Budapest took another huge step towards confirming its status as host of the 2023 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships today when the Hungarian Government pledged its financial support for an approved budget.

site of the 2023 event - which will follow versions in Doha and Eugene - the IAAF President Sebastian Coe

For some - no, for many cities, the experience of having an Olympic bid aborted would deflate ambitions for major sporting expansion. Not so for Budapest, which today stages the official opening of the World Wrestling Championships, the latest in a dizzying succession of top international events taking place in the Hungarian capital.

Last summer he met the IAAF President Sebastian Coe. Both interactions proved highly beneficial."

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have agreed to delay the implementation of their new rules on female participation amid the challenge from South Africa's Caster Semenya.

beyond is unfair and so we have reached a compromise with the claimants," said IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Yokohama has been awarded the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Relays, replacing Nassau as hosts.

editions of the IAAF World Relays, in 2014, 2015 and 2017, were held in Nassau.IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Coe has personally asked Senegal's President Macky Sall to intervene and help have former International

Summer Youth Olympic Games - set to be the biggest multi-sport event to be hosted in Africa.Sebastian Coe

assistance in working with the French Prosecution to bring to a close an unhappy chapter in our sport," Coe

Eight athletes have been cleared to represent new countries in the two months since the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council approved new transfer of allegiance rules, the governing body has revealed.

evidence that those countries are offering full citizenship and associated rights.IAAF President Sebastian Coe

US, Miranda Tcheutchoua for Ireland and Weldu Negash Gebretsadik for Norway.IAAF President Sebastian Coe

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has revealed new regulations for IAAF label road races in the hope it will improve the quality of events.

This is a milestone for the IAAF and the global road racing community," said IAAF President Sebastian Coe

It has been a week of returns in Olympicland: Thomas Bach returned to Argentina, where his reign as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President began five years ago and the spectre of snow volleyball returned, like some clunky Hollywood sequel, to haunt the Winter Olympic stage in a new format.

into the mothership in a few days’ time, ask yourselves how odd it is that IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Three United Nations (UN) officials described as human rights experts have written a lengthy letter to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) condemning their new female classification ruling, which could ban women athletes with high levels of testosterone.

 The letter has been addressed to IAAF President Sebastian Coe and will be a big boost for Semenya

Dahlin has met with International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) counterpart Sebastian Coe

Dahlin, elected as only the second President of the IBU last month, and Coe also exchanged ideas between

the Russian Anti-Doping Agency.IBU President Olle Dahlin said it was a great honour to meet Sebastian Coe

First of all it was a great honour to meet Lord Coe," Dahlin, who beat Latvian rival Baiba Broka to secure

Qatari organisers marked the one-year countdown to their International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Doha today by launching the event logo, branding and ticket options, having successfully trialled a state-of-the-art cooling system at the host venue of the Khalifa International Stadium.

Commenting on one year to go, IAAF President Sebastian Coe said: "Qatar has been hosting official IAAF

Russia have been warned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) not to expect their bans by those organisations to be automatically lifted following the decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to lift their suspension on the country. 

 IAAF President Sebastian Coe, left, said they will stick to the conditions given to Russia and

discussed by the taskforce before any recommendation is put to the Council," IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Athletes from 179 different countries are set to compete in track and field at the next month's Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires as part of a programme that will include several “innovations” the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have announced.

medals being allocated accordingly in the three individual track disciplines.IAAF President Sebastian Coe

I am going to stick my neck out here: like colleague Liam Morgan, I fully expect the Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to back reinstatement of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) in the distant Seychelles tomorrow.

On doping, we consider this to be the most shameful abuse of the Olympic idea,” said one Sebastian Coe

powerful enough to lay down the law to a state such as Russia other than in the very short term.Sebastian Coe

An air quality monitor has been installed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at the Stade Louis II in Monaco as part of its campaign to raise awareness of the effects of air pollution.

Albert II attended the unveiling of the new monitor at the Stade Louis II with IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Federation and chair of the International Olympic Committee Environment Commission, IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Coe added: "Air pollution is a silent killer which is affecting the health of athletes, local communities