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The 2024 Olympic Games - A tale of two cities and a possible hat-trick

  • The Big Read

US President Elect Donald Trump has called International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to "express his strong support" for Los Angeles 2024. 

competitions "military training exercises" and even balloon races.The Special Consultative Committee for athletics

took her place in the Olympic roll of honour as the first individual female Olympic champion.In the Athletics



"Now or never" says European Athletics President Hansen over IAAF reforms

  • Athletics

Svein Arne Hansen, President of European Athletics, has said it is “now or never” for crucial reforms

On the eve of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Special Congress, which

is required to provide a two-thirds majority to confirm four major changes to the governance of athletics

“We are the ones who can start a new era in the history of athletics.

“Society knows that athletics is important, that it is valuable.

“I’ve heard the message that we are willing to do what it takes – whatever it takes – for athletics to



Adidas confirms end to IAAF sponsorship three years early

  • Athletics

has confirmed today that it is ending its sponsorship agreement with the International Association of Athletics

“Adidas will continue to remain committed to the sport of athletics by putting a higher focus on individual

commercial relationship concludes at the end of 2016, the IAAF is pleased that Adidas remains committed to Athletics

Seiko, TDK, TBS and Mondo.The partnership between the IAAF and Adidas incorporated "every aspect of athletics


Full audit called for amid Kenya Rio 2016 crisis

  • ANOCA

A full audit of Kenya's spending at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has been called for after a damning report was studied by the African country's Parliament.

is claimed the absence of physiotherapists Victor Bargoria and Peter Nduhiu, who were suspended by Athletics


Sports offering Tokyo 2020 qualification will be given preference when determining 2019 European Games programme, leading official says

  • Minsk 2019

Preference will be given to sports which offer qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo when it comes to deciding the programme for the 2019 European Games in Minsk, it has been revealed. 

Maksim Ryzhenkov says organisers would like to see athletics represented on a wider scale at the Games

©Getty ImagesAlso under consideration, according to Ryzhenkov, is athletics - a sport low on quality

 Athletics was a combined European Games and European Athletics Team Championships Third League


David Owen: Targeting the worst drug cheats is all fine and dandy, but with retrospective analysis, all samples should eventually be re-tested

  • Inside the Blogs

Let’s begin by giving the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a little credit.By storing Olympic athletes’ anti-doping samples for possible reanalysis for a number of years, in the knowledge that analytical methods will probably improve over time, the IOC has put in place a valuable tool that could, if utilised to fullest extent, afford periodic snapshots of the true level of doping in elite sport, albeit some years after the event.

the presentation before the press of a report on corruption and money-laundering within international athletics


Andersen hails prospect of IAAF independent integrity unit as "ground-breaking"

  • Athletics

Rune Andersen, head of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Taskforce overseeing

the current Russian suspension from competition, has described the creation of the Athletics Integrity

The new independent Athletics Integrity Unit is intended to simplify the present legal process concerning

Andersen (right) sitting alongside IAAF President Sebastian Coe, has hailed the intended creation of an Athletics



Lananna elected President of USA Track and Field following Joyner-Kersee's withdrawal

  • Athletics

Vin Lananna has been elected President of USA Track and Field (USATF) following fellow candidate Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s withdrawal from the race.

Junior Championships.It is also overseeing the organising of the 2021 International Association of Athletics

Eugene had been beaten to the 2019 World Championships by Doha, has been widely criticised, not least by athletics

Because of my experiences in both the grassroots of the sport and the business of athletics, I felt compelled

the USATF National Track and Field Hall of Fame induction and the presentation of special awards to athletics


Russian athletes remain suspended as IAAF Taskforce plan Moscow trip for January

  • Athletics

Russian track and field athletes will remain suspended from international competition in the wake of widespread doping abuse, at least until February. 

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council was told today by the head of the

nbsp;Earlier today the Russian news agency TASS reported Mutko as saying: "I hope that the All-Russia Athletics

athletes will be made to the IAAF in February ©Getty Images"I reported to Council today that the Russian Athletics

it hopes to be able to identify a clear road map and timetable for the reinstatement of the Russian Athletics



Exclusive: Hansen calls on IAAF Athletes' Commission chair Prezelj to address Congress delegates before key vote

  • Athletics

Delegates charged with deciding on the vital constitutional reforms to the International Association of Athletics

IAAF Council member Svein Arne Hansen, President of European Athletics, told insidethegames that he had

behalf of the Commission.Slovenia's former Olympic high jumper Rozle Prezelj has been asked by European Athletics

before their crucial vote on Saturday ©Getty Images"In our minds, the future of our sport depends upon athletics

When I was President of the Norwegian Athletics Federation we had a rule of 40 per cent for one gender


Mike Rowbottom: Transition is the key word as Coe and the IAAF approach tipping point

  • Inside the Blogs

As the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) website attests, the number of its affiliated

Tricky word that…Shortly before the start of the athletics programme at the Rio Olympics, the IAAF Council

rings loudly:"The President will continue to act as the leader and ‘face’ of the IAAF and the sport of athletics

until 2027), regardless of the number of existing terms they have had on Council".Norway's European Athletics

In our minds, the future of our sport depends upon athletics restructuring and moving forward as one

the first day of the main IAAF Council meeting, Svein Arne Hansen, Norway’s President of the European Athletics