The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced its athlete engagement and independent observer (IO) teams for the Asian Games, which are set to open in Hangzhou this week. 

4x400m mixed relay at Jakarata Palembang 2018.Chani, meanwhile, was banned in September 2020 by the Athletics

Syrian athletes and officials have hailed hosts China as they arrive in Hangzhou for the Asian Games looking to "show the world that Syria is a country of peace and love".

appearance at the Asian Games after first featuring at Bangkok 1978.Athletes are expected to compete in athletics

French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) President David Lappartient has underlined the country’s ambition to finish in the top five at next year’s Olympics in Paris and set the team a target of 20 gold medals. 

France picked up just one medal at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest ©Getty ImagesLappartient

medallists at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow ©Getty ImagesFrance endured a disappointing World Athletics

event in the Hungarian capital were "not up to our ambitions" as the country seeks to win up to six athletics

medals at Paris 2024.Lappartient concluded that the World Athletics Championships "did not clearly live

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a

majority decision from a Disciplinary Tribunal panel just two days before the start of last month's World Athletics

insidethegames the panel's decision in the case was not published because she had not consented.World Athletics

Malaysia has been set the task of winning 27 medals at the Asian Games as it sends a team of nearly 300 athletes to Hangzhou.

Chia-Soh Wooi Yik and Pearly Tan.Other sports where Malaysia is expecting to enjoy success include hockey, athletics

and diving.Malaysia has not won an athletics medal since Doha 2006 but has high hopes for 400 metres

five on the medals table at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles remains the target set by the German Athletics

Association (DLV) despite its worst performance at the World Athletics Championships last month.

Germany finished the event in Budapest without a medal for the first time since the World Athletics Championships

We have set ourselves the goal of being back among the top five athletics nations in Los Angeles by 2028

," Kessing said.German Athletics Federation President Jürgen Kessing has admitted that they have fallen

Germany finished second on the athletics medals table the last time Los Angeles hosted the Olympics in

 Germany's worst performance in athletics at the Olympics came at Beijing 2008 when their single

Ghana Athletics has elected Bawa Fuseini as its new President as it prepares to take part in next year

defeating rivals Edem Tamakloe and Sylvester Sedonkor following the withdrawal of Ababu at the Ghana Athletics

Quadrennial Congress in Techiman.He will make the step up to President having previously served as Ghana Athletics

deputy and and Christopher Darko-Amankrah as treasurer.Bawa Fuseini will oversee a new team as Ghana Athletics

is preparing for next year's African Games in Accra ©Ghana Athletics"We are so honoured to be elected

We have got the experience, the knowledge, all the contacts, all the connections to move athletics forward

Earlier this month in Brussels I chatted briefly with the Diamond League chief executive Petr Stastny, who opined that this season’s edition might well be the best since the event began in 2010.

regarded as being the athlete of what has been a particularly brilliant year in track and field.In purely athletics

Championship title to the world outdoor silver and Olympic bronze already collected.At last year's World Athletics

Princess Sara bint Feisal met with the Jordan’s 79-strong squad in Amman before they set off to Hangzhou for the Asian Games.

to start on Saturday (September 23).A total of 79 athletes are set to represent Jordan in archery, athletics

Day two of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene produced two world records as Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay took almost five seconds off the women's 5,000 metres mark with a time of 14min 00.21sec and Sweden's Mondo Duplantis raised his men’s pole vault mark to 6.23 metres.

committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation of three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period.The Athletics

Queensland has rejected calls from a Senate inquiry to review its plan to spend AUD$2.7 billion (£1.4 billion/$1.7 billion/€1.6 billion) on re-developing the Gabba stadium for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane. 

recommended that those involved in the planning of Brisbane 2032 should "urgently review the decision to host athletics

may also be unwise and inappropriate for the Government to insist that a redeveloped Gabba host the athletics

Jakob Ingebrigtsen rounded off the opening night of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene by winning the Bowerman Mile in 3min 43.73sec, the third fastest time ever run and just 0.60sec shy of Hicham El Guerrouj's 1999 world record.

The Sri Lankan men's rugby sevens team is set to compete under the Olympic Council of Asia flag at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games due to the country's National Federation being suspended by World Rugby.

and Malaysia.Sri Lanka are set to compete in OCA colours at the Hangzhou Normal University Cangqian Athletics

tournament is scheduled to take place from September 24 to 26 at the Hangzhou Normal University Cangqian Athletics

The University of Edinburgh has cut the ribbon on its refurbished Eric Liddell Gym which is named after the Olympic gold medal-winning alumnus.

equipment in the space.Liddell enrolled at the University in 1920 to study pure science and was active in athletics

have claimed that they still have "confidence" that Birmingham will be able to host the 2026 European Athletics

been staged in Britain.With 124 gold medals, Great Britain is the most successful nation in European Athletics

European Athletics would also like to reiterate confidence in all our British-based partners for the

Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships including the Local Organising Committee, Birmingham

City Council, UK Athletics, and the other relevant UK governing sports bodies."

Last year's European Athletics Championships were held in Munich and the 2024 edition is due to take