Long jumper Darya Klishina could lead a one-person Russian athletics team at next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after being named as just the second athlete eligible to compete at the Games by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Suspicions over the level of doping in Kenya have again been raised less than a month before the start of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro following the latest joint investigation by German television channel ARD and British newspaper The Sunday Times.

Victory in the 5000m at the US Olympic Track and Field Trials earned 41-year-old Bernard Lagat the right to become the oldest US runner at what will be his fifth Olympics - but for world 110m hurdles record holder Aries Merritt, desperate to defend his title in Rio 10-months after kidney replacement surgery, that dream is over; by one hundredth of a second.

Dutch heptathlete Anouk Vetter managed to better home heroine Dafne Schippers last night as she earned a third Dutch gold at the 23^rd European Athletics Championships with 6626 points, breaking the national record of the woman who has since turned to sprinting in a big way.

European Athletics vice-president Jean Gracia has said here today that the continental governing body is pushing to establish a closer link between its Young Leaders Forum participants and Member Federations.

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov has claimed the country will have a successful Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month despite their athletics team being suspended from competing.

The Netherlands’ world 200 metre champion Dafne Schippers lifted the home mood at the 23rd European Championships here as she delivered a fervently anticipated victory in the women’s 100m final.

The unique depth of American talent in the women’s 100 metre hurdles meant that the US Olympic Track and Field Trials were going to be painful for some world class athletes - and as things turned out, it was the athlete who ran the second fastest ever time of 12.24sec on the same track in Eugene on May 28, Keri Harrison, who failed to make the trip to Rio de Janeiro next month. 

Former pole vault world champion Rens Blom warned here today at the European Athletics Young Leaders Forum that more athletics clubs need to unite together to preserve young people's interest in track and field.

Federico Rosa has been released on bail after prosecutors were given more time to investigate the medical records of the agent, who has been accused of contravening new doping laws in Kenya.

Italian race walker Alex Schwazer has been provisionally suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after his B-sample came back positive.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council member David Okeyo, Athletics Kenya chairman Isaiah Kiplagat and former treasurer Joseph Kinyua have failed in their attempt to overturn their respective extensions to their 180-day provisional suspensions, it has been announced.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) "welcomes" the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision to dismiss an appeal lodged by Turkish middle distance runner Aslı Çakır Alptekin, who was attempting to get her doping ban lifted five years early because she acted as a whistleblower.