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No Russian breakthrough expected at IAAF Council meeting in Buenos Aires - but Budapest fingers crossed over 2023 World Championships

  • Athletics

There will be a change of scene but no major change in policy over Russia’s exclusion tomorrow as the International Association of Athletics Federations Council holds its 214th meeting at the Panamericano Hotel in Buenos Aires.

Norwegian head of the IAAF Taskforce, right, is expected to tell the ruling Council led by Sebastian Coe

involved.In April, the Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov claimed he and the IAAF President, Sebastian Coe

members saying they wanted to "draw a line" under the country’s doping scandal.IAAF President Sebastian Coe


Parsons and Watanabe among nine new members proposed by IOC but no place for Coe or Infantino

  • Olympics

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons and International Gymnastics Federation counterpart Morinari Watanabe are among the nine officials proposed for membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it was announced here today.

Executive Board today ©IOCInternational Association of Athletics Federations President (IAAF) Sebastian Coe



IAAF releases biggest-ever athletics biomechanics study

  • Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) today released the results of, what they claim, is the largest biomechanical study in the sport’s history.

insight into the evolution of biomechanical data in our sport over this time," IAAF President Sebastian Coe

IAAF President Sebastian Coe says biomechanics are crucial to the development of athletes ©Getty ImagesLast

These are distances that our fans understand and can marvel at," Coe added."


Wlodarczyk shines in hammer as United States claim lead at Athletics World Cup

  • Athletics

Poland's world and Olympic hammer throw champion Anita Wlodarczyk offered the inaugural Athletics World Cup event at London's Olympic Stadium some serious statistical credibility on the first of two evenings of competition as she produced a winning effort of 78.74 metres, the farthest thrown this year.

Bowker, the chair of UK Athletics, when the event was announced in February.IAAF President Sebastian Coe


IOC Coordination Commission set to conduct sixth inspection of Tokyo 2020 preparations

  • Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 will be expected to provide more detailed responses to concerns and criticisms raised by International Federations (IFs) earlier this year during the sixth International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission visit beginning here tomorrow.

organisation's ruling Council, and International Association of Athletics Federations President Sebastian Coe




Boost for Minsk 2019 as Dinamo Stadium receives IAAF class one facility certificate

  • Minsk 2019

Minsk's Dinamo Stadium, due to host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as the athletics events during next year’s European Games in Belarus’ capital, has received a class one facility certificate from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Agency (BelTA) reported that the corresponding document was signed by IAAF President Sebastian Coe

pic.twitter.com/DLV5kMHO4U— Seb Coe (@sebcoe) June 21, 2018Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko recently

met Coe at the Dinamo Stadium.

Lukashenko told Coe: "I have delivered my part of the promises."We have upgraded the stadium."

Coe responded: "You have fulfilled and even over fulfilled your promise."


Talks underway over resurrecting possible Barcelona bid for Winter Olympics

  • Milan Cortina 2026

Local politicians and Spanish International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials have met to potentially resurrect the idea of a Barcelona bid for the Winter Olympic Games. 

 Figueras told Mundo Deportivo that they are focusing on "the idea of asking the COE (Spanish Olympic




Coe and Clegg impressed with Minsk's Dinamo Stadium ready for European Games

  • Minsk 2019

Alexander Lukashenko met International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe

Lukashenko told Coe: "I have delivered my part of the promises."We have upgraded the stadium."

Coe responded: "You have fulfilled and even overfulfilled your promise.Alexander Lukashenko met with

IAAF President Sebastian Coe ©Getty Images"It does not pertain to the stadium alone."

Coe went on to praise Belarus' recent contribution to the fight against doping."


Minsk celebrates one-year-to-go to 2019 European Games

  • Minsk 2019

Celebrations marking one-year-to-go until the start of the 2019 European Games in Minsk have been held across the Belarusian capital.

 International Association of Athletics Federations President Sebastian Coe and Belarusian Olympic


IAAF President Coe stirs World Cup memories as he visits heritage exhibition in Ostrava

  • Athletics

Sebastian Coe, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President, has visited a

Coe, who was in the Czech Republic to promote this year's IAAF Continental Cup in Ostrava on September

entitled "IAAF Heritage World/Continental Cup – 1977 to 2018".Double Olympic 1,500 metres champion Coe

fifth editions of the competition, which in 2010 was renamed the Continental Cup.In 1981 in Rome, Coe

for Team Europe ©Getty ImagesOn his second appearance in 1989, when the Cup was held in Barcelona, Coe

winner as the two approached the home straight.A British appeal against the result - not sought by Coe