London Olympian set to contest both the relay and 400m hurdles in Beijing
Jack Green is excited by the strength in depth of the British 4x400m relay squad ahead of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing.

Green has been named alongside Martyn Rooney, ...

Turkish middle-distance runner is banned for eight years after a second doping offence
Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin has been banned for eight years and will lose her London 2012 Olympic 1500m title after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) a...

Seb Coe v Sergey Bubka – their IAAF presidential campaign manifestos examined
Lamine Diack is ready to step down from the throne of his athletics kingdom, and it’s down to one of two greats of track and field to fill his mighty shoes.

Serg...

A round-up of the action in Lyon as the World Masters Championships comes to a close
Britain had a mostly successful time in the relays on the last day of competition at the World Masters Championships in Lyon.

Not all results had been verified at the...

In the countdown to Beijing, our series on the history of the World Championships concludes with the women’s relay events
The inaugural relay final in Helsinki in 1983 saw an easy win for an East German team starring Marita Koch and Marlies Gohr ...

A look back at the heptathlon at the IAAF World Championships
Ramona Neubert, who was then the world record-holder, had never been beaten prior to the inaugural championships in 1983.

She started slowly in Helsinki and was only ninth after the high ju...