To mark the imminent start of the 2014 season of the IAAF Diamond League, which gets under way in Doha on Friday 9 May, New Zealand s shot put heroine Valerie Adams spoke to the press in a media teleconference this afternoon (28).

It was 25 years ago that the legendary Carl Lewis, named as the male athlete of the 20th century by the IAAF in 1999, competed in a tightly contested 100m race at the old Bislett Stadium.

With less than a month to go until the inaugural IAAF World Relays, the historic Penn Relays provided a testing ground for a number of countries making their way there with the host of the event, The Bahamas, establishing its credentials with a good 4x...

Mercy Cherono produced an outstanding opening leg that got the ball rolling for a Kenyan quartet to set a women's 4x1500m world record* of 17:05.72 at Kenya s national trials for the IAAF World Relays at the Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi on Saturday (26).

The final day of action at the 105th HyVee Drake Relays in Des Moines, USA, saw Kristin Castlin end Brianna Rollins' winning streak, which stretched back to the 2012 US Olympic Trials, on Saturday (26).

Following the doping sanctions of Ivan TSIKHAN (Tikhon) and Nadzeya OSTAPCHUK which were announced in the IAAF Newsletter (NEWS 151, March 2014), the IAAF confirms the period(s) of annulment for all their results and the revision of the results of the ...