Last Friday saw a crucial meeting took place in Birmingham where the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) discussed the 2026 European Athletics Championships in light of the lack of resources and financial challenges facing England's second largest city.

Hammer thrower Hanna Skydan is one of Azerbaijan's best track and field options at Paris 2024, as is Cuban-born triple jumper Alexis Copello, a two-time European champion and eighth at London 2012 (still competing for Cube).

Nina Kennedy took the top honours following her memorable performance at the World Championships in Budapest, where she shared the pole vault world crown with Olympic champion Katie Moon.

Russia, embroiled in a long-running dispute with the world's major sporting institutions, has just appointed three former athletes banned for doping, Yelena Lashmanova, Sergei Kirdyapkin and Olga Kanishkina, as coaches of the national team.

The Italian naturalised US shot putter, who will not be competing at Paris 2024, blamed a "mistake on his mobile phone" when he was asked to take part in the mandatory random testing of athletes, according to Italian media.

Following the announcement of significant losses at UK Athletics, former Olympic heptathlon champion, Dame Denise Lewis, has been appointed President of UK Athletics.

For the first time in history, it's not been two, but six athletes who have been awarded by World Athletics: Tigist Assefa, Mondo Duplantis, Kelvin Kiptum, Faith Kipyegon, Noah Lyles, and Yulimar Rojas were announced as World Athletes of the Year for 2023 during the ceremony in the Principality of Monaco.

The future stars of Australian athletics will take their first steps strides towards greatness in Perth this weekend as the 2023 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Athletics Championships will unveil a new crop of champions.

Valencia is becoming one of the great references in long-distance running, as demonstrated by the 10,000m world records set in 2021 by Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and Letensebet Gidey of Ethiopia, in a spectacular event that made headlines around the world.

Luguelín Santos of the Dominican Republic, the 400m silver medallist at the London 2012 Olympic Games, has been handed a three-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for falsifying his age in order to participate at the IAAF World Junior Championships (now known as the World Athletics U20 Championships), Barcelona 2012.

With today (Wednesday 22 November) marking just 100 days to go until the start of the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024, the Local Organising Committee has confirmed that the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) will bring an exhibition to Glasgow.

Registration is officially open for the 11th edition of the world's largest and most inclusive running event in the world, the Wings for Life World Run. On Sunday 5 May 2024, 12:00 GMT, runners and wheelchair users from around the world will take to the 'starting line' to participate together in this fun and unique format. Race link: www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com.

The iconic New York City Marathon celebrated its 52nd edition on Sunday, an event that has only been cancelled twice since its inception in 1970 (in 2012 due to Hurricane Sandy and in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic).

In a display of exceptional athleticism amidst challenging weather conditions, Panuel Mkungo and Beatrice Cheptoo emerged victorious at the 'Turkkiye is Bankasi' Istanbul Marathon this weekend. 

British athlete Bianca Williams says she is "shocked" at the amount of money raised by a crowdfunding page set up to support two police officers sacked for their roles in a stop-and-search incident of her and Portuguese athlete Ricardo Dos Santos.