For your elite international athlete, the classic Clash song is one that always seems relevant - Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Three athletes with a combined seven World Athletics Championships and six Olympic medals have been named as ambassadors for Budapest 2023 here.

Double Olympic 800 metres gold medallist and world record holder David Rudisha has survived a plane crash in Kenya, which he described as "a scary episode."

Kenya’s world 800m record holder David Rudisha, who has targeted winning a third consecutive Olympic title at that distance in Tokyo, today underwent surgery for a fractured ankle.

It was the Moment of the Decade, according to World Athletics. It was the Race of the Decade, according to letsrun.com. Two pretty good judges.

David Rudisha has targeted a return to competition next year as the 800 metres world record holder attempts to bounce back from injury to earn a third Olympic title at Tokyo 2020.

Berlin's historic Olympic Stadium is playing its part this week in the staging of the first multi-event European Championships. While Glasgow is hosting aquatics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon until August 12, the athletics is about to take place in the cavernous arena originally built for the 1936 Olympics.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London still have four days to go but I already know my favourite moment from them – the victory of France’s Pierre-Ambroise Bosse in the men’s 800 metres final on Tuesday (August 8).

David Rudisha, the world and Olympic 800 metres champion, has pulled out of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships that get underway in London on Friday (August 4).

There is a gladiatorial feel to the fourth International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting of the season in Rome tomorrow, as a number of the sport's Olympic champions face the fierce challenge of those seeking to overcome them.

Noah Lyles of the United States and Kenyan Kipyegon Bett produced the headline performances at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League event in Shanghai as the teenagers claimed victories today.

Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) President Haile Gebrselassie has pledged to work with Kenya in its fight against doping.

From where he was sitting in the Salle de Mer of Monaco’s Fairmont Hotel last Thursday, Haile Gebrselassie had a view clear over the Mediterranean Sea. But as his gaze fell on that mass of sun-dazzled, shifting water, his vision was of his Ethiopian homeland and what he hoped to do for those athletes following in his illustrious wake.

Kenya’s two-time Olympic champion David Rudisha has been appointed as the President of the African Athletics Confederation (AAC) Athletes' Commission.

Heavy rain delayed fourth day of evening athletics session here – but it was worth the wait as it provided the host nation, and a delirious home crowd, with one of the great Olympic shock victories as 22-year-old pole vaulter Thiago Da Silva set an Olympic Games record of 6.03 metres to defeat the defending champion and world record holder Renaud Lavillenie and secure a second gold medal for Brazil at Rio 2016.