campaign has been launched in Senegal calling for the release of former International Association of Athletics

bribes in return for the covering up of failed drugs tests.Papa Massata Diack was banned for life from athletics

of blackmail" since 2011.Former IAAF treasurer Valentin Balakhnichev, previously the Soviet national athletics

Long-distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie will aim to become the new President of the Ethiopian Athletics

Gashawtena, whose deputy is Nega Gebre-Egziabher.According to Gebrselassie, he hopes "to bring 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

the second of his two 10,000m Olympic gold medals at Sydney 2000 ©Getty ImagesGebrselassie’s 23-year athletics

2007 and 2008 that helped him secure four straight triumphs between 2006 and 2009.In addition to his athletics

An anti-doping bill which introduces sanctions including prison terms for coaches found guilty of coercing athletes into taking performance enhancing drugs has been passed by the Russian Duma today.

state-sponsored doping in mid-December.Russia, currently still suspended by the International Association of Athletics

doping in various sports, including in Russia, in such sports as weightlifting and track and field athletics

several leading athletes to have had their National Lottery funding cut for the 2017 season, British Athletics

2016, is the only new addition to next year's top level National Lottery funding announced by British Athletics

for next year ©Getty ImagesGreene won the world title at Daegu in 2011 and was captain of the British athletics

tweeted after her omission: “It doesn’t matter…I run because I love it, this doesn’t change that”.British Athletics

performance director Neil Black said: "Twenty sixteen was an excellent year for the British Athletics

established athletes and a large group of young and emerging talent, this is an exciting time for British Athletics

Deepa Malik has been given a cash reward of Rs Four Crore (£488,000/$600,000/€541,000) by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi after becoming the country’s first-ever female Paralympic medallist with a silver in the shot put F53 at Rio 2016.

I would not call myself a current West Ham United fan - I haven’t blown a bubble at one of their games for several years - but I remain a long-time admirer of the football they used to play, and occasionally still try to do.

As far as I am concerned it is an athletics arena where they now play football."

 We even hear that organisers of next year’s International Association of Athletics Federations

Athletics fans usually sit on their seats rather than ripping them up and throwing them.At least West

A proposed law criminalising doping is expected to be considered by Russian Parliament this week as the country claims to be continuing its efforts to reform drug testing procedures.

a lack of desire for genuine reform.Russia remains suspended from the International Association of Athletics

All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) President Dmitry Shlyakhtin has claimed 42 of the country's leading

 At London 2012, Russia had finished second in the overall athletics medal table behind the United

World Anti-Doping Agency and published in November 2015 had led to the International Association of Athletics

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

Britain's Joel Fearon has been backed to claim World Championships medals in both bobsleigh and athletics

third-fastest 100 metres time ever recorded by a British athlete when he ran 9.96sec during the English Athletics

to 26 and could then take to the track on home soil at the Olympic Stadium in London for the World Athletics

Championships later in the year.His performance led to claims he may look to focus solely on athletics

Fans of winter sport have been given the chance to have their picture featured on a British bobsleigh as part of a new campaign launched here today.

third-fastest 100 metres time ever recorded by a British athlete when he ran 9.96sec during the English Athletics

Russian athletes face the prospect of being unable to compete this winter in five of the six sports on the programme of the 2018 Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, seriously putting in doubt whether they will be able to qualify even if a ban on them is lifted in time.

body.As it stands, this means they can compete in all but four of the 22 sports on the at Tokyo 2020 - athletics

Last week’s World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Observers report into drugs testing procedures at Rio 2016 felt like a snapshot of every major story we have written this year.

in football and "limited" testing for "Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents" in swimming, cycling and athletics

Ananias Shikongo was named as the winner of three honours at the Namibia Sport Awards following his success at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last month. 

Jiří Kejval has been re-elected as the President of the Czech Olympic Committee (COC) at their Congress.

Kumpošt and Football Association chief Miroslav Pelta.Libor Varhaník and Filip Šuman, from the country’s athletics

A report into the debacle concerning Kenya’s delegation at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has claimed some of the issues which plagued their stay in the Brazilian city were caused by an over-reliance on Government funding.

arose during the Olympics.Kenya won six gold, six silver and one bronze medals at the Olympics - all in athletics