Athletics News

Your piece on Zola Budd, who in 1984 was fast-tracked to British citizenship in a matter of weeks at the behest of the Daily Mail, having never set foot in Britain (Zola Budd passport caused rift in Thatcher's top team, ...

Of the dozens of Athletissima match-ups that feature prominently on tomorrow evening's IAAF Diamond League meeting programme, among the most intriguing is the one pitting Matthew Centrowitz of the US, the freshly-minted ...

While the Cabinet Office and various committees are considering the "special circumstances" applying to honours for the victorious and deserving athletes returning from Rio (PM hints at bumper Olympics honours list, 23 ...

The provisional entry lists for the 12th meeting of the 2016 IAAF Diamond League in Paris on 27 August are now available.

Declassified papers show Geoffrey Howe warned Leon Brittan against giving athlete special treatment before 1984 Olympics The decision to grant the South African-born athlete Zola Budd a British passport provoked a bitter...

On 27 August, no fewer than 27 medallists from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be competing at the Stade de France for the Meeting de Paris, the French leg of the IAAF Diamond League.