Russian Deputy Sports Minister Alexei Morozov has spoken of his "regret and loss" after it was revealed that almost 70 athletes had changed their citizenships following the escalation of the country’s war in Ukraine last year.

Ukraine and are not affiliated with the military.But several International Federations, including World Athletics

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) general secretary Sergei Lebedev claimed the CIS Games in Minsk were proof that "there are no and cannot be borders between states, there is no and should not be politics and discrimination".

nation Belarus a long way behind in second ©RBFThe CIS Games saw athletes compete in sports including athletics

There was something Brian Lewis said at the start of the Commonwealth Youth Games which stuck with me throughout the six days of competition plus the Closing Ceremony in Trinidad and Tobago.

programme, devised to make use of venues including the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain for athletics

and Para athletics, the superb National Aquatic Centre and National Cycling Velodrome in Couva for swimming

bonus of avoiding the customary late-night finish.On the competition front, the integration of Para athletics

witness, and the mixed 4x100m and 4x400m relays won by Nigeria and Guyana respectively to conclude athletics

The Saint Lucia Olympic Committee has announced a deal with German sports company Puma for them to become its official apparel sponsor, including providing equipment for Paris 2024.

Puma has such legendary status in athletics, so the decision to join their family was an easy one," Alfred

the re-arranged 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Saint Lucia sent five competitors - three in swimming, one in athletics

A six-member Athlete Refugee Team has been announced for the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships

Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country in Spain in February, the first victory for an athlete from the World Athletics

team programme at an international event.Gabriyesos, who is from Eritrea, grabbed the attention of the athletics

Jepkosgei of Kenya, will also act as a team leader in Budapest.She was also part of the first World Athletics

Trinidad and Tobago's Sports Minister Shamfa Cudjoe has revealed the Commonwealth Youth Games here was delivered within its allocated budget of TTF$35 million (£4 million/$5.1 million).

Commonwealth Games Association.However, this does not account for the refurbishment of Opening Ceremony and athletics

and Para athletics venue the Hasely Crawford Stadium, which Cudjoe claimed was because of a wider project

Hitoshi "Mel" Wakabayashi, an influential figure in the development of ice hockey in Japan, has died at the age of 80.

recruited to play at the University of Michigan and established himself among the best National Collegiate Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe believes the World Athletics Championships that are due to start

Crouser is among the athletes that Sebastian Coe is looking forward to seeing in action at the World Athletics

Budapest is ready and waiting to welcome the World Athletics Championships ©Budapest 2023Hungary's capital

The majority of events will take place in the 35,000-capacity National Athletics Centre that has been

When the 2023 World Athletics Championships get underway in Budapest on Saturday (August 19) it will

one of the key markers of the sporting calendar.It is hard to think of sport being without the World Athletics

Seeing the development work in football, he wanted the same for athletics."

Carl Lewis of the United States pictured nearest camera at the first World Athletics Championships of

Perhaps even uniquely so.To mark this special anniversary, World Athletics has run a series of the 40

Championships that start in Budapest on Saturday, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe expressed

Mayor of Budapest and the Hungarian Government which, at one point, threatened the staging of the World Athletics

Championships, due to open at the newly constructed 36,000-capacity National Athletics Stadium on August

19.The new National Athletics Centre in Budapest is to host the World Championships in the Hungarian

The President handed over his invitation to the World Athletics Championships, which will start in a

Balázs Fürjes, co-chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the World Athletics Championships, was

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is expecting a high-level event in Budapest ©Budapest 2023Coe

Suriname sprinter Issamade Asinga, who last month broke the world under-20 record in the men’s 100 metres, has been provisionally suspended after failing a drugs test.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has issued the provisional suspension to the teenager for the presence

substance GW1516.The decision comes fewer than two weeks after Asinga made his name at the South American Athletics

a Prohibited Substance (GW1516).Details here: https://t.co/Y8LF9j2o9f pic.twitter.com/JDBRnGp4iO— Athletics

performance in Brazil’s biggest city.The suspension also comes just a week before the start of the World Athletics

Marlene Chiedza Gadzirayi has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC), filling a role that has been vacant since February.

smallest since Amsterdam 1928.Zimbabwe sent a team of five athletes to the Japanese capital, one each in athletics

Andrew Parsons has expressed his optimism over the establishment of two new governing bodies for Para athletics

and the British Paralympic Association won the bid to create the new International Federations.Para athletics

Parsons also revealed that World Aquatics and World Athletics "both expressed their intentions not to

People say maybe it is a step towards a future integration [with World Aquatics and World Athletics,"

UK Sport and the British Paralympic Association won the bid to create new governing bodies for Para athletics

number of sports for the 2027 edition but Parsons admits that might not be the right time for Para athletics

International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons revealed he was "very emotional" after being reunited with taekwondo fighter Zakia Khudadadi and long jumper Hossain Rasouli who fled Afghanistan to compete at the re-arranged 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. 

Parson met the two Afghan athletes during the World Para Athletics Championships staged in Paris last

Athletics competition at Trinbago 2023 here concluded with two thrilling mixed relay races, won by Nigeria

Rutter was second with 67.54m, with Arjun Arjun of India taking third with 65.94m.England topped the athletics