Nine reigning or former Olympic champions including Jamaica s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Kenya s Asbel Kiprop, USA's Christian Taylor and Valerie Adams of New Zealand will set this season s IAAF Diamond League in motion at the Qatar Sports Club on Friday...

Various athletes took part in the traditional pre-event press conference and a series of press points throughout the afternoon on Thursday (8) ahead of the first meeting in the 2014 IAAF Diamond League series in Doha, Qatar, on Friday.

The IAAF wishes to extend its deepest sympathies and condolences to the family and friends of the former Spanish long jumper Yago Lamela, who died at the age of 36 in his home town of Aviles on Thursday (8).

For the second time in three races to start the new season, Grenada s Olympic 400m champion Kirani James will be running the 200m when he takes the track at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, an IAAF World Challenge meeting, in Tokyo on Sunday (11).

Kenya s double world champion Asbel Kiprop produced one of the finest runs of his career here at tonight s opening 2014 IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha as he won a pulverising 1500m race which saw a record six men finish inside 3:31.00, clocking a ...

Ivan Ukhov, Russia s Olympic high jump champion, gave another demonstration of his startling ability as he rose above the challenge of three other hugely talented athletes who have helped re-energise the event in the past few years to win with an effor...