World Athletics lifts Russia's doping ban but no respite for athletes

IMAGE: In recent years, dozens of Russian athletes had been allowed to compete as neutrals if they could show a doping-free background but they too remain unable to compete after the Council voted......

How COVID-19 lockdown could benefit growth of athletics

'Athletics is the main beneficiary because people are doing exercise through running or walking. That is a very big asset.' IMAGE: Police officers patrol on Segways as men wearing masks run along......

Sports Shorts: We will have Olympics next year, says Coates

IMAGE: IOC official John Coates. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/File Photo/Reuters The Olympic movement faces its biggest challenge in four decades in getting a streamlined Tokyo Summer Games up and......

Russia to miss World Championships after IAAF ban extended

Russia is once again in danger of being banned from next year's Olympics after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) revealed that historical data supplied by the country's anti-doping authority......

Timeline of the Russia doping case

IMAGE: People gather outside the headquarters of the Olympic Committee of Russia in Moscow, Russia on November 28. WADA's executive committee banned Russia after it concluded that Moscow had......