Diamond League

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UK Athletics has warned that it may not be able to stage any Diamond League meetings next year unless it agrees a new domestic media-rights deal
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World Athletics has begun using a bespoke technology to generate artificial crowd noise and event atmosphere at its Diamond League meets
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Chinese company LD Sports is to walk away from its £7.5m ($9.8m/€8.3m
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Live coverage of World Athletics’ Diamond League competition will be shown by the BBC this season after a late agreement was struck by the public-service broadcaster with the IMG agency.
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Lars Graff has been appointed co-tournament director of the China Open tennis tournament
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The restart of the Italian Serie A football season has been moved back a week to September 19 - Reuters/CNA The WTA Tour restarted yesterday with the Palermo Ladies Open in Sicily, Italy - Reuters/ec/CNA
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The Association of Tennis Professionals' remaining tournaments in China this year and the Diamond League athletics meeting in Shanghai in September have been cancelled
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Governance

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…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

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…
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Events

Eugene and Paris have become the latest meetings to fall off the 2020 Diamond League calendar, while organisers of the annual athletics series have announced a proposed new date for the event in Gateshead,…
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Swiss federal prosecutors are targeting former European football head Michel Platini in a widening of their probe into a CHF2m ($2.1m/€2.9
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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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World Athletics’ Diamond League has become the latest event to be suspended in response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. 
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Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel has secured multi-platform rights to the 2020 Diamond League international athletics series
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Governance

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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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has axed eight disciplines from the core programme for the 2020 Diamond League as part of ongoing efforts to create a “faster-paced, more e…
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The International Association of Athletics Federations has revised a plan announced earlier this year to cut the number of Diamond League events in 2020, and will instead launch a new second-tier tour…
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Media

The International Association of Athletics Federation has signed a 10-year international media-rights agreement with the Infront agency, which includes the sale of international rights to the top-tier…