Athletics News

Things are starting to become clearer about which Russian competitors will be cleared for Rio by their respective international federations Has a decision been reached? Yes

• Athlete who exposed Russian drug programme pays for doping past• Stepanova is set to appeal, claiming the IOC banned her on false premises Yuliya Stepanova, the whistleblower pivotal to the discovery of deep-rooted...

Former BOA Chairman Lord Moynihan says he is disappointed with the IOC's decision on Russia but also hits out at Wada for being ineffective when it comes to dealing with doping issues in sport.

By deciding not to ban Russia from the Rio Games, the International Olympic Committee has answered one big question - but inspired dozens of new ones The IOC president, Thomas Bach, feels that by "reversing the presumpti...

Melissa Bishop is among the world's top 800m runners. Here the Canadian, who last year claimed World Championship silver and Pan American Games gold in her speciality event, thinks long and hard about our First Impressio...

Entering a competition as a favourite is one thing, but leaving with the title of world champion is another. Just ask Marcus Krah, who admirably shouldered that pressure en route to a convincing victory in the 110m hurdl...

Entering a competition as a favourite is one thing, but leaving with the title of world champion is another. Just ask Marcus Krah, who admirably shouldered that pressure en route to a convincing victory in the 110m hurdl...

Italy's Antonella Confortola and Eritrea's Petro Mamu were the winners at the Grintovec Mountain Running race, the second stage of the Mountain Running World Cup 2016, in the Slovenian town of Kamnik on Sunday (24).

Some fine performances by Miguel Ángel López in the 10,000m race walk and Orlando Ortega in the 110m hurdles capped the Spanish Championships in Gijón on 23-24 July.