The World Athletics Council has today confirmed the competition format for a cross country event to be included in the Olympic Games. The event, which has been proposed for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, would be a mixed team relay for 15 countries. Each team would be composed of two men...
The World Athletics Council has today decided to expel the Russian Federation (RusAF) from membership of World Athletics if it does not make the outstanding payments of a $US5 million fine and $US1.31 million in costs before 15 August. The Council, meeting by teleconference due to the ongoing global Covid-19...
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's athletics federation on Tuesday (July 28) sent a letter to the world athletics body, asking them to delay a planned review after it failed to pay a doping fine. World Athletics is set to discuss the situation regarding the Russian Athletics Federation (Rusaf) on July 30...
World Athletics today announces further revisions to its rules governing shoe technology, which are designed to give certainty to athletes preparing for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and to preserve the integrity of elite competition. These amendments, approved by the World Athletics Council last week, are based on significant ongoing...
On the first day of August, 40 years ago, Sebastian Coe opened his eyes and saw an urgent chance of redemption lurking ahead. Six days before arguably his finest hour, he had arrived at Moscow’s Lenin Stadium, fully intent on procuring Olympic gold in the 800m final. Instead, by his own admission, the race tactics went horribly wrong and he could only hunt down silver as long-time rival Steve Ovett bolted out of sight, his pre-ordinated tactics shredded when he was forced to divert around a blockade of East Germans, escaping their path just too late.
Manangoi has been provisionally suspended in a case of whereabouts failures. A whereabouts violation constitutes of any combination of three missed tests or filing failures in a 12-month period, according to the World Athletics anti-doping rules. Athletes must provide doping officials with their whereabouts, or locations to be available for out-of-competition testing. Three missed tests in a 12-month span can lead to a suspension, even if an athlete has never tested positive.
World Athletics and the Local Organising Commitee of the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020 have launched a new initiative – a virtual mass race on October 17, the same day as the world’s elite runners will compete for the championship. The aim is to encourage runners all around the...
Green light for ISTAF 2020: the oldest athletics meeting in the world will take place as planned on Sunday, September 13. It will be one of the first sports events where spectators will be present despite measures in force because of the Coronavirus. Thanks to a detailed shielding and...
This episode focuses primarily on his Grossmont College and UCLA years, his approach to balancing coaching and family life, and why threshold training works. We talk about that Meb guy on Friday.
Julian puts in some finishing sessions ahead of an upcoming time trial. Brad has a cruisy week before he derails Dad Run Club. Brady has shoe problems while navigating the perils of living in a border town. Cross country returns to NSW with the XC Short Course held over 5km in Dapto....
