Sydney 2000 triple jump champion Jonathan Edwards is among the latest inductees to the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Hall of Fame.

Grant Holloway's decision to withdraw from Saturday (April 9) evening's USA Track & Field (USATF) Bermuda Games 110 metres hurdles due to high winds was hardly a surprise given that he had been tweeting about the conditions in the hour before the opening World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season got underway.

For a man who has devoted so many of his 90 years to statistics - in the beloved sphere of athletics - it must go against the grain not to be exact about this. But Stan Greenberg reckons he has possibly, probably, seen more world records than anybody. Ever.

Celebrated film-maker Bud Greenspan’s documentary about the 2000 Olympics in Sydney contains as its centrepiece an account of Monday, September 25, when more than 110,000 spectators - the largest crowd ever to watch track and field at the Games - packed into Stadium Australia to witness an extraordinary sequence of competitions.

A controversial proposal to scrap all athletics world records set before 2005 is being reviewed following a negative reaction from competitors, such as Paula Radcliffe, who claim it could see their achievements discarded unfairly. 

A proposal to rewrite athletics' history books by overhauling the record lists and eliminating any doping doubts surrounding performances caused a predictable storm.

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.

Eurosport will continue to broadcast European Athletics events through to 2019 after the company signed an agreement with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Britain's triple jump world record holder Jonathan Edwards has been appointed by Eurosport as the television channel's lead presenter.

Tokyo 2020 has held an Athletes' Commission workshop as preparations for the Olympic and Paralympics in the Japanese capital continue.

UK Athletics has called for all world records to be scrapped and started again in the wake of the doping crisis within the sport as part of its “Manifesto for Clean Athletics” released today.

When Daniel Jacobs, a 28-year-old practicing Presbyterian, retained his WBA world middleweight title with a first round stoppage over Peter Quillin in Brooklyn last Saturday, his first words were: ”First of all I’d like to give thanks to the Man above.”

Twenty years ago this week a “skinny-looking, very ordinary guy” - his own description - hit the take-off board in Gothenburg’s Ullevi stadium at high speed. By the time his effort came to an end he had left a mark in the sand which, while it was soon smoothed away by an official brush, remains to this day in the form of a world triple jump record of 18.29 metres. Jonathan Edwards, ordinary guy, had done something extraordinary.

So anyway, Cuba’s prodigious young triple jumper Pedro Pablo Pichardo was making the point that he should really be called by his full name, Pedro Pablo Pichardo Peralta, because, as he explained, most of his compatriots have two first names and two second names, and thus he takes the second name of his father, Pichardo, and also that of his mother, Peralta.

Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo and United States’ Christian Taylor ensured the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League season started in stunning fashion after recording the fourth and fifth best triple jumps of all-time here tonight.