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World Athletics’ Diamond League has postponed three more meetings scheduled for May amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
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Industry Moves

World Athletics, the sport’s international governing body, has initiated a recruitment process for a director of legal and business affairs, general counsel.
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World Athletics and the local organising committee of the 2021 World Athletics Championships, Oregon21, have said they are open to rescheduling their event to accommodate any possible postponement of the…
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World Athletics’ Diamond League has become the latest event to be suspended in response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. 
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The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has been fined $10m (€9m) by the World Athletics Council for breaching the sport’s anti-doping rules.
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Industry Moves

World Athletics has appointed Danish Athletic Federation (DAF) chief executive Jakob Larsen as its director of competition and events, a role in which he will oversee the governing body’s new Global C…
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Media

Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel has secured multi-platform rights to the 2020 Diamond League international athletics series
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has requested that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing concerning the non-compliance case against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) be held in public…
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World Athletics has banned certain variants of Nike's Vaporfly running shoes for elite competition and announced significant changes to its rules on shoe technology
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The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) is facing expulsion from the World Athletics movement ahead of the 2020 summer Olympic Games after the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) recommended this measure for…
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The World Indoor Athletics Championships due to be held in Nanjing, China in March has been postponed by a year due to the coronavirus outbreak
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World Athletics has finalised the schedule for the inaugural running of its Continental Tour with the addition of Nairobi, which will be the first African host city on this year’s calendar.
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The Paris trial of Lamine Diack, former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), athletics’ world governing body, and fellow co-defendants in the case connected to t…
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World Athletics faces many challenges in increasing the exposure and awareness of the sport beyond its traditionally affluent participant base. Chief executive John Ridgeon tells Kelvin Tan what their gameplan for 2020 is, and why Asia matters.
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Organisers of this year's World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China last week revealed their ticketing programme and event mascot
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The executive board of the International Olympic Committee has put forward three new names for election as IOC members, although Lord Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, has not been proposed…
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World Athletics has awarded hosting rights for its 2022 Indoor Championships and Half Marathon Championships to Belgrade and Yangzhou, respectively
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Russia’s chances of competing under its own flag at the 2020 summer Olympic Games have suffered a potentially critical blow after the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) announced that a recommendation of n…