Harley Windsor is hoping to become the first Aboriginal Australian to reach the Winter Olympics by earning a qualifying place at this week's International Skating Union (ISU) World Figure Skating Championships - but his fate could ultimately rest on whether the mother of his Russian partner in the pairs, Yekaterina Alexandrovskaya, can learn English in time.

The four-strong Athletes Refugee Team due to take part in tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships in the Ugandan capital of Kampala has been unable to make the trip because administrative problems, it was revealed at today’s pre-event press conference.

Organisers of the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus plan to use mass participation and a more challenging course to help achieve the key aim of getting the sport back onto the Olympic programme.

Four runners under the team leadership of Kenya's Tegla Loroupe will form an Athlete Refugee Team in the mixed relay event at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships in Kampala.

Belgrade's Mayor Sinisa Mali has revealed that the successful hosting of the European Athletics Indoor Championships here will be "a step forward" to seeking the International Association of Athletics Federations World Indoor Championships in 2020.

Ivana Spanovic turned a packed Kombank Arena into a ferment of national celebration here tonight as she walked the walk having talked the talk about delivering long jump gold for the host nation at the 34th European Athletics Indoor Championships. 

Britain’s Laura Muir broke the 32-year-old European Athletics Indoor Championships record over 1,500 metres, completing the first part of her planned double.

Piotr Lisek of Poland claimed victory against the odds in a dramatic men’s pole vault final at the European Athletics Indoor Championships here less than a week after he had suffered painful injuries to his legs and arm when his pole snapped during a warm-up meeting in the German town of Zweibrucken.

European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen believes there has been “a change of mentality” in Russia regarding action to rectify allegations of widespread doping abuse and hopes to see the country’s athletes back in international action “sooner rather than later".

Every athlete planning to compete at the 2020 European Athletics Championships in Paris will have to pass a "driving licence system" relating to anti-doping and the ethics of sport before they will be registered, it has been revealed. 

Ivana Spanovic, Serbia's poster girl for the European Athletics Indoor Championships due to begin here tomorrow, was asked twice at the pre-event press conference if she felt pressure defending the long jump title she won in Prague two years ago.

Ivo Ferriani, President of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF), insists he is ready to impose the strictest punishments - including the suspension of the national federation - if the current charges that Russian athletes have been benefiting from a state-run doping scheme are conclusively proven.

Usain Bolt and his All-Stars team completed an expected clean sweep in the third and final event of the Nitro Athletics Melbourne series – and the multiple world and Olympic sprint champion now hopes to spread the innovative format worldwide.

By a vote of 94 to 67, the option for future Olympic boat classes proposed by the International Rowing Federation (FISA) - reducing the number of lightweight events to two - has been passed by delegates at the Extraordinary Congress in Tokyo.