New dates have been confirmed in 2022 for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst

March 20 next year, be postponed because of travel restrictions currently in place in Australia.World Athletics

working with organisers to "explore alternative dates".Following the conclusion of the latest World Athletics

been re-scheduled for February 19 in 2022.To help accommodate the new date on the calendar, the World Athletics

originally due to be held between March 11 and 13 but will now take place between March 18 and 20.World Athletics

Minsk could be set to lose another major event following the controversial re-election in August of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus President, which has sparked widespread protests across the country.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe revealed that he had instructed the governing body’s newly established

Committee to assess the situation in Belarus.The discussion will include whether to remove the World Athletics

having also travelled there in 2016 when he held talks with Lukashenko.Earlier this month, European Athletics

announced that it had moved its European Athletics Team Championships Super League from Minsk to Chorzów

in Poland.European Athletics did not refer to the political situation in Minsk, instead claiming the

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has been given a major boost in its campaign to be readmitted

to World Athletics with the new administration being told that it if fulfils its promises then the process

been given an opportunity to end its five-year suspension.The atmosphere at the latest two-day World Athletics

- will come into effect.New Russian Athletics Federation President Peter Ivanov held a brief discussion

with World Athletics Taskforce head Rune Andersen yesterday ©RusAFThe initial target for Ivanov and

RusAF was first suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations - since rebranded

as World Athletics - in November 2015 following allegations of state-sponsored doping.The suspension

Birmingham City Council has announced the next phase of a major highways improvement scheme which is due to be completed ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

million) project to transform Perry Barr and the surrounding areas.Alexander Stadium, which will host athletics

I was immediately struck by a somewhat revelatory line in a press release from the International Canoe Federation (ICF) last week regarding its proposed slate of events for Paris 2024.

likely to be turned down because of a supposed increase of 128 athletes, a mixed team cross country athletics

Michael Capiraso has stepped down as President and chief executive of New York Road Runners following allegations of racism and sexism.

A total of 16 races in eight countries will make up the 2021 World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) World Cup series, it has been announced.

Newly elected Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) President Peter Ivanov has held opening talks with

the World Athletics Taskforce overseeing the reinstatement of the country back into international competition

talks with the Taskforce, chaired by Norwegian Rune Andersen, before the first day of the virtual World Athletics

- and the development of athletics in the country," Ivanov told Russia’s official state news agency

He and his team have a responsible task to resolve the crisis that has developed in Russian athletics

in recent years, and to restore full membership of ARAF in World Athletics."

The Ministry advocates the creation of a modern system for the development of athletics, combining mass

Sbaai of Morocco and Viktoriia Khapilina of Ukraine have received provisional suspensions from the Athletics

suspended Viktoriia Khapilina and Youssef Sbaai for the presence of recombinant EPO, in violation of World Athletics

Anti-Doping rules following in-competition tests," the AIU said.World Athletics categorises the Sofia

 The Sofia Marathon is a World Athletics bronze label road race ©Sofia MarathonThis year's competition

 Organisers said they would wait for the final decision from World Athletics before redistributing

 "The marathon organisers will await the final decision of World Athletics before reordering the

The São Tomé and Príncipe National Olympic Committee (COSTP) is helping girls between the ages of 6 and 18 take part in surfing lessons.

competed at every Summer Games since.They have never won a medal and sent three athletes to Rio 2016, in athletics

A new media campaign, organised by the Czech Paralympic Committee (CPC), has been launched with an aim to raise awareness of disability in the country.

lesser-known Paralympians from six sports known as "chosen ones".These are swimmer Vendula Dušková, athletics

A tribute is set to be paid to Germany’s Frank Hensel during the two-day World Athletics Council, chaired

Council in 2007 and served as vice-president between 2015 and 2019.He was then elected to the European Athletics

It’s hard to believe that Frank Hensel will not be around to gently guide athletics at so many levels

," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said.

It is the second major loss this year for European Athletics following the death in June of its President

Russia is again expected to dominate the agenda at the World Athletics Council meeting.The Russian Athletics

Peter Ivanov has been elected as Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) President after a clear victory

candidates standing in the election.The field was reduced to three with the withdrawals of Russian Student Athletics

Championships director Andrei Shlyapnikov and Oleg Kurbatov, the head of the regional athletics body

your trust will be able to help organise work in preparation of programmes and measures that will take athletics

“He has two main questions, firstly, it is necessary to solve the issue of financing the Athletics Federation

in fighting for clean sport.World Athletics Council meeting tomorrow is due to consider the status of

Speaking today to some of the people responsible for Rising Phoenix, the documentary about the Paralympic Games that came out on Netflix in August, it was gratifying to note that the excitement accompanying its arrival appears to have been sustained and amplified.

Matthews, who died in 2018 of a brain tumour, retired from track and field athletics after the Athens

hosting in Sandnes.Before taking part in the heats, he told me he was now feeling comfortable in his new athletics

People have been tremendous about me moving to Para-athletics," he said.

To go from normal athletics to Para-athletics - I didn't know how it was going to go.

#ETCH2019 pic.twitter.com/v6TqIaPJhg— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) August 10, 2019"Some people

Eduardo Paes, who was Mayor of Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has been elected again to lead the Brazilian city.

that he paid $1.5 million (£1.1 million/€1.2 million) in bribes through intermediaries to former World Athletics