Australian wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley has been announced as the fourth official Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games ambassador.

Paralympic silver medals and three bronzes, along with four International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics

Embarrassment over anti-doping issues for the hosts of this week’s Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly in Doha deepened today with the news that Qatar’s Asian 1500 metres champion Mohammed Al-Garni has received a four-year ban.

Al-Garni is among 33 doping suspensions confirmed in an International Association of Athletics Federations

More than 800 competitors from 100 countries will compete at the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) World Junior Championships, which begin in Burnaby in Canada tomorrow.

second largest sports event ever held in Canada in terms of country participation, behind the 2001 World Athletics

Six-time Olympic champion sprinter Allyson Felix claimed America’s "diversity" is its greatest strength following last week’s Presidential election in a powerful Los Angeles 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid presentation here today.

innovative but also a reliable choice.But it was Felix, winner of more gold medals than any female athletics

A public vote will be held to name the mascot for the 2017 Youth Parapan American Games, which will be held in Brazilian city São Paulo.

and 21 are expected for the Youth Games, from more than 20 countries.Twelve sports will be contested: athletics

China, England and Japan will all send teams to the new Nitro Athletics event in Melbourne which has

Australia will also compete at next year's competition with one more team still to be confirmed.Nitro Athletics

Both the Chinese and Japanese fans love their athletics and both have a lot of emerging young athletes

who love to entertain and will be well suited to Nitro Athletics," Steffensen said."

Organisers claim that Nitro Athletics will "be like no athletics competition seen before" with the schedule

Travelling to Australia for Nitro Athletics also affords us the opportunity to familiarise ourselves

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed he could imagine Qatar as a candidate for a future Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Championships in boxing, road cycling and handball and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Athletics

Championships.The country has also secured the rights to stage the 2019 World Athletics Championships

Internacional de Atapuerca in Burgos in Spain, the opening race of the International Association of Athletics

Former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) treasurer Valentin Balakhnichev has

Lausanne where they will consider his appeal against life ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics

banned for five years but will not face a CAS panel this week.Balakhnichev, previously the national athletics

replaced by clean ones at events including the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.It is possible that athletics

Kenya’s two-time Olympic champion David Rudisha has been appointed as the President of the African Athletics

The President of the African Athletics Confederation has chosen you for many objective reasons to lead

The President of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) Hong-Dow Lin has awarded the International Olympic Committee's Sport and Innovation Trophy to the country's Agency of Corrections and Ministry of Justice.

President invited a delegation from the Chinese Olympic Committee to Taiwan.Gold medallists from athletics

Gebrselassie has revealed that one of his first initiatives as the newly appointed President of the Ethiopian Athletics

four-year term last weekend after receiving nine of the 15 votes in a ballot of Ethiopia's regional athletics

Ethiopia was among five nations, also including Kenya, designated by the International Association of Athletics

He added: "The state of athletics in Ethiopia is not on the right track so I don't want to sit idle and

Ethiopia's athletics potential is probably four times bigger than our neighbour Kenya."

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) is receiving $5.7 million (£4.5 million/€5.2 million) as part of an eight-year contract with clothing giants Nike, documents seen by insidethegames indicate.

also involved in separate contracts with other sporting bodies in the East African nation, including Athletics

New Zealand sprinter Liam Malone has been named as M2 magazine’s Man of the Year after he won two gold medals at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Haile Gebrselassie was at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center in Athens on Friday (November 11) night to receive a Lifetime Achievement award from the International Association of Marathons and Road Races (AIMS).

to a higher level", adding: "Athletics changed my life completely and I am thankful for that."

I have gained a lot of experience throughout my athletics career and now it is time to give back to my

The state of athletics in Ethiopia is not on the right track so I don't want to sit idle and watch it

 "Ethiopia's athletics potential is probably four times bigger than our neighbour Kenya.

That phenomenal career shows no sign of dwindling - and Ethiopian athletics will surely be the better