If Ed Whitlock can carry on as he is for another 15 years, he will become the fastest 100-year-old marathon runner in history.It's a big if, granted; but given this man's extraordinary late-blooming running career surely not an insuperable if...

University of London champion at cross country and three miles on the track.But Whitlock’s garlanded athletics

not resume it until he was in his forties.Although he ran a marathon in 2:31:23 aged 48, his second athletics

Vitaly Mutko has been promoted to Russia's Deputy Prime Minister and will be replaced as Sports Minister by Olympic gold medallist Pavel Kolobkov, official news agency TASS reported here today. 

 Russia is already banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations from competing

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven has apologised to International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach after the Briton fiercely criticised the German during a prank phone call, insidethegames has been told.

Brazilian city after she proved she met eligibility criteria laid down by the International Association of Athletics

Russian weightlifter Apti Aukhadov has been stripped of a London 2012 silver medal after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed he had tested positive following the re-analysis of samples.

Executive Board member, Sergey Bubka - although there is no suggestion the International Association of Athletics

Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal, Argentinian basketball star Luis Scola, Egyptian modern pentathlete Aya Medany and Jordan taekwondo ace Nadin Dawani have been appointed as four new members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission.

banned from competing at Rio 2016 due to her country being suspended by the International Association of Athletics

dominate the World Athletes of the Year shortlist unveiled today by the International Association of Athletics

Membership of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has grown to 148 nations after six countries were added on the opening day of the world governing body’s 81st Congress here.

perfect 10 scoring system and getting gymnastics into the top tier of the Olympic Games along with athletics

Three men have been charged by police following the fatal shooting of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay’s daughter Trinity.

Member Federations of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) are set to debate a number of key issues when the governing body’s 81st Congress begins here tomorrow.

Gueisbuhler told insidethegames the governing body, which sits in the top tier of Olympic sports along with athletics

Great Britain’s Mo Farah and Spain’s Ruth Beitia have been crowned the respective men’s and women’s European athletes of the year at the Golden Tracks gala here tonight.

later in 13:03.30.His 10,000m triumph made him the first Briton to win three Olympic gold medals in athletics

1.97m.This success was achieved just a few weeks after a leap of 1.98m in Amsterdam brought European Athletics

 Her Rio glory made her the first Spanish woman to win an Olympic athletics event and was justification

sport four years ago having briefly retired in 2012.Receiving her Golden Tracks award from European Athletics

World Indoor Championships in Portland in March.He then took one step up the podium at the European Athletics

Bruno Grandi chaired the Presidential Commission of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) here today as he prepares to bid farewell to an organisation he has led for two decades.

mandate.Despite the stature of the organisation - the FIG sits in the top tier of Olympic sports along with athletics

Aleksey Troshkin is set to be stripped of the Jersey Marathon title he won earlier this month having been deemed ineligible to compete due to the current ban on Russian athletes.

competing in international events, however, as a result of a ban issued by the International Association Athletics

It’s clear that it’s an international event and he was not allowed to participate," the IAAF told Athletics

We are working with UK Athletics and the IAAF and will provide an updated statement once we have further

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe claims the proposals

Coe and the Working Group on Governance Structure Reform are here at the European Athletics Convention

Congress on December 3 in Monaco.Meetings are scheduled to be held with Member Federations from each of athletics

IAAF President Sebastian Coe has promised the reforms will make a "massive difference" to athletics ©

Getty ImagesMajor changes to the governance of world athletics were approved at a meeting of the IAAF

made at the Summit, Coe described them as "careful" and "sensible", with doping issues having plagued athletics

International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) secretary general André Gueisbuhler expects the new President of the worldwide governing body to build on the platform laid by the retiring Bruno Grandi rather than installing sweeping changes to the organisation.

enthusiasm and vision for the sport led to getting us into the first group [at the Olympic Games] with athletics