Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has queried the decision to award a gold medal each to high jumpers Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi after they both cleared 2.37 metres in the Olympic final.

It was, is, will be a classic water cooler discussion point: can you, should you, share sporting success? Can an Olympic title, for instance, properly be shared, as it was, is and will be in the Tokyo 2020 Games men’s high jump?

The Olympic men's 100 metres title, property since 2008 of Jamaican icon Usain Bolt, has now passed, most unexpectedly, to Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who clocked a European record of 9.80sec to complete an extraordinary Italian double following his team mate Gianmarco Tamberi's sharing of the men's high jump title.

In one of the most beautiful of sporting moments, two men decided to share an Olympic title here tonight.

Dobromir Karamarinov, Interim President of European Athletics, has hailed the return to action represented by his organisation's 36^th Indoor Championships, speaking a few hours before competition got underway in the Polish city of Torun.

The old insult about "fans with typewriters" was not coined without reason. As a member of the press - I believe I may still use that term? - you are supposed to report the truth - I believe this concept still exists? - without bias. Or at least to try.

Former world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy took the Banskobystrická latka title after defeating defending champion Luis Zayas of Cuba in Banská Bystrica in Slovakia.

It’s funny. I could have sworn Gianmarco Tamberi won the men’s high jump competition at the 2016 IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome.

Noah Lyles of the United States, seeking a hat-trick of Diamond League trophy wins over 200 metres, faces compatriot and fellow 21-year-old sprinting marvel Michael Norman tomorrow night as the International Association of Athletics Federations' flagship series reaches Rome.

Norway, without a gold medal in more than 50 years of European Athletics Indoor Championship history, tonight won two in the space of half-an-hour as 18-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen and then Karsten Warholm obliged in the 3,000 and 400 metres respectively.

As Britain’s Rio Olympians were arriving to a reception of heroic proportions this week to mark the nation’s best-ever performance at a foreign Games, Italy’s returning athletes were enjoying a similarly warm welcome upon their return to Rome.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Monaco - just half-an-hour’s drive from Nice - went ahead after Prince Albert II had chaired an emergency meeting of the Monegasque Athletics Federation to discuss the terrorist attack of the previous night.

The eyes of Italy’s athletics followers will be on the high jump competition at tomorrow night’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here in the Stadio Olimpico. 

World indoor high jump champion Gianmarco Tamberi has said that fellow Italian Alex Schwazer, the 2008 Olympic 50 kilometres walk champion, who returned from a four-year doping ban last month to win a gold medal at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Race Walking Team Championships, should not have been allowed to represent his country, calling him “the Shame of Italy.”