Sergey Bubka paid a hastily-arranged visit to Kathmandu, at the invitation of the Nepal Athletics Association (NAA), as it was confirmed that the Olympic Movement has promised $500,000 (£322,000/€445,000) to help the nation rebuild in the wake of the devastating recent earthquakes.

A BBC “News at Ten” broadcast last Wednesday (June 3) in Britain must have created some sort of broadcasting history.

Hosts China secured half of the gold medals on offer as the Asian Athletics Championships began in the city of Wuhan, including securing both men's and women's sprint hurdles events.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have confirmed the United States men’s 4x100 metres relay team have been stripped of the silver medal won at London 2012, as a result of Tyson Gay’s doping conviction.

Justin Gatlin claims he has been effectively thrown out by the organisers of tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations World Challenge meeting in Beijing tomorrow.

Sebastian Coe has called for alterations to be made to the global athletics calendar and claimed taking the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Championships to Africa within the next decade would be a priority, while his rival for the Presidency Sergey Bubka has called for the sport to embrace technology and believes they must promote their athletes better.

Russia should be banned from competition following their turbulent record of doping, UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner suggested here today.

It being general election week here in the United Kingdom, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the two high-profile electoral battles currently being waged in the world of sport, via the medium of the candidates’ Twitter feeds.

Not because I judge this likely to offer great insights into the identity of the eventual winners: the sports officials in whose hands the outcomes lie are assuredly far too high-minded to be swayed by anything as trivial as social media.

European Athletics has announced the creation of a “European Athletics Marketing” company to boost its revenues.

SportAccord President Marius Vizer has taken a stab at Lamine Diack, his International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) counterpart, in the wake of his sport's decision to resign from the organisation earlier this week.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has hosted a high profile two-hour demonstration of its Nestlé Kids’ Athletics grassroots development programme, one of the biggest of its kind in the world of sport, here. 

There is no doubt who is ahead in the early stages of the grudge match between two black belts of global sports that those of us who travelled to the shores of the Black Sea have been gawping at this week with a mixture of bemusement and rapt anticipation.

Have you caught the election bug? We are not talking Cameron v Miliband here, that messy political punch-up which seems to be heading for a bore draw, or at best a split decision, when Great Britain goes to the polls on May 7.

Kenya’s Mark Korir and Ethiopia's Meseret Mengistu have won the men’s and women’s races respectively of the Paris Marathon, both in personal best times.

Sergey Bubka’s manifesto, launched this week ahead of his challenge for the Presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations, features key policies including greater funding for National Federations, particularly the needier of them.