Kenyan athlete Michael Saruni, 28, has been banned for four years after he was caught trying to send a proxy to a doping test. The 800m runner tried to cheat his way through the test at the national trials for the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games in Nairobi in June 2022. 

Following a new injection of funding from sportscotland and the Scottish Funding Council, Scotland's national sports scholarship programme for talented student-athletes has been relaunched as "Winning Students 100".

Nordic World medallist, Scott Meenagh (biathlon) and U23 European 10,000m record holder, Megan Keith (athletics

before her record-breaking performance at the Valencia 10K in January, is one of Scotland's leading athletics

first phase of funding with notable alumni including Olympic medallists Laura Muir (a great star in athletics

A new study has confirmed that the French capital faces a significant risk of record-breaking temperatures in the summer of 2024, when Paris and other cities will host the Summer Olympics.

Athletics events, particularly the marathon, as well as tennis and beach volleyball, are considered vulnerable

His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed bin Daij Al Khalifa, President of the Bahrain Paralympic Committee, met with His Excellency Mr. Firas Gharaibeh, Acting Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme.

The only two gold medals have also been won in athletics by Khaled Al Saqer at Seoul 1988 (men's slalom

Thai organisers are preparing for the January 2026 event in Korat, a city about 300 kilometres from the capital Bangkok. The Games will feature 19 different sports for people with disabilities. It will also be the most attended edition.

and venues, although not yet finalised, Thailand has offered to host competitions in archery, para-athletics

The organisers of the Paris Olympic Games have further reduced the number of spectators allowed to attend the opening ceremony of the 33rd Games of the modern era.

Games' traditional opening parade on boats on the Seine on 26 July will take place outside the main athletics

US long jumper Bob Beamon parted with the Olympic gold medal he won at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City with an epic leap of 8.90 metres (29 feet) - the standing Olympic record - for $441,000 on Thursday.

 Bob Beamon, at the 2022 World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Oregon.

that still stands and a world record that Beamon held until the astonishing final of the 1991 World Athletics

Volleyball Australia has announced international sports administrator Jenny Mann as Chief Executive Officer of the Adelaide 2025 Beach Volleyball World Championships.

brings a wealth of experience having worked with the International Olympic Committee, the Beijing World Athletics

World Para Swimming, with the support from Citi, has announced the launch of Swim Together, a learn to swim and water safety programme tailored for young people and people with disabilities. 

which the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) acts as the International Federation: World Para Athletics

International sports governing bodies and NGOs have come together in the first ever industry-wide barometer survey to express serious concerns about the damaging impact of online abuse on sport and its competitors. 

global sports federations, including the International Association Football Federation (FIFA), World Athletics

information includes perspectives from 22 NGOs and global sports federations, including FIFA, World Athletics

Organisations including FIFA, the UCI, the ITF, World Athletics, World Netball and the FIA contributed

further 17 federations and international sports organisations, including FIFA, the IOC, the ITF, World Athletics

Ali Mohammed Al-Majid, Secretary General of the Bahrain Paralympic Committee (BPC), attended the first Executive Board meeting for 2024 at the permanent headquarters of the West Asian Paralympic Federation (WAPF) in Sharjah, where the West Asian Paralympic Games - Sharjah 2024 will be held.

represented by 55 people, including 41 athletes and 6 committee members, in five disciplines: boccia, athletics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has decided to impose a four-year ban on Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva from 25 December 2021. Valieva tested positive for doping at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

Unlike other sports such as athletics, the regulations of the International Skating Union only provide

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has released the report of 'Operation Refuge,' a comprehensive analysis and investigation into doping among young athletes and the trauma experienced by child athletes following a positive test.

the majority originated in Russia and India, and the most reported sports worldwide were aquatics and athletics

In athletics, it was the endurance-boosting hormone EPO.

The historic Polytechnic University of Turin in Piedmont, Italy, will host the 2025 Winter University Games and now has the torch that will illuminate the event from 13 to 23 January 2025. Named "La Guarini" in honour of the 17th century Italian priest and architect.

was attended by a special guest, Italian sporting legend Livio Berruti, who won four gold medals in athletics

Terrence Burns, who served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Meridian Management, the exclusive and partially owned marketing agency for the IOC from 1996 to 2004, stated that Paris 2024 could mark the start of a new era for the Olympic Games after the challenges faced by  Tokyo 2020 and Sochi 2014 over Covid-19 and doping issues, respectively.

 On ticket sales, he expressed satisfaction with their value, contradicting World Athletics President