Gold Coast 2018 chief executive Mark Peters has stated preparations are well advanced for next year's Commonwealth Games, with only temporary facilities left to be completed.

London 2012 Paralympic silver medallist Shaquille Vance has been handed a three-year ban after evading sample collection.

British javelin thrower Joanna Blair has been provisionally suspended after being charged with a doping violation.

A total of 20 world champions - including a Russian athlete forced to compete as a neutral - have been nominated for the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athlete of the Year awards.

Gold Coast 2018 have revealed the marathon course for next year’s Commonwealth Games, with organisers calling it "flat, fast and picturesque".

Anas Zul Amirul Sidi claimed one of three swimming gold medals for the host nation as competition continued at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Para Games in Kuala Lumpur.

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) are to hear the case of prosecutors against the six-year sentence handed to Oscar Pistorius.

World Para Athletics has announced a deal with Italian equipment firm Sportissimo.

When Britain's athletics team returned a medal haul of just half a dozen from last month's World Championships in London, there was a perceptible sigh of relief from funding body UK Sport. 

Dominican Republic brought athletics action to a conclusion at Taipei 2017 by producing a stunning display to clinch the men’s 4x400 metres relay title, here tonight.

Japan enjoyed a clean sweep of the podium in the men's half marathon on a blisteringly host morning at the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade here.

Men's javelin competition provided the highlight of the fourth night of athletics finals at the Summer Universiade here, with Chinese Taipei's Cheng Chao-Tsun and Germany's Andreas Hofmann both throwing over 90 metres at the Taipei Stadium.

London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Luguelín Santos successfully defended his men’s 400 metres title at the Summer Universiade here today.

South Korea dominated the opening day of archery medal events at the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade here.

The ever-estimable Michael Johnson has raised the pertinent question - while making it clear it was a question and not an indictment - as to whether six medals and sixth place in an International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships on home territory was a reasonable return for the £27 million ($35 million/€30 million) lobbed in the direction British Athletics by UK Sport.