The Latest Breaking News from Lord Coe

Lyles could launch his sport ”back into Usain Bolt territory”, says Lord Coe.

The Norwegian has labelled Kerr ‘the Brit who never competes’

World 1500m champion Josh Kerr insists his rivalry with Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the last thing on his mind as he looks to back up that…

World Athletics president Lord Coe predicts a ‘race for the ages’ if they meet in the 1500 metres final in Paris.

The World Athletics president also admitted climate change could force some endurance events to be moved.

Coe praised the resilience of athletes he met at the country’s national championships, which also served as trials for this summer’s Paris Olympics.

The inaugural Ultimate Championship is set to take place in Budapest in September 2026.

The 67-year-old is concerned over sky-high costs to watch athletics at next summer’s Games.

Hodgkinson has tasted just one defeat over 800m so far in 2023, while Hughes broke 30-year-old British 100m and 200m records in the space of a month.

“It was a victory few had expected,” said Janice Turner in The Times. When Lord Coe, the president of World Athletics, unveiled the organisation’s response to the issue of transgender women taking part in elite female events, it seemed likely that it would be a mere tweak to current rules…

The organisation also confirmed Russian and Belarusian athletes remain banned for the foreseeable future.