World Athletics chief insists Olympics can overcome strong opposition
Speaking at a Tokyo 2020 test event hosted at National Stadium, Sebastian Coe said the troubled games would "act as a beacon of hope and optimism."
Amputee Blake Leeper won't be allowed to race with running blades
World Athletics has rejected an application from American double amputee Blake Leeper to run on particular running-specific prostheses (RSPs), preventing him from competing in the Olympics or World Athletics events. The governing body said the mechanical passive-elastic carbon-fiber blades gave him a leg length of ...
World Athletics president wants women to take on greater roles
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe told AFP Monday he wants an organization in which a woman can aspire to the top job and one that retains far more female athletes as coaches and officials. The governing body of the Olympics' marquee sport has launched a ...
Athletes head into 2021 uncertain over Olympic qualification outlook
Many Olympic sports are still working to schedule events that will give athletes a fair opportunity to earn a place in the postponed Tokyo Games.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe confident Tokyo Olympics will happen
However, a cloud of uncertainty still hangs over the Tokyo Games, including questions about how many spectators will be allowed into venues.
Caster Semenya's lawyer prepares testosterone rule challenge
The Olympic champion is fighting a World Athletics ruling barring her from certain race distances unless she takes hormone suppressants.
Tokyo's new National Stadium will host its first track and field meet on August 23, exactly two weeks after the 2020 Games' athletics program was due to end, World Athletics announced on Friday. The field will largely be made up of Japanese or Japan-based athletes. "Given ...
World Athletics chief hopes for 'belated season' starting in August
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe is still hoping that a belated outdoor athletics season can be staged from August to October this year, he said on Friday. Like all sport around the world, athletics is at a standstill because of the coronavirus pandemic with little ...
World Athletics Championships' dates flexible, may be pushed back to 2022
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said Friday the next athletics world championships, slated for August 2021 in Oregon, could be moved to 2022 following the postponement of this summer's Olympic Games for about a year amid the coronavirus pandemic. "Nobody saw this problem (with the ...
Nike announced on Wednesday that later this month it will begin selling a version of the running shoe Eliud Kipchoge wore when he broke the two-hour marathon barrier last October. The Nike Air Zoom Alphafly Next% has 3.95-cm thick sole, according to The Guardian, making ...
World Athletics approves Nike's controversial Vaporfly shoes for 2020 Games
World Athletics ruled Friday that a shoe recently developed by sports equipment manufacturer Nike Inc., can be used in competition at this summer's Tokyo Olympics. The shoe, marketed by Nike as the Vaporfly, incorporates a carbon fiber plate fused with a foam layer that acts ...
Russian track and field athletes may be banned from a second straight Summer Olympics after the Athletics Integrity Unit recommended severe sanctions be imposed on the Russian Athletics Federation on Wednesday. The AIU ordered the national federation to admit its complicity in doping offenses and ...
