Over 200 countries contest the world athletics championships held every two years.

This is a serious threat which Australian athletics will struggle to combat.

Back in the grammar school he had started his apprenticeship in athletics.

Russia's athletics federation remains suspended over evidence of systematic and state-sponsored doping.

The same rule of participation should govern the athletics of the camp.

Suddenly athletics had found its new superman - for one night anyway.

For example, the crop of presidential hopeful has diverse taste in athletics.

Senior sports officials unanimously elected Shlyakhtin, a former rugby and athletics coach.

So far we've been beaten at football, hockey, swimming and track athletics.

This would allow him to train and compete in athletics meetings again.

I'm getting used to watching the athletics world go by without me.

His bio reads: Ryan has a passion for athletics and human performance.

My dad was my athletics coach and I'd done that for years.

A wealth of nations Maria Mutola is a legend of modern athletics.

Yet her injury-enforced switch from athletics to cycling has had its rewards.

Indeed, athletics in some form occupied every moment of my spare time.