It’s a game that's always tempting to play when there is a huge step on in women's running events - that is, matching it against male performance in the past.

Former British long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe has become as one of the six inaugural members of the World Athletics Independent Research Ethics Committee (WAIREC).

The last weekend in March, when the World Cross Country Championships traditionally took place, used to be my favourite time of the year.

Fifty years ago today (September 19) the inaugural women’s race took place at the New York City Marathon, with Beth Bonner winning in 2hr 55min 22sec - a world record.

Three-time London Marathon winner Paula Radcliffe is to feature on an International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) panel discussion on athlete weight management in sport.

A pair of spikes worn by Britain's Paula Radcliffe when she won the World Cross Country Championships title in 2001 and the vest Portugal's Carlos Lopes was wearing when he claimed the Olympic silver medal in the 10,000 metres at Montreal 1976 have been donated to World Athletics Heritage.

Dutch star Sifan Hassan has shattered the European 10,000 meters record, taking more than 24 seconds off Paula Radcliffe's continental best which had stood for 18 years.

Peter Radcliffe, father of former marathon world record holder Paula, has passed away in hospital.

Brigid Kosgei broke Paula Radcliffe’s 16-year-old women’s world record today as she retained her Chicago Marathon title in 2 hours 14min 04sec - a day after her Kenyan compatriot Eliud Kipchoge had become the first man to better two hours for the distance.

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. 

Britain's marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe took part in an event to encourage girls aged between 13 and 18 to participate in sport during the build-up to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), widely criticised over its decision to reinstate the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) and the alleged "bullying" that took place during the Executive Committee meeting which reached that decision, claims its programme is being destabilised by a "small, politically motivated group of detractors".

Australia’s four-times Olympic race walk medallist Jared Tallent has declared the governance of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which last month controversially decided to reinstate the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), as "not fit for purpose".

Women's marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe has described the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) response to Beckie Scott’s claim she was bullied for campaigning to stop the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) being reinstated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as "particularly concerning".