World Athletics Championships
Davis Cup rights among slew of Sky Italia rights acquisitions
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has acquired rights to a string of sports properties, headed by tennis’ Davis Cup in a deal running from 2022 to 2024.
World Athletics to introduce mandatory sustainability requirements for events
World Athletics is to introduce mandatory sustainability requirements for events owned or sanctioned by the federation as part of its goal to transition to carbon neutrality by the end of the decade
Eugene’s World Athletics Championships to feature mass participation race
Oregon22, the local organising committee for this year’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene, has teamed up with Japanese sports equipment company Asics to stage a mass participation race during t…
Singapore unveils bid to host World Athletics Championships in 2025
Singapore has announced it is bidding to bring the World Athletics Championships to Southeast Asia for the first time in 2025
BeIN Sports lands two-year deal with World Athletics in Mena region
BeIN Sports has secured the broadcast rights to World Athletics events for the Middle East and North Africa in a two-year deal
Kenya’s KBC agrees World Athletics Series deal with TVMS
Kenyan state broadcaster KBC has agreed a rights deal for World Athletics Series events held in 2022 and 2023
PeaceHealth backs Eugene’s World Athletics Championships
Not-for-profit healthcare organisation PeaceHealth has agreed a deal to sponsor the 2022 edition of the World Athletics Championships in the US city of Eugene, Oregon
EBU retains World Athletics Series rights to 2029
The European Broadcasting Union consortium has retained broadcast rights to World Athletics Series events, including the World Athletics Championships, in a long-term agreement announced this morning
Japan ‘lodges bid’ for 2025 World Athletics Championships
The Japan Association of Athletics Federations has lodged a bid to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships, according to Kyodo News
Budapest and Hungarian government in dispute over World Athletics Championships
Budapest’s Mayor, Gergely Karácsony, has found himself at loggerheads with the Hungarian government over the staging of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the city amid the proposed development of…
SABC secures World Athletics, EFL and Eredivisie rights in wide-ranging Disney deal
The SABC, the South African public broadcaster, has bolstered its SABC Sport channel thanks to a deal with media group Disney that includes rights to World Athletics events, Top Rank boxing, the Dutch…
Oregon ‘to host’ 2023 Diamond League Final
Eugene, Oregon has been awarded the hosting rights to the 2023 Diamond League final, the first time the athletics event will be held outside Europe, according to reports
De Vos seduced by Oregon’s sport-centric model for World Athletics Championships
Former UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos talks about his new role as executive director for the Oregon 2022 World Athletics Championships, and explains how the event is trying to pioneer a more cost-efficient and athlete-centric hosting model.
Track and field athletes form independent union in response to Diamond League cuts
A new union called the Athletics Association has emerged to represent the interests of track and field athletes around the world after widespread changes were made to the format of the Diamond League athletics…
World Athletics eyes mass participation boost and doubling of sponsors in four-year plan
World Athletics has stated it ambition to double its number of commercial partners, align its hosting protocols with the needs of cities and broaden the mass participation components of its business in…
Heavy losses in World Athletics 2018 accounts but little light shed on Dentsu renegotiation
A leaked copy of World Athletics' 2018 financial accounts has shed more light on the constrained financial picture for the federation and referenced its attempts to renegotiate some of the controversial…
Diack: Russian doping sanctions spread out to protect IAAF sponsorship contracts
Former IAAF president Lamine Diack has suggested he intervened in the way the federation dealt with doping by Russian athletes to protect sponsorship deals and to avoid tarnishing Moscow’s hosting of t…
Uefa, World Athletics and CGF in talks to avoid event clashes
The Commonwealth Games Federation is working with World Athletics and Uefa to ensure the Birmingham Commonwealth Games don’t overlap with a rescheduled World Athletics Championships or the Women’s Eur…