World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said Russian track and field athletes will not be admitted to compete at next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo unless he is "absolutely comfortable" they are clean.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is in line to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after he was proposed for membership by the Executive Board, but World Athletics counterpart Sebastian Coe will have to wait because of a conflict of interest.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is hardly one to talk about conflicts of interest.
Christian Taylor has outlined the measures that will shortly be taken to establish The Athletics Association - the representative group he founded earlier this month to form an independent mouthpiece for competitors.
Something grown-up happened in Monaco this weekend at World Athletics’ annual award gathering: dialogue.
The World Athletics Council has suspended the process of reinstating the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) and is considering expelling the body in the wake of the latest charges against its officials over the obstruction of an investigation.
World Athletics has confirmed that the planned meeting between world and Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor and its President Sebastian Coe and chief executive Jon Ridgeon ahead of the World Athlete of the Year awards on Saturday (November 23) here will go ahead.
Among the many advantages of the International Association of Athletics Federations becoming World Athletics is the fact that it is three fewer words to say - or type.
Olympic and world champion triple jumper Christian Taylor, founder of the The Athletics Association, will join other key members in meeting World Athletics President Sebastian Coe in Monaco this week.
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has been forced to defend allegations that London offered more "more advantageous" benefits to voters than Doha to be awarded the 2017 World Championships.
More years ago then I care to remember I was working as a young sub-editor on a British broadsheet newspaper when an agency reported that a spectator had been shot and wounded, thankfully not fatally, during a competition at Bisley, the famous UK shooting venue.
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has offered encouragement to Kenya's proposed bid for the 2025 World Championships.
Sebastian Coe has claimed the media should be concentrating more on the quality of the competition at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, rather than the lack of spectators watching it here.
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe appears to be on course to finally join the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after it was revealed here that he had been initially proposed for membership four years ago.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach promised here today that they will take "a fresh look" at new doping claims against Russia.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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