After visiting Warsaw on Thursday (12) to promote the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016, IAAF Ambassador Colin Jackson made just as big an impression on the local school children as the Polish capital made on him.

The latest episode in the Legends of athletics, signature edition series is now online and features Olympic 110m hurdles champion Aries Merritt.

Genzebe Dibaba will attempt to break two world records in a week when she competes at the two Scandinavia-based IAAF Diamond League meetings in June.

The IAAF is saddened to learn of the death of former sprinter Mike Agostini, who died on Thursday (12) at the age of 81 after suffering from pancreatic cancer.

The perceived wisdom is that athletics is an individual sport. But there are three amigos from Canada who would beg to differ.

The men s 400m rivalry between Kirani James and LaShawn Merritt will return to the Prefontaine Classic for a fifth time on 28 May; after sub-44 races in the past two years, it is possible that one of the oldest meeting records at the IAAF Diamond Leagu...