Huge victories in the field for Germany’s Malaika Mihambo and Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia, and impressive wins on the track from home athletes Dina Asher-Smith, Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir were highlights of a blustery afternoon’s athletics at Birmingham’s re-built Alexander Stadium today.

Birmingham’s re-built Alexander Stadium stands ready to usher in a new era of big-time athletics tomorrow when it hosts the second Diamond League meeting of the season, before hosting track and field at the Commonwealth Games later this year.

Normal service was resumed in Doha today as the men’s pole vault, held over because of high winds during yesterday’s opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season, duly took place in the lofty environs of the Aspire Dome - and Armand Duplantis won.

A new collaboration with Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games organisers and Team USA will offer students on Columbia University's sports management graduate programme unique working opportunities over the next six years.

An ill-wind that blew the men’s pole vault event out of the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha did the men’s javelin throwers, and Anderson Peters in particular, good tonight as Grenada’s world champion won with a last throw of 93.07 metres to go fifth on the all-time list.

Auckland has been chosen to host the draw for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, which is scheduled to take place on October 22.

The schedule for World Lacrosse Sixes, which is due to make its debut at this summer’s World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, has been announced.

The Champs-Élysées will receive a "green makeover" before the Paris 2024 Olympics, the French capital’s officials have said.

Reza Salehi Amiri is set to step down as President of the Iranian National Olympic Committee (NOC) after four years in the position.

Nine months after their decision to share the Tokyo 2020 high jump title created one of the most beautiful moments in Olympic history, friends and rivals Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim converge again for tomorrow’s opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha.

World Athletics plans to maximise the nationwide appeal of this summer’s World Championships in Oregon have moved a stage nearer to completion following a meeting in New York between the federation’s chief executive, Jon Ridgeon, and the broadcaster which has rights to the event.

World Athletics chief executive Jon Ridgeon has praised the attitude and support of the Diamond League’s title sponsor, Wanda, following the announcement that, for the second year running, the Shanghai and Shenzhen meetings would not go ahead because of COVID-19 concerns.

Christian Coleman marked his first 100 metres since winning the world title in 2019 with victory at the Golden Grand Prix today in Tokyo’s National Olympic Stadium, even though he looked less than comfortable in clocking 10.09 seconds.

Home sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala won the concluding 100 metres at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi in 9.85sec - the fastest time of the season so far - to ignite scenes of joy in a crowd which included the Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta.