Political dictators, almost by definition, are cowards.  If the only route by which your rivals can be resisted and contained is to assassinate them, you yourself are doomed: in the short or long term.

leader Stanislav Pozdnyakov has mounted phoney accusation that Sebastian Coe, recently re-elected World Athletics

women and children, destruction of historic architecture and deportation of Ukrainian children, World Athletics

What could have been a fuel-guzzling power plant and a blight on the landscape is a symbol of Copenhagen’s status as one of the greenest cities in the world and a spectacular facility for sporting activity.

Copenhagen is due to stage the 2025 International Basketball Federation 3x3 Europe Cup and the 2026 World Athletics

Paralympics New Zealand is asking the country's residents to complete a virtual 40,000 kilometres round trip to the French capital Paris to mark one year until the start of the 2024 Paralympic Games.

It has been a winter of thrilling Para sport performances, including world champion moments in Para athletics

Kenya's gold medallists at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest Faith Kipyegon and Mary Moraa

in Paris next year", and "my journey had simply started and the world is yet to see the best of me".Athletics

Few things in sport are more thrilling or satisfying than a perfectly-timed finishing burst – and Sunday (August 27) treated us to two classics of the genre in rapid succession.

have been proud of.We had not long got our breath back when Dutch runner Femke Bol blazed around the athletics

for the Netherlands in the women’s 4x400 metres relay.This to cap a session which must have had World Athletics

these intensely dramatic dénouements in scores of events in many sports, but there is something about athletics

though is another almost indispensable attribute of a really satisfying come-from-behind win.This gives athletics

on the line to win the 1968 Olympic women’s 400m gold medal.If there is another sport that can match athletics

French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has admitted results at the World Athletics Championships

in Budapest were "not up to our ambitions", but said a meeting with French Athletics Federation (FFA

Oudéa-Castéra added that France is targeting up to six athletics medals at its home Olympic Games in

President Sebastian Coe admitted France's athletics results were "a challenge" for the host nation going

into Paris 2024 ©Getty ImagesWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe, a two-time 1500m Olympic champion

here but the fans have not looked at this as being just about Hungarian athletics."

Athletics at Paris 2024 is due to be held from August 1 to 11, with track and field events set to be

Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has refused to attend a Senate inquiry into the State's withdrawal from hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games last month.

regional sub-sites of Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Gippsland, and Shepparton.Ballarat was supposed to stage athletics

due to be held in Minneapolis for the second consecutive Games, while Chula Vista is set to stage the athletics

the medals table for swimming at Tokyo 2020, finishing with 15 golds, 10 silvers and 10 bronzes.Para athletics

Center, which held this year's US Paralympics Track and Field National Championships.The US won 10 athletics

The US was also third on the athletics medal table Tokyo 2020 with 10 golds, 17 silvers and 14 bronzes.Athletics

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has launched a campaign to protest against predicted Government cuts to funding sport before Paris 2024.

since the East and West re-united in time to compete together again at Barcelona 1992.At the World Athletics

August 27), Germany finished to win a single medal for the first time.Germany finished this year's World Athletics

A new course in Olympic and Paralympic storytelling is set to begin at the University of Southern California (USC) in preparation for Los Angeles 2028.

Participants are also expected to include Ezra Frech, winner of high jump gold last month at the World Para Athletics

The Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) produced 50 collectors' cards available at its Heritage Exhibition

collection.Collectors' cards can be ordered for free through the online version of the Museum of World Athletics

champion Paula Radcliffe of Britain were also added to the card collection.Delighted to step back into athletics

history with HSH Prince Albert at the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) in Budapest this morning and

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has encouraged Budapest to bid for the Olympic and Paralympic

Budapest residents.The city has emerged as a destination for major sporting events, of which the World Athletics

Championships at the new National Athletics Centre which concluded yesterday was the latest.International

Of course, we have seen the highest quality of athletics performance and delivery, and this is an ambitious

three-hour meeting with authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, right, during the World Athletics

centre of coaching excellence at the National Athletics Centre.Authoritarian leader Orbán has served

All races at the World Athletics Championships are equal - but some are more equal than others.

put right.At 23, Norway’s Ingebrigtsen has already established himself as one of the wonders of the athletics

Another Briton, indeed another member of Edinburgh Athletics Club, applied exactly the same tactic with

the rising challenger Mohamed Katir of Spain, but, perhaps, the beginnings of doubt; intimations of athletics

and successfully defends his 5000m #WorldAthleticsChamps title 👏 pic.twitter.com/kzz6iaKgtL— World Athletics

title.For Bol, similarly, there was huge significance in her closing performance at the 19th World Athletics

Picture gallery

Volunteers were lauded and the World Athletics flag handed to 2025 World Championships hosts Tokyo at

win women's 800m gold ©Getty ImagesYaroslava Mahuchikh won Ukraine's first gold medal of the World Athletics

Championships with victory in the women's high jump ©Getty ImagesThe United States finished the World Athletics

There was a risk sitting down to pen my post-World Athletics Championships reflections it would turn

The very first night at Budapest's National Athletics Centre last Saturday (August 19) set the tone for

those whose bodies are used to running in warm weather".Hot weather conditions have typified the World Athletics

Championships in Budapest ©Getty ImagesAt the National Athletics Centre, evasive action has been taken

In that I include the World Athletics Championships, FIFA World Cups.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is far from alone in fearing Governments will fail to meet pledges