The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has insisted the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' statement on the war in Ukraine is "fully aligned" with its position relating to Russia and Belarus' participation in international sport.

wrestling have all permitted a return for Russian and Belarusian athletes under neutral conditions, but athletics

Mind games in sport. Not new. Not at all. WG Grace, the revered - and feared - cricketer who carried his bat from this life in 1915, aged 67, bears testament to that.

Wavy lines, fast forward…to yesterday’s athletics meeting in Yokohama, where world 100 metres champion

 That evidence came in the first event of the second World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meetings

Accra Sports Stadium was among the venues toured by the Organising Committee of the 2023 African Para Games, set to be held between September 3 and 12.

be staged, and the Trust Sports Emporium, which is set to host Para volleyball and powerlifting.Para athletics

Christian Coleman of the United States ran a wind-assisted 9.78sec to win the 100 metres at the USATF meeting in Bermuda - but only just got to the line before the super-fast finishing Noah Lyles arrived to clock 9.80.

2.0mps admissible for record purposes – Lyles finished well inside his legal best of 9.86 at this World Athletics

the finish 😳@__coleman 9.78w@LylesNoah 9.80w#ContinentalTourGold pic.twitter.com/ZEhSNo5FgJ— World Athletics

hurdles champion @JCamachoQuinn in Bermuda 😱#ContinentalTourGold pic.twitter.com/BCHhyxt8XL— World Athletics

World 100 metres champion Fred Kerley of the United States called out his Italian rival Marcell Jacobs after clocking his fastest debut time for a season, 9.88sec, at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Yokohama.

on June 2.It will serve as an ideal appetiser for their anticipated contest at this summer's World Athletics

@fkerley99 at the Seiko @goldengrandprix 🙌#ContinentalTourGold pic.twitter.com/olvW1fHPWT— World Athletics

where he won in 19.92sec.He also won over 400m at the meeting in Sydney.Elsewhere in the fourth World Athletics

and edges out world champion Jianan Wang 😳#ContinentalTourGold pic.twitter.com/MaFy2JnSRV— World Athletics

Jemima Montag, winner of the women’s 10,000 metres race walk at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, earned the award for the most outstanding performance by a student-athlete at the UniSport Australia awards night.

Championship titles in the same event and finished fourth in the women’s 20km race walk at the World Athletics

select few to compete for Australia at both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games, having competed in athletics

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov has claimed "biased and politicised figures pull the strings" in international sport.

and wrestling have all permitted a return for both countries' athletes under neutral conditions, but athletics

Ahmed Abdul Ghaffar has been appointed as Bahrain's Chef de Mission for the re-arranged 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa announced that Bahrain will take part in 13 confirmed sports - athletics

We have certain sports that we target - such as athletics, judo, weightlifting- that we feel we can get

Thirty years after they were first held on Maltese soil, the 2023 Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) are set to open in Valletta.

Games of the Small States of Europe were held in San Marino in 1985 ©EOCSamaranch was joined by World Athletics

our states," San Marino Foreign Minister Giordano Bruno Reffi declared.The sport programme featured athletics

 Iceland also won four titles in the athletics as part of an overall campaign which brought them

newspaper Mundo Deportivo dubbed him "the most famous man in Andorra,"There was a familiar theme in athletics

Almera the same year.He competed in four Olympics in the course of his career but it was at the World Athletics

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has apologised for mistakes in the ticketing process that have angered top French athletes.

criticism has been levelled at Paris 2024 when it emerged that people had been allocated different athletics

 Estanguet admitted that the errors related to eight sessions of athletics competition after failing

On these eight athletics sessions, there was a programming error because the calendar has changed and

Errors related to eight sessions of athletics competitions, according to Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet

Records  of the Olympic Games that took place 75 years ago reveal that organisers were faced with what has become a very familiar question.

the question of Russia," IOC President Sigfrid Edstrom predicted to Brundage.Edstrom also led World Athletics

then known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation.He spoke Russian, and invited the Soviet athletics

" Edstrom claimed.It was agreed that the Soviets would be allowed to take part in the 1946 European Athletics

Championships in Oslo.Although reports in the Western press suggested that the Soviets were weak in athletics

I extend to you a hearty welcome to our activities," Burghley cabled Moscow when the Soviet Athletics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has hinted at the permission of Russian and Belarusian athletes at next year’s Olympics by expressing his wish for competitors from all 206 National Olympic Committees (NOC) to be present in Paris.

permitted a return for athletes from Russia and Belarus under the IOC’s recommended conditions, but athletics

The Sustainable Event Management System (SEMS) developed by World Athletics for its competitions has

reduce its impact on the environment and contribute towards a stronger and more just society," World Athletics

integrated sustainability into key aspects of an event's planning and delivery.World Athletics is proud

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe added: "Having this robust independent review of the processes

Series events.It has run alongside the Athletics for a Better World Standard (ABW), an evaluation that

measures and scores an event's achievement in sustainable delivery in alignment with the World Athletics

kilometres road race world record holder, has been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping violation, the Athletics

mark of 26:38 set by Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei at the same venue on December 1 2019.At the 2019 World Athletics

holder and Doha 2019 10,000m bronze medallist Rhonex Kipruto has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics

Beijing 2008 gold medallist Andrei Silnov has decided not to appeal the extension of his doping ban as he believes it would be a "waste of time".

The high jumper was handed a four-year ban in April 2021 by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) but still

additional four years after the 38-year-old attended an event in August 2021 organised by the Moscow Region Athletics

such meets.He was invited by the Federation, which is a member of national governing body the Russian Athletics

Federation (RusAF), which is a member of World Athletics, because the high jump section was dedicated