hurdles coach in the world, has encountered a hurdle himself this week with the confirmation that British Athletics

age of 76 he was already decided upon a change after seeing out his four-year contract with British Athletics

coach two days a week at Bath in the months leading towards this summer’s International Association of Athletics

champion and Rio 2016 4x400m bronze medallist Eilidh Doyle, will be respected with or without British Athletics

the position for three years, enduring a particularly barren spell in terms of medals as the British athletics

Meanwhile, Arnold is casting doubtful glances at the future of British Athletics, which he believes has

and world champions since 1972, will bring to an end 42 consecutive years of employment for British Athletics

The decision has been made by British Athletics as part of plans to concentrate resources on its Loughborough

December 31, but will continue part-time in the lead-up to next year’s International Association of Athletics

“Despite this news, athletics will be staying at Bath,” a spokesperson told insidethegames.

“We will have talks with UK Athletics about what that will look like – these athletes will continue to

next year," he said.Arnold coached Colin Jackson during the hurdler's career ©Getty Images"But British athletics

Rio 2016 Paralympic gold medal winning shot putter Lauritta Onye reportedly plans to quit the sport in an apparent response to the Nigerian Government's supposed lack of appreciation of her success.

2016.Onye, who broke the world record with a best effort of 8.40 metres in her final, was the only athletics

A documentary entitled "Karate Magic in Linz", which showcased the highlights of the sport’s World Championships in the Austrian city earlier this year, has premiered on the Olympic Channel.

Channel.Only four Summer Olympic International Federations (IFs) - the International Association of Athletics

Mexican Federation of Athletic Associations (FMAA) President Antonio Lozano has been arrested and accused of embezzling nearly Mex$5 million (£198,000/$243,000/€232,000) of Sports Ministry-allocated funds.

Yuliya Stepanova’s former coach Vladimir Mokhnev has said he will challenge the 10 year suspension given to him by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday.

The Russian was handed the ban after being found guilty of violating the International Association of Athletics

official in Russia, were the whistleblowers who alleged that drug taking was rife in the country’s athletics

Ethiopian middle-distance runner Miruts Yifter, a double Olympic champion at the 1980 Games in Moscow, has died in Toronto at the age of 72.

away in the Canadian city after being hospitalised for respiratory problems.Son Biniam and Ethiopian Athletics

“Miruts has been everything to me and my athletics career,” Gebreselassie, the 10,000m Olympic gold medallist

Yifter did the 5,000m and 10,000m double at the both the 1977 and 1979 International Association of Athletics

former coach of Russian 800 metres runner and whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova, has been banned from athletics

Mokhnev has been found guilty of violating the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF

The Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City will host the 2018 edition of the Freestyle Wrestling World Cup, it has been announced.

welcome the top wrestlers in the world to the University of Iowa," said University of Iowa director of athletics

Laurens Devos has been crowned the Belgian Paralympian of the year after his stunning gold medal winning performance at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

tennis champion of all time ©Rio 2016Devos follows previous winner Marieke Vervoort, the former Para athletics

Air sports, bowling and flying disc are all set to feature on the Olympic Channel after the governing bodies for the three sports signed co-operation agreements.

sports in the international sports community and the Olympic Movement.”The International Association of Athletics

European Athletics have announced they have agreed to be part of the Minsk 2019 European Games with an

Svein Arne Hansen, President of European Athletics, told insidethegames earlier this month he would

Norwegian stated European Athletics were working with the organisers on delivering a format for athletics

It will be a new athletics product," a European Athletics spokesperson told insidethegames."

European Athletics is now working on the development of this product."

At the inaugural event in Baku last year, the athletics competition comprised the European Athletics

Richard Bowker has been confirmed as the "chair-elect" of UK Athletics (UKA) due to replace Ed Warner

©Getty ImagesHe also courted controversy this year by claimed that the International Association of Athletics

 "I am honoured to have been asked to chair UK Athletics from January 2018," he said."

Athletics is very close to my heart and I am very excited to be joining the sport in the UK at this time

“Hosting their respective World Championships is something any sport in the UK would want, and athletics

“I look forward to working with everyone involved in athletics in the UK at every level.

As my colleague David Owen has already made clear, sport has provided many golden moments to light-up a largely bleak 2016. 

the sport of athletics.Clamour was mounting for the resignation of the International Association of Athletics

My colleague David Owen wrote this week, at the end of this dark year, of the "redemptive power" of sport.

the chill of midwinter but instead news of a lower key triumph - the renewal of the Crystal Palace athletics

winning their Euro 2016 quarter-final against Belgium ©Getty ImagesMuch wrangling ensued before UK Athletics

in 1977.Uncertainties remained over the future of what many regard as the spiritual home of British athletics

terms, Crystal Palace dropped out of the Premier League in 2013, when UK Athletics switched the annual

London Olympic stadium, rebranding it as the Anniversary Games.But the latest news, reported by Athletics