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World Athletics has selected Tokyo to host its World Championships in 2025, with the Japanese capital beating rival bids from Nairobi, Silesia and Singapore
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Claro, the Latin American telecoms operator, has secured rights to the 2022 World Athletics Championships, which will take place in Oregon, USA, from July 14 to 24
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An expert panel assesses the potential for growth in athletics in Southeast Asia, as Singapore bids to host the World Championships in 2025.
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Southeast Asia holds great, untapped potential for athletics. Track-and-field disciplines are relatively undeveloped in the region, which has a large, youthful population, and fast-developing economies
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World Athletics president Sebastian Coe says he is concerned by waning fan interest in track and field within the United States but remains hopeful that the upcoming 2022 World Championships in Eugene,…
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The Boston Marathon will be broadcast nationally in the United States on ESPN starting in 2023 following a multiyear deal with the Boston Athletic Association (BAA)
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European Athletics has announced it will split from the European Championships multi-sport concept after this year’s edition in Munich, with Birmingham and Budapest contesting hosting rights to a standalone 2…
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UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has agreed a five-year extension to its long-running rights deal for the London Marathon
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Tokyo's bid to host the World Athletics Championships in 2025 was confirmed yesterday (Wednesday), as Japanese officials welcomed an inspection team from World Athletics
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UK legal firm Irwin Mitchell has signed as the ‘Official Legal Partner’ to UK Athletics in a three-year agreement.
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SporTV, the pay-television broadcaster owned by Brazilian media group Globo, has acquired rights to the 2022 season of the Diamond League athletics series
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Sport Singapore chief executive Lim Teck Yin sets out the vision for the city state's bid to host the World Athletics Championships in 2025. Kevin McCullagh reports.
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The finals of the Diamond League athletics series will be held alternately in Zurich and Brussels between 2024 and 2027 following a decision by the league’s general assembly, World Athletics has announced.
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The two Diamond League athletics events due to take place in China later this year have been cancelled because of the country’s quarantine requirements and travel restrictions, World Athletics has announced.
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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
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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…
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Italian public-service broadcaster Rai has secured rights to World Athletics’ top-tier Diamond League series in a three-year deal running until 2024.
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Governance

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, has mounted a robust defence of the organisation's ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes, saying "we couldn’t stomach the idea" of athletes competing f…