The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has released its full decision following the four-year ban handed to American runner Shelby Houlihan, which says her explanation "presupposes a cascade of factual and scientific improbabilities".

Venezuela won their first two Paralympic Games gold medals of Tokyo 2020 here tonight, thanks to the sprinting efforts of Linda Patricia Perez Lopez and Lisbeli Marina Vera Andrade.

Germany's Felix Streng won a dramatic men's T64 100 metres final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, where the top four athletes were separated by only three hundredths of a second.

The fascinating inner dynamics of the pole vault world were in evidence once again in Paris this weekend as the Diamond League continued on its European route to the concluding final in Zurich from September 8 to 9.

Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw broke the half marathon world record in a time of 63min 43sec in the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.

Britain's Thomas Young and Sophie Hahn ended the second day of athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with gold medals in the 100 metres at the Olympic Stadium.

American sprinter Nick Mayhugh twice broke the world record in the men's T37 100 metres on the first day of athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games here at the Olympic Stadium.

Shaili Singh, who recently won a long jump silver medal at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships, will be a gold-medal contender at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, coach Robert Bobby George has claimed.

Irish sprinter Jason Smyth is targeting another title at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games to tie the record of six visually-impaired gold medals, as athletics competition gets ready to start tomorrow at the Olympic Stadium.

Sebastian Coe believes the stars of the future were born at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi after declaring the event in the Kenyan capital a success.

Dobromir Karamarinov is set to become President of European Athletics on a permanent basis after being confirmed as the only candidate to succeed the late Svein Arne Hansen at the organisation's Congress in October.

Christine Mboma of Namibia flew clear of compatriot Beatrice Masilingi on the home straight to take gold and set a women's 200 metres championship record at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships.

Home runner Jackline Chepkoech won women's steeplechase gold at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi as Erwan Konate won gold in the men's long jump - one of a number of impressive French performances.

Sifan Hassan is aiming to break the women’s 5,000 metres world record on the first of two days of stellar athletics in Eugene in Oregon in the United States that will conclude with the first Wanda Diamond League meeting since the Tokyo 2020 Games ended.