State prosecutors will be required to argue in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) their assertion that convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius' six-year jail term is lenient.

More than half of the Gold Coast 2018 tickets will be priced below AUD$40 (£24/$30/€27) after organisers revealed their pricing for the Commonwealth Games.

That’s why adult tickets to high profile events like athletics start from as low as AUD$20 (£12/$15/€14

Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie has succeeded in his aim of becoming President of the Ethiopian Athletics

Will work on a great future for Ethiopian athletics!

to a higher level".The eight-time world champion added: "Athletics changed my life completely and I

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

Haile Gebrselassie was among around 100 involved in Ethiopian athletics who protested about their home

 "There is a group there that know nothing about athletics."

Chinese Olympic Committee vice-president Li Yingchuan has led a delegation of Olympic champions and their coaches to Chinese Taipei.

Gold medallists from athletics, cycling, shooting, taekwondo, women’s volleyball and weightlifting took

The Turkish Olympic Committee (TOC) has recommenced its "Active Kids" initiative at schools across Istanbul, with 1,200 children expected to take part during the 2016-2017 academic year.

curriculum has been expanded to include additional sessions on basic techniques for popular sports including athletics

European Athletics has approved in principal a plan for a ranking system to be used during qualification

This is a revolutionary move for promoting our sport," said European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen

give a weekly-updated ranking in each discipline, providing a stream of stories that both European Athletics

ultimate aim is to create more and more credible stars in our sport," said Hansen.This year's European Athletics

before a decision is taken on the launch date, currently projected to be in time for the 2020 European Athletics

organisation of the Championships of Small States of Europe in 2018, and the approval of the 2017 European Athletics

Olympic gold medal-winning triathlete Gwen Jorgensen is set to make her marathon debut tomorrow in New York City, where Kenya’s Mary Keitany will be bidding to retain the women's title she has won for the past two years.

Is this new age of comparative austerity killing off the signature, knock-‘em-dead, Bird’s Nest-style Olympic stadium?

caused itself unnecessary trouble and expense in order to retain a capability to host the 2017 World Athletics

root of the legacy problem for these temples of sporting pageantry is that there is only one other athletics

viable after-life for a fully permanent Olympic stadium of the traditional type, used for ceremonies and athletics

that the next Summer Olympic year after Tokyo - 2024 - will not add to the list of 60-80,000-capacity athletics

Budapest does list a new permanent athletics venue, the Olympic Stadium, in its blueprint, costed – including

All-Russia Athletics Federation President Dmitry Shlyakhtin has expressed his hope the country will be

able to compete in the European Athletics Indoor Championships in March.

Russia were suspended from international athletics competitions last November by the International Association

of Athletics Federations (IAAF).It followed the publication of a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report

, which alleged widespread state-sponsored doping.European Athletics stated the ban would apply to their

track and field athletes were prohibited from competing, with long jumper Darya Klishina their only athletics

 The European Athletics Indoor Championships are scheduled to take place in Belgrade from March

Tilburg has been announced as the host of the 2018 European Cross-Country Championships.

The European Athletics Council ratified the decision to award the Dutch city the event at their meeting

President.Tilburg annually organises the International Warandecross, a European Athletics cross-country

meeting.This year’s edition of event is scheduled to take place on November 28.European Athletics stated

that the Dutch Athletics Federation demonstrated their passion and desire to host the Cross-Country

Championships following their successful staging of last summer’s European Athletics Championships in

Sprinting superstar Usain Bolt has given his backing to a new event called Nitro Athletics which has

be back in Melbourne to share Nitro Athletics with the fans in February."

Nitro Athletics is the sports entertainment product track and field needs to move athletics beyond the

existing format of one day athletics meets," said Athletics Australia President Mark Arbib, a key driving

Nitro Athletics will be the catalyst that will change how athletics is presented.

 "It’s a game-changer for athletics and Athletics Australia.

Entries are now open for the first edition of the Paralympic University Games in Brazil, which will be held in São Paulo.

Education.Disciplines will be held for physical and intellectual disabilities and visual impairment, with athletics

India's Saina Nehwal and Argentina's Luis Scola are both set to miss what would have been their first meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission due to start tomorrow in Lausanne.

IOC membership after missing Rio 2016 due to Russia's suspension by the International Association of Athletics

The disciplines for the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Tour

The Olympic Council of Ireland's (OCI) Crisis Management Committee chair Ciarán Ó Catháin has reportedly become the latest member of the body's Executive Committee to announce his resignation.

Irish media have reported that the former Athletics Ireland President announced he was standing down