International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has admitted there is the "potential" for athletes to exploit the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) system after confidential medical information from a host of competitors was made public following a series of cyber-attacks.

British distant running superstar Mo Farah became the first man to win the Great North Run three times in a row today with a late victory over former training partner Dathan Ritzenhein.

Sebastian Coe and Svein Arne Hansen, Presidents respectively of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and European Athletics, were among 40,000 spectators at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels who acclaimed the belated award of the Bejing 2008 Olympic gold to Belgium’s women’s 4x100 metres team following the disqualification of original winners Russia for a doping offence.

Pole vaulter Sandi Morris produced the performance of the night at the Memorial Van Damme at the second of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Diamond League finals at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, becoming only the second woman in history behind Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva to clear five metres outdoors.

World record attempts by Olympic champions Conseslus Kipruto - the men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase winner - and Almaz Ayana - the women’s 10,000 metre gold medallist - will be among the highlights of the last International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Brussels tomorrow.

Athletics agent Federico Rosa, who has been charged with doping offences in Kenya, has had his case in the African country adjourned until November.

London 2017 have announced over one million tickets have been requested for next year’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Championships in last month’s ballot.

Olympic 200 metres champion Elaine Thompson repeated her Rio victory over world champion Dafne Schippers at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ first Diamond League final of the season in Zurich - but the Dutchwoman was the big winner on the night as she secured the overall Diamond Race title in her event.

Points make prizes in Zurich’s Letzigrund Stadium tomorrow night as it stages the first of the two finals for this season’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League - but there’s some keen personal rivalry going on too.

Olympic champion Anita Wlodarczyk ended her summer in amazing fashion as she broke her hammer world record for the second time in two weeks. 

Bahrain’s Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Ruth Jebet smashed the eight-year-old world record at the Stade de France tonight as she clocked 8min 52.78sec to take more than six seconds off the mark set by Russia’s Gulnara Galkina in winning the Beijing 2008 title.

Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski has auctioned off his Rio 2016 Olympic silver medal to raise funds for a three-year-old boy with a rare form of cancer. 

Kendra Harrison, who broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record last month after failing to qualify at the US Olympic track and field trials, is heading into tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Paris with another world record in mind.

Kendra Harrison of the United States, who broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record of 12.21sec in London last month with a time of 12.20 after failing to qualify in the US Olympic Track and Field trials, offered evidence of what Rio missed tonight as she defeated a strong field in 12.42 at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.

Isaiah Kiplagat, who was suspended last year as Athletics Kenya’s President amid reports that he and two other officials had tried to suppress positive doping tests of Kenyan athletes and attempted to extort money from those who had failed tests, has died at the age of 72.