Four members of the leadership at the under-fire Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) have resigned following the explosive reports of state-supported doping within the country's athletics programme.

Russia’s suspension from athletics competition will cost the country a total of eight Olympic medals if it is still in force during Rio 2016, according to Infostrada Sports’ Virtual Medal Table (VMT).

Renowned whistle-blower Betsy Andreu has told the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that athletics could be facing doping problems on a level worse than cycling faced post the Lance Armstrong era.

Turkey's Ali Kaya and Dutch racer Sifan Hassan took the men's and women's honours respectively at the European Cross Country Championships in Hyères in France today.

Runners competing in tomorrow's SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Hyères are being invited by European Athletics to carry an “I Run Clean” message on their bibs, to show their commitment to a doping-free sport.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe claimed that "no room had been left for doubt" after Russia was told exactly what it needs to do to have its suspension from the sport lifted.

Recent scandals surrounding the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and FIFA are not the same and concern “different issues”, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach claimed here today as he expressed confidence that steps are being taken in the right direction to address the problems within both governing bodies.

Olympic and world long jump champion Greg Rutherford has criticised "out-dated and derogatory comments" made by fellow BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award nominee and new world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury regarding homosexuality.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has announced the creation of the World Indoor Tour - which will feature four meetings from 2016.

Britain’s Tim Peake is set to become the first man to run a marathon in space when the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut takes on the Digital Virgin Money London Marathon on April 24.

Russia's Tatyana Andrianova has been stripped of the 800 metres bronze medal she won at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Helsinki in 2005.

An accelerated bidding process has been opened by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for the reallocation of next year's World Race Walking Team Championships and World Junior Championships after both events were taken away from Russia.

International Association of Athletics Fedeations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe needs to start introducing new policies to deal with doping and corruption as soon as possible to start restoring everyone's trust in the sport, four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson warned today. 

Olympic triple jump bronze medallist Fabrizio Donato is among 26 Italian athletes facing two-year bans for allegedly failing to provide doping samples, as athletics' drugs crisis continued to deepen.

Sebastian Coe admitted here today that he faced a long campaign to restore peoples trust in athletics but that the alternative was unthinkable.