American Kenny Bednarek set the fastest time in the world this year by winning the 200 meters in 19.84 seconds at Sunday's Grand Slam Track series Miami meet.
Olympic champion Masai Russell scorched to victory with the second fastest 100m hurdles time in history at the Grand Slam Track meeting in Miami on Saturday, clocking a world leading 12.17sec.
Transgender women will no longer be able to play in women's football from June 1, England's governing Football Association announced Thursday.
Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis heads up a stellar cast of athletes kicking off the 16th Diamond League season in Xiamen on Saturday amid a changing landscape that has seen Michael Johnson launch his Grand Slam track series.
Two-time Olympic 400m hurdles champion and world record-holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone cruised to victory as the opening leg of the new Grand Slam Track athletics circuit got under way in Jamaica on Friday.
World Athletics said on Tuesday it had approved the introduction of a cheek swab test to determine if an athlete is biologically female.
Sebastian Coe said on Friday he feels he has a fighting chance of becoming the next leader of the Olympic movement after he and his rivals faced an intense day of presentations.