Oleg Kurbatov, the head of the regional athletics body in Moscow, has become the latest official to be

nominated for President of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF).

Kurbatov, put forward for the position by the Belgorod Region Athletics Federation, is the fifth candidate

post in February, before withdrawing late on - and Andrei Shlyapnikov, director of the Russian Student Athletics

2015 when allegations of state-sponsored doping emerged, avoided expulsion in August by paying World Athletics

subsequent cover-up.Seven RusAF officials - including then-President Dmitry Shlyakhtin - were charged by the Athletics

an anti-doping investigation by allegedly forging documents to explain Lysenko's missed tests.World Athletics

Chorzów in Poland has replaced Minsk as the host for next year’s European Athletics Team Championships

The Belarus capital had been awarded the event, which features Europe’s eight leading athletics countries

arena.The Stadium hosts two of Poland’s leading athletics meetings, the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial and

the Irena Szewinska Memorial.It is also due to host next year’s World Athletics Relays on May 1 and

2.European Athletics chief executive Christian Milz travelled to Chorzów this week to sign the deal for

The European Athletics Team Championships at the Śląski Stadium will be an opportunity for the Silesian

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is well known for its opaque messaging.

on wrestling, there have been numerous issues and scandals in several Olympic sports - most notably athletics

problems with wrestling when it briefly lost its Olympic place in 2013 were worse than, say, those in athletics

Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya is to take her dispute with World Athletics to the European

they take medication.The 29-year-old has twice unsuccessfully appealed the rules implemented by World Athletics

regulations came at the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the Swiss Supreme Court,"We will be taking World Athletics

We remain hopeful that World Athletics will see the error it has made and reverse the prohibitive rules

was announced last month.In a statement after Semenya lost her case in the Swiss Supreme Court World Athletics

said: "World Athletics has always maintained that its regulations are lawful and legitimate, and that

Olympic steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto has been charged with defilement in Kenya after being accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has announced the 25 members of the COB Athletes' Commission (CACOB) that will represent the nation's athletes for the Paris 2024 Olympics cycle.

pentathlon, Gustavo Guimarães of water polo, volleyball's Rodrigo Santana, handball's Eduarda Amorim, athletics

Commission ©ICFThose who were elected who competed before London 2012 were basketball's Hortência Macari, athletics

International Boxing Association (AIBA) Presidential candidate Suleyman Mikayilov has vowed to establish an independent body to help pay off the troubled Federation's considerable debt in his manifesto for the top job at the organisation.

Integrity Unit would see AIBA mirror other organisations with similar bodies in place, such as World Athletics

The Institute of Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO) has welcomed three new nations to its ranks over the past year in a further push for clean sport.

about the significance of fully-independent anti-doping operations.Howman has been the chair of the Athletics

Thomas Bach has claimed payments totalling more than $8 million (£6 million/€6.7 million) made by the Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee to a former executive at Japanese marketing agency Dentsu did not break any International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules.

the Committee.He admitted to Reuters that he had given disgraced former International Association of Athletics

World Athletics has announced Kenya, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Palestine, Peru and Poland as the nominees

for their Member Federation Award, which seeks to recognise the hosting of an uplifting athletics event

, development event or other athletics achievement despite the challenges of 2020.

federations were among the first to adapt to the new circumstances when the coronavirus crisis struck.World Athletics

Each Area Association was asked to nominate two Member Federations, with World Athletics’ Executive Board

Continental Tour Gold meeting held in Africa.World Athletics said Kenyan athletes have also competed

well internationally, sweeping the team titles at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in

Federation was nominated by the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association

Fleur Jong of The Netherlands is set to compete in the long jump instead of the 100 metre and 200m contests at next year's Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

T62 long jump world record with an attempt of 5.21m after contesting the discipline at the World Para Athletics

 She took up Para-athletics in 2014, following an invitation from two-time Paralympian Marlou van

three in the 100m discipline and broke van Rhijn's T62 world record at this year's 10th Invitation Para Athletics

Social media and news outlets have been thronged with testimonials to Ray Clemence, the former Liverpool, Spurs and England goalkeeper who died yesterday aged 72.

Perhaps the most diametrically opposed pair within athletics would be the marvels that were Paavo Nurmi

The São Tomé and Príncipe National Olympic Committee (COSTP) held a ceremony to officially open the organisation's renovated headquarters.

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

Athletics could have a very different look if it is to have a greater presence on the programme of the

appear in other continental events like the African Games, Asian Games and Pan American Games.European Athletics

There's no athletics stadium in Kraków," Karamarinov told insidethegames."

Perhaps it is an opportunity for athletics to have events outside the stadium."

We have not yet started real negotiations about how European Athletics will be present at the European

Games in 2023," he said.European Athletics trialled "dynamic new athletics" at the last European Games

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after women's

of a doping failure and Naser had been provisionally banned after the charges were brought.The World Athletics

#AIUNews pic.twitter.com/90zRdqiyJh— Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) November 12, 2020Doping

to enter whereabouts details and other information, so they can be drug-tested at random.The Bahrain Athletics

behalf.Naser ran the third quickest 400m time in history, 48.14sec, on her way to gold at the Doha World Athletics