender event, which World Athletics

this would improve gender equality as the women's 50km race walk is not an Olympic discipline.World Athletics

 "Certainly the World Athletics Athletes’ Commission was not consulted.

World Athletics, which also failed with its bid to have a mixed cross country relay event included at

This will begin shortly and the IOC has given World Athletics until May 2021 to find a resolution to

The Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) has partnered with video-sharing social networking service TikTok to hold two live events with its athletes.

champion in the women’s F56 class at Lima 2019, as well as becoming a bronze medallist at the World Para Athletics

And so, after much palaver, the main takeaways regarding the Paris 2024 sports programme boil down to this: breakdancing is in; cross-country running isn't.

find ever more fascinating.This is the relationship between IOC President Thomas Bach and his World Athletics

underline his support for athletes taking a knee on the Olympic podium.Then last week he bestowed World Athletics

eye on ©Getty ImagesI would stake good money on this being the first time that section 1.3.5 of World Athletics

World Athletics Heritage Plaques have been officially presented to the Kenyan town of Iten and the Fukuoka

Unveiling ceremonies were held in Iten and Fukuoka as both Plaques, originally awarded by World Athletics

an outstanding contribution to the worldwide history and development of the sport of track and field athletics

and of out-of-stadia athletics disciplines such as cross country, mountain, road, trail and ultra-running

Tolgos, the Governor of Elgeyo Marakwet County, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Sport Amina Mohamed and Athletics

Council member and President of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations.The marathon organisers

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Coordination Commission chair Bruce Robertson praised the "flexibility and resilience" of Birmingham 2022 after the latest virtual review.

Campus.Birmingham 2022 also had to shift its schedule by 24 hours to accommodate the rescheduling of the World Athletics

Commonwealth Games to take place in an action-packed summer of sport that will include the rescheduled World Athletics

Arnie Robinson Jr, who won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, has died at the age of 72.

World Para Athletics has opened the bidding process for the 2023 and 2025 World Championships, with National

“The World Para Athletics Championships bring together the best Para athletes on the planet offering

performances while defying stereotypes about persons with disabilities,” said Haozhe Gao, head of World Para Athletics

World Championships in London during 2017.Kobe is scheduled to host the next edition of the World Para Athletics